Trump’s generosity to Argentina has caught the attention of trade partners and U.S. ranchers

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    1 hour ago

    Because Trump doesn’t want to give it to Americans for health care or food. Fuck them! What did they ever do for him?

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      Maybe these poor people just need to organize and then bring something golden and suck him off in the white house, boom universal healthcare.

      He can call it Trump care and cut some tape when it gets launched.

  • BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world
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    You are all thinking way too hard about this. Trump’s understanding of geopolitics is not any more complicated than his understanding of American politics. Argentina is Texas. Canada is California. Reward red. Punish blue. That’s it.

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    23 hours ago

    My theory is that he’s not smart enough to strategically build partnerships or relationships with countries. He is rewarding individuals in power that he admires or thinks have shown loyalty to him.

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    Isn’t that where nazis ran to the first time the shit hit the fan? Probably just reserving a spot.

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    Because Argentina is the prototype for colonial power they want for the rest of latin America, the US has always supported right wing government that opress the population in favor of US corporations, this is a new wave of open Colonialism.

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    20 hours ago

    when the argentinian leader did that video where he rips off labels from a board, i suspected he was on coke 100%

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    Hum… Trump has been throwing lavish praise on Brazil too recently.

    He may have discovered that the US can’t stay rich by isolating themselves. But he has been praising countries that are mostly economic competitors, instead of customers or suppliers. I don’t understand how he thinks.

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      23 hours ago

      I would think our competitors are the most likely people to give him something under the table to buy him off. What does he care to do it anyways?

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        15 hours ago

        I don’t think on this specific case anybody has given him anything.

        Again, I don’t really understand anything about what he’s thinking. But on the case of Argentina the money seems to be flowing the other way around, and on the case of Brazil the president would reap lots of benefits if Trump antagonized him further.