Re: Trump-Zelensky Meeting Implodes

On Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:21:52 GMT, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news>
wrote:

There must be better minerals and potential deals on the Russian
side of the border than there is within Ukraine's borders.

A trickery equation here...Musk definitely wants other options for
buying them...they won't be available until mined...it will take a
number of years before mining....could this "agreement" be sold to say
Russia...how will China perceive and act upon an agreement.

Too many variables out there....

If he hits the EU with tariffs soon and a trade war breaks out
they will say "fuck you" back!

Paul Krugman
Mar 3


Trump probably imagines that he can bully European leaders into
standing aside and letting his friend (or boss?) Vladimir win. And
given Europe's history of timidity, you can understand why he might
think that. But European leaders are certainly saying the right things
now and also talking, in a way I've never seen before, about in effect
declaring independence from the United States.

If Trump nonetheless tries to pressure Europe into abandoning Ukraine,
say by imposing tariffs on European goods (which seems to be his only
tactic), someone will have to tell him, "Sir, you don't have the
cards." The EU exports less than 3 percent of its GDP to the United
States. And there's already a public backlash against even the threat
of tariffs, as well as the absence of any visible effort on Trump's
part to make good on his campaign promises to bring down grocery
prices.

Paul Krugman
Mar 3