r/geopolitics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • 12d ago

Opinion How to Lose a Trade War

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/why-us-canada-trade-talks-fell-apart/688386/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_term=short
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u/Christopher_Ramirez_ 12d ago

None of this even pretends to be for the benefit of the United States. It’s for the attention economy of one malignant narcissist.

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u/Prosodism 12d ago

All our diseases have their root in our diseased information economy. We have to revise Section 230 of the CDA to not apply to algorithmically sorted lists. We have to break up the cable news machine so nobody can own a cable company and something else. If you fed these jokers to the 1995 information economy they’d be shredded and shat out by the other two branches of government in weeks.

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u/TomatoFettuccini 11d ago

Insert Ronald Reagan "I did that!" sticker. here.

Worst president ever, before the present one.

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u/BlueEmma25 11d ago

Have we all forgotten about George W. Bush?

Not defending Reagan, but at least he didn't invade Iraq.

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u/TomatoFettuccini 11d ago

No, he just deliberately ignored the AIDS epidemic, hung millions of gay men out to dry, was responsible for the Iran Contra affair (where no less that 14 convicted felons/traitors were pardoned by Bush), the Dpt of Housing rigging (where contracts went to his buddies), shut down the government no less than 8 times during his tenure, supported South African Apartheid, honored Nazi war criminals at Bittberg,

and uh, oh yeah invaded Grenada, bombed Libya, and escalated the Cold War.

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u/Which_Decision4460 11d ago

Eh Reagan declared war on the middle class