Trump floats new tariffs on China with a new twist.
Please consider the Bloomberg article Trump Floats New Tariffs on China, India to Squeeze Russia
President Donald Trump told European officials he’s willing to impose sweeping new tariffs on India and China to push President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table with Ukraine — but only if EU nations do so as well.
Trump made the ask when he called into a meeting with senior US and EU officials in Washington, according to people familiar with the discussion who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations. The US is willing to mirror tariffs imposed by Europe on either country, one of the people said.
The proposal amounted to a challenge given that several nations, including Hungary, have blocked more stringent EU sanctions targeting Russia’s energy sector in the past. Such measures would require the backing of all member states.
New TACO Form
Instead of chickening out later, Trump is chickening out up front, hoping to place the blame elsewhere.
Every EU nation would have to agree to tariffs on China and India and that is a nonstarter.
Trump knows they won’t. So, he will pin the blame of the EU.
Evolution of the Conversation
I will if you will.
You first.
No, you first.
I dare ya.
I double dare ya.
I double dog dare ya.
I triple dog dare ya.
You’re just a big chicken.
Xi is probably laughing his ass off.
Meanwhile, where are the tough measures on Russia that Trump has threatened for months on end?
Trump Is Impotent
Trump cannot act on China because China would cut off the supply of rare earth elements the US needs for weapons systems, microchips, phones, and aircraft.
So Trump dares the EU.
About Cooperation
The sorry aspect is cooperation among allies is needed. But Trump started out by punching Canada, Mexico, and Greenland in the nose.
Canada was on course to elect a conservative prime minister until Trump taunted them with the idea of becoming a 51st state.
Trump sent an uninvited delegation led by Vice President Vance to interfere in Greenland’s election with predictable results. Greenland voted to stay closer to Denmark for longer.
The US needs rare earths from Canada and Greenland and cheap labor in Mexico or cheap hydroelectric power in Canada to process them.
Now he seeks cooperation from the EU after bragging about an unsigned “deal” with them that has a snowball’s chance in hell of happening due to political and fiscal constraints.
On top of it all, no one can possibly believe a word Trump says because he unilaterally broke his own USMCA deal with Canada and Mexico.
Now he wants cooperation to confront China when it’s clear he is just looking for someone to blame.
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Trump threatened China with tariffs for doing business with Russia. Guess what?
To avoid a four-peat, Trump trotted out “I will if you will”. The challenge is on.
The only thing that will steer Putin toward peace is defeats on the battlefield. Like the ones President Biden delivered. Before the WWE took over. Now we have tough choreography and tough name calling. Maybe pussy Hegseth can Anime Putin into submission.
Imagine that sanctions could actually be applied to Russia.
A watertight global embargo of all Russian exports.
How great would that be?
Well over 10% of global energy exports are sourced from Russia.
What would a shortfall of 10% mean?
Price elasticity for energy is estimated at 0.1 to 0.06 (for large price hikes) short-term
That implies prices rising by more than 100% to depress demand.
Nobody has a data set that models such an event; you cannot substitute LNG for coal; no significant regional displacements of supply, except that poor countries can be more easily starved; supply might increase marginally, but all-in-all, it would crush economies and increase death rates in poor countries, not least due to inability to cook and fertilize crops.
Russia commodities exports as % share of global exports
(sources provide varying numbers)
15;;;18 coal
;;8;;;;;;;LNG
14;;;34 nat-gas
10;;;15 crude oil
13;;;18 fertilizer
14;;;;;;; nickel
;;;;;;;18 wheat
Trump looks straight at the camera with a half smile. Shi and Modi are looking sideways.
Trump looks like put on his face with a butter knife
The September 10 general strike in France turned out to be a bust as expected. The only ones to show up were the French version of Antifa and they set a few fires and that was it.
The pro Palestinian protesters woke up the Europeans. Their leaders support an imaginary state that cannot exist. Greta wants to be a Palestinian’s mother Teresa. Qatar thought that they can bs everybody with their money. They are paying the price.
Gaslighting, so Brussels can sell it to their serfs as their idea and Trump as so unreliable that EU must spend more on it’s own “defense”. Except their goals happen to look a lot like D.C.’s goals…
1D: QQQ made a new all time high, thanks to Oracle > Aug 13 high, and turned red. Oracle popped up.
Loud mouth Trump is silently quiet after this Russia provocation in Poland this morning. Bullying everybody except Russia, hmmm.
Clearly Putin has some dirt on Trump. Can we assume “pee tape” from Moscow hotel is real? Or Epstein photos.
no WWIII
What is the purpose of the Department of War then?
You’ve been had by a pedo you still simp for.
Winning. The Department of Defense was a loser. Well established in history, no Department of War has ever lost. Magic toughness.
Are you hunchbacked? Asking for a friend.
how does it relate to my thesis that Putin has some serious dirt on Trump and that narcissist bully will always go after weak and will always bulk from stronger opponent?
lets say I am, hope it will make you little more happy ? Go for it
It doesn’t. This is the response of a triggered trump simp.
Are you suggesting Epstein was a Russian asset? It wouldn’t make sense. But sst least then you’d have a lousy theory instead of none.
Seriously? You realize even the Polish public when queried believes the UKRAINIANS were responsible not the Russians
What benefit would Russian incursion into Poland have for Russia?
Oh. None thats right
Wake up
Here. Watch the most important podcast ever recorded and learn something. Mike Benz with Glenn Diesen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vwRTrSmv8
This post is not about who attacked Poland with drones. Absolutely possible it was Ukraine, same like they destroyed Nord Stream weakening Germany, same time they were getting ammo from them. So this is highly possible.
My post was about Trump clearly avoiding any confrontation with Putin and why this is a case.
So my theory is same all the time. Most possible Putin has some dirt from either pee tape from Moscow or maybe they got access to Epstein files and blackmailing Trump.
India is the common enemy!
Bibi no longer needs Qatar and Egypt to negotiate with Hamas. Israel deals directly with Izz Al Din Haddad Jasa commander, who replaced Sinwar and Daf. The rest, the 3rd rate leaders leftover who live in fancy hotels, are either dead or useless. There will be no more intermittent ceasefire for 60 day to start all over again. The IDF put more pressure on Jasa to force the population to get out of the battle zone. High rise buildings are tumbling down. Haddad: either cut a deal, return the hostages, or Jasa and u are gone. Ursula, the UN and Macron will not save u.
No one in the ME wants Hamas to survive.
And back to Tim Walz talking points…………
Russia’s drone flight path into Poland may be enough for Trump to give Ukraine permission to launch some US made long range offensive missiles at Moscow or Russian natural gas infrastructure. That would make china’s LNG purchases more difficult.
I just love the picture Mish chose to put up near the headline.
The expression on Xi’s face is priceless. It screams, “I am already so sick and tired of dealing with is clown.”
Modi meanwhile is thinking, “How can I play both sides of this?”
Xi is thinking, I have been running circles around the U.S. trade policies for years. Come on Man. That is all you got.
It’s the best Trump’s picture on MishTalk. Shi and Modi look exhausted in a dark depressing background.
Trump looks like he is about to burst out in tears.
art market in flames
https://news.artnet.com/market/intelligence-report-storm-2025-2684512
Rolexes, bitcoin, and other useless crap to follow.
Most Americans are unaware of how little respect the world outside of the US and Israel exists for Trump.
China, India, Brazil, Russia, Canada and many other major nations are simply turning their backs on Trump and his sycophants.
Trump himself is so far removed from reality that he can not even grasp the scope of the growing rift between the US and its former allies around the globe.
Putin openly taunts Trump with 19 drone flights over Poland and is happily supplying China and much of the world with oil and LNG.
Trump is a feeble ~ perverted ~ blowhard and hopefully his reign of disorder and mayhem ends soon.
There’s no respect for him from anyone that has two brain cells to rub together. Unfortunately there are quite a few of those.
Puta, puta !
You, unfortunately, just have one butthurt brain cell, and you’re a pedophilia supporter as a result.
Puta, puta !
So triggered you can’t even speak English anymore.
You can’t even speak English anymore.
You’re a pedophilia supporter.
He is not a puta. He is a puto.
China, India, Brazil, Russia saw the U.S. weaponize the USD with the Ukraine war. Thus the weariness of the US started before Trump. The tarrifs just exasterbated the issues. They would like to get rid of as much USD as a reserve currency as they can. They will need to keep some for trading purposes of course.
One of the reasons why Gold is going up. Many countries would like to use Gold instead of the USD as a reserve currency.
I doubt if they want to use BTC as a reserve when it looks like Saylor, US ETFs (blackrock, etc) and the US government will control over 15% to 20% of the supply? They will see it as just another US controlled currency.
They keep saying that blockchain is quantum computer-proof. It will be hilarious if that turns out not to be true, and all these ‘currencies’ immediately fall to zero.
I am still waiting for them to use them. Seriously talking, going back to a gold standard is problematic. Not only would it be hard to implement but once installed your county’s money supply is limited to how much gold you have at hand and the world’s gold supply is limited so your county’s possibilities to grow are also limited.
Are you outside the US and if so where? If you are not then you do not know.
Morning Frost before 75F sunny day.
If only Its Her Turn could meet with the Chinese in Her Chairman Mao uniform.
This is really the best cope you have left huh?
I think it’s a decent dig… the pantsuits were all part of that condescending elementary school teacher vibe she had. I can just hear her saying in a slightly raised voice “people! people! It’s time for music class!”
However, had I known there was any chance whatsoever of trump winning, I would have voted for the pantsuit.
=where are the tough measures on Russia that Trump has threatened for months on end?
there are almost none USA= Russia TRADE!
Europe already put what 19th pact of sanctions on Russia???
and you know what Einstein said about doing same , expecting diff result?
and Russia and china have 2d longest land border in the world, over 4000 km
nuff said!
alx
Why would he do that? After all, he ended that war on day one of his second term. All this “bombing” is fake news promulgated by the globalist media and the dark lord Soros!
trump is a loudmouthed pussy. Once you understand this, you understand his foreign policy.
All Trump’s actions must be viewed with the understanding of his mental illness. Viewing his actions as if he is a normal person is a mistake and leads to complete misunderstanding of his reasoning. When the SHTF almost all of America will realize what kind of mistake Trump, MAGA and the Republican congress has been. They may lead to the complete downfall of our democracy.
=Evolution of the Conversation
better example would conversation from movie =dumb and dumber =, scene in car.
All the winning cards are drawn and Trump is bluffing with a pair of deuces.
More like a 2-7 off suit.
2-3 offsuit is called the Dirty Diaper. Checkmate, for several reasons
He’s just sharting his way through a second term.
Full House
Full diaper.
Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.
China’s exports are up even though their exports to the US are down by a lot. With or without childish antics, China and India aren’t going to stop buying Russian energy. The Europeons are just stupid enough to change EU rules so that Orban and Fico can’t stop Europeon “secondary sanctions”. Then Trump’s bluff would be called – and he would back down anyway because – as Mish says – we need too much stuff from China (like rare earths for weapons to use against China).
What’s really worrisome is that we have people in government like Lindsey Graham, Navarro and Bessent who actually believe we have the leverage to tell China and India – with their 2.8 billion people – where they can buy oil and gas. They’re as dumb as Blinken.
We may have had leverage in the past.
These guys don’t understand that we’ve lost it.
Why would he back down? Those are little people problems. They can all go under the bus with the farmers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6262scN-uA
Such boo boo faces, so tender for the face eating leopards…
Exports up but margins are way down. Africans and SE Asians have less money to spent than Americans.
So the rest of the world is getting to buy from China at a discount? Too bad in the US we can no longer afford to buy much from China because of tariffs. Except for the rare earths we desperately need.
So if the EU goes along with this buffoonery does that mean the tentative tariff deals are all null and void? If so then what’s the point of negotiating anything when TACO will change his mind at his next hissy fit?
for god’s sake man, just go with the flow of late stage lunacy !
Late stage, yes.
It’s called agitation Alzheimer’s and I think Trump has it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8085397/
Sleep Don fell asleep at the US open. Why isn’t anyone covering his health issues?
Because everyone just wants him to die.
86/47 Impeach, 25th or thank God he’s gone.
when the US sets up Hamas/Israel negotiations in Qatar
then the US OK’s Israel bombing of the negotiators
AND, the US refuels those bomber with a tanker out of the Qatar US base
you have reached terminal lunacy
Israel has its own fleet of tanker aircraft so they didn’t need us for that operation. Your information is faulty.
There is not such thing as Israeli actions without involving US hands-on agency. The perfidy displayed now 4× targeting negotiators clings to Americans as much Israelis.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/06/26/us-refueled-israeli-jets-throughout-iran-war/
Based on recent history, negotiating anything with the US will have the Israelis killing the negotiators the next day.
I don’t care how many nukes Israel has, if they continue to bomb their neighbors, it’s not going to end well. Israel has such a tiny population that a few chemical or nukes going off inside it will be the end for everyone there.
At this point, I don’t even understand what Israel’s game plan is and I’m afraid to ask.
Simple: They’re deeply antisemitic and want people to hate Jews so they’re driven to live there. This is actually documented as far back as the early 20th century before Israel existed. Zionism is an insane ideology that wants a “Jewish” ethnostate in the same way Nazis wanted a German ethnostate.
If you want to know how antisemitic they are, they banned speaking Yiddish and made it nearly impossible to live there asa Yiddish speaker, calling it a “ghetto language”. They also hired a bunch of ex-nazis into their military because that really screams “we’re Jews guys!”
I fully believe they plan to go down fighting and kill as many as possible before they do. This is entirely the west’s fault for enabling such behavior, shoulder shrugging because “hey, it’s only brown people!”
The funny thing is that the Palestinians are semites too. The primary difference between them is which imaginary sky wizard they worship.
Palestinians played Israel and themselves with that sneak attack. They’re all going down in flames now.
Well if you believe Tom Luongo, Trump is doing things to bring down the European fascist dictators now ruling the big European nations.
Rather than simply cutting Ukraine off of all support, which would be the fastest way to stop the war, he for some reason plays these games
Probably because Congress, and especially the Senate, is filled to the brim with traitors to the United States. Most especially the grand traitor Lindsey Graham, and less vociferously, at least on the worthless Sunday talk shows controlled by the traitor factions of Western Intel, Mitch McConnell
Childish? Id refer to it as seeking a solution to a problem.
The Brits are being colonized by their third world former colonies.
Martin Armstrong, who was imprisoned by the CIA for not playing along with the destroy Russia game in the 90s by Soros and others in the employ of Western Intel, our greatest enemy, stated in his blog that while only about 7% of the UK is Muslim, 46% of those under 29 years old are. And the muslims outbirth the natives at least 4 to 1.
Within a generation, England will be a Muslim country
> I do believe Trump is trying to do things to bring down the European fascist dictators now ruling the big European nations. His hands are being tied here and there by the RINO’s in his own party unfortunately. We didn’t get enough of them voted out, so we still have D’s in the R Party…
>> I was equally for cutting Ukraine off of all support, but then came to realize that would leave a vacuum that the UN would scurry to fill. They are the true war mongers, so that would be foolish to do so. Now Diplomacy and Support are in vogue and eventually with other small pressures layered on top over time, We should be able to get something done that’s rewarding for everyone, which is to Stop The War!!!
The European Union seems to be doing a pretty good of hollowing out itselft.
Not sure why their stock markets are going up so much considering they virtually have no big tech plays or AI plays. . I think I read out of the top 100 tech companies in the world, Europe has 4 to 6 in the top 100 I think.. The U.S. and China combined have over 60.