Russia exports next to nothing to the US, but it does import things like electronics for obvious reasons.
Tarrifs on Russia will be pointless, really. Russia has been trading with Europe for the most part for obvious reasons until it fell out of favour. So this seems like manufactured outrage.
Well, even then, these islands are not significant geopolitical actors. And tarrifs will certinly not hurt the Russian economy, and I doubt they are going to help the US in terms of geopolitics.
Yes exactly. Yet the islands were included but Russia wasn’t. So the situation isn’t that Russia has no trade and tariffs are useless against it, but that Russia was specifically singled out so they wouldn’t receive tariffs.
Trump followed a consistent, rigid math: Whatever the trade deficit, then that’s the tariff applied… except for Russia. Russia is #23 on our list of trade partners. Following the math they should have a hefty tariff applied, but they don’t. It’s the only exception.
Russia exports next to nothing to the US, but it does import things like electronics for obvious reasons.
Tarrifs on Russia will be pointless, really. Russia has been trading with Europe for the most part for obvious reasons until it fell out of favour. So this seems like manufactured outrage.
There are tariffs on uninhabited islands. Russia being an exception is notable.
Lmao, what? Why even?
Well, even then, these islands are not significant geopolitical actors. And tarrifs will certinly not hurt the Russian economy, and I doubt they are going to help the US in terms of geopolitics.
Because Trump is a moron surrounded by a team of idiots.
And yet they have tarrifs.
The same can be said if many of the other tariffs Trump has imposed. Which is why Russia’s exception is notable.
You missed my point. Islands are irrelevant. Russia isn’t.
Yes exactly. Yet the islands were included but Russia wasn’t. So the situation isn’t that Russia has no trade and tariffs are useless against it, but that Russia was specifically singled out so they wouldn’t receive tariffs.
Just take the loss, jfc.
Trump followed a consistent, rigid math: Whatever the trade deficit, then that’s the tariff applied… except for Russia. Russia is #23 on our list of trade partners. Following the math they should have a hefty tariff applied, but they don’t. It’s the only exception.
Nope!
Your great argument has changed my mind. I now see that I was wrong. Thank you.
Most electronics are imported from China, not from US. No one will be sending iPhones from China to US and then to the rest of the world.
That’s what I was thinking. Plenty of reason for outrage. This will just be a distraction.