Trump is definitely a Russian asset.
His Parents were Soviet assets and he was adopted from Russia, so it checks out.
Uh, what?
I don't think it landed well but I think he's Rubber/Glue-ing the Obama birth certificate thing back to him.
Un-fucking-real.
This presidency will be such a shit stain on the world. The world will never trust the U.S. in the same way it did before.
Over a century of trust and partnerships destroyed in less than 100 days.
I wonder why...
That picture is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen. Absolutely a classic.
Here's a treat, don't consume them all at once: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5961853/Trump-ruthlessly-mocked-social-media-disgraceful-performance-Putin.html
Uh? Of course he isn't. Why would Putin tell him to put tariffs on himself? That makes no sense.
The US has been sanctioning Russia for the better part of the last decade. We aren't tariffing them because we aren't trading with them.
We also aren't tariffing Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea, for the same reasons.
Maybe, but apparently we're tariffing multiple uninhabited islands. It would seem that active trade is not a perquisite for tariffs these days. can't be having people move out there and not getting tariffed in the future.
I hope he puts tariffs on Mars next. Maybe after he falls out with musk.
But tarrif on seals in the Antarctica region? Doesn't seem like logic is driving any of this.
You can view this one of two ways, possibly both:
To rebuke 2 I present the following- https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia
U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.
Based on that math, with the CNN article I linked for the formula (the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2) we get - (2,500,000,000 / 3,000,000,000) * 1/2 = 0.416666...
So Russia should have a 42% tariff based on their purported 83% tariff on us.
And that's how you end up in Guantanamo.
Good point, considering the US still trades with Russia.
**United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. **
For context, Cuba, North Korea, and Belarus are also not tariffed because they are sanctioned instead.
I try to keep a sense of perspective, every president I disagree with seems to be the worst president ever at the time.
I really want to say Bush's useless Trillion dollar wars are worse than this.
But it's close and we have 3.5 more years of this.
I really want to say Bush’s useless Trillion dollar wars are worse than this.
I would say Bush's bailout of the O&G sector in '01 and the Financial Sector in '08 laid the seeds for worse social and ecological conditions over the subsequent two decades. Similarly, NAFTA and the subsequent midwestern de-industrialization was nightmarish for US industry and Mexican agriculture.
These blunders set us up to need international trade. What's crazy about Trump's tariffs is that he's not addressing the underlying infrastructure problems or the crushing post-Great Recession debt traps. He's just squeezing at the point of the supply chain in order to punish American industry and labor for adapting to the sabotaged economic landscape of the neoliberal era.
It is the economic equivalent of kicking a guy in the kidneys after he's already been laid out on the ground.
Could someone ask Propaganda Barbie about this?
Uh.. which one? There's so many I've lost track. I only seem to remember dog killer, handyqueen and simian goblin.
So US imposed tariff on penguins, but 0 on Russia!
Almost the entire world is paralyzed by American tariffs
😂
Looks more like Russia and USA are in the same trade embargo, while the rest of the world is free to do whatever they want.
Well, why should Agent Krasnov put tariffs on the hand that feeds him, good old Vlad? 🤷🏼♂️
Guys I think there's some evidence that this is, shall we say, Russia friendly (such as the astronomical tariff rate on Moldova of all places), but Russia isn't included because it's a "Column 2" country alongside Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and therefore all subject to the stiff tariffs we already impose on the worst of the worst. Please let's not share things like this which just make us look gullable to the morons on the right supporting this buffoon. It's not a good look.
I was noticing this as well. The place that should have the highest tarrifs.
Kompromat
That'll show em! Trump was ANGRY at Russia these few days!
Fairly sure that’s because Russia is heavily sanctioned by thr US already, alongside North Korea, Cuba, Iran etc.
Things are bad but let’s not spread hysteria.
That was also the official argument from Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson of the White House, although last years trading volume between Russia and the US still was about 3.5 billion USD (roughly three times of what Ukraine - US traded).
The question whether tariffs for Russia makes sense or not is rendered meaningless given the fact that the whole tariff plan is just wild (super small countries with a mimiscule part of trading volume still got heavily sanctioned etc).
You are right that we should not spread hysteria, but we should still question statements coming from government officials.
Agree with what you’re saying here and I think I need to do some more reading. Getting the impression that I’ve been misinformed/mislead.
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