Darkassassin07

Always good to close the barn doors after all the horses have run away...

Because it's not all of America that we're against; it's the current administration and it's supporters. It's better to keep the citizens on our side, sympathetic to our problems. Especially when this administration fails and America gets around to rebuilding.

It also looks good from other nations to see we aren't being unreasonable or cruel, just standing up for ourselves. That will help when it comes to building relationships with those other nations and allow us to strengthen trade elsewhere.

Be the bigger person. It pays off in ways that aren't always obvious.

Finally, the presidents of both countries agreed to conclude a comprehensive agreement as soon as possible for the development of Ukraine's critical mineral resources to strengthen Ukraine's economy and ensure long-term prosperity and security for Ukraine.

:/

I hope Ukraine isn't forced to give up too much. Not happy to see this part going forward at all.

Lots of people miss that option and end up asking how something was formatted. I've taken to just displaying it when demonstrating to avoid the extra questions.

Probably; but it's a show of good faith that we are actually willing to come to an agreement, and it's also more opportunity for the US to hang itself on the public stage.

We'll give you the rope; we'd rather you made a bow with it, but if you want to make a noose that's your choice.

Looking at a few sources, I'm not entirely sure tbh.

Even so; I don't mind showing a bit of restraint given an opportunity to negotiate an agreement. Helps demonstrate that it's not the citizens of those states we're upset with; they're just caught in the crossfire between us and Washington.

We can always put the tariffs back, and in the meantime we can continue to expand into other markets and strengthen relationships with other nations.

The US agreed to actually discuss the situation and potentially come to an agreement. Because of that upcoming discussion we'll delay ~~adding an additional 25% (though~~ the original 25% ~~will remain in place~~ for now). Should that discussion not go well, we'll just continue with the plan to impose more tariffs.

Sounds reasonable to me. None of us want this trade war. If you're willing to negotiate an end, we'll hear you out. That doesn't mean we're going to back down.

No, the whole point of an image post is to display the image.

If you want to make a post with a main image, but in a spoiler; make a regular text post (ie ignore the url and just use the body) with the spoiler at the top.

Yup.

::: \spoiler Perhaps like this?


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(just remove the backslashes)

Oh! I'm blind...

Dec 4 was the day Luigi allegedly pulled the trigger.

I don't know what that has to do with today and Mar 10th though...