Switzerland has reduced many of its tariffs on the US to 0 percent, and still Trump now hits Switzerland with new 39 percent tariffs, because he is mad that he still has a 22 billion trade deficit with the Swiss.
Obviously this would not have happened if Switzerland was in the EU, but as that is unlikely to change, it will be interesting to see what the Swiss do next. They are a small nation (9 million) to be in a trade war with the US (340 million).
The US buys 17 percent of Swiss exports.
Picture 1: Munich 1938 — UK Prime Minister Chamberlain met with Hitler, thinking that giving Hitler territory would lead to peace.
Picture 2: Alaska 2025 — Trump will meet with Putin on Friday, August 15, thinking that giving Putin territory will lead to peace.
Trump wants Ukraine to give up territory to Putin in exchange for peace, and according to CNN this includes Crimea and The Donbas.
Why did our ancestors not get a peace deal with Hitler by giving up France and The Netherlands?
Because they were not idiots.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/trump-putin-meeting
Canada decides to interrupt Netanyahu amid his genocide and airdrop food into Gaza.
I love you Canadians! ♥
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https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2025/08/canadian-armed-forces-air-drop-humanitarian-assistance-in-gaza.html
Is there an English term for those annoying pricing strategies where a company removes essential parts of a product to lower the marketed price, and then raises the price of the part they have removed to make customers pay even more?
For instance tonight I was booking a winter holiday, and I realized the company had achieved a competitive price by cutting down the usual baggage size of 23 kg to just 10 kg, and then forcing everyone to pay extra for what was now called "additional baggage".
The convicted felon president invites an international war criminal wanted by The Hague, to take a summer vacation in Alaska.
If someone had told me this 10 years ago, I would not have thought the US could ever sink this deep.
They say dogs can be quite insisting beggars, but I can assure you my koi carp can beat any dog in any begging competition.
Because they eat a lot of what is already in the pond all day long, I only feed them once per day as a supplement.
Still, they will persistently follow my every move around the pond, constantly opening their mouthes to signal that I should definitely go get some more food.
I never give in. They never stop. So here we are. 😀
This is the best news I have read all week. Let us hope more European countries join Germany in boycotting the genocidal Netanyahu regime.
https://mastodon.social/@gl33p/114994443625087658
The art of no deal:
Spain will not choose the F-35 because it is produced in Trump country, so Lockheed Martin now loses around 100 million dollars per plane, Spain is not buying, thanks to the US president.
https://www.ft.com/content/6578fc01-4314-4a02-9969-5e7cebc8e1f0?sharetype=blocked
“Let us decide the future for Europe by letting the enemy negotiate with a manbaby from a different continent.”
— No one.
Randahl Fink