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1. Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 18:21:09 JST Glyn Moody

   Trudeau: #Canada will bring ‘forceful but reasonable’ retaliation to #Trump #tariffs - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/trump-tariffs-canada-trudeau "Officials in Ottawa and Mexico city draw up plans to retaliate with tariffs of their own after Trump’s demands" every nation must do this, face down the bully

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 18:21:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

     @zdl @glynmoody Our myopic fetish for “making huge bank” is the problem itself. Folks “making huge bank” is what’s screwing up the world.

   • Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 18:21:08 JST Glyn Moody

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     • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

     @zdl same is true of Europeans

   • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 (zdl@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 18:21:08 JST 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

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     @glynmoody Europeans have more options available and can shift easier. If they stop finally bending the knee to the USA they could make huge bank by dealing with China, for example.

   • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 (zdl@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 18:21:09 JST 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

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     @glynmoody I have been saying since the 1990s already that Canada needed to wean itself from relying on the USA to run it economy.

     Naturally the siren's call of "easy money" meant doing even more deals with the Devil instead of doing the difficult work of establishing other lines of trade.

     And now Canadians are paying the cost.