Trump is threatening to jack up tariffs on China by an additional 50% unless Beijing abandons its retaliatory duties on U.S. imports.
Trump in a Truth Social post gave China until Tuesday to undo its 34% tariffs, imposed in response to the “reciprocal” duties unveiled at the White House last week.
Trump also wrote that he will cancel all planned talks with China if they do not comply with his demand.
If you’re going to start a war, you better know for a fact that you can win. Trump thinks he knows, but he doesn’t know shit.
The US has a terminal disease: hubris. This is what it’s like to live in an empire in decline.
This is exactly what I thought of Russia after their failed invasion of Ukraine. Generally regarded as a super power prior, they put on display how atrophied their millitary had become by not being able to steam roll Ukraine.
yet europeans are still afraid that russia is going to conquer europe somehow.
Well, yeah? When Russia rolled in Ukraine had already been at war for 6 years. Ukraine was as prepared as you can be against a surprise invasion. Most of the EU probably doesn’t even entertain the possibility of an invasion. If Russia were to invade the EU not only would the EU not be prepared for it but Russia would also have the advantage in experience.
I’m not saying Russia would conquer the whole of EU but, if they also take Ukraine, I could see them taking the whole eastern Europe.
They have nukes. Also the nuclear doctrine of Russia is more lax than other countries. Attacking Russia by conventional means is grounds for them to use them.
They can if they divide us beforehand. Russia’s greatest arms aren’t rifles or shells or nukes, it’s information and sowing dissent in other countries. I am 100% sure Hungary wouldn’t be in its current state if Russia wasn’t involved somehow.
If they win the war, they will absolutely invade the EU.
they’re barely able to advance and even then at very steep costs; their victory will be pyrrhic at best
If they bomb your local city and then collapse does that change the fact they bombed your local city?
i doubt very much that they want a nuclear wasteland next to them nor do they have any history of using nuclear weapons; however europe’s ally does and they’re already in the process of screwing over europe more than russia could ever hope to achieve.
Lol, who doesn’t have a history if using nuclear weapons? The successor state to the nation that regularly tested nukes?
– against other nations; like in the scenario you were painting.
Russia wouldn’t care, because Putin would be able to hide away on some cozy island in Oceania or wherever.
there wouldn’t be anyone left to care after the nuclear holocaust takes place.
I’m Mostly just worried about nukes and someone on there side will follow through.
russia doesn’t have a history of using nukes against another country, but europe’s ally does and they’re already in the process of screwing over europe more than russia could ever fantasize about; nevertheless russia is still the key problem somehow.
Only by sheer luck that one crew didn’t follow instructions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
that would have been an accident; not a conquest.
OK tankie, you going to say the supression of the Hungarian uprising was an accident next?
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Why would Trump care if he wins?
As he has for most of his bankruptcy laden past, he’s largely playing with other people’s lives. He’ll be fine, and he enjoys inflicting cruelty on others for its own sake when he “loses.”
The US has the terminal disease of hubris, not Trump. Trump is just insane. But the US elected him as their leader and the electorate as a whole can’t plead insanity here.
Trump is the symptom. Trump certainly has hubris in spades, he’s a reflection of the condition afflicting the US. Nonetheless, the US is probably going to cease to exist in the form it’s maintained in the last century.
There are far too many parallels that this shit has with the Weimar Republic. I’m working on contingency plans.