He certainly isn't trying to beat those "Russian asset" allegations is he?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining,[1] New York
America used to have standards.
Funny you bring up that couple, because the lack of standards has a through line here.
A man named Roy Cohn was the prosecutor, and he wheeled and dealed to make sure that both Rosenbergs got the death penalty, even if the evidence was a bit weak, especially the evidence against Ethel. Cohn got witnesses to change their story so that he could push to kill Ethel.
Cohn then went on to help Joseph McCarthy run the Red, and Lavender Scares.
And then, later still, Roy Cohn would tutor Donald Trump in the art of personally attacking anyone who tried to enforce the law against him.
The piece of shit finally died of HIV,
And a whole nation's gotta take it in the behind for this. Classic king of the hill stuff.
But uninhabited islands are
All that time and money invested in agent Krasnov is really paying off.
Cuba, Belarus and North Korea were also not included
At least they're being consistent. If Biden had excluded Russia along with those countries from some global economic policy, I wouldn't be suspicious.
It's probably dumber than you think why they weren't on there. The formula they used to come up with the countries tarrifs rate is based simply on trade deficit calculations. So if you aren't exporting/importing from those countries they wouldn't be included. It doesn't even matter if there was a trade surplus.
For example, take the figures for China:
Sources:
https://www.ft.com/content/e025d7e6-512d-4e82-9c25-7900b94ac153
This can't explain the exclusion of Russia, since the entirely uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands got their own entry on the list. There cannot be a trade balance with a place where nobody lives. The islands got the "base rate" of 10%, so for Russia to have been excluded there has to have been another reason
Honestly they probably plugged it into Grok and asked it to spit out the list of countries to tariff.
I don't see how that's related to excluding particular countries.
Yeah, sanctioned countries didn't make the list. It's that simple.
Did Somalia make the list either? No. Same reason.
Yeah, sanctioned countries didn't make the list.
Iran and Syria made the list.
Read all about it in this month’s riveting issue of Duh.
Shocked I say. Shocked that Putin's puppet is not putting Tariffs on someone that is trying to take over another country.
Uninhabited islands: tariffs
Allies: tariffs
Israel: believe it or not, tariffs
Russia: crickets
FFS people, sanctioned countries were not included. Somalia, Burkina Faso....also not included.
Let them deal in baseless conspiracy. Please deal in fact here.
However, nations with even less trade with the US - such as Syria, which exported $11m of products last year according to UN data quoted by Trading Economics - were on the list.
According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, the US imported goods from Russia worth $3.5bn (£2.7bn) in 2024. It mainly consisted of fertilisers, nuclear fuel and some metals, according to Trading Economics and Russian media.
Yep, it's fertilizer and related exempt at inputs. Prior to the war trade with Russian was closer to $30B.
The trade sanctions exist outside of tariff policy, so it's probably too complicated for ChatGPT (and therefore these clowns) to sort out easily.
Let them deal in baseless conspiracy
so it's probably too complicated for ChatGPT
There's a possibility that someone used an LLM to formulate the tariff percentages. That's not baseless, there's evidence based on replication and similar language in the USTR site.
Which makes it a funny joke to suggest that they did the entire tariff plan top to bottom in ChatGPT.
There's also a much stronger possibility that Trump simply didn't want to piss off Putin.
Why are you trying to find a more complicated answer?
Less complicated is:
"Tariff rates go brrrrrr"
"But it's hard to add this to sanctioned countries because it involves doing work."
'Then don't, lol, FTW. Tell Grok to leave them out."
Grok and all appointees involved are idiots
"Here's a list of important places that need tariffs."
FFS people, sanctioned countries were not included
Iran and Syria were included.
And so were uninhabited islands. I'm not saying these people are geniuses. I'm saying that Grok probably said to skip sanctioned countries and they got that mostly right.
Or, much more simply, Trump didn't want to make Putin mad.
So then why did Somalia or Burkina Faso not make the list? Does Putin care about them? Not really.
Occam's razor here is pretty easy to see as "Sanctioned counties, and we missed two."
That wasn't a comprehensive list, just 2 off the jump.
So no, the simpler answer is that sanctions simply aren't a factor. They didn't list every country on the planet.
Sure, whatever you need to believe with no evidence to support it. At least a 80% correlation with the sanctions list mes a touch of sense.
Claiming that Trump is constantly kissing Putin's ass isn't a conspiracy. It's not even a secret...
Sure, whatever you need to believe with no evidence to support it
So where's your evidence that the list of countries was generated by AI?
There's a pretty comprehensive article on The Verge outlining the likelihood of it bring probable.
No there isn't.
You might need to learn how to read better...
https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok
Still waiting for you to admit you were wrong.
And wait more you shall ;)
Did you read it yet?
Come on, it's not that long. You must have seen how utterly wrong you are by now.
Lol the irony...
Of course I know what article you were talking about. Go ahead and read it again and then quote me where it says anything about generating a list of countries that somehow leaves out Russia.
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