Bullshit. They’ve been accepting deportees for years. They objected to the treatment and military transport of deportees, and refused those. They each threatened tarriffs, and then Trump agreed to treat them like human beings and send them home on commercial flights, like has always been done.
Stop making it sound like Trump’s strongman tactics are doing anything.
I really hope every country the US trades with is looking at this and behind the scenes making whatever arrangements are available to them to cut the US out of their trade network, with the ultimate intent of just ceasing trade with the US entirely. It would be the best option. Trump is going to keep weaponizing economic power to get what he wants, and if other countries keep folding, it’s just going to make him bolder. If they all just cut the US out, it’d hurt them, but it’d hurt the US and specifically Trump’s influence a lot more in the long term.
well, that’s a little difficult as the United States has 335 million people in it, and is the largest trading partner in the world. what do you imaging happens to an economy like colombia when it curtails or stops trading with the united states, where are they going to sell all their coffee and fresh cut flowers, just cut down on production you say, what’s going to happen to their shipping industries, their packing industries, their farmers, oh just tell them to retrain you say … and on and on and on and on with every industry in every country in the world barring Iran and North Korea. it’s a fine plan, with no possible way of being executed without making hundreds of millions of people destitute, but it’s a plan alright. the world will adjust, but, so much pain … and death
I’m not suggesting anyone just do it cold turkey. I am suggesting, though, that they start re-tooling their economies to not rely on the US in it in whatever ways they’re able; we’re an unreliable partner, clearly, and anyone whose economy is reliant on us at this point is just asking to get burned or bent over by Trump.
It’s certainly a wake-up call for nations that are over-reliant on US trade to diversify their partnerships. Essentially what the US is doing is globalisation in reverse and hopefully they will find out why globalisation was previously so popular with world leaders.
After all that fiery rhetoric they just instantly capitulate?
Nope? They (Colombia) got exactly what they wanted as far as In understand. Trump caved, the flights will have to follow the conditions dictated by Colombia. It’s telling that the press is selling this as a Trump win.
What are those conditions?
Treat them like people, not cattle
They were sent in a military aircraft, in shackles. Colombia didn’t let the military aircraft land. Now they’ve been sent on a commercial flight, which wasn’t a problem for Colombia
I guess I don’t fully understand the difference between military and civilian aircraft. But the next flights had them unshackled? That’s good.
Use of civilian aircraft instead of military and better treatment of deportees.
Initially, I thought that I needed to stock up on Colombian coffee before the prices skyrocketed. Now I feel like I need to stock up on non-Colombian coffee before something similar happens elsewhere.
I mean all these deportations are fucked but trying not to accept them is pretty shitty to do to them too.
The US wouldn’t accept a military cargo plane full of people that another country claimed were undocumented Americans, so why should another country?
That’s not a bad point. Knowing the US half of them probably weren’t even from Columbia.
Most of them probably hadn’t even graduated
The US literally accepts thousands of undocumented non-Americans every single day
Do they come officially with an airplane, tho?
