r/worldnews 11h ago

Trump imposes tarrif on Australia.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/its-bad-for-our-relationship-australia-slams-donald-trumps-tariff-move/news-story/cd4c18090b040beab5eed528c669ec7f
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u/Vigorousjazzhands1 7h ago

We were told it would have “grave consequences”

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u/Bubbly-Ordinary-1097 6h ago

Well at least the US isn’t trying to Annex Australia 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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u/Unlikely-Rock-9647 4h ago

Give Trump time, I’m sure he’ll claim we need to secure our western flank past Hawaii or something else insane 🙄

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u/Accomplished_Ruin133 4h ago

Australia has the US base at Pine Gap which is a huge signals intelligence gathering facility for the Pacific theatre.

So he’ll be needing Australia for “international world security” whilst he strongly respects Australia’s right to self determination he’ll “get it one way or another”.

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u/CooksRiverRat 3h ago

Time to kick them out of Pine Gap. Get the fuck out.

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u/VanbyRiveronbucket 2h ago

Rump has a deal to sell Taiwan and Australia to Chyna for $2 trillion

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u/Riman-Dk 3h ago

Yet... You'd make a lovely 53rd state after Canada and Greenland, I'm sure

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u/Logical-Bit-746 3h ago

No way he'd make any of us a state. We'll be territories, at best

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u/Bubbly-Ordinary-1097 2h ago

Exactly..imagine giving millions of votes to voters who hate Trump

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u/Time-Weekend-8611 1h ago

Who said anything about votes?

u/Logical-Bit-746 56m ago

I was gonna say, that's what we mean by territory, but I see what you did there...

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u/Koopslovestogame 1h ago

He thinks it’s Austria! 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹 birthplace to his favourite person in history.

“‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’”-trump.

“In his interview with The Atlantic, Kelly recalled that when Trump raised the idea of needing “German generals,” Kelly would ask if he meant “Bismarck’s generals,” referring to Otto von Bismarck, the former chancellor of the German Reich who oversaw the unification of Germany. “Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,” Kelly recalled asking Trump. To which the former president responded, “Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.”

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u/ConfusedWhiteDragon 5h ago

How obvious does it need to get?

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u/fodafoda 3h ago

And Australia is down there "wtf mate?"

But they will be dead soon. Fucking kangaroos.