Fuck the U.S. Buy locally.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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America: "Fuck everyone else, we're going to create a totally isolated economy and refuse to buy anything from our allies. Fuck international trade, we don't need you losers anyway"
Europe: "OK, we won't trade with you then."
America: "Wait, no, come back!"
Ah the old "we're locking you out, but how dare you lock us out" approach
I’m a United States citizen and I would rather our economy and people suffer than for the world to buy into the garbage POTUS and his MAGAt cronies are pushing. This nation deserves all the ill will and hurt it has coming to it.
Muhaha
FAFO
They thought we were gonna be the next Russia but we're shaping up to be Hungary -- a corrupt but largely ineffective country that's known for nothing but being corrupt in ineffective.
Here's hoping Europe holds strong and lets the U.S. fuck off and die in its confusion.
The humiliation of the USA over this administration's recklessness and shortsightedness continues.
FAFO, indeed.
That sounds like a good reason to not buy American weapons
America pulled itself out of the great depression by becoming the worlds largest weapons manufacturer and staying out of WW2 until the very end.
They feel that they have been doing their allies a favor by having military bases in key locations that have allowed these nations to spend less than 2% of their GDP on defense.
This administration would like to reset the world order so that these countries pay for their own defense. Isolationists like JD Vance strongly believe in this.
They also know that allies will likely buy weapons from them which will help balance trade imbalances.
Here's the problem - there is no situation where this does not lead to nuclear proliferation. It's essentially inevitable if America continues down this path.
Also, when nations invest more in their militaries, they are more likely to use them, with or without adequate justification. The US is a prime example of this.
Perhaps the post WW2 period of relative peace and prosperity is about to come to an end, along with the concept of the Western world - leaving a power vacuum that I'm sure China and Russia are eager to capitalize on.
Idiot in chief: fuck Europe.
Local military-industrial complex: no, wait.
US Officials can suck rocks.
The EU: "That sounds like a 'you' problem."
Get fucked, Rubio.
You are pathetic! Buy my stuff pleeeease.
Lololol