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Shipwack

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4. No one wants to bell the cat.

Reply to rainy (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:20 AM

Thursday

I think the larger countries feel they can safely ignore hiim because they are too powerful to pick on and they can just cut the US out of any trade deals.

Not something I would bet on because it assumes that Trump is not totally batshit crazy…

The smaller countries feel tries are just trying to look inconspicuous and hope someone else draws his ire.

Eventually he’s going to do something so heinous that it will unify the world like nothing else has done for a long time.

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