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Image is of Trump's initial set of reciprocal tariffs. Source is CNN and Reuters.
It's difficult to keep up with the news around the tariffs; they get instated, then dropped, then reinstated... for example, on Friday, Trump said that certain electronics like smartphones would be exempt, causing markets to rally a great deal, but now the Commerce Secretary has said that they might not be exempt? The state of play right now, if you haven't been keeping up this week, is that the US recently announced a 90-day global pause on implementing the tariffs he had planned (that is, 25% on certain Canadian and Mexican goods, and at least 10% on every other nation) but nonetheless increased tariffs on China to 145%.
Meanwhile, China has been - quite remarkably - standing their ground, increasing tariffs on the US to 125%, and putting restrictions on rare earths. Xi Jinping has been in Vietnam and has made statements against a tariff war there, saying that it would have no winners. Meanwhile, a Chinese spokesperson has essentially said that China can endure the tariff war due to the increasing demand from its domestic market in combination with its growing economic ties with other countries.
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So that pause on tariffs happened because a couple of sleuths knew that Trump would be alone and since there would be no counterarguments to them, Trump would just default to whatever they were saying. They even waited to see him type it out, to make sure he didn't just forget about it.
Lol this is great. What's the source?
He typed out his own posts? What happened to his scribe?
There's one reading of this that Trump is extremely feeble-minded with no personal convictions and another that he legitimately does follow the idea of "I listen to anyone and everyone and then make my decision." Probably a little bit of both.
That was basically how Bush did it. The Decider. Trump seems more malleable than him in that Bush at least took options from a curated group of people, whereas we could probably as a group bum rush the White House and the one of us that managed to get in a room with him would decide the fate of the United States.
In case anyone's wondering "why doesn't North Korea make a move on South Korea, or China on Taiwan" with the large build up of US military assets in the Middle East, with many of these assets coming from South Korea and US military bases in the region, it appears that the US has simultaneously reinforced their defences (or offensive capabilities) in the the region, with four B-1B Strategic bombers deployed to Japan, along with additional F-35A 5th generation stealth aircraft and F-35B vertical/short take off and landing (V/STOL) 5th generation stealth aircraft deployments. There are 10 US bombers deployed overseas (6x B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, and 4x B-1B bombers), flanking China from both the east and west. The 6 B-2s are currently carrying out operations against Ansarallah in Yemen.
This is also the first US bomber task force deployment to Japan since the Vietnam war.
There's also an interesting, maybe coincidental, may not, payload match up here. 6 B-2s can carry 96 JASSM stealth cruise missiles internally (6x16). 4 B-1s can also carry 96 JASSMs internally (24x4).
They're moved from America, right? Perfect time for Canada to pre-emptively strike (as a last resort)
China probably strongly prefers stability in the region so they are probably using whatever leverage they have to maintain it. But honestly, why would North Korea make a move on RoK, China or Taiwan even with a golden opportunity? What would they gain from that?
kicking out the US from the penisula so they cant do "training drills" that look like the precursor to mass slaughter of the people of DPRK multiple times every year. finally fully putting an end to the long years of humiliation and colonization suffered by the korean people. access to a ton of arable farm land that would greatly lessen the pressure they're under to feed the country because of how mountainous the DPRK is which currently causes them to be much more heavily reliant on fossil fuels for the absolutely massive amount of farm machinery+fertilizers needed to intensify agriculture to a level sufficient to stave off famine, although this gain of farmland would depend on the war being relatively quick so the damage to farmlands was not so great.
Occupied Korea's military is larger even without US help, so do we really think DPRK could both win a war against them and occupy the territory for very long? Unless there are at least 30-40% of citizens in South Korea who actively want DPRK to take over and will assist with that, it seems that even the most favorable situation they could get, where the US is too occupied elsewhere to support South Korea, it would still be a long shot that comes with with a risk of ending a decades long stasis that has been good for the DPRK to maintain.
im not saying they're going to do it, i was answering "why would dprk want to do this"
as to occupied korea's military being larger, how would we even know that? not to say you're wrong but the DPRK always seems to play its cards relatively close to its chest to me so i dont really understand where these military comparisons come from.
I dont even think its the popluation (who by and large already hate their lives in occupied korea anyways lol), moreso its whether they could bribe enough SK officers (especially) generals. imo that's the condition they would probably be looking for to pull the trigger on any sort of restarting of the hostilities
also the stasis was really bad for the dprk when the USSR collapsed, if china ever collapsed they would be done for so there's very real incentive there especially with their ideology that emphasizes self reliance to be able to shore up that weakness (relying on china) if the opportunity ever came up
Ah sure I see what you're saying, yeah I agree that those are potential benefits they would consider.
I originally just googled the numbers but looked into the source and everyone seems to be quoting The International Institute for Strategic Studies(IISS) from their annual global military capability assessments called The Military Balance
The extra time looking around has lead me to learn some new data which changes what I originally said: DPRK is estimated at 1.28 million standing army, 600k army reservists and 5.7 million paramilitary reservists 7.58mil RoK has 555k standing and 3.1mil reservists, plus 3 mil paramilitary reservists.
So DPRK technically has a bit more people according to these estimates. I don't see anything about where IISS sources their info.
Yeah having Generals on board would be ideal, but when you have a large population of people who see themselves as westernized and also did mandatory military service, even when they hate how their government is going it doesn't mean they are going to be happy about their entire society changing drastically under the rule of the people you have been raised to believe are your worst enemies.
I wish for a unified DPRK but seems like pretty much everyone except maybe Yemen works under the premise that a tense stasis is a better position to be in than an active war with a neighbor. Of course it isn't easy to be in that position, and the DPRK has had to struggle immensely due to it, but unless they know they are absolutely going to sweep the floor with minimal losses or that the enemy is going to strike first and they need to preempt that, keeping your people alive and your society developing is often thought to be better than initiating a hot conflict.
A little combat footage for the weekend. Russian missiles and drones continue hunting Kiev regime military equipment all across the front.
A Russian Iskander-M missile strike destroyed a US-built “HIMARS” launcher near the Kiev-occupied DPR city of Kramatorsk: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/04/18/1247757.html
Russian drones destroyed a French-built “CAESAR” self-propelled howitzer: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/caesar.mp4?_=6
A collection of recent Russian drone strikes on Kiev regime military equipment near the Kiev-occupied DPR city of Krasnoarmeysk (AKA “Pokrovsk”): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Fierce-fighting-near-Pokrovsk!!:6
Really cool documentary about how the Zapatistas in Chiapas have been doing lately https://hexbear.net/post/4627900
Watch it or i will call you a lib 
Navajo president endorses Trump's coal order, but community activists cite climate, health risks the mineral extrantion could cause Hexbear Post
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Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren was in Washington earlier in April to watch President Donald Trump sign an order aimed at revitalizing the coal industry.
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Coal mines and coal-fired power plants were once steady income sources for the Navajo Nation, but the money dried up with the closure of a key plant and the mines that supplied it.
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Some Navajo organizers say Nygren's support for coal ignores the effects of fossil fuels on the climate and on human health. One expert said Nygren exaggerated the importance of coal.
Manic Hispanic fucking rules https://youtu.be/YBVPgaOmY3c
finally some good news! thanks for the rec
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Prediction: Abrego Garcia will return home at some point. And then Trump and his ilk will spin it as "See? We'll correct our mistakes when someone isn't a criminal!" And then the Democrats will treat that as the big victory, so they don't need to do anything about this anymore whilst the same shit still keeps happening, like Derek Chauvin's conviction.
If I was evil and an advisor to Trump, I would make a deal with Abrego Garcia and his family that they will get him out of CECOT but he has to remain in El Salvador forever and not try and return to the US (CECOT seems so bad I imagine he would take that deal). Trump and the GOP can spin it to their base as “keeping illegal immigrants” while taking the pressure off Trump to allow to him to do more evil shit with deportations.
apparently he feels strongly that he would be murdered pretty quickly by gangs, and if I was Bukele's evil advisor I'd have him killed and blame it on a gang if an actual gang didn't do it quick enough. With a sitting senator coming to visit and tell him they are fighting to get him home and that there is a huge showing of support for that from citizens and courts, staying where he is at is probably the safest move
Its gonna happen. The dumbest outcome always happens (though him being alive is a great thing) . "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man"
Please don't lathe this insufferable possibility into existence. 
Sitting in the holding cell https://youtu.be/lHa4yvpXF0A Manic Hispanic
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Ford stops car shipments to China from Michigan and Kentucky.
In April, ~80 cargo ships are "blank sailing" so far, while around 50 were at the height of Covid. So more cargo ships have either cancelled their scheduled travel entirely, or are at least skipping ports than at any point during Covid.
Trump did something to fuck with the student loan system, I completely forget what it was. Anyway, student loan defaults spiked 289%.
COVID.gov now redirects to a teaser explaining that Trump did the lab leak
What I've never understood about this shit is that if it's a deadly bioweapon created by the dastardly communists, wouldn't you want to protect yourself from it? If it's not something you need to protect yourself from, then why would you even care?
Trump is publicizing that COVID was a lab leak
From Ft. Dietrich, right?
I guess this is what's replacing USAID propaganda, and the worst thing is that this will work on Americans because anti-China brainworms can be milked for eternity.
USAID was such a waste of money. You don't need to spend billions on propaganda, just get an intern to do a movie trailer for the "China lab leak". Easy.
Yep just have ChatGPT make a website and some images and call it a day
Excuse me its not a waste of money. Its years of fruitful work. You wouldn't hire an intern out of community college, would you? Someone without any connections a good family?
Well, well, well. Look at the completely predictable consequences of my actions
U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.
“Huawei is a ferocious competitor,” Mr. Allen said. “It brings a mixture of very high quality talent, psychotically driven work culture and the deep backing of the Chinese government.”
highly educated workforce focused on bringing results and subsidized/regulated by the country's government, what a nightmare!
psychotically driven work culture
this is how Americans cope with a sense of deep societal alienation and hating their own lives while chinese people still have ambitions and dreams for the future: those Asians just be crazy 
tbf our own comrade XHS said work culture in China is often very intense, much more than the US.
the working conditions of the global south at large are also much more intense than the US, not saying it is good but it is the norm for most workers of the world. I don't think China is uniquely intense, and probably not even in the top 10 most intense working conditions of the world. CPC has thankfully been forcing bigger companies to transition out of 996 so hopefully that trend continues
Workers are meant to be forced to work long hours, you see
Huawei is one of the 996 companies (72 hour work week) so that ain't great
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday firmly rejected the notion of reviving the Karabakh movement, describing it as a serious risk to the country's independence and sovereignty.
Breaking: Coward acts craven. More at 11
This is the guy libs got mad at Russia for not going to war for btw
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