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b_b  ·  1836 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If Black Americans were to seek asylum, they would easily qualify

I think Airbus would do that in a heartbeat if they controlled the governments of the UK and France. I think that France and the UK are always spooked by the prospect of retaliation (even when we don't have a mercurial moron who loves trade wars in charge), however, so I tend to doubt that they would do that even in an extreme circumstance like this one. I also believe that Trump would try to block all European trade in US banks if he thought they "deserved" it and it would make him look tough. He doesn't care for a single second about fallout.





kleinbl00  ·  1836 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's a lot of "I think" and "tend to doubt" and "try" in that statement, which is pretty much my point.

We're at an unstable, uncertain enough point in history right now that certain gambits that didn't pay off before could pay off now.