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Jack and Denny - this system was designed by the US for the benefit of the US and for seven decades has guaranteed the US remains as the global leader on trade, finance, diplomacy, military power and soft power. It has allowed them to open any market they wish save for one or two notable exceptions.
The only way the US could lose their pre-eminence outside a devastating war would be if the relative percentages of global reserve currencies shifted hard against them or if they voluntarily gave up their position at the centre of the most sophisticated international system ever designed. So, tell me again, how does dismantling that system - a system the Soviet Union spent 50 years trying to destroy - helps the United States?
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2. How does this approach benefit the United States as a whole? 3. Why is the goal of increasing free trade axiomatically a positive?
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Jesus Jack that article you cited doesn’t even support your position, it supports mine.
The US has a trade surplus with Canada on milk and only pays that tariff on milk above the agreed quota. The tariffs are effectively a milk subsidy like the subsidies the US gives its dairy farmers except done in a different way. This decision by Trump was even dumber than I thought, good article!
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Denny won't like you using his word against Trump . (Damian Thorn)
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Thoughts on US sugar jack?
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There's some great stuff on twitter about tomorrow's cover of the Sun in the UK. In fairness, it's very funny - the fact that their readership apparently has no idea that they are having the piss taken out of them is a bit depressing though.
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The Loch Ness monster, a seagull and some sheep are my favourite bits #RuleBrittania
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that is amazing
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...Just realised that the summit begins in just under 2 hours...Think I'll have to stay awake and watch it...I'm so intrigued to see how this plays out...How do people think it'll play out... Part of me thinks it'll be all nice and happy, nothing major achieved and both will come out claiming victory...Another part of me thinks Kim will laugh at him and fire a missile in a few hours lol...Likely not but it'll be hilarious if he does another test...
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Late to the party, but welcome nonetheless Tony.
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I see the strains of trying to be Trump's lead man on trade are potentially life-damaging.
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It appears the US-North Korea Agreement wasn't exactly groundbreaking.
The US gave North Korea significant security guarantees but North Korea gave the US absolutely nothing they hadn't already agreed to with South Korea in April. A win for North Korea to be sure. A PR win for Trump maybe, although substantively he hasn't really achieved anything. In fact he probably proved the last 10 US Presidents right for refusing to negotiate with the regime unless certain pre-conditions were met as they didn't believe a summit could achieve anything meaningful without them. Still I'm sure it'll be portrayed as some form of success by the administration.
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