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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚
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Only 1% of illegal border crossings entering the USA are coming from Canada, yet Donald Trump's tariff proposal seeks to treat Canadian exports the same as Mexican imports in a bid to curb this issue. Smh
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It's never what he says it's about. This is about alienating the US, and likely oil?
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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚
@icetoad.eth
It's hard to say. It could be about the optics of being tough on illegal immigration and drugs. It could be about generating tax revenue so as to offset tax cuts for the rich. It could be about bullying other countries into giving him favorable terms. Etc
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So much easier if you just ask "How will this benefit Russia?" Not knowing much, probably something to do with arms, grains and oil.
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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚
@icetoad.eth
Why arms? I could see maybe making Canadian oil more expensive to help Russia to an extent.
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"Since February 2022, Canada has committed over $19.5 billion in total assistance to Ukraine, including $4.5 billion in military assistance. This includes Leopard 2 main battle tanks, armoured combat support vehicles, anti-tank weapons, small arms, M777 howitzers and associated ammunition" They'll be trying to put a stop to that.
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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚
@icetoad.eth
I'm not sure I see how tariffs on Canadian exports to the USA would effect military assistance to Ukraine.
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To your point, there's no clear reason to target Canada on "immigration" but here we are.
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Leverage can be used for anything. Let's see. I reckon breaking support for Ukraine is the real job #1, everything else is bluster.
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