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Re:Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts' by coldtea on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:23AM (#13580941)
Seems like we've somehow forgotten that before Trump came to power to denounce those agreements, every leftie and liberal, that is, all non corporatists, were also against NAFTA, TPPA, etc (and rightly so).
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Re:Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts' by kristianc on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:31AM (#13581044)
In the US, maybe. The Eu enjoys broad support on the 'metropolitan' centre-left across Europe - only being opposed really by the extreme left and the centre to far right.

Also, maybe the US should be careful what it wishes for. The UN, for instance, was set up post WWII to project US / Wilsonian values around the world. While trade deals / supranational agreements are inconvenient sometimes, the US may end up missing them when they're gone and the US has to deal with a truly multipolar world again.

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Re:Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts' by coldtea on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:09PM (#13581519)
>In the US, maybe. The Eu enjoys broad support on the 'metropolitan' centre-left across Europe - only being opposed really by the extreme left and the centre to far right.

Same in the US I think. I wasn't talking about democrats (the US "centre-left", but about the actual left.

>Also, maybe the US should be careful what it wishes for. The UN, for instance, was set up post WWII to project US / Wilsonian values around the world. While trade deals / supranational agreements are inconvenient sometimes, the US may end up missing them when they're gone and the US has to deal with a truly multipolar world again

Let it come, I say!

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