• LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s a good way to have foreign companies that are currently invested in the US to pull all of their investments and fire everyone working for them over here.

    Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.

      That is why tariffs make sense. If you were preparing the US for WW3 then you would do exactly what Trump is doing.

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        3 months ago

        It can be under certain circumstances, its generally desireable for a country to be able to feed itself for example, and being able to produce products yourself is useful when negotiating trade agreements. The problem is when autarky becomes conflated with isolationism.