Trudeau looked directly into television cameras to call out Trump for his 25 percent tariffs as a “very dumb thing to do" as he announced retaliatory measures.
It’s still dumb. He’s forcing the west to reconfigure itself into a new economic structure that leaves the USA out of the loop. That will weaken us in the short term, but strengthen us in the long term (especially once Trump is gone and the USA joins the new global economic structure, albeit in a weakened capacity.) However, since Putin’s been in a quagmire in Ukraine for the past three years he’s not in a position to exploit that short-term weakness.
This is a case of Trump’s idiocy overtaking his usefulness.
It’s still dumb. He’s forcing the west to reconfigure itself into a new economic structure that leaves the USA out of the loop. That will weaken us in the short term, but strengthen us in the long term (especially once Trump is gone and the USA joins the new global economic structure, albeit in a weakened capacity.) However, since Putin’s been in a quagmire in Ukraine for the past three years he’s not in a position to exploit that short-term weakness.
This is a case of Trump’s idiocy overtaking his usefulness.