Been watching a lot of people shift away from the US over Tarrifs and Trump’s stance on things but personally I think France, UK and Canada will all end up looking really dumb if he achieves a peace agreement.

Let’s face it Ukraine will not “win” in a traditional sense without the US. Europe and Zelensky has said as much.

So instead like a toddler that just got told they can’t have candy in the checkout line Canada, France and the UK want to X out the US but Trump is going to be that parent to “spank that butt” and put that misbehaving toddler back in the shopping cart seat.

spank it mr. Trump, be the big daddy an spank it harder

Figure out whatever is in the rational self-interest of the EU and they will do the opposite every single time

Do you know what the S&P 500 is? If so do you understand why it failing in today’s world could be a good thing?

Let me explain it in simple terms.

The S&P 500 is an index that represents the 500 wealthiest publicly traded companies(the companies screwing American’s daily like Walmart). These companies often thrive on low wages, terrible benefits packages and unsafe work environments in order to keep costs down and profits up. A complete collapse of these companies would likely hurt very much but in all honesty a reality check and pushback to a 50% reduction even would absolutely help small businesses and new businesses in the long run.


Honestly, I wish companies like Walmart who repeatedly screw America with outsourcing would get a swift kick.

This post was edited by MadMan87 on Mar 18 2025 04:18am

The narrative lines are not great unless a magical opportunity unfolds for EU to seize fumble.

Honestly, I would not be surprised if EU nations attempt to undermine the next set of peace negotiations. They don't want a dictator Zelensky neighbor overseeing rebuilding of a stone age zone.

There's something mentally wrong with EU people

It's not innate of course but more like a mental illness pandemic

What? Stock price pullback would do nothing of the sort in fixing the issues at hand. The issues at hand are due to favourable lobbying efforts and republican and democratic administrations alike changing law and policy in favourable of big corporations that allow them to exploit. Past recessions and stock drops / corrections did nothing to correct these , and if anything resulted in cost reduction pressures as a result to overperform and get targets back on track. S&P500 ETFS make up large portions of pension funds, individual holdings, institutional holdings that manage buckets of funds for retirement, etc.

You're not hurting Walmart by a stock price pullback lmao.

You aren’t hurting Walmart by continuing to support it either.

Well until gov't actually steps up to the plate, which isn't going to happen anytime soon Walmart isn't getting hurt either way.

"Muh retirement plans" only 40% of American workers have a 401k