Krasnov saves the climate (and Russia)
Mr. Krasnov (aka Donald Trump) has made true on his campaign promise to save the world from the impending climate disaster. By levying a global round of customs tariffs he succeeded single handedly to shrink the world economy by (a still to be calculated) x percent, returning it to levels of CO2 output last seen in 200X or 199X. A herculean task skilfully performed which promoted Krasnov's candidacy for honorary leadership of the Last Generation NGO.
As could be expected, Krasnov has exempted Russia (the only country) from the new customs tariffs. Cheap vodka for the U.S. Sa Sdorówje!
Ihsan al-TawilBRUSSELS — Washington and Moscow are in talks to revive the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, as the Kremlin vies to regain a foothold in Europe amid the prospect of a ceasefire in Ukraine. "There is talk about the Nord Streams," Lavrov told Russia’s state-controlled Channel One TV station, according to a readout shared by his ministry Wednesday. "It will probably be interesting if the Americans use their influence on Europe and force it not to refuse Russian gas." (editor's bolding)
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"The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, economists at the American Enterprise Institute said."
The BBC is reporting that, in a not-at-all shocking development, the US and China have agreed to reduce mutual 100+% tariffs by 115% for 90 days.
Removing idiotic tariffs you only just imposed is not a trade deal, it's a capitulation. Krasnov, of course, will spin it as a "trade deal" just as he did a few days ago when he removed tariffs on imports from the UK and got almost nothing in return.
Much of the damage, of course, cannot be undone so easily. The rest of the world no longer sees the US as a reliable partner, and the US cannot even begin to fix that perception while Krasnov remains in office.
Rusty Sword of Truth -- Daily Kos
Krasnov’s financial disclosure report shows that he still personally benefits from private deals
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Because he’s all about the sneakers and t-shirts, pretending he’s an NPC, ducking out of a commencement ceremony to play golf.
“Trump says it’s separate — the presidency and his business,”
Mr. Truong said. “But he has the power to do whatever he wants.”
This $1.5 billion golf complex outside the capital, Hanoi, as well as plans for a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale. And as that blitz makes the Trumps richer, it is distorting how countries interact with the United States.
To fast-track the Trump development, Vietnam has ignored its own laws, legal experts said, granting concessions more generous than what even the most connected locals receive. Vietnamese officials, in a letter obtained by The New York Times, explicitly stated that the project required special support from the top ranks of the Vietnamese government because it was “receiving special attention from the Trump administration and President Donald Trump personally.”
And Vietnamese officials have waved the development along in a moment of high-stakes diplomacy. They face intense pressure to strike a trade deal that would head off President Trump’s threat of steep tariffs, which would hit about 30 percent of Vietnam’s exports.
Trump Destroys His Own Claim that Russia Wouldn’t Have Invaded Ukraine if He Were President
On Tuesday morning Trump posted a comment on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, wherein he made an unexpected confession. He wrote that...
"What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!"
And there you have it. Trump is admitting that he has been been protecting Putin and Russia from some unspecified "really bad things." So while Putin was massacring innocent Ukrainian civilians, destroying the nation's infrastructure, and insisting that it doesn't have any right to exist, Trump was shielding Russia from any harm that might have come its way.
That's been noticeably true as Trump halted America's military and intelligence support for Ukraine. He also refused to impose any new sanctions on Russia, or to seize the billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets in U.S. control. And Trump has been Russia's strongest advocate to reenter the world community in organizations such as the G7.
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