@dangillmor Tariffs are *not* inherently evil. Imagine if high, and ever rising, tariffs were slapped on the #PRC #china after the 1989 #Tiananmen massacre — and until they rethink their military occupation of Tibet?

Tariffs against any and all dictatorships and and all the positive effects of trade and exchanges targeted solely towards friendly and peaceful countries? Maybe that would have really ended the Cold War and brought about the "end of history"...

We can only imagine of course, because instead it only took couple of months after that massacre for the USA and other major democracies to be queueing up outside #CCP's headquarters to talk business. #MFN and expedited #WTO memberships followed, with zero consequences for the wholesale breaching of the treaty's letter and spirit. 🤷🏻‍♂️

That the #trump|tards are planning to use #tariffs as a weapon against friendly liberal democracies is not the fault of the tool.

PS. Isn't #WSJ part of the Rupert #Murdoch influencing empire...? 👀

Imagine if the actual nazis were still genociding the native peoples and cultures in occupied lebensraum *for 70 fucking years and counting*...

Imagine the 'third reich' — completely unrepentent and still military-expansionist — was not only admitted to the United Nations but given a top seat with veto powers...

Just so that the industrialists and bankers of the democratic world could do unhindered business there, with cheap labour (the reeducation camps naturally fully utilized!) and not a labour law or civil libetry in sight!

Imagination isn't needed.

The CCP chinazis, who even adopted "legalism" from nazi #Germany to justify any and all acts of despotism under "rule-by-law", their dictatorship switched from nominal "communism" to #NationalSocialism (orig. nazional sozialismus i.e. nazism) and did all that. While killing more people than #stalin and #hitler *combined*. After WWII, 'the end of all wars'...

And *still* people of the embattled democracies are buying all they can from that regime, empowering it and paying its bills as is builds it concentration camps and its military power and its internal control machinery... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ukrainians are now having to fight to stop #russian genocidal invasion exactly because the likes of #putin and #xijinping saw there were no *consequences* if you genocide #Tibetans or #Uighurs or even deprive #Hongkongers of their civil rights in that #BankingColony of the #CCP ...

Well, all that #indifference that has caused so much suffering to those neighbours of despotic imperialists will inevitably hit home at those indifferent democracies that chose to look away.

And it always was a choice.

#china #chinazi #WTO #MFN #Ukraine #democracy #humanrights
@BubblegumYeti