I'm being facetious to a certain extent. I won't deny the Special Relationship is a thing that exists, but I think it tends to get overblown by our mob of politicians so we can pretend to be more relevant than we are. I certainly wouldn't attribute any success on our part to Keir Starmer's negotiating skills
Maybe a little. Not by too much though. BAE systems is HEAVILY entrenched into America's MIC. That is pushing aside the whole nuclear agreement. The amount of technology transfer we do between ourselves is fucking enormous. You bongs may have leaders that underfunded your military, but the technology in it is nothing short of advanced.
That's a situation that'll probably continue indefinitely, if not get worse. We've been struggling with army recruitment for ages, partly because it's generally regarded here (rather unfairly IMO, it wasn't the path for me but it does genuinely have some good benefits) as a last resort for fuck ups, along with the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles souring people on the idea as a whole.
There is not much of a legal ground to stand on. Trade with foreign countries falls under the blanket of Foreign policy generally, which is a constitutionally granted power of the President.
That and Congress gave up what powers they had a long time ago. There was a post about it a page or two back. But otherwise yes. Foreign policy is the President's department.
As I recall (not being American but being decently familiar with your history) trade related policy is Congress's responsibility in the Constitution, back when there were significant differences between Northern and Southern states in terms of trade policy that needed balancing but, as was previously mentioned, that power was gradually surrendered to the executive branch.
Basically yes. A event in the early 1900s occurred that was nothing short of disastrous due to congress levying a tarrif. Being the cowards they are, they dumped the tarrif power on the president.
Pretty sure you mean Smoot-Hawley, for which "disastrous" would be somewhat of an understatement. And I'm not surprised the neighbor caved. The EU I think, will be slightly more interesting.
I believe that lead to the Great Depression if im not mistaken. Again, Congress NEVER wanted responsibility for tarrifs again after. Hard to get reelected. So basically the president has it on a eternal loan unless Congress reverses the laws it did to give it to him.
The Mexicans are simple at the end of the day. They love that American Dollar and filling their bellies. Tarrifs are bad for buisness. There was a 0% chance they didn't cave.
The EU is also way less important to US trade than Mexico. Mexico is really the one country I'd argue that the US cannot afford to fuck up a trade relationship with which is why I imagine Trump let them slide with only token concessions.
Agreed. Mind, the negotiations are ongoing, this is just the start. Trump it seems wants the unfucking of the US Mexico relations to be thorough at the very least.
The EU likes selling to America though. It's cars, fancy chip making equipment, a lot of machine tools, advanced shit. They also buy a fuck ton of oil and gas. Like a metric fuck ton. If they don't want this deal to end, they'll choose carefully
If there's anything I've learned about Xi Jinping is that he's so completely all-in on excess productive capacity aka product dumping that he will warp the laws of God and man to DOOMP even harder.
Don't forget tariffs were one of the direct underlying causes of the War of Northern Aggression with the nullification crisis (1833).
It's mostly China made though for the machine tools (outside of EUV lasers and cars). Though US agriculture is going to take a beating (winemakers in CA are about to get hammered lmao).
Secure your border and the pain will end, Leafnigger.
Oh my sweet child. I'm talking the big bitches. The biggest of bitches. You want a big ass plastic injection molding machine? You want a factory worth? Krauss Maffei will hook you up with one of the best on the planet.
