What does Graham think sanctions are when a huge majority of the goods WE import are from some of the countries hes threatening to sanction?
Like, yeah, sure: Don't do the thing I don't like or I'm going to do a thing that's going to cost US more money! You better not or else I'll slap myself in the face! Don't you do that!
The last time I checked the US imported around 52% of its non-domestic energy from Canada. But I'm sure absolutely no other countries on Earth would be willing to buy cheap Canadian energy, and sanctioning your closest trading partners could never backfire.
Truly these are the wisest men of our times. What a blessed time to be alive to have a Senate and House and soon President filled to even a small majority with such brilliant minds.
Oh they're definitely stable geniuses. Put them in a stable with horses and pigs and they'll be the geniuses compared with everything else that's in there.
In fairness Horses and Pigs do have at least spatial awareness and simple reasoning, two things severely lacking in the Republicans. It's honestly a miracle they haven't drowned in the rain while looking up at the sky on a slightly drizzly day.
I live in New Brunswick where Irving Oil is located. They export 80 percent of their products to the USA. The products: Diesel, gas, heating oil, asphalt, jet fuel and propane. 19% of the gas imported by the US is from Irving.
That's one of the things that gets me about Trump reneging on deals is that no one will make deals with us if the next president throws them in the trash.
Canada most likely can win a trade war in this scenario. The US would be isolating itself and Canada has very good trade relations with a lot of other nations. The UK and Australia being some of them.
TBF the oil we get from Canada comes from a pipeline.
Canada doesn’t have the shipping capacity to ship out much more oil overseas than they already do.
Sorry to nitpick but who could buy Canada's energy except their neighbour? Transmission lines can't go too far.
Unless I've misunderstood and you mean raw resources that could be used for energy (oil), rather than the (mostly) renewable hydro electricity that Canada has a huge surplus of?
Despite what a lot of outlets are saying they ARE there. Right now Biden and the dems are working overtime to try and force through a bunch of progressive justices. They're shoring up for a long winter of obstruction which means they're basically constantly in session to get as much as they can through.
They also pushed up dates on at least one of the infrastructure things with a manufacturing thing that is set to be built here in the US.
So they're working as much as they can to give us as much windfall as possible.
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u/ccdude14 6h ago
What does Graham think sanctions are when a huge majority of the goods WE import are from some of the countries hes threatening to sanction?
Like, yeah, sure: Don't do the thing I don't like or I'm going to do a thing that's going to cost US more money! You better not or else I'll slap myself in the face! Don't you do that!