Claudia Sheinbaum makes clear "getting tough" with Mexico might cost the US a WHOLE LOT more than itès worth

In response to all but overt threats by the Trumpists to violate the sovereignty of Mexico, using the concept that drug cartels are "terrorists," Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum has indicated that Mexico intends to sue gun manufacturers in the US as complicit agents in any such terrorism. It may even be possible to do so under US law in the US, under post 9/11 anti-terrorism laws. But in any case, I think under Mexican law if the arms manufacturers are found to be accomplices to the cartels, their products can be banned from Mexico entirely. This may seem like a paper tiger, but imagine if they declare economic sanctions on US banks and insurance companies that do business with these criminal cartels, i.e., gun manufacturers. This kind of tactic would not be easily distinguishable from the kinds of sanctions that the US has put on Russian oligarchs, or, for example, on domestic producers of cannabis. I think Trump is going to find that if he wants to "get tough" with our neighbors and allies, they just might reciprocate in kind in ways that turn out to be very, very inconvenient for American business in general. This would be a terrible outcome, because free flow of trade and peaceful coexistence, which has hitherto been the postwar US policy in general has had great success at increasing worldwide wealth and maintaining peaceful and mutually beneficial relations. But if such a downward spiral of tariffs, sanctions, tit for tat legal maneuvers, etc., becomes the order of the day, it will be Trump's doing, 100%. Hopefully people in our country will be able to see how that works. and will blame him and his minions.

More and more it is clear that these Trump fascists are not only racist and vicious, they are really very, very stupid and incapable of devising or implementing practical economic and international policies that operate in the interests of the American people. I just hope that the immediate negative consequences of their policies are obvious enough that it they are voted out of office soon, while it's still possible to do that, and still possible to undo the damage in an orderly and fairly rapid fashion.... a perhaps forlorn hope. Their messaging, of course, will try to place all blame on the interlocutors, and none on themselves. And we have seen just how effective they can be at manipulating the worst instincts of the low information voters in this country. 

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