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		textlapse 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out fr... Britain was not importing. Britain was stealing resources from India. It was beyond slavery. The words plunder and pillage come to mind. USA on the other hand has a completely different problem (perhaps opposite of what you describe - being the world’s gracious and benevolent trade partner).

forgotoldacc 5 months ago [–]

Other countries trade with the US in order to avoid their wrath.

And now it's apparent that even being a great ally will result in economic attacks.

So the world gives the US tangible goods. In exchange they get shittalked and more demanded of them.

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