Alex

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Yeah it just seems that Russia likes to use these meetings as a way of trying to gain concessions on Sanctions. Maybe that's conspiratorial but there's decent cause for scrutiny imo

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So what's there to talk about? My bet is that it's going to be about removing sanctions and improving trade, and somehow they'll continue to avoid tariffs for bs, inconsistent reasons...

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Not saying you're making this argument, but this to me just reads like the 4D Chess argument that has never been validated imo. If you wanted to successfully navigate a trade war with China, it seems to be that it would be incredibly foolish not to have shored up support with your allies in the EU and SE Asia.

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If it is a negotiating tactic, why not have some kind of consistent message on it? Right now we have Cabinet members and Trump flailing around giving mixed messages on what the goal is and whether this is negotiable or not. Vietnam tried to respond, offering to take away tariffs and got shut down.

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gm. we got a ballistic missile threat in most regions now. just another regular day in Ukraine with russian terror 😤

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I think you're probably correct, I'm just holding onto a sliver of hope that there's still time to step back from the edge. But agreed that things are already breaking

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If you bother to listen to Trump and his advisors, it becomes immediately clear there is no actual plan on this, because if there was, there would be a coherent and consistent message. There's no making sense of it beyond Trump having total conviction in his vibes-based understanding of tariffs. It's horrifying.

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Literally in one day Trump brought tariffs back to their highest level in over 100 years. This behavior is reckless and indefensible — even if you want to radically reform the economy this kind of shock therapy on the American population itself is insane. Really serious problems ahead.

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Imagine tipping the rich and famous... smh

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Yeah and it's chaos for chaos' sake. No coherent strategy is being put forth, just a "let's see what happens" situation, playing with the entire world economy. I think our only hope is Congress taking away his tariff powers but that's a long shot

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Sadly very real

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BREAKING: World wide US tariffs start in 30 minutes. Here is the full list: China - 104 Lesotho - 50 Cambodia - 49 Laos - 48 Madagascar - 47 Vietnam - 46 Myanmar - 44 Sri Lanka - 44 Falkland Islands - 41 Syria - 41 Mauritius - 40 Iraq - 39 Guyana - 38 Link for full: unusualwhales.com/trump-tracker

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Getting pretty scary. Feels like we're rapidly approaching the point of things significantly breaking.

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Come hang out and commiserate about the state of the crypto market, and any recent exploits. Live now

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Tariffs indeed, are bad! (love you @bitfloorsghost.eth ❤️ just couldn't help myself)

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thanks for calling the top today, mr sacks

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This is going to get so ugly

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Hard to disagree here, he invented an alter ego he quotes in his book and didn't tell his co author or publisher 😑 https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771396016/white-house-adviser-peter-navarro-calls-fictional-alter-ego-an-inside-joke

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We're still down incredibly bad from the highs, and the reversal is mostly on news of softening of tariffs and people calling the bottom. But even if we see a major recovery, this meme sums it up nicely.

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