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OT: American Politics

LeafGm said:
Yeah, zero doubt that Vlad’s spent a lot of time in his conversations with Trump talking about his “spheres of influence” view of how geopolitics should work. And that Trump is wholeheartedly on-board.
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As I said, Trump is a mob boss talking to other capos, like a less self aware version of Tony Soprano carving up NY/NJ with his peers
 
From a Globe and Mail piece on how US products and travel are being shunned significantly

>>Pierre Cléroux, vice-president of research and chief economist at the Business Development Bank of Canada, told The Globe and Mail that if every Canadian household redirected $25 a week from foreign products to Canadian ones, it would boost GDP by 0.7 per cent and create 60,000 jobs.


According to his modelling, if Canadians also cut international travel by 10 per cent and spent that money domestically, the combined effect would raise GDP by 1 per cent and create 74,000 jobs
 
mbow30 said:
We hage 5x more rare earth deposits than Russia. Trumps an idiot - short of military misadventure the end game will be to shut the us out of Australia and Canada markets.
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If China was a little bit less of an expansionist totalitarian fuckscape, the transition to the future would be so easy without the US.
 
CH1 said:
From a Globe and Mail piece on how US products and travel are being shunned significantly

>>Pierre Cléroux, vice-president of research and chief economist at the Business Development Bank of Canada, told The Globe and Mail that if every Canadian household redirected $25 a week from foreign products to Canadian ones, it would boost GDP by 0.7 per cent and create 60,000 jobs.


According to his modelling, if Canadians also cut international travel by 10 per cent and spent that money domestically, the combined effect would raise GDP by 1 per cent and create 74,000 jobs
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Then throw in some emergency re jigging of the inter provincial standards and licensing issues that slows a bunch of trade and we might come out of this just fine as long as they don't actually roll tanks.
 
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