The Trump administration has already denied visas for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and his large delegation to attend the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
They want to stop people from coming into our country and buying products we sell here… Of course that’s insane. That’s exactly what any country should want if they believe in capitalism/global markets. Money coming into your economy is like the entire point of these tarrifs MAGA believes in. The only way they make sense is if you ignore logic and just say we want our money spent here and limit how much of our wealth gets spread to other countries. Within a global market for one country to be rich, others must be poor really. Higher > Imports = country getting richer. This limits exports, “because we don’t like them.”. It really shows they don’t give a fuck about the companies making money either, hate Trump’s all.
Granted it’s just a tiny impact because there are so few of them.
It’s extremely normal for host countries to impose restrictions on the activity of diplomats - hostile or no. US diplomats basically require an escort just to leave the embassy in Russia, for example, and all countries restrict potentially contentious visits (like some diplomats visiting war memorials, as has happened recently in Korea/Japanese politics). But this is an absurd escalation of that privilege for no other reason than trump’s ego.
They want to stop people from coming into our country and buying products we sell here… Of course that’s insane. That’s exactly what any country should want if they believe in capitalism/global markets. Money coming into your economy is like the entire point of these tarrifs MAGA believes in. The only way they make sense is if you ignore logic and just say we want our money spent here and limit how much of our wealth gets spread to other countries. Within a global market for one country to be rich, others must be poor really. Higher > Imports = country getting richer. This limits exports, “because we don’t like them.”. It really shows they don’t give a fuck about the companies making money either, hate Trump’s all.
Granted it’s just a tiny impact because there are so few of them.
None of this is about logic or even common sense. It’s all petty vindictiveness.
It’s extremely normal for host countries to impose restrictions on the activity of diplomats - hostile or no. US diplomats basically require an escort just to leave the embassy in Russia, for example, and all countries restrict potentially contentious visits (like some diplomats visiting war memorials, as has happened recently in Korea/Japanese politics). But this is an absurd escalation of that privilege for no other reason than trump’s ego.