@KimSJ

#TrumpeanTradeWars #TrumpTariffs
#EconomicPolicy
#CEUM

(4/4)

... is president.
I've dubbed this suggestion #CEUM:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114237101442358153

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@KimSJ

#TrumpeanTradeWars #TrumpTariffs
#EconomicPolicy
#CEUM

(3/n)

...usher in a #GreatDepression2.0, if they cannot be repudiated rather sooner than later. 4 years, as during the #GreatDepression, will be ruinous for the global and the #US #economy:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114270346663616915

The probably even more impactful strategy is deepening economic integration between Europe and the Americas, including a #NATO based #DefenseUnion--w/o the #US while #Trump...

@KimSJ

#TrumpeanTradeWars #TrumpTariffs
#EconomicPolicy
#CEUM

(2/n)

... withhold just critical goods reduces the pain on non-#US consumers and suppliers....

In fact, that strategy can be enhanced, targeting #MAGA donors, voters, and #RedStates.
A good example to follow for #Canada, for instance, is the critical #Fertilizer ingredient for (#US) #farmers, #potash, as we analyzed a few days ago:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114281081687968392

Like in the 1930's, these (even higher) tariffs will, IMO, usher...

@KimSJ

#TrumpeanTradeWars #TrumpTariffs
#EconomicPolicy
#CEUM

(1/n)

A de facto "critical-minerals embargo" being imposed by #China on the #US was to be expected.
In fact, it is somewhat surprising that President #Xi did not implement it sooner, after the #US cut off high-end GPUs for #China, which are critical for the #AI race.

It might even be a wise strategy to counter Trump's de facto all-out global #TradeWar.

To...

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(6/6)

... continues to play a key role in that. Therefore, all #Technofeudalist and authoritarian media, Social or not, and in particular #US based, should be...

placed under observation, banned if need be.
All powers and levels if government of the remain ng democratic nations must join the #Fediverse. Society must once again own its social media platform 2)

2)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114184767266576206

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(5/n)

... conventional weapons.

As in the 1930's, a #fascist movement has been siwing division where there should be unity.

We must never forget, as in any war, the war that's being fought against #Authoritarianism is a #hybrid one.

The #FourthEstate...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(4/n)

.. taking a wrecking ball towards the #West.

If the rest of the globe, in particular #CEUM, work much stronger together, there is a good chance that the #TrumpeanTariffs'-induced #GlobalDepression2.0 might yet be averted.

However, this is not only a war of trade and...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(3/n)

... They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them."

The #TrumpTariffs that will result in #TrumpeanTradeWars, if this collision course is maintained, are the complete opposite of what the founding fathers had in mind.
#tRump is...

@LoranJohn @kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(2/n)

... way before the much cited Art. 5.:

"Article 2

The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being...

@LoranJohn
@kim_harding

#CEUM

(1/n)

That sounds very reasonable to me. Including the #US, there are so many things that unite all of the #Americas and the #European continent.

Why is my two-sided approach, one ever-deepening #FTA and a #DefensUnion, for further integration in #CEUM the right approach? --Because #DefenseSpending entails enormous costs that can only be borne by thriving economies.
The founding fathers of #NATO understood this and that's why there is Art. 2,...

@kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(2/2)

... area while adding the dimension that alwas had been missing, a #DefenseUnion, from the ashes of #NATO.

As #JustinTrudeau said, the ... Dumbest Trade War in History.

The intentional(?) destruction of the #US superpower by the #MAGAmerican Regime might yet proof a boon for a European renaissance and a more multipolar word than the autocrats Trump, Putin, Xi hoped 4
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114117427200013920

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@kim_harding

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA  #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity

#CEUM

(1/2)

And #SigmarGabriel is right!

#Canada and #Mexico, while having a lot of indigenous roots, AS well as Asian and African, the majority of people have ancestral roots on the European continent and speak one of its languages.

But things should not be hastened, the #EuropeanUnion did not start as such.

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114237101442358153

IMO, starting with a fast-track implementation of a free-trade area...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(8/8)

... in the interests of the state? The answer is primarily that it wanted to … strengthen the state authority itself; it concentrated on the power of the state … Primarily to the state’s external power, in relation to other states."

primary source:
https://fee.org/articles/mercantilism-was-monarchys-planned-economy/

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@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(7/n)

... of economic policy [as a conception of society in which all interests were to be made obedient to the monarch captured in the famous phrase of the #French #king, Louis XIV – ‘I am the State’]."

"#Mercantilism as a System of Power

What was the object of mercantilism in using economic forces...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(6/n)

... historian #EliHeckscher)

Why #Trump espouses it, could easily be explained by the central element of this policy introduced in the late absolutist reign of the #SunKing, #LouisXIV:

"#Mercantilism as a Conception of Society

Mercantilism revealed a fairly uniform conception of general social phenomena in the field of economics, and this, too, reacted in many ways on the...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(5/n)

... commodities, was the theory of the danger from which economic policy was chiefly to protect a country lay in having too many goods [imported from other countries].

Mercantilism as a Monetary System

The connection between money and goods in the mercantilist conception of economics was represented in the balance of trade theory … "

("Mercantilism (1935), Swedish economic..

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(4/n)

...commerce, and trade into directions different from how individuals in the market may have wanted to direct their own activities, the more it created incentives for “#Smuggling” – #BlackMarkets – to get around the controls."

The basics:

"#Mercantilism as a System of Protection

The attitude of mercantilism towards the means of supplying the wants of human beings, i.e., towards...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(3/n)

... of souvereign and autonomous states, while the #US will be impoverished by the economic fallout of the #TrumpTariffs. They constitue a #Mercantilist trade policy, which has historically been proven to be detrimental to its practitioners: it gives rise to #Smuggling and anarchy:

"The more the government’s #Mercantilist policies attempted to restrict and divert manufacturing,...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(2/n)

... As of #Vance"is historic speech at the #MSC this year, the necesities have changed, grown exponentially :

The remaining #West needs a deeper (#DefenseUnion) and wider union (#CEUM):

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114117715483122573

Eventually, a deeper union of the West's states will further #Democracy in the #West, as the hegemony of the #US is balanced by a "confederation"...

@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

(1/n)

While I agree with the spirit of your post, the timing for the #EU deal (#CETA, if you are referring to that) predates the #Trump presidencies:

"... Officials announced the launch of negotiations on 6 May 2009 at the #Canada-#EU Summit in #Prague...."

"...#JustinTrudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, travelled to #Brussels on 30 October 2016 to sign..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement?wprov=sfla1