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Why Trump’s Trade War Is Failing (And the 1000-Year-Old Indigenous Fix)
This 1000-year-old Indigenous concept exposes the flaws in Donald Trump’s trade philosophy. I don’t think Trump has any idea who the Greek historian Thucydides is, but he’s hijacked his philosophy: “The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
Trump’s strategy, where the winner takes all, assumes that by bullying Canada with massive tariffs, the U.S. can hoard all the wealth. But North America’s economy isn’t a pie you can steal because it is an integrated supply chain. When you try to choke out your neighbour, your own factories and consumers suffer the consequences…
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