Pretty much any of the changes Trump supposedly wants to effect with these tariffs would take somewhere in the region of 4-10 years to execute.
Which is why they simply won’t. Why invest in that at all when their assumption is that the tariffs will be done by then, because they’ll just make sure a less stupid, more compliant president gets elected?
The whole plan is idiotic and self defeating, plain and simple.
At least a territory can be granted independence by congress if sanity were ever to return. There’s no mechanism for a state to leave. If we are annexed forcibly there’s no doubt an independence movement of monumental proportions will arise.
Pretty much any of the changes Trump supposedly wants to effect with these tariffs would take somewhere in the region of 4-10 years to execute.
Which is why they simply won’t. Why invest in that at all when their assumption is that the tariffs will be done by then, because they’ll just make sure a less stupid, more compliant president gets elected?
The whole plan is idiotic and self defeating, plain and simple.
Personally, I’m not sure we can assume there will be an election in four years. Or if there is one, that it won’t be an “election”, like in Russia.
(Likewise, if the US ever did take over Canada by force, I’m sure we would be a territory like Puerto Rico and not have a vote.)
At least a territory can be granted independence by congress if sanity were ever to return. There’s no mechanism for a state to leave. If we are annexed forcibly there’s no doubt an independence movement of monumental proportions will arise.
I hope they can decide not to elect idiots again just as a rule.