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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 57 points 6 days ago (17 children)

God I'm exhausted.

At this point, we just need to cut it all off completely. Oil shipments, electricity, lumber, aluminum. All of it.

I know that that's a hard ask for those industries that are affected, and if it means the federal goverment has to temporarily raise the deficit in order to subsidize those industries it'll be crazy expensive and inflation will shoot up. But I'm convinced that that would be only a short amount of time that that would actually be needed.

Let the United States go one week without our stuff. 100%...fuck 'em. They'll last one week. Maybe two. And when they quit their bullshit, make it clear that we are diversifying our business partners making it easier to pull it from them again anytime they let Trump open is fucking mouth.

Hold our resources hostage against them.

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Economical MAD is not the answer here. It's a very complex subject that is difficult to solve.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not Mutually Assured Destruction though. It's not even retaliatory. If Canada were to immediately stop all exports to the US and pivot to an EU/China based economy the fallout would disproportionately affect the US. The key to this is that Canada is the smaller and more insular trading partner.

Case in point

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/canadian-brewer-buys-local-grain-chinese-cans-due-us-tariffs-2025-03-05/

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