again: i can't imagine that we get to the point where trump pulls the united states out of the wto because it ruled against a 20% border tariff on mexico to build a border fence. you can't even analyze this, it's just utter insanity. how did we get to the point that nobody tells the president that the wto is a thing that exists? but, if the end result is that the wto implodes then the world will be better off...

i'm not even trying to understand this anymore. it's easy enough to say "well, he said he was going to do this", but that only functions if you're operating in a total vacuum of international law. and, i get that the republican party rejects the authority of many of these institutions. but, there's reasonable bounds...

if the united states is going to arbitrarily slap a 20% tariff on mexico for an internal infrastructure project, how can it enforce the rules of the wto? why should it expect anybody to listen to anything it says? how can it expect to have any global authority at all?

i have to keep pointing towards that congressional investigation into russian hacking. i still don't think that the russians were involved. but, in his first week he managed to completely undermine the entire system of american governance: the tpp, nato & the wto, now, are all under serious threat.

he's dismantling the empire. are they going to just let him go ahead and do it?