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    13 hours ago

    Trump on Sunday night returned from Florida and threatened to impose steeper tariffs elsewhere, telling reporters that the import taxes will “definitely happen” with the European Union and possibly with the United Kingdom as well.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_the_United_States

    Uh huh. So given Canada, Mexico, China, counting the EU as a single unit, that’d be a concurrent trade war with all four top US trade partners and – “maybe” – the UK.

    The rationale for the EU and UK should be interesting, because I don’t think that fentanyl’s gonna work.