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by WillPostForFood 2499 days ago
First China tariffs were in January 2018, when do you start to consider the trade war protracted? I’d say it is already painful and protracted.
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Painful would be the 35 percent GDP contraction that Cuba endured, without regime change, after the USSR fell, under continuing US sanctions. Or the hyperinflation and food rationing that Venezuela has endured, without regime change, under US sanctions. Do you think Trump could lead the USA through that kind of pain?