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    Trump backtracks on Belarus deal, sticks with Canadian potash

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    5. BananasPineapple05 on

      It’s lucky for the Americans that Belarus couldn’t produce the amounts y’all need.

      But there’s a lesson to be learned here. DJT has no problem whatsoever shackling the country’s economy to Putin. That ought to give anyone with half a brain some serious pause.

    7. TactitcalPterodactyl on

      I wonder if Trump got a call from an influential food supply lobbyist after he started talking about messing with their potash supply. He backtracked quickly on this, even by Trump standards!

    14. ThoughtsandThinkers on

      Sometimes businesses will charge more because they dislike a particular job or dealing with a particular customer. They don’t want to say ‘no’ outright, but they want to discourage the business or at least be very well compensated for doing work they don’t really want to do

      We should do that

    15. baconpoutine89 on

      Surprised he didn’t brag about coming up with a new deal on Canadian potash that’s exactly the same as the previous one.

    22. ProfessionalFix9053 on

      The part of this whole debacle is that Belarus sells 100 % of it’s available potash for full market price. Trump said that he would be getting a discounted product from Belarus. That makes no sense even for that Whitehouse whacko. I suspect he was going to get it from Russia and tell everyone it was from Belarus until Lushenko , who wasn’t in on the deceit, opened his mouth, so China or whoever Belarus’ customers are didn’t panic.
      The US spent 3.77 billion with Russia last year, so sanctions and morality are not at the top of this group’s list.

    23. Famous_Track_4356 on

      But now he’s complaining about the price he wants us to sell it cheaper, time to increase it

    24. ArtDan4Eva on

      He got factchecked by the president of Belarus immediately after he announced this so it was laughable from the get go. Him starting a feud with the friendliest nation who has a bunch of stuff they need, buy a ton of American stuff and are relatively easy to deal with was a boneheaded move and even MAGA dweebs are seeing that now.

    26. legocastle77 on

      What’s there to backtrack on? Belarus never had the capacity to meet America’s needs in the first place. This was purely grandstanding by Trump for the MAGA cult. Now thousands of them are mocking Canada for losing out on the US as a customer. The thing about Trump is no matter how idiotic his ramblings are, there will always be a bunch of faithful idiots who take it as gospel. 

    27. GenericFatGuy on

      There never was a deal. Trump just said some some shit, and then Belarus was like “wtf are you talking about?”

    28. TheRealMrD on

      Canada should be more like the US and increase the price of potash now that they know they have full market control

    29. Informal-Nothing371 on

      I said this on a post yesterday as well, but saying it again. The entire situation really shows how Trump doesn’t understand the economy at all, and seems to really want the US to be a planned economy.

      The government is not supposed to be negotiating where a commodity is purchased from, nor announcing sourcing deals. That is supposed to be determined by the markets. The government of Canada does not sell potash to the Government of the US. Companies buy potash from other companies.

    31. w4rrior_eh on

      Pretty sure I’ve heard him say multiple times there is nothing the United States needs from Canada.

    33. Free-Wear-3497 on

      Lol “backtracks”? Belarus said no it ain’t happening. There was never a deal to go back on.

    35. KingofAnti-Social on

      I thought they didn’t need anything that Canada has? Funny how that turned out, huh. Lol.

    36. NateTheRoofer on

      What a shame, it seems that Canada is the only supplier that can meet your potash needs Mr. Trump.

      In that case let’s have another discussion about the “going rate” then shall we? Double the price seems fair to me.

    38. Mainly_Miserable on

      Quelle suprise.

      Turns out a land locked country doesn’t have the ability to ship it without going through a sanctioned country. Let alone an interest in doing so.

      Trump just said out loud what he wanted to be true without any study of the matter.

      I wonder if his staff have a 24/7 feed of Truth Social on every wall so they can see what bullshit they’ll have to deal with on any given day.