🚨 #BREAKING UPDATE: Colombian President Petro announces 50% tariff on American goods, says Trump's economic and diplomatic "blockade" does not "scare" him.
"If you know anyone stubborn, that's me. I will die for my principles... I resist you."
Petro released a lengthy statement, with an English translation of it showing Petro even bringing up the possibility Trump would enact a "coup" against him.
And the trade wars begin. What a treat for the American people!
Is Colombia ran by a 15 year old? This is embarrassing.
It's so embarrassingly written I would expect a nation to feel so ashamed that they would start a coup.
It's possible that the translation makes it look worse than it is. That said, while I understand the tit for tat tariffs, nations should be taking back their people staying illegally in the USA.
They were. They objected to the US flying them back in cargo planes and requested that they be sent5in passenger planes. They then offered to fly them back at their own expense using their own planes, and Trump responded by pretending they were refusing to take their citizens back, and imposing this knee-jerk 50% tariff. This was all about grandstanding and making a show out of these unnecessary tariffs that will end up significantly raising the price of Colombian goods—primarily coffee—for the American people.
It appears that Colombia have caved
Dishonest miacharacterization. They didn't "cave". Their initial issue was that cargo planes were being used to transport people. That's why they offered to use their own planes at their expense to fly the Colombian migrants back home. Now, they US has agreed to use US military planes configured to transport personnel, which is all Colombia wanted in the first place. No rational person could look at the details of this situation and say Colombia "caved".
I can't find anything suggesting that has been agreed to.
I assume he was obfuscating his embarrassment of the fact that he clearly doesn't want them back by attempting to display some sort of moral and intellectual superiority.
Wait... And you don't think Trump's emergency imposition of high tariffs on one our trade partners is ridiculous? It's the small country that's only reacting to Trump's actions that's at fault?
I don't even know about any of that lol, not who he is. All I know is that a president of nation should not be writing something so embarrassing.
Ok, but his writing is sorta besides the point. And have you ever read the shit Trump has written? It just seems like there's this double standard when it comes comparing Trump's actions with the related actions of foreign nations he doesn't like. He like to talk about fairness, yet nothing he does can reasonably be called fair. In this case, this whole issue could have been avoided with a phone call. Colombia proposed a solution to the conflict that was at their own expense, using their own planes, and rather than acknowledge that and make a deal (because we all know what a great dealmaker he is), is initiated a completely unnecessary trade war that will come at the expense of the American people. He still doesn't understand that the American people pay the tariffs he's imposing on other nations. And we'll pay for this too. Keep an eye on the price of coffee over the following days.
The whole tariff thing is kind of fascinating. Australia recently went through this with China.
China imposed tariffs on Australian goods for political reasons.
The below article is a review of the outcome by The United States Studies Centre in Australia.
It’s interesting to see the US push this path knowing the outcome.
https://www.ussc.edu.au/chinas-trade-restrictions-on-australian-exports
Very cringe. Yes
Source?
Been saying higher inflation is coming...
Holy shit.
Rather than “imposing” which can been taken as “offensive language” should civilized human beings better not try to sit around the table and discuss in a respectable way? since when did “diplomacy” vanished and are all politicians these day’s using harsh language? and what do they think they will gain from it?
language mostly used: we will find you, we will track you down, we come after you and take you down, we will impose, we will take etc…
Were is diplomacy and respect to each other? respect and understanding of all different cultures, respect to the people of all different races and the values they grew up with? were is the respect towards each individual right of freedom and economic tradecraft? we, the people should start pushing our political representatives to start using diplomacy again and respect people from all countries equally.
Are trade wars just a budget Sid Meir's game knock off with communiqués written by an LLM trained on Reddit posts?
Has this been resolved already?? I was actually hoping for more of these insane letters lol
