He seems to be able to alienate allies at an astonishing rate!

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Originally posted by Tumbleweed:
He seems to be able to alienate allies at an astonishing rate!

i do not think we can consider that south africa was an ally of usa and that has ben for a while ...

but yes the rate of loosing allies is really disturbing ...

In 2024, U.S. goods exports to South Africa reached $32.1 billion, an 11.9% increase from 2023, while U.S. goods imports from Africa totaled $39.5 billion, a 1.9% increase from 2023.

It’s not insignificant.

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Originally posted by Tumbleweed:
In 2024, U.S. goods exports to South Africa reached $32.1 billion, an 11.9% increase from 2023, while U.S. goods imports from Africa totaled $39.5 billion, a 1.9% increase from 2023.

It’s not insignificant.

political, diplomatical and economical are on the new chess world not really combined as they were ... and as you have seen usa has not problem to destroy all the three with not thinking ... up to the time.

Oh boy???? South Africa is such a great ally.....almost as pathetic as Canada

But I think they actually get less welfare........


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we got Hunter down there fixin things right.

so no need to worry.

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Originally posted by JTEX:
Oh boy???? South Africa is such a great ally.....almost as pathetic as Canada

But I think they actually get less welfare........


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Yeah, let’s talk about that. I’m not sure you (or your psychotic leader) understand the fundamental concept of the trade imbalance that you and he choose to describe as ‘welfare’.

You seem to think that a population of 40 million (or 63 million, like South Africa) should consume as much as a population of 350 million. That is just not going to happen. Naturally you are going to import and consume disproportionately, and you are going to have a trade imbalance.

You can be forgiven for being naturally stupid, but being wilfully ignorant and malicious is unforgivable.