• bloopenguin@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Canada and Mexico haven’t really given Trump anything. These “concessions” are pretty much all things already negotiated during the Biden administration Trump just needed a win so they “gave” him one because he couldn’t actually go through with the tarrifs without crashing the stock market which would’ve pissed off a lot of his friends

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      19 days ago

      That is really completely irrelevant. It’s a win to his voters (and likely to him), and worse it legitimises the negotiation tactic. If Trump threatens Greenland with a potential military invasion, the only correct negotiation tactic is to expel US soldiers from Greenland/Denmark. Why the heck would Greenland host US military when this might be an invasion force?