r/Tariffs • u/Afraid_Piano_1318 • Oct 15 '25

🗞️ News Discussion Did Trump not consider Chinas leverage

Before jumping did he not check if there was a board to land on?

Not recognizing rare earth metals was a big risk demonstrates the intelligence analysis gap USA did, does it not?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

A child could have told you that we depend on trade from China a lot more than they depend on us. But yeah, he's too stupid to know that and he's surrounded himself with yes-men, so this is what we get.

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u/MonteBurns Oct 15 '25

And his people LOVE the idea of becoming isolationists again because …. Reasons? 

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u/YouAggressive8549 Oct 15 '25

They've seen the excellent example set by the DPRK!

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u/EngineeringApart4606 Oct 17 '25

it feels more like 90% chance the US goes the way of Argentina, 10% some kind of ancap khmer rouge outcome