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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I really doubt that, as I'm not american. Trump was hitting it out of the park for americans, literally stomping my head of state in negotiations. admittedly trudeau isn't all that bright. anyways, protectionist policies aren't a good idea. Setting up a situation protectionism isn't needed is better. Trump forced trudeau into allowing importation of american milk to canada, it used to be a given not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah here you clearly have a viewpoint set and that's not going to change.

The policies Trump was putting in place were also protectionist, just poorly so. He also floundered on COVID killing his countrymen.

I'm not going to continue s conversation with anyone that thinks Trump was the more intelligent of any two people in a room. Much less a world leader.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you have no idea how fucking stupid trudeau is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You have no idea how much of an Albertan you sound like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

No, I don't, because you hear that in every province now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

He did nothing of the sort. Trump forcing Trudeau to let American milk into Canada isn't much of a win for Americans. You sound uneducated on current events.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What isn't mentioned is that there's a kind of tit for tat norm in politics. If you damage the soft negotiation power that comes from co-operation retaliation is normal. Forcing a group to do something completely against their interests because you took advantage of the size of your resources (hard power) isn't actually difficult... It's just that you destroy goodwill and open the door to future "screw you" style retaliation.

"Stomping our head of State" isn't exactly difficult when there as many Canadians in the world as there are Californians. He basically tanked steel trade because it would cause outsized harm to a smaller country the costs of which which ended up being borne by the US industries to force milk onto a market where it generally isn't wanted. American milk contains artificial growth hormone which domestic milk doesn't and threatening to tank our domestic food security because Canadian milk isn't Government subsidized like American milk is means that we can't compete on price is a dick move.

Since then that coercive deal has been taken apart by the courts and that Milk deal has all but been rescinded as of November last year. The Biden admin did their best to make it stick but Trumps abysmal understanding of the law extends to international trade law and the flaws were there from the beginning.

Trump damaged a lot of America's good diplomatic standing for temporary victories and there was a lot of America's long standing dirty laundry that other nations were already overlooking due to soft goodwill policy. The only advantage Trump had was that people were banking on him being a temporary nuisance. If he returns to power he does invite a lot of opportunities for international retaliation. Canada is a notorious soft diplomacy country. A future Trump lead US might not like what closed door handshakes may be in it's future.