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[–] [email protected] 279 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Trump is definitely a Russian asset.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

His Parents were Soviet assets and he was adopted from Russia, so it checks out.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

I don't think it landed well but I think he's Rubber/Glue-ing the Obama birth certificate thing back to him.

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[–] [email protected] 199 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Un-fucking-real.

This presidency will be such a shit stain on the world. The world will never trust the U.S. in the same way it did before.

Over a century of trust and partnerships destroyed in less than 100 days.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well. The bridge took some damage in the previous Trump admin as well.

I think far too many people forgot those times.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Or never knew them to begin with

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That picture is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen. Absolutely a classic.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Uh? Of course he isn't. Why would Putin tell him to put tariffs on himself? That makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The US has been sanctioning Russia for the better part of the last decade. We aren't tariffing them because we aren't trading with them.

We also aren't tariffing Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea, for the same reasons.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Maybe, but apparently we're tariffing multiple uninhabited islands. It would seem that active trade is not a perquisite for tariffs these days. can't be having people move out there and not getting tariffed in the future.

I hope he puts tariffs on Mars next. Maybe after he falls out with musk.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

But tarrif on seals in the Antarctica region? Doesn't seem like logic is driving any of this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Surely American trades some products? Where does Russian vodka come from?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I was under the impression that we (in Canada) get our vodka mostly from Finland, but it's been a while since I worked as an alcohol purveyor... I'm ashamed of the things I did during those years, but I'm in recovery now, thank you for your concern

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You can view this one of two ways, possibly both:

  1. Krasnov
  2. Trump apparently was doing these tariffs based on trade deficits (Which is stupid on its own, if your dentist doesn't buy the widgets you sell, that's not a tariff.), if Russia wasn't running one, then there you go.

To rebuke 2 I present the following- https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

Based on that math, with the CNN article I linked for the formula (the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2) we get - (2,500,000,000 / 3,000,000,000) * 1/2 = 0.416666...

So Russia should have a 42% tariff based on their purported 83% tariff on us.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good point, considering the US still trades with Russia.

**United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. **

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/russia

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/imports/united-states

Russia imports $17 billions from USA. So we don’t have a trade deficit with Russia.

He’s definitely a Russian troll, but I’m not sure this is the data point to prove it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The US consistently runs a trade deficit with Russia.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html

The US has a trade surplus with the UK, but still applied a 10% tariff to them.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For context, Cuba, North Korea, and Belarus are also not tariffed because they are sanctioned instead.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I try to keep a sense of perspective, every president I disagree with seems to be the worst president ever at the time.

I really want to say Bush's useless Trillion dollar wars are worse than this.

But it's close and we have 3.5 more years of this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Obama was pretty decent no? He managed to at least speak normally.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Could someone ask Propaganda Barbie about this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Uh.. which one? There's so many I've lost track. I only seem to remember dog killer, handyqueen and simian goblin.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost the entire world is paralyzed by American tariffs

😂

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks more like Russia and USA are in the same trade embargo, while the rest of the world is free to do whatever they want.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

So US imposed tariff on penguins, but 0 on Russia!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Well, why should Agent Krasnov put tariffs on the hand that feeds him, good old Vlad? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guys I think there's some evidence that this is, shall we say, Russia friendly (such as the astronomical tariff rate on Moldova of all places), but Russia isn't included because it's a "Column 2" country alongside Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and therefore all subject to the stiff tariffs we already impose on the worst of the worst. Please let's not share things like this which just make us look gullable to the morons on the right supporting this buffoon. It's not a good look.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was noticing this as well. The place that should have the highest tarrifs.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Should tell you everything you need to know.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That tracks. Prove to me he’s not a Russian asset.

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