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  • Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think i get the sentiment of what you’re saying. Tariffs can be good to bolster local production, and thus, local workers under the assumsion that businesses doing well is good for workers (I’m not convinced it is, at least I don’t think it’ s what’s best for workers. But let’s work within the limitations of the capitalist system here.

    The problem is how USA is doing it right now. If you give a 10 year warning before implementing tariffs, while also allocating money to support growing the needed industry, you make sure the industry has time to adapt and make the necessary changes to accomodate the needed growth in production and educating the workforce.

    None of that is happening. In fact, while putting in the tariffs, the workers’s jobs are threatened with an economic collaps. The outcome in this scenario is survival of the rich, who will survive a 99% loss in wealth and income just fine. While the most vulnerable, the working class and those even more vulnerable like the sick or handicapped, are asked to simply live with it, and hope to god they may some day be able to afford what they used to. Meanwhile the richest will keep buying all that the working class are forced to sell off, just to survive.

    Tariffs aren’t necessarily bad, but in this implementation they’re absolutely catastrophic to the working class, and a sale to the oligarchs.










  • Sure they’re increasing their defense spending. But not really in the interest of USA.

    USA wanted european defense spending to increase for multiple reasons:

    1. To funnel european money into the american military industrial complex.
    • This isn’t happening right now. Europeans are prioriticing european contractors.
    1. To fight in american wars of agression around the world.
    • Fat fucking chance when USA is threatening wars of agression against NATO countries.
    1. To defend against Russia.
    • With Putin owning Trump, this is now against Trump’s interests.
    • While the threat from Russia is pretty big, they’re not in any way in a position to fight anything bigger than Ukraine.