brokedownpalace10
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Your leaders are threatening to. There will at least be tariffs on it from what I'm seeingWe should shut your power off.
We're so sorry for our crazy uncle.
Your leaders are threatening to. There will at least be tariffs on it from what I'm seeingWe should shut your power off.
It seems like it would make a lot more sense to focus on revitalising American manufacturing first before putting tariffs on imports, and ideally they might not even be necessary in that case. Of course, that’s a much bigger project. Would be more worthwhile than Stargate though, imo.I note that Canada and Mexico are instituting retaliatory tarriffs. China already paid tarriffs but these have been increased so China has also instituted tarriffs on US products. I don't think this is a surprise to anyone. The stock market responded but figures from a few days are not a good long-term indicator. It's when inflation feeds through the the American consumer that people will understand that tarriffs don't affect the profitability of businesses, they affect the cost to the consumer.
Last week I mentioned that one result of the war in Ukraine was that unaligned nations who had bought Russian systems had witnessed the underperformance. Certainly a number of large buyers have been looking elsewhere. Being the worlds biggest arms exporter, this would initially seem like an oppotunity to increase that market share.
But I see India has noted that US politicians were and are dictating how and where US arms SOLD to other nations can be used. You might wonder how they could do so. Well, with those big, high-tech systems, you don't just buy the item(s), you buyl a package that includes spares and support. So there is a long-term partnership between buyer and seller. Failing to bow to US political pressure could see the vital long-term support be stopped.
It appears that India has chosen not to purchase the F35, possibly the most expensitve piece of materiel that the US exports (I don't know if nuclear submarines are exported - if so, they would be the more costly). One of the reasons given was that if politicans in the US can dictate how and where India employed it's F35s, it essentially makes them unreliable for non-technical reasons. In a worst case scenario, worse than useless since if they DO have F35s, they don't have the alternative.
Right now Russia isn't even able to built enough of it's modern F35 competitor (the Su57) in significant numbers. So India is actually after buying the right to produce the Su57 under licence. That way even if the design is Russian, they can operate their varient without that long-term relationship.
I'm sure there are many factors involved and I'm not asserting that political interference was the only reason for them choosing to manufacture a licenced design. But it will take time so see if other unaligned nations who might have bought US arms will be looking elsewhere.
Once again, it just shows that geopolitics is complicated.
Love him like chicken.i literally laughed out loud
"it should not be possible to be this good at being this bad at your job. like at some point you think they'd screw up the process of screwing everything up. but, no. they're like the henry ford of ruining shit."
alasdair
I knew the honeymoon wouldn't last. I'll bet those two gigantic egos are beginning to rub each other the wrong way.all is not super well in the trump-musk marriage