Un-fucking-real.
This presidency will be such a shit stain on the world. The world will never trust the U.S. in the same way it did before.
Over a century of trust and partnerships destroyed in less than 100 days.
Well. The bridge took some damage in the previous Trump admin as well.
I think far too many people forgot those times.
Or never knew them to begin with
As well as it should not trust the U.S. the same again. While i absolutely despise the orange turd he has shown what has been true before: The west has been too reliant on the U.S. ,which both sides enjoyed while it lastet, as the U.S. called the shots, the rest of the west followed and we all benefitted (often on the backs of the global south ofc). No more. Maybe some good will come out of it (strong hopium, i know)
Trump is definitely a Russian asset.
His Parents were Soviet assets and he was adopted from Russia, so it checks out.
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Let’s see the birth certificate.
…every accusation is an admission…
Only the long form one will do
The longest.
I’m honestly not sure how that would apply to infant adoptions. It’s my understanding that if the adoption occurs early enough, the adoptive parents will be listed on the birth certificate. It certainly feels like a child adopted in infancy by citizens should be just as eligible for the presidency as a child naturally born to citizens, but I’d also have a hard time drawing a line age-wise after which that would no longer apply and I do see a reason to bar children adopted at 17 from the presidency. My niece was adopted at three years old and she does remember her biological mother, but she’s absolutely my sister and brother in law’s daughter, in terms of her personality, culture, and values. That’s only a data point of one and I’d like more, but I don’t know how easy that would be to track for other adopted children.
If she has a US birth certificate she would be a citizen I believe. If not any attempt to run for office would be questioned.
Well, he could just show his birth certificate, right?
They forged it.
Uh, what?
I don’t think it landed well but I think he’s Rubber/Glue-ing the Obama birth certificate thing back to him.
And Putin isn’t a U.S. asset? While both countries are geopolitical adversaries, their military and strategic moves have ironically helped sustain each other’s defense industries; just not in a cooperative way.
Embracing the Ultra-Nationalist Paleocon wing of the Republican Party and stuffing your administration with goldbugs and Silicon Valley anarcho-capitalists?
Why does an American President consuming American Propaganda and regurgitating a uniquely American public policy at the behest of his wealthiest American peers and hooting white-nationalist proles waving American flags get flagged as Russian?
US is the richest country in the world and the one with the largest and most advanced army. To me it sound quite unlikely to believe that the president of USA is controlled by russia (a country that is 10 times less rich).
I’m not sure what the things you say have to do with anything? Trump is an individual who got voted into the presidency largely thanks to social media manipulation, which is known to often originate from Russian bot and troll farms. There’s no reason to believe the USA being rich (which only means a few individuals and corporations are very rich, btw) or having the largest army could have prevented it.
social media manipulation
Biggest social media are all owned by private american corporations in bed with the government. Same as before to me it doesn’t sound much likely that the russian government can successfully manipulate them.
There’s no reason to believe the USA being rich (which only means a few individuals and corporations are very rich, btw) or having the largest army could have prevented it.
Having the largest army doesn’t mean they have more guys running around in a field. USA has the most technological advanced army in the world, they have the biggest mass surveillance network, more military facilities around the world, more satellites in orbit and they top everyone else in cyberwarfare.
Uh? Of course he isn’t. Why would Putin tell him to put tariffs on himself? That makes no sense.
The US has been sanctioning Russia for the better part of the last decade. We aren’t tariffing them because we aren’t trading with them.
We also aren’t tariffing Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea, for the same reasons.
Maybe, but apparently we’re tariffing multiple uninhabited islands. It would seem that active trade is not a perquisite for tariffs these days. can’t be having people move out there and not getting tariffed in the future.
I hope he puts tariffs on Mars next. Maybe after he falls out with musk.
They are eating the dogs and now they are tariffing the penguins.
Man the Sentinelese are gonna be pissed when they learn about this.
But tarrif on seals in the Antarctica region? Doesn’t seem like logic is driving any of this.
Surely American trades some products? Where does Russian vodka come from?
I was under the impression that we (in Canada) get our vodka mostly from Finland, but it’s been a while since I worked as an alcohol purveyor… I’m ashamed of the things I did during those years, but I’m in recovery now, thank you for your concern
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306859/us-imports-by-commodity-from-russia/
It does look like we import about $3B/year. Mostly fertilizers, which make up 1/3 of total imports, and some raw metals and a bit of heavy machinery. But that’s minuscule beside our trade balances with the top of his tariff list - China, the EU, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and India. We do $20B/year with tiny little South Korea, as a point of comparison. We bring in $6B/year from South Africa.
To my knowledge, we don’t import Russian vodka in any significant quantity. Anything “Russian” branded is typically imported from one of the neighboring states - Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Romania. Red Army Vodka, for instance, is from a Polish company.
He slapped a 50% tarrif on Lesotho, so it’s clearly not about size or impact.
And the UK got a 10% tariff applied even though the US doesn’t have a goods trade deficit with them.
Some people are saying that this is cause Trump likes us.
Now that is a lie. He only likes himself and Ivanka.
I know. It’s insane.
idaho i think
But McDonald island is ripping the USA off!!!
it’s funny that this is being downvoted. lemmy is basically reddit. rooting for the good guys, but also dogshit stupid
Downvoted because it’s wrong : We aren’t tariffing them because we aren’t trading with them.
So are some inhabited islands which are hit by tariffs. Maybe the dogshit stupid is the one not seeing the ties between trump and putin.
Systems that have voting mechanisms result in hive minds. It’s an inevitable result.
1st someone is much more likely to vote something up or down depending on how positive / negative it is. So it snowballs sort of like compounding interest
2nd the simplest most common denominator takes bubble to the top. Precisely because more people can understand and therefore vote.
It’s why you’ll always see some screenshot of Twitter much higher than a long in depth article. Even though the article has infinitely more value.
Damn you sound very smart, please tell me more
Well, why should Agent Krasnov put tariffs on the hand that feeds him, good old Vlad? 🤷🏼♂️
Should tell you everything you need to know.
Do people not realize there is no US Russia trade so tariffs would be moot.
no US Russia trade
U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia
But what’s a few billion between friends?
No US Russia trade YET.
Could someone ask Propaganda Barbie about this?
KKKaroline
Uh… which one? There’s so many I’ve lost track. I only seem to remember dog killer, handyqueen and simian goblin.
Well, uh, who do you think is calling the shots?
Almost the entire world is paralyzed by American tariffs
😂
Looks more like Russia and USA are in the same trade embargo, while the rest of the world is free to do whatever they want.
If anybody is paralyzed it might be Sk and Japan but SK is already jumping ship and trading with China, now.
Kompromat
Guys I think there’s some evidence that this is, shall we say, Russia friendly (such as the astronomical tariff rate on Moldova of all places), but Russia isn’t included because it’s a “Column 2” country alongside Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and therefore all subject to the stiff tariffs we already impose on the worst of the worst. Please let’s not share things like this which just make us look gullable to the morons on the right supporting this buffoon. It’s not a good look.
Do you have a source for this? I checked https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypxnnyg7jo but cannot find this.
Edit: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/17517599 says that some countries are not included in tariffs because they are sanctioned instead.
Look at section 3(b) of the executive order linked here, at the portion discussing “column 2”:
I miss Gilbert
I’m sad now.
Good point, considering the US still trades with Russia.
**United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. **
https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/imports/united-states
Russia imports $17 billions from USA. So we don’t have a trade deficit with Russia.
He’s definitely a Russian troll, but I’m not sure this is the data point to prove it.
The US consistently runs a trade deficit with Russia.
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html
The US has a trade surplus with the UK, but still applied a 10% tariff to them.
So is that trading economics website just BS, then?
You’re comparing 2021 exports with 2024 imports
United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024
Sounds like no government actually gives a fuck about stopping the ukraine war. Sending weapons to ukraine government is a more profitable business than cutting import and export to russia to 0.
Krasnov strikes again! Until there is evidence to counter this theory, it satisfies Occam’s Razor.
I was noticing this as well. The place that should have the highest tarrifs.
“tariffs”
That’ll show em! Trump was ANGRY at Russia these few days!
