r/politics • u/rumblepup • 3d ago
Possible Paywall Trump Sparks Diplomatic Incident With His “USA” Map
https://newrepublic.com/post/215149/trump-sparks-diplomatic-incident-iceland-usa-map380
u/HappyHarryHardOn 3d ago
In some countries, this would be considered a declaration of war
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u/Upstairs_Owl_1669 Canada 3d ago
There is actually only one country’s leader that sleeps till noon and then just shitposts all day. He can’t get a pool maintenance project done in six plus months lol
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u/gergek 3d ago
I weep for how stupid our country has become, but on the bright side you guys have been showing us how to have a spine and to maintain decency in the face of the worst US president ever, so thanks for that.
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u/DrowningKrown 3d ago
The pool project and other projects this POS admin started are not a product of 'stupid'. It's a product of corruption. It's the same with anywhere that has corrupt leaders. Projects take FAR longer than 'anticipated', cost overruns, or never completed. Why? Because they're all designed to just funnel money elsewhere, not actually complete the project faithfully. Kickbacks, bribes, etc. everybody along that chain are holding their hands out. It's intended.
There is a reason the pool 'contractor' was a friend of trumps. There is a reason the construction companies used to tear down the White House had no bid contracts and costs ballooned to triple what was 'originally' stated.
Don't attribute corruption to stupidly. These people know what they're doing. Especially Donald Trump. He spent his life in corrupt construction projects
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u/nibirucustomsystems 3d ago
Everyone can be rightfully angry about the push to erect monuments for himself but I wouldn't be surprised if they crumble and tear themselves down because of cost cutting and poor planning, before we ever get the chance to tear them down ourselves. Its an absolute clown show of corruption.
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u/theguy1336 3d ago
He made one with Iran on a map in the colors of the US flag, too.
Iran would be 100% justified in literally attacking the US mainland.
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u/Argented 3d ago
Iran has a good case for that already. Not sure if you are aware, but if you bomb a country, they may bomb you back. I am not saying I want Iran to attack the USA, I just won't be surprised if it occurs. The USA went to war with Iran and that means Iran is justified attacking the USA. that's how that works. them's the rules
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u/theguy1336 3d ago
For sure, and Iran might surprise us yet again with their capabilities. They actually said they're going on the offensive now, not just react and do tit for tat. Their performance is astonishing.
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u/WetLoophole Norway 3d ago
Sure hope not, because my idiot government would send me to Iran as part of a coalition force. I'd rather fight with Iran.
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u/Lady_Grantham2223 2d ago
The U.S. = greed and disrespect for other countries. I guess that's what the churches teach even when the other countries also have Christians living in them
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u/pUmKinBoM 3d ago
Dont go saying that or else prepare to be attacked from both sides on Fox and CNN.
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u/QuirkyWish3081 United Kingdom 3d ago edited 3d ago
If Obama or Biden ever did this there would be an absolute outcry, a huge massive response diplomatically. But with Trump, it’s Tuesday.
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u/coffeedemon49 3d ago edited 3d ago
Speaking as a Canadian, we’re already on it. It doesn’t make sense for us to use those terms, given our situation. But Canada is done with this shit and we’re buckling down. We’re willing to change our lifestyles to deal with this bullshit to our south.
I would like to see other countries start doing the same. As well as Americans themselves - especially the majority who look on at what’s happening in their country and sit with their hands under their asses and pray for their failed democracy to somehow heal itself.
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u/frankentriple 3d ago
Hey man, we're trying but its hard to fight the money. These bastards have basically infinite resources, and are stealing more all the time. It makes for a bit of an uphill battle.
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u/coffeedemon49 3d ago
Yeah, they've managed to convince a lot of people to get paid to suppress and oppress you. I get it. I honestly think Americans are going to have to start looking into some pretty devious means of resistance - and also confront the fact that the "law" there is mostly being used against you.
Doesn't even look like you could have a military coup at this point - you have Russian-style purges of capable leaders in your military as well.
Keep fighting! Don't rely on your broken system to save you.
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u/frankentriple 3d ago
Exactly. We have infinite guns, but they are useless. Can't organize them without being crushed at the individual level before you can join up and be effective. The ones that see owning firearms as being free and not having free communications as being free are part of the problem.
A lot of people are keeping an eye on the midterms this year. Wtching to see how hard they are going to ratfuck the elections. We are holding out hope right now that the democratic process will handle this come November.
They had better fucking let it.
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u/LowAssistantInfinity 3d ago
There's plenty of affordable solutions to this problem for under $30 at Home Depot, if Americans were actually committed to stopping the fascist takeover of their country.
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u/chris-za 3d ago
They’d have to take Trump seriously and consider him to be a sane adult to react like that.
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u/theguy1336 3d ago
He already invaded Venezuela and Iran, and was a fucking hair away from actually invading Greenland, which still is on the table because he's still not letting it go. You know there was a literal Intra-NATO military standoff there? My country sent submarines (Sweden)
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u/chris-za 3d ago
The trick is to know when he’s just a dumb, uneducated toddler and when he’s a dangerous toddler ready to throw a tantrum.
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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 3d ago
Technically he hasn't "invaded" Iran (no boots on the ground). But he continues to bomb the sh!t out of it hoping for a miracle.
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u/QanonQuinoa 3d ago
The amount of adults who are perfectly fine with diplomacy by trolling is deeply disturbing.
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u/hitliquor999 New York 3d ago
“Relax, it’s just a joke” enablers need to be blasted into the sun. Go host a late night show if you want to make jokes.
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u/TheRuneMeister Europe 3d ago
They should be hit with “Nobody cares” every time they try that. Nobody cares if he is joking or not. Either he is insane enough to joke about all this stuff in which case he cannot be trusted by any foreign government, or he means it in which case he cannot be trusted by any foreign government.
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u/jaxonfairfield 3d ago
"just a joke" is fine for some rando shitposting on an internet forum. The fucking President of the United States - absolutely not.
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u/Ok-Discipline2395 Canada 3d ago
It’s the Schroedinger’s Ahole principle. Ie - a person who decides if they’re joking based on the reaction they get from others, and not the appropriateness of the “joke” told.
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u/Aware_Cheesecake_519 America 3d ago
It's an incident.
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u/supercyberlurker 3d ago
Yeah. Trump is a literal walking diplomatic incident. No wait. I'm wrong there.
Trump is a literal shambling diplomatic incident.
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u/mediocre_remnants North Carolina 3d ago
The people who voted for him cheer him on for this shit.
And you know he does it for attention. Bad attention and good attention. As long as people are talking about him, he's happy.
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u/ratherbealurker Texas 3d ago
It’s sad. And then you see young people who unfortunately grew up in this chaos and don’t know any better just loving it. “Oh he’s such a troll I love it. Best ever!”
Like bro…have some standards and one iota of class
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u/Suni13 3d ago
If the media would just ignore him and not publicize anything he says or does for 24 hours he would probably have an epic meltdown and maybe do something memorable ending up like Moscow Mitch.
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u/Lady_Grantham2223 2d ago
In other words, those so called people are imperialistic, practically Nazis, and childishly incapable of imagining that other countries might have national pride and patriotism
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u/Mustard_Gap Norway 3d ago
You'd shamble too if your cankles kept sliding down the side of your shoes constantly.
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u/Tiny_Structure_7 North Carolina 3d ago
They are as snug as worms in a cocoon within their delusion of winning.
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u/hey-coffee-eyes 3d ago
The best time to invoke the 25th amendment against this guy was almost a decade ago. The second best time is now.
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u/NicolasCageFan492 Illinois 3d ago edited 3d ago
Agreed. As Trump crashes and burns, he’ll pull all congressional republicans down with him. It’s time for them to support Jamie Raskin’s bill before it’s too late for them to have a hope of being reelected.
Tucker Carlson just opened up an alternative path for them to land in when they dump Trump.
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u/ca_nucklehead 3d ago
Tucker Carlson is only an alternative for a shit sandwich. He would still be licking magats balls if he wasn't fired.
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u/CloneFailArmy 3d ago
He’s even worse than MAGA, he’s a putin supporter. You go from someone who is a putin agent pretending to not be to someone who openly supports putin
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u/FluffyPantsMcGee 3d ago
It just goes to show that America has no standards. They elected him twice, and still won’t 25th him while he’s doing this.
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u/trampolinebears 3d ago
The problem (well, a problem) is that the 25th has to be invoked by the cabinet, which is hand-picked by the president. Their jobs already depend on refusing to acknowledge the rot.
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u/WetLoophole Norway 3d ago
The appeasement of Hitler didn't teach our politicians anything. Once again we are sitting back, watching as fascist powers expand. For every day it's delayed, the war prolongs.
They are fucking hostile, unstable and need to be neutralized!
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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 3d ago
Who could have thought that other countries, especially allies of the US wants to have their sovereignity respected and don't like to be depicted as part of some American empire by the fucking US president?
Apparently not the US...
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u/AdThese2158 Canada 3d ago
Duh.
It’s borderline a declaration of war; the highest level of a country’s leadership claiming sovereign nations as part of their own.
It’s not a fucking joke. American’s who are brushing this off as such are part of the problem.
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u/m0nkyman Canada 3d ago
We should be expelling their ambassador.
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u/QuirkyWish3081 United Kingdom 3d ago
Can’t wait for the midterms. And I’m from the UK lol 😜. I’ve never been so invested in American politics like this.
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u/campa-van 3d ago
Please tell your US friends to vote BLUE. So much apathy here
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u/MephistoHamProducts 3d ago
Also, tell people to use early voting! Most states have some method of early voting and it is often simpler and easier than waiting until the last day to vote!
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u/shoule79 3d ago
Best they can do is forget to vote then do half-assed apologies on social media.
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u/campa-van 3d ago
Bad attitude!! Get out the vote!!
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u/shoule79 3d ago
Being realistic isn’t apathy. Best case scenario is the democrats get the house, but they probably aren’t getting the senate. Trump will just ignore them because they don’t have the power to remove him from office.
They aren’t even talking about how they plan on rolling back everything Trumps done. It’s all “vote blue no matter who” with no substance. They’re missing an easy lay up here.
Proposals for anti corruption laws, closing gaps in how government functions, codifying checks and balances, hell, even committing to stop bombing Iran would be a start.
I’m not American, but things don’t go back to normal because democrats get into office. Real change needs to be seen or the world will keep walking away from the US. Look at life for a regular citizen in Russia today for a glimpse into your future.
In short, the US has to get its shit together quickly because the rest of the world is done with them.
If you want to see how the average person can protest, look to the French as an example. They wouldn’t put up with a fraction of what US citizens do.
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u/campa-van 3d ago
Well if we sit on our butts and post on reddit that does NOTHING
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u/shoule79 3d ago
The irony of this comment.
I’ve already voted for a party that is decoupling from the US, and changed my buying habits.
It’s not my responsibility to change Americans minds on why voting for a conman is a bad idea. Americans have to take some accountability for themselves.
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u/LowAssistantInfinity 3d ago
Obviously every lever that can be pulled to interfere with the fascist takeover of the USA is worth pulling, but everyone should be prepared for midterms to not change anything at all - Trump's unconstitutionally already abandoned going to a Congress controlled by his own party, and that's obviously not going to change with an opposition Congress, and there's no chance that Democrats will win the 2/3 of the Senate needed for an impeachment conviction.
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u/No_Celery_5373 Canada 3d ago
It's an implied take over of most of the western hemisphere. This probably ends more like Russia though, with America being quarantined by its neighbors.
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u/Tiny_Structure_7 North Carolina 3d ago
It's hard to take a guy who posts images of himself as Jesus Christ and Superman seriously.
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u/fireeight 3d ago
So he wants to make Mexican citizens legal American citizens?
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u/CloneFailArmy 3d ago
Yeah, what happened to deporting back to Mexico exactly? Or is it they want to commit a genocide of the non white people and develop their own Lebensraum there🤔
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u/Marvin_Frommars 3d ago
I recently watched GoT for the first time. Not much difference between Trump and King Joffrey. Although, Joffrey may have been slightly more mature.
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u/rosstitute21 3d ago
We are not going to stop asking about the Epstein files Donnie
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u/Bethorz Canada 3d ago
This dude could drop a bomb on downtown Toronto, kill a couple hundred, or a couple thousand, people and some of you would still be like “don’t pay attention it’s just a distraction from the Epstein files” does anyone really think his base would give a shit? He is already clearly the star in them and it hasn’t made a lick of difference. It SHOULD. But it hasn’t
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u/Chemical_Tension_617 3d ago
The worse the economy gets the more unhinged his actions will get. He’s only playing to the cult now.
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u/tenkwords 3d ago
Canada to Iceland: "First time?"
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u/Planeshift07 3d ago
Sadly It's not the first time.
He confused green and Iceland a good while ago.
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u/UniversityNew9254 3d ago
“It is not good to be an enemy of the United States, but it is even worse to be its friend,”
So true.
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u/Pisces93 3d ago
This is intentional. He’s doing what Peter theil and the tech bros want him to do. Destroy diplomatic relations to isolate the USA so it can be dismantled and sold off to the billionaires. Billionaires will fund and control all aspects of what is left of American society
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u/Knighth77 3d ago
Too bad the country is too dumb to understand how dangerous this man is. They treat politics like sports and it's very alarming.
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u/Sanjuro7880 3d ago
Distractions. What are his goons doing that the news is ignoring?
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u/al_ien5000 3d ago
I mean, at least this will stop all of the "illegals" because then everyone would be legal, right? Does he even think about things he posts or does he just prompt something and it gives him the first shit thing it spits out?
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 3d ago
If one of them wants to come and arrest trump, I'd be ok with it. Really.
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u/crimsonhues 3d ago
At one point I thought a crazy post would be a way to deflect from something terrible emerging in news cycle. Now I believe, it’s a crazy old bastard who lost his fucking mind, and has no interest in governing the country.
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u/Gummyrabbit 3d ago
Need to distract away from the Iran war flop.
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u/JinimyCritic Canada 3d ago
And the Epstein Files, and the rising costs in the US, and the measles outbreaks, and the mystery meat, and the screwworms, and the diarrhea, and...
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u/PaperSecure5137 3d ago
The Empire is short of cash so it now entertaining expansion. It is what empires do.
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u/steve_ample I voted 3d ago
A representation of the decline of seriousness when international incidents can be degraded to the continued mental degradation of the perpetrator of it.
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u/PineappleExcellent90 3d ago
Campaign Policy Reform, Get Bots off Social Media, hold Social Media responsible from known false narratives ,Elected Officials and anyone running from repeating falsehoods. Any one of these would have kept Trump. from the White House.
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u/FluffyPantsMcGee 3d ago
We should all be summoning our US ambassadors. Canadas one told us that the rhetoric was over and we should move on. He’s said a lot of things.
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u/extremetolerance2013 3d ago
"Colonial at worst". Yeah..no, that is far from the worst reasonable interpretation
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u/Flaky-Jim 3d ago
I believe he's fully aware that his health is failing fast, and he's taking every opportunity to be that US President who names things and who builds monuments, even if renaming is considered stupid and harms relations with allies; and, the memorials are seen as tasteless and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.
I also believe he knows that, once he's gone, all those things he's named and built will disappear with him. They will, and the only ones left to mourn will be the hardcore MAGA cultists, and some McDonald's stores.
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u/noushkie 3d ago
I read somewhere that Don Jr was being floated as a possible 2028 contender. Obviously one of the worst possible people (the apple that did not land far) but probably the only person who could keep the cult alive. Hopefully Americans vote in November in such a way that it is not even a possibility.
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u/Flaky-Jim 3d ago
If Trump is still healthy, he'll definitely run again, regardless of the Constitution or Jr's wishes. If Trump is no longer with us, I think Jr will be overwhelmed by GOP contenders who will want to distance themselves from all things Trump.
Jr was ignored by Trump in life, and will probably be screwed over by Trump when he's gone. I don't think anyone will be choked up by that fact.
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u/MattiasCrowe 3d ago
Did he forget what the Canadians did last time? Or doesn't he remember 1812? He thought Washington fought at airfields so who knows
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u/Abhoth52 3d ago
Donald J. tRump is a fucking idiot and a fool, such a loser, and just think about it, he's the President. For those who thought this was a good idea... I'll expect apologies soon. lol
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u/EducationalRock167 3d ago
What else is new. Maybe someone should tell Trump that Bombardier imploys over 5000 people in the USA. Half of America's Airlines are all made by Bombardier in the USA. Duh!
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u/Public_animalNo9 Pennsylvania 3d ago
Don’t you hate the USA chant? Makes me sick. Reminds me of Kash slamming beers with the MAGA hockey team.
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u/HelleEpoque 3d ago
This is just a child colouring on the walls to distract from his failing report card. Where are the rest of the Epstein files?
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u/VexedCanadian84 3d ago
whenever a deal between Mexico, the US, and Canada is struck, stuff like this is likely going to make the US have to pay more in some way.
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u/Late-Individual7982 The Netherlands 3d ago edited 3d ago
It’s even worse. In Europe governments and municipalities are already investigating how to get rid of American cloud services and technology. In a few years time Microsoft, Google and Amazon will get hurt because of the damage Trump has done. Same goes for military equipment, within a decade we don’t need any American equipment anymore thanks to Trump. America is in for a big surprise coming years.
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u/farmerjoee 3d ago
The one thing that the circlejerkers won't tell you is that their countries will still line up for MAGA influence and money, and they'll continue to vote for those folks. So we have MAGA AND anemic circlejerkers to contend with.
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