Trump’s new tariffs hit small island territories but spare Russia – Axios

by Creol6969

15 comments
  1. He is looking out for his puppet-master. Why are we even surprised?

  2. This just accelerates the fusion of the two countries. Nothing to see here, move on (as in keep on hammering away and killing Russians!)

  3. Some of these Australian islands, McDonald and Heard Islands, are only inhabited by Penguins! Woke penguins who can’t decide if they are black or white! Gender disordered – the males sit the eggs.

  4. I do hear a lot of comments about Trump being in bed with Putin, and he is. But, the answer is more straightforward, official / legal trade between Russia and the US is essentially 0 at the moment due to sanctions. You can’t tax 0 dollars.

  5. Let’s be a bit more sophisticated than “Russian asset” when we look at this.

    1. He wants a deal with Russia

    2. He really wants a deal with Russia

    “Vlad. We can have a special partnership. You’re doing some amazing things in Russia. Great things. Some would say the greatest. I’ve got these tariffs on the EU. You’ve been treated badly by them. Very unfairly. Nasty stuff. We didn’t put tariffs on you, because we’re nigh-suh. Very nice people. But you gotta make a deal. I want to sign a contract with you. I don’t want to have tariffs on it. No, we don’t want tariffs on our beautiful new partnership.”

    With the EU, he will apply pressure and then negotiate it away. With dictators, he will fawn, then either run away or fight them when he negotiates.

    The way he deals with democracies is completely different than how he deals with autocracies.

    Finally, I think that rather than tariffs, he’ll use sanctions. Unless he gets bored or ashamed and walks away. I predict he’ll be too busy with his tariff shitshow and will lose interest.

  6. What good is a tariff on an island territory of Australia like Christmas Island or even Norfolk Island.

    Dude is a loser

  7. To be completely clear: it has been specifically stated by the Whitehouse that Russia, and a couple of other noticeable absences, are due to the fact the existing sanctions regimes are considered sufficient and no additional tariffs are required.

    It’s not that the Americans are “sparing” Russia, it’s just that they aren’t included in this performative “freedom day” shite.

  8. Remember when simply trying to spy on the opposition party was enough to bring down a President and create a whole new way to use the suffix “-gate”

  9. According to the White House the reason there are no tariffs on Russia is, because there is currently no trade between the US and Russia.

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