• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    5 hours ago

    Oh, absolutely. But they can’t be ignorant of what effect this sort of protectionism will have on the world’s opinion of the current US admin. They think they can get away with impunity, they really believe their own hype (that democracy and state of law are over). That’s why they don’t care about doing it so openly, and leaving a paper trail.