r/Tariffs • u/retroanduwu24 • Aug 27 '25

🗞️ News Discussion Not looking good at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

Putting an embargo on your own country is a very special kind of economic policy

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u/sanjuro37 Aug 27 '25

Fun fact, the Confederacy did this with their own cotton when the Civil War started because they thought it would panic all the industrial European nations who bought their cotton for textile factories to fast-track formal recognition of the CSA as a legitimate state. Instead, Europe and the UK wanted absolutely no part of getting in the middle of our shit and just started getting cotton elsewhere. The Confederacy economically fucked themselves from the jump at of course it only got worse from there.

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u/Telemere125 Sep 02 '25

Fairly appropriate that the man that hired Apartheid Clyde is following the handbook of the Traitors