Colombia lifts ban on deportation flights after Trump tariff threat
Colombia lifts ban on deportation flights after Trump tariff threat
US president had called for ‘retaliatory measures’ after Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, blocked two military aircraft carrying deportees
How can he just capitulate like this?!
I mean... he didn't ban the flights in the first place. He just declared he would not accept his countrymen being treated poorly on return. I think the objection was packing them all in military planes instead of normal commercial flights your average person travels. It had more to do with mistreatment of their citizens in the process of repatriation, which is valid.
If the Trump Admin agreed not to transport people in handcuffs, that wouldn't be a capitulation, but rather what Petro wanted. Remember the Trump Admin is going to spin literally every outcome as "a victory" while talking shit about the other guy, regardless of the reality of any negotiation outcome.
Tbf for nations like Colombia, who have a very small GDP, it would be almost impossible to survive the orange asshole's bullying.
Let's see what'll happen if/when he attacks a nation who's in the same league as America.
#FuckTrump
This was all theatre where nothing in reality changed, to show how tough and intransigent this admin wants to be: the real problem is that if formally and informally allied nations start to think that the USA would really commit to bullying as a real negotiation tactic, they will start to divest from it and expand their pool of partners to make these tactics less impactful.
This could be disastrous in the long run, with decades of integration and diplomacy going in smoke. But in the short term there will be a lot of "winning", as they keep saying. I guess.
The first Trump term was seen as a short term derailing. The second one has a complete different international impact.
Goodwill is a real diplomatic form of currency and it is getting burned at a real fast pace.
I hope and can't wait for the first country to kick America out. Like get your bases out.
I disagree. In fact, I think a lot of nations would start trading with Colombia if it defied the U.S. under Trump. But I guess we'll never know now.
I think it will be interesting to see what China does as this bullying continues. They’re already facing tariffs, so they don’t have much to lose by stepping in and picking up new trade partners as Trump pisses everyone off. Might hurt for awhile, but it was always going to. Trump could prove to be the best thing for China’s economy & global influence in the long run.
We need to make a global Alliance where if Trump tarriffs one country, every country responds with double the tarriffs.
Bullshit, no capitulation. Colombian president refused to accept deportees by military transport on humane grounds. Both threatened tariffs, Trump ‘capitulated’ and agreed to put them back on commercial flights, which is how it always has been - Colombia accepting deportees. Don’t buy into this myth the media is creating.
See, just kiss the kings ring and everything will be OK.
Can I grovel a bit first? I feel like I deserve some humiliation
Get your kinks off with someone who knows it's for fun.
That's where Trump will send you regardless of country of origin.