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    you CANNOT punish a country with tariffs. You punish the USA citizins with that. Idiot.

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        Yes, and I’m sure you know this, but it generally hurts both countries equally or close to it, and therefore that is a dumb as fuck way to punish countries for not supporting your modern Monroe Doctrine

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    If one of you mention anything negative about us taking Greenland, I will taxe my population more and severely disrupt their ability to purchase goods they need while you will be forced to find new partners. It will be very inconvenient for you. You will probably lose any trust you have in us and might not risk trading with us for a very long time.

    Checkmate radical leftists. This is the art of the deal.

    Oh… also. Please keep buying bonds and don’t you dare trade with China.

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    Why is news site reporting what the rapist terrorist said? Who gives a flying fuck what threats a felon gives?

    Kim Jong Un wants you not to piss in his coffee. You laugh, you don’t give it a fucking headline.

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    Shortly, any country without Trump tariffs would be considered with suspicion.

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    About fucking time, we need a degree of decentralization from the US. There absolutely was no need to make US the central hub of nearly everything in this first place, all this basically proved that they where the superpower. Now this time long centralized structure is being tested - and hopefully it dissolves.

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    That sounds less like diplomacy and more like pressure politics. Greenland isn’t a bargaining chip, and using tariffs to force support would probably just strain alliances instead of strengthening them.

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      Pressure politics is part of diplomacy.

      That being said, the US effectively doesn’t have any allies any more. Sure there’s still alliances on paper, but Trump doesn’t care about agreements and everyone knows it. But we’re in a bit of an awkward dance where countries don’t want Trump to know that they know the US no longer considers any country an ally. Just buying time to shift everything away from the US.

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        also, mostly just trying to outlast him in the vain hope for a “return to normal” when he croaks.

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    its RUSSIAN speak, punish [western country] to sow dissent, plus serves also a epsteinfiledistraction that putin might release.