Tariffs spare Russia and North Korea, but target Israel

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1. USA doesn’t trade with North Korea since the 60s. I am sure Russian trade is miniscule as well, you can say about Trump what you want, but this kind of titles is peak example of misinformation. Can’t say what’s inside the article because it’s paywalled.

2. Only consequences for Israel’s actions in Palestine are accidental. How long until they will be removed from tariffs list?
   Also I maybe missed the news, but how Europe reacted to new trump clown show? Will they silently ignore the problem?

3. I’m sure this is because Trump is a Russian asset and covertly an antisemite. Hey, don’t blame me, that’s just the natural conclusion of two separate “obvious” conclusions. If you want a better relationship with Russia that can only be because you’re on Kremlin’s payroll. And if you criticize Israel, or do anything that might harm it, you’re an antisemite.

4. The algorithm probably gave them negative numbers, because of the sanctions and lack of relative trade. This isn’t news relative to them using a chatgpt algorithm to give them their numbers.

5. No surprise here. ruzzian asset does what his handlers requested.

   At this point even wiki has good overview of this shitshow:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_the_second_Trump_administration#%22Reciprocal_tariff%22_policy

   >Among the countries not marked for tariffs in this round were Russia, Belarus, Cuba, North Korea, Canada, and Mexico. Press Secretary (…) commented that Russia escaped tariffs because current American sanctions on Russia resulted in no “meaningful trade” between the two countries; **in 2024, the value of this trade was $3.5 billion, greater than countries Mauritius or Brunei who suffered this round’s American tariffs.**

   Mauritius was targeted with 40%, Brunei with 24%.

   And then there’s the freaking Syria:

   >Separately, Syria, which had been under American sanctions for 20 years, did receive a (…) tariff of 41%.

   Really, trump being putin’s agent is the only sensible explanation at this point. If he was just a flat out idiot, he would have targeted ruzzia too.

   EDIT: You know what, I do take an issue with singling out Israel as one of attacked countries. trump attacked almost everyone, Israel isn’t special.

6. So the only countries not tariffed at all is Holy See, Cuba, North Korea, Burkina Faso, Seychelles, Russia, Belarus & Somalia.

   The US tariffed everyone who trades with them. Am I understanding this correctly?

7. My favourite tidbit around this, is the reason a bunch of random islands got tariffed, is because they generated the list based on internet codes. Any place that has an internet code got one (Reunion, Heard and Mcdonald, Pierre and Miquelon).

   That’s how dumb this whole thing is.

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