The Accidental Parcel Post Solution?

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The coming US'ian tariffs on goods travelling stateside from Europe has parcel post services across the pond in a paralyzing quandary.

Jon Henley, writing in the Guardian explains:

Postal services across Europe have suspended most parcel shipments to the US, citing widespread uncertainty about the impact of new import tariffs announced by Donald Trump.

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...PostEurop, an association of 51 European public postal operators, said that if no practical solutions could be found before 29 August, it was likely that all its members would suspend the bulk of parcel shipments to the US...

Of course, this is a potential disaster for European businesses that export products, particularly in small packages, direct to consumers in the US.

And, hopefully, the parcel flow stoppage will be short-lived.

But.

Is it possible that this is an accidental, yet serendipitous, illustration of an important principle about how the capricious, arbitrary and often destructive actions of the Trump regime can be effectively resisted?

Which is to act collectively, both domestically and internationally, on a whole lotta levels.

In other words, what if the Ivy League US'ian schools stopped trying to resist alone and instead were to group together in an alliance.

Or if all Blue State governors formed an economic bloc (which is something that JB Pritzker of Illinois suggested the other day)?

Or if all Canadian soft wood lumber exporters agreed, with government support, to only ship to said Blue State Bloc?

Or if Canadian and Eurasian governments got together and did the same?

Heckfire.

I'm not even sure any of the still to be formed alliances above would even have to act - just the realistic threat of such collective actions would likely force the retreater-in-chief to do just that.

Retreat, I mean.

OK?


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The business of Canadian and European governments getting together to act in concert from a trade perspective is something  that our newly re-minted opposition leader apparently wants to shutdown from the get-go.

Tangential ear worm buried in the levels of the text of the post?...This!



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