I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups. Democratic nations need to cut the US out of the global economy entirely until they learn how to act right.
Apologies if there’s any weirdness in this post, it’s my first one.
Doesnt the US have important deals and strategic assets re. Space industry and defense here in Aus? Why the heck aren’t we negotiating these tarifs?
I suspect these announcements by Trump are nothing but stock market scams with a whole bunch of insider trading going on.
Trump removed tariffs from Mexico and Canada after a few days. We’ll see what happens with this
He removed them for nothing. He was tricked. Both Canada and Mexico agreed to do things they were already going to do and Trump folded.
USian here. It really didn’t matter - his friendly media repeated the lie that he forced those bad old countries to beef up drug and immigration enforcement via his big strong negotiation style. The fact that it’s nonsense has no bearing on the political reality here, sadly.
Heyyyyyy welcome to the “being threatened by the USA because Trump felt like it” club!
-EU + Denmark, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Panama.
It’s an honour to be part of this prestigious and exclusive group! ☺️
It’s less exclusive every day.
I think we can all do something. I know our economy is tiny, but Australia buys way more from the US than they buy from us… and you know what a big chunk of that is? Services. Some of those are hard to shift but others are easier.
I’ve hosted all my websites and registered all my domains in the US for over 20 years.
That changed yesterday and I’m transferring everything over to Australia.
For Fedi, look at Australian servers where you can. Subscriptions? Fuck off Netflix et al. Get out of Google as much as you can. If you’re here you are probably already out of FB and Reddit, but leave anything else you can that is US based and try to support AU or EU.
Don’t buy US foods, cars, or technology where possible (let’s face it, most of those are crap anyway).
And you know what, most of the US based internet is shit now too. It was fun 20 years ago, but consistent enshittification has been the worst in the US. At least the EU is trying to fight it.
Yes our economy is tiny, but we can change more than you might think, and as the rest of the world probably will do similar, the US won’t be quite as well off as it thinks it is.
Canadian here. This is exactky what we are doing. Everything we can not to support anything “America”. Welcome to the fuck them club.
As an American, this is wacky to read–but I’m fully in support. What can i say, i think there’s some good ones here but not enough to balance out all the shite ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was a good run, i guess? Lol
Oh please Albanese, put a 50% tariff on American cars.
We’re talking about Albo here, he’ll apologise and ask if Trump can double it.
Dutton would offer the country to be annexed mind you.
Even the “polite” Canadians fought back - and won. Everyone would when it’s the economy at stake.
Still, no way he’s touching truck prices.
Denominating all international trade in Euros would probably shut him right the fuck up.
I believe BRICS is already working to replace existing USD backed global rare earth and commodity markets with new markets backed by gold and BRICS currencies and without speculation based pricing.
America is no longer a superpower and will soon become just another country to plunder for resources, including human labour.
Forgive me if I’m not excited at whatever dystopian nightmare BRICS comes up with.
There are 3 democratic countries in that alliance, Have some hope bro
The way Modi is at it, I’m not holding out much hope for India staying that way.
I am curious, what is that Modi doing ?
Assassinations domestically and foreign, voter intimidation, using the police to suppress dissent, using intelligence agencies to intimidate or frame journalists for crimes using NSO’s malware. Putting through legislation to legitimize destruction of democratic institutions and other checks on his power.
I’m barely even scratching the surface. All hidden behind a father-knows-best cult of personality, much like Trump is trying to engender.
Oh I see
I remember reading that the government was hoping that because we run a trade deficit with the yanks they wouldn’t do this. Look forward to that just being the assumption and the government having done 0 planning.
there was absolutely no planning any country can do to survive an insane trade war with the united states. nothing. there’s no other trading partners that can take the exports in the volume every country trades with the US, without taking devastating hits to their own economies, which would see recession and depressions on a scale never experienced before in the modern world.
Our biggest trade partners are japan and china.
We measure trade income from the us in hundred millions, sure. But we measure trade from asia in the billions
“Our biggest trade partners are japan and china. We measure trade income from the us in hundred millions, sure. But we measure trade from asia in the billions”
lol no, Not if you live in Australia In 2023, the United States was our third-largest two-way trading partner in goods and services, worth $98.7 billion. Australia’s goods and services exports to the United States were $33.6 billion. Australia’s total imports from the United States were $65.1 billion. but this is why morons think it’s no big deal just “cut of the US from Global trade”
