This dummy doesn’t even have demands. Hopefully the rest of the continent holds out and demonstrates to the US its dependency on its neighbors.

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    Will Trump actually be allowed to destroy NAFTA?

    I know the people around him just want to do a smash and grab for themselves, but that’s a small circle of people, and the USA is a very large country.

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      It’s a genuine test of where power really lays. The state is not a literal puppet of some embodiment of the capitalist class as a whole - it’s an incredibly powerful tool that factions within the class vie for control of to pursue their particular interests.