Trading partners around the world express anger including Mexico which buys more steel out of the US than it sends the other way

Trading partners around the world express anger including Mexico which buys more steel out of the US than it sends the other way

The US has doubled tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports to 50%, pressing ahead in the face of criticism from key trading partners with a measure that Donald Trump says is intended to revive the American industry.

About a quarter of all steel used in the US is imported and data shows the increased levies will hit the closest US trading partners – Canada and Mexico – especially hard. They rank first and third respectively in steel shipment volumes to the US.

  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    2 days ago

    Their propaganda pamphlet(aka prompt)

    There’s been a push the last few days of the narrative that Al Jazeera is “independent media” that is being “suppressed”. And they keep bringing up the youtube numbers as some big gotcha.

    • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      What do you reckon the organization looks like and what is the size?

      What follows is totally unsubstantiated and just my gut.

      I feel like there is A/B testing of phrases and factoids that is then used on the wider web. Also wonder if a good chunk of it is training as some of the writing is painfully naive in regards to western life and world politics in general. I also wonder how many follower parrots there are that are just propagandized westerners.

      • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        The VAST majority isn’t structured or done from actual documentation or directly sent out from an organization. It’s sumbliminally dispersed through different media. And people unknowingly, but willingly, spread it thinking they thought of it themselves.

        • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Yeah, I see things reported or comments on Lemmy that ping my radar. Used to see it on thedonald subreddit. That was painfully transparent at first, you could see the Russians clock in and go to work.

          All of this sounds like crazy talk, certainly makes me feel paranoid. However, I don’t think most of us, myself included, understand the scale of the media manipulation that is occuring. I think it’s chaotic, state level actors and corporations. Lemmy having a single source for its manipulation is unusual but it is small and nerdy.