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Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha... by 0xDEAFBEAD on Monday March 24, 2025 @09:18PM (#43467183)
>Imposing tariffs and threatening annexation of former allies is not a great start.

I'm against annexation of Greenland as I stated elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43460070

The US, as a sovereign country, has just as much right to levy taxes on imports as any other country.

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Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha... by surgical_fire on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @09:13AM (#43470788)
> I'm against annexation of Greenland

You, personally, being against it means little, when your president openly threatens it.

> The US, as a sovereign country, has just as much right to levy taxes on imports

And other countries, in their own sovereignty, have just as much right to retaliate with tarriffs of their own, and do trade deals amongst themselves.

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Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha... by 0xDEAFBEAD on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:01PM (#43477415)
>You, personally, being against it means little, when your president openly threatens it.

You can discount all of my opinions due to me not being president then :-)

>And other countries, in their own sovereignty, have just as much right to retaliate with tarriffs of their own, and do trade deals amongst themselves.

Agreed.

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Re:Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––wha... by surgical_fire on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @05:39AM (#43480383)
> Agreed

And that, friend, is called a trade war.

Good that we made some progress here.

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