• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    It probably goes without saying at this point, but deporting someone to a culture in which they’re not competent is wildly immoral, and doing so in such a way that they end up encarcerated in subhuman conditions especially despite not committing a crime in that jurisdiction is monstrous.

    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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      If you ignore the morality, it is also supremely stupid. Killing your citizens and stealing their stuff might be a “shot in the arm” for a terrible nation, but it also means all of the skills and support they could offer the nation is gone.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    It was always eventually going to come down to US vs China for economic leadership of the world. Trump ceded that fight. Or accelerated it in a way that makes real conflict a greater concern than it was before, depending on the aggression/militarism of future administrations.

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    They’ve called your bluff, buddy and now you’re going to have to take an absolute beating of a lifetime. Enjoy!

    • PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world
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      Not him, he’ll take whatever he can get and sell it to his cultists as the world’s greatest deal.

      As usual, it’s the US taking the beating …

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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      The tariffs will be something Biden put in place and Trump removed to save the economy within a week.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    He’s playing poker with the Chinese who love gambling and he’s also an idiot who thinks he’s a great gambler while holding all his cards backwards

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    The Art of the Deal:

    1. Behave recklessly and make threats to destroy the global economy
    2. Get pushback from allies
    3. Reverse course for allies, but behave even more recklessly against rival
    4. Rival realizes you don’t know what you’re doing
    5. Beg rival to engage
    6. Rival refuses
    7. Take insanely reckless actions toward rival
    8. Rival stands firm
    9. Get told by billionaires that you’re messing with their profits and, as a side note, domestic stability
    10. Reverse course for rivals, look incredibly weak and get exposed for not having a clue what you’re doing on the global stage
    11. ???
    12. Make America Great Again
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    He abuses people hardest to try to force them to submit. It may work with some of his business deals but in international politics with an economic superpower? What a clown.

  • selkiesidhe@lemm.ee
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    Do not back down China! I love to see that dumbass flounder like the fat toxic fish he is.