US blacklists Switzerland for "unfair trade".
US blacklists Switzerland for "unfair trade".
The United States has placed Switzerland on a list of countries with "unfair trade practices".
The United States has placed Switzerland on a list of countries with "unfair trade practices".
Does Trump want to fuck with the impenetrable banking fortress nation that is Switzerland?
And we have been doing exactly what President Trump wants for a long time.
And now you can see where it put you. Nowhere.
Welcome to the Trump's list of bad countries, lets trade with each other.
We're growing fast ...Trump is all about pretenses.
There are the "reasons" he's making those decisions, and then there are the "pretenses" he uses when the opportunity comes around to make them.
Swiss banks hold a lot of money from oligarchs and billionaires. Putin wants pressure put on them. But Trump has to find the "pretense" to do it so as to at least nominally not be seen as a russian asset. But what a coincidence, Lindt announces that they're going to supply Canada directly from Europe to avoid his tariffs. And BOOM. Pretense established.
Lmao what the actual fuck? Switzerland…? He’s going after the Swiss now…? I just… wow. What is happening.
Edit: it’s apparently about - and I shit you not - chocolate. And it’s their volume market brand. Not even the really good stuff.
swiss banks have putins money in it.
they probably hold billions in frozen Russian assets
Probably because Lindt said that they might supply Canada from Europe instead of the US.
Begun the chocolate wars have.
Switzerland has a positive balance of trade in goods and therefore appears on this list.
Ah that's why...
We have good arguments. And we have been doing exactly what President Trump wants for a long time.
Maybe it's time to fucking stop pleasing the orange cunt, he doesn't care!
This focus on the balance of trade is sooo stupid. The US spends more than it produces so it has an aggregate deficit on the trade balance. To stop this, you need to force Americans to spend less (I.e. ignite a recession), or produce more.
Tariffs against selected countries that have a strong bilateral trade surplus with the US will not affect the US’ aggregate trade balance, since it doesn’t affect consumption by/ or production of the US economy. This is common knowledge from econ 101, and shouldn’t need to be explained to a president that supposedly has a degree in business.
To stop this, you need to force Americans to spend less (I.e. ignite a recession), or produce more.
Well, you need them to import less (i.e. stop making foreign government loans) or export less (i.e. start buying foreign government loans from other countries).
Neither of them is exactly a recession, but it's a large change that would trigger one if done badly. (AKA, the current administration will absolutely trigger one if they try - they aren't trying by the way.)
(I.e. ignite a recession)
Don't worry, Drumpf is on the case!
Europe needs to see that unity is the way to go. A united Europe is needed to stand against the mad kings in Russia and the US.
Europe, the place where 27 separate sovereign nations have formed a Union, needs to realise how important it is to be united?
Is that what you're saying?
Well tbey are commenting this on an article about switzerland, which is not in the EU. Though it is in Schengen and the EEA.
United States of America. The name wasn’t helping us unfortunately.
Lol.
As an American I would give my right nut to live there instead of here.
As Belgian I do think Switzerland is one of the best countries on the entire planet. There's a reason why they have 30% immigrants, and it's not because German is a fun language to learn 😁
German
you do not need to learn german, switzerland has german, french and italian speaking regions
How many months is it going to take for the Magats to realize they fucked America over?
They won't, they're immensely supportiv"
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. .-- John Stuart Mille
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
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Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
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Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
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A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
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Even if they self aware enough to see that, they will never admit it.
they can be almost selfaware, r/selfawarewolves was a fun sub to visit.
Or they'll say they need to go through this difficult transition in order to return to their former glory.
Empirical evidence says at least 100.
Making quality products that people actually want to buy is a dishonest and abusive practice, I'm glad someone finally spoke up.
The US is on a way to piss off all of its trading partners and former allies.
We're never going to recover. He's speed running the fall of a nation.
At least Nero had some musical talent on display while Rome burned. This guy can't even dance.
Drumpf had it wrong. It's not Zelenskyy risking WW3, it's himself.
"Accuse the other side of what you, yourself, are doing." The Republicans adopted the Nazi playbook decades ago.
What? Swiss banks been mean to Putin?
When you think you done everything right...
He's either completely senile or doing Putin's bidding by destroying whatever is left of the US's international credibility.
Por que no los dos?
We've known he is a Russian asset since before he even became president
Is this a legend to the five rings card?
Where's the mtg card at, get outta here with your shoddy card game!!
He's doing the best Zapp Brannigan impression I've ever seen.
Well he really must hate those filthy neutrals.
Billy West is a national treasure
That's too perfect. Thank you.
The US is so fucked. People are not going to give the bully their lunch money. They’re going to team up against the bully.
Which is good, and I say that as an American. The current leadership cannot be trusted. It's going to be a long time before we can be trusted again. If ever.
LOL... well the clowns were elected to the presidency... why are we surprised at the never ending circus?!
Switzerland might really be one of the few countries no one can ever take over. Even if no one else cared — they will — sending troops running up a mountain where everyone has rifle skills and hidden bunkers is definitely not a military strategy I ever heard of.
...no one can fully ever take over.
ftfy
Reason why the country is what it is, is because quite a few have tried an kinda stuck around.
The Nazis had every secret fortification, every hidden bunker, everything mapped out, they were just leaving them for later. Probably wouldn't have come to that Switzerland would've done a San Marino, which almost holds the record as the only country to ever elect and de-elect fascists, and elect and de-elect Bolsheviks. "Almost" because the fascists went AWOL upon Mussolini's death, before they could be voted out.
Fuck, I wish the government was this enthusiastic about unfair trade practices within its own country.
Except it has nothing to do with unfair trade practices. It's all about breaking down the world order to make room for Russia.
Does that mean we have to stop calling it swiss cheese and start calling it holes cheese, or holy cheese?
Freedom cheese
✅ Putting holes in things and calling it freedom
Cheese of America?
They’ll pull it back once they realize the billionaires stash some of their money there.
Maybe that's why. "Y'all have secret bank accounts there, pay up!"
Trump you are not neutral, you are stupid
He heard they had nazi gold and decided it must be for him.
If nothing else, at least Magats won't be able to hide their gold there anymore.
Oh boy when you think you've done it all right with the oligarchs and stuff! NOT FAIR!
More accelerationism at work...
Omg, we are absolute shit right now.
Proof that even if you do what Trump says he wants won’t get you anywhere
Time for a shot of Gran Classico in solidarity with my swiss friends.
