Trump’s highly political tariffs
https://www.ft.com/content/ce57d7a6-ca1d-4b38-a324-2153bff4297a
Brazil is an egregious example of how trade levies are being shaped by presidential whim.
https://www.ft.com/content/ce57d7a6-ca1d-4b38-a324-2153bff4297a
Brazil is an egregious example of how trade levies are being shaped by presidential whim.
The US-India Relationship Is Changing Again
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-unpredictability-driving-india-to-recalibrate-its-foreign-policy-by-shashi-tharoor-2025-07
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-unpredictability-driving-india-to-recalibrate-its-foreign-policy-by-shashi-tharoor-2025-07
There is a growing sense in India that its leaders should not allow American policymaking to shape its choices on vital energy supplies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/world/asia/india-russia-oil-trump-threats.html
Early last year, senior officials at the U.S. Treasury Department visiting New Delhi said India was working within a formula that was proving effective: Keep Russian oil flowing into the global supply but at a cheap enough price that it would shrink Russia’s revenue.
“They bought Russian oil because we wanted somebody to buy Russian oil at a price cap; that was not a violation,” Eric Garcetti, then the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, said last year. “It was actually the design of the policy because, as a commodity, we didn’t want the oil prices going up, and they fulfilled that.”
President Donald Trump has announced a fifty-per-cent tariff on the country’s products, as retaliation for the prosecution of his political ally, Jair Bolsonaro. So far, Brazil has refused to roll over.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/will-trump-push-brazils-underdog-era-to-an-end
Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology, is credited with theorizing that while people can have complexes, complexes can have people. According to Jungian thought, the way to overcome an unconscious complex is to become aware of it. That’s what’s starting to happen in Brazil. “Trump’s behavior is uniting Brazilians, something that usually only happens during the World Cup,” Waldemar Magaldi Filho, the founder of Brazil’s Jungian Institute of Teaching and Research, told me. “He’s actually gluing us together for a larger cause. Now we’re a big pack of stray dogs.”
What Trump miscalculates in waving around his tariff stick is that Brazilians are less inclined than ever to cower to American might.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/world/asia/india-russia-oil-trump-threats.html
Early last year, senior officials at the U.S. Treasury Department visiting New Delhi said India was working within a formula that was proving effective: Keep Russian oil flowing into the global supply but at a cheap enough price that it would shrink Russia’s revenue.
“They bought Russian oil because we wanted somebody to buy Russian oil at a price cap; that was not a violation,” Eric Garcetti, then the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, said last year. “It was actually the design of the policy because, as a commodity, we didn’t want the oil prices going up, and they fulfilled that.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/will-trump-push-brazils-underdog-era-to-an-end
Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology, is credited with theorizing that while people can have complexes, complexes can have people. According to Jungian thought, the way to overcome an unconscious complex is to become aware of it. That’s what’s starting to happen in Brazil. “Trump’s behavior is uniting Brazilians, something that usually only happens during the World Cup,” Waldemar Magaldi Filho, the founder of Brazil’s Jungian Institute of Teaching and Research, told me. “He’s actually gluing us together for a larger cause. Now we’re a big pack of stray dogs.”
What Trump miscalculates in waving around his tariff stick is that Brazilians are less inclined than ever to cower to American might.