US President Donald Trump has said he may impose trade tariffs on countries that do not support his plans to take over Greenland.

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” Mr Trump said at the White House.

  • green_red_black@slrpnk.net
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    19 hours ago

    Unfortunately that’s probably not going to happen as doing so would destroy the global economy

    (US Copyright is standardized to international copyright laws and the US Dollar is the defacto international currency with bonds being one of the way that keeps the currency strong.)

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      16 hours ago

      I think destroying NATO and triggering WW3 might be a bit destabilising to the global economy too

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      16 hours ago

      USD counts for about 58% of global currency reserves. That’s the largest by far to be sure, but far from the only relevant one, and the ratio has been steadily trending downwards (though interestingly, it hasn’t been the euro it lost ground to).

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        12 hours ago

        Indeed it has been going down but the trend puts the rate at losing its status turn of the next century. So for all intents and purposes blowing up the currency would have negative ripple effects economists would want to avoid.

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        12 hours ago

        It’s not obviously but that is the danger one faces by just going full Scorched earth in the US.

        Blame the Cold War Era politicians who thought it be a good idea to make America the defacto capital of the world economy.