Lutnicks insistence at this point that the US has the balance of power as consumers is beyond insane.
He is literally watching BRICS shrug it’s collective shoulders, China, Russia, and Brazil all calling the US pathetic bluff, now India’s turn.
The genuinely sad part is that the old adage of “when goods dont pass borders, troops do” is going to be tested if the US continues to insist on turning over its cards.
Expect to see naked security threats in the future as Nutlick and co take this delusion to its natural completion point.
WeirdKittens on
To a simpleton like Lutnick it’s a simple trade issue but this is very likely a matter of survival for India. While I’m far from an expert in matters of Indian economy, it’s true that a *huge* part of Indian workers work in agriculture. If cheap mass-produced US corn floods the market it will push people who base their livelihood on farming to the edge, cause massive societal disruption and threaten the future food sufficiency of India.
I don’t expect this will pass easily. It’s not a simple trade issue for the other side and trying to bring it about with threats is hardly a good basis upon which to build a mutually beneficial trading relationship.
It also seems to reek of desperation. The policies of this administration are bringing enormous damage to farmers, causing them to lose access to large and important markets like it happened with soybeans and the Chinese market. They need something, anything, to claim a win.
braumbles on
This is what happens when you elect clowns who only know how to bully others with no recourse. In the business industry generally the person with the most money has the most power. When it comes to individual countries that’s not the case. You can maybe bully some small nation into doing something, but the bigger ones are just going to tell you to fuck off and find something they need elsewhere.
Imagine being a Walmart and trying to tell a customer to take it or leave it, then being shocked when they go to Whole Foods instead.
SirTiffAlot on
‘You either accept it or you are going to have a tough time dealing with us’
Yes, that’s what they’re doing, they’re NOT buying corn. They’re choosing not to deal with the US. What does this clown think is going on? The US alienated people across the globe for the past 6 months and now it’s woe is me? The US played our cards wrong.
hampsten on
The US commerce secretary doesn’t have access to such basic information as the facts that:
– less than 10% of Indian cereal consumption is maize
– and yet India is the 5th biggest producer of maize
– India produces more of it than it consumes and thus
– it is a net exporter of corn/maize and in fact of cereals in general
There are things India would willingly – and does – import. Lentils for one – Canada and Australia being sources.
What will definitely not happen is India acceding to the US demanding that India open up its market to stuff it doesn’t need just because the US has a bunch of it to sell. Why would anybody do that ?
The crudeness and uncivility of this administration is just such a headache for everyone. This is not how any two countries – definitely not how major powers – interact. Does this US administration not see that the world ignores everything they scream and only respond to any positive messages, the approach being no different from how an adult manages a truculent child or pet ?
McBuck2 on
I wonder if the farmers have figured out yet that they are in a losing predicament. This administration is about making money and getting kickbacks from big corporations if they arrange things to the companies advantage.
Big agro wants to get bigger and be the giant in their industry. How do they get that done?
Take over as many family farms as they can for a rock bottom price. Trump stops sales to USAID, puts tariffs on agriculture products, removes crop workers so no one is around to pick crops. Are we surprised?
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Lutnicks insistence at this point that the US has the balance of power as consumers is beyond insane.
He is literally watching BRICS shrug it’s collective shoulders, China, Russia, and Brazil all calling the US pathetic bluff, now India’s turn.
The genuinely sad part is that the old adage of “when goods dont pass borders, troops do” is going to be tested if the US continues to insist on turning over its cards.
Expect to see naked security threats in the future as Nutlick and co take this delusion to its natural completion point.
To a simpleton like Lutnick it’s a simple trade issue but this is very likely a matter of survival for India. While I’m far from an expert in matters of Indian economy, it’s true that a *huge* part of Indian workers work in agriculture. If cheap mass-produced US corn floods the market it will push people who base their livelihood on farming to the edge, cause massive societal disruption and threaten the future food sufficiency of India.
I don’t expect this will pass easily. It’s not a simple trade issue for the other side and trying to bring it about with threats is hardly a good basis upon which to build a mutually beneficial trading relationship.
It also seems to reek of desperation. The policies of this administration are bringing enormous damage to farmers, causing them to lose access to large and important markets like it happened with soybeans and the Chinese market. They need something, anything, to claim a win.
This is what happens when you elect clowns who only know how to bully others with no recourse. In the business industry generally the person with the most money has the most power. When it comes to individual countries that’s not the case. You can maybe bully some small nation into doing something, but the bigger ones are just going to tell you to fuck off and find something they need elsewhere.
Imagine being a Walmart and trying to tell a customer to take it or leave it, then being shocked when they go to Whole Foods instead.
‘You either accept it or you are going to have a tough time dealing with us’
Yes, that’s what they’re doing, they’re NOT buying corn. They’re choosing not to deal with the US. What does this clown think is going on? The US alienated people across the globe for the past 6 months and now it’s woe is me? The US played our cards wrong.
The US commerce secretary doesn’t have access to such basic information as the facts that:
– less than 10% of Indian cereal consumption is maize
– and yet India is the 5th biggest producer of maize
– India produces more of it than it consumes and thus
– it is a net exporter of corn/maize and in fact of cereals in general
https://apeda.gov.in/Maize
There are things India would willingly – and does – import. Lentils for one – Canada and Australia being sources.
What will definitely not happen is India acceding to the US demanding that India open up its market to stuff it doesn’t need just because the US has a bunch of it to sell. Why would anybody do that ?
The crudeness and uncivility of this administration is just such a headache for everyone. This is not how any two countries – definitely not how major powers – interact. Does this US administration not see that the world ignores everything they scream and only respond to any positive messages, the approach being no different from how an adult manages a truculent child or pet ?
I wonder if the farmers have figured out yet that they are in a losing predicament. This administration is about making money and getting kickbacks from big corporations if they arrange things to the companies advantage.
Big agro wants to get bigger and be the giant in their industry. How do they get that done?
Take over as many family farms as they can for a rock bottom price. Trump stops sales to USAID, puts tariffs on agriculture products, removes crop workers so no one is around to pick crops. Are we surprised?