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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

moving investments and reorganizing supplies takes time.

This is a salient point. Back in February 2025 when Donald decided to start imposing unilateral tariffs, other countries started crafting new trade agreements. Those take 1.5 to 2 years to take effect, so everything Donald is doing is, essentially, a time bomb that's going to go off after 2026 whether it's the BBB or our former allies rerouting trade around the US and through China. The vast majority of Americans don't have any real knowledge of what these things mean or Donald would be even more unpopular than he is now.

In 2028 the new order in the world will probably unrecognizable compared to 2024, and it could be a very bad thing. We Americans have been lucky in that most of us have never experienced real war and can't contextualize it, and that could change in the very near future.