While many scoffed at the Trump Administration’s claim it could destroy the entire Turkish economy if it wanted to, President Trump seems to have decided he wants to, and in a new statement Monday, vowed to “swiftly destroy” the Turkish economy for its offensive in Syria.
How this is to be achieved isn’t at all clear. The Trump Administration has said they will boost tariffs on Turkish steel to 50 percent. Though Turkey has a fairly large steel industry, the United States does not buy much from them.
Perhaps a more impactful move is that Trump is suspending ongoing negotiations on a $100 billion trade deal with Turkey. Turkey is a semi-important trade partner for the US, and vice versa, so the lack of a deal could harm interests on both sides.
Trump has demanded that Turkey immediately stop the invasion of northern Syria, and has bragged about “big sanctions coming,” which has been praised by some hawks in Congress. Others, however, are complaining it doesn’t go far enough, though it’s not clear what theoretically the US Treasury Department could try to do to go beyond totally destroying Turkey’s economy.
Just further evidence the man is a gasbag and a nut-job. How about if we try and mind our own business?
No more nutty than the rest of our so called “elites”. He’s just brash and or too stupid to come up with a good lie to cover up his greed.
It’s all knee-jerk personal gut reactions.
Act of war, much? And against a fellow NATO nation? Wouldn’t the rest of NATO be obliged to come to Turkey’s defense? How does that look?
This sounds very much like when Saddam was given the green light to invade Kuwait. Hitory isb repeating itself or is been repeated . “Deja Vu all over again”
If Putin was in power – that wouldn’t have happened!
The more the US sanctions country after country (supposedly something like 20 countries now?), the more the US is isolating itself from the rest of the world. The chickens will all come home to roost sooner or later.
Don’t believe anything this man says until it’s done. Remember this all started with another phone call with Sultan Erdogan.
he flip flops like more than an orange roughy outta water
Trump threatens to MAGA and make his family proud. Neither has happened. His bluster could power a galleon.