If today ends with tariffs - purportedly needed because of drug smuggling and illegal immigration - placed on Canada but not Mexico then I will be very confused.
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As a customs broker, albeit UK based, I've never received a call or email from a smuggler asking how brexit and tariffs may effect them and what they can do to mitigte against. It's almost as though illegal importation completely bypasses normal regulations.
the target is not drugs and immigration. the target is the western alliance. 'View Trump a an instrument of Russian foreign policy' is a decent heuristic for making sense of his decisions
.OK, I'll have a go. If you ring him up and say nice things about him over the phone, tell him how smart and handsome he is, he'll call off the dogs. That's it, really.
Duncan, I believe the US has a trade surplus with the U.K. So does that explain why Trump has been somewhat, shall we say, less aggressive about tariffs?
Is this all a land grab to get Arctic mining rights. Have Trump et al just got the notion that there's stuff there that the world needs? Is America running out of something?
Fair play to Mexico for convincing Dementia Don that the sudden increase in military troops on the US border was about "stopping drugs" rather than reinforcing their border security against a belligerent bellend who is suddenly threatening to invade everyone.
A minor detail amid the Trump tariff tantrum but the 2026 World Cup is being jointly hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico. Also, the 2028 Olympics are in LA, and oh look, an out of favour Russian-dominated sporting association is asking him to interfere on its behalf. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/c2479v9q86qo
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However: they also showed their political credibility as well.
He literally pardoned a guy who ran a website that was selling fentanyl.
I really can't see them stopping the boycotts they've already implemented.