Trump is mostly full of empty threats but it’d be funny if he did
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Trump is mostly full of empty threats but it’d be funny if he did
First of all just like they claimed China was "considered" selling TikTok, it's entirely Trump making these claims with no secondary source, and in this case they're explicitly trying to make Canada think Mexico is onboard, per their own words.
But what's funnier is Mexico has no FTA with China, they already have higher tariff on a lot of Chinese imports than the US, which is the part of the reason Chinese carmakers are building factories there.
Trump just doesn't get that tariff don't matter because Chinese dominance is absolute.
More like, Marcos Jr. is trying to secure his escape plan along with yet another billions of Pesos stolen from his country's coffers.I hope all those Wanwanese and Taiwanese separatists' groups are watching this. It will make them think about to unite the Mainland instead of fighting.Japan and Korea watching this must be nervous. Philippines President Marco Jr must be convinced that he is just canon fodder for the US regime.
We normally spend our time talking about PLA/PLAAF/PLARF/PLAN capabilities for a TW scenario but has anyone actually looked at the capacity of the EU to supply Ukraine in the case that US withdraws support completely? We make fun of the EU's capabilities but what would it be like?
Probably similar to what they do now, they can't do much without escalation.
I think there are two ways to see this event:
One is that Zelensky believes he might have no cards but Trump doesn't either, because the only way for US to put pressure on Ukraine is to stop weapons supplies, and doing so will just lead to total Russian victory and US getting nothing.
He could with very valid reason calculate that Trump cannot actually stop sending him weapons, so by acting tough he retains support among his old backers while not actually at risk of losing anything.
But this assumes Trump does not actually want total Russian victory. A second way to see this event is Trump knows the war is lost and want to salvage US credibility, so by having a spat with Zelensky and using it as an excuse to withold arms, US can blame losing to Russia on Zelensky rather than American impotence.
At end of the day Russia is the only party that actually have cards, US and Ukraine are just trying to throw each other under the bus.
Funny how the non pro-NATO people have been saying Zelensky was the problem in negotiations for years.
Now they finally realized it lmao.
"A press conference at the White House scheduled for Friday where U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky planned to sign the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal was canceled, following a tense shouting match between the two inside the Oval Office earlier in the day."
Was it just delayed?
Was it just delayed?