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You write that like membership in the WTO is necessarily a good thing. It isn't. International organizations range from "mostly harmless" to horrorshows. (Th
by anamax 17y ago
You write that like membership in the WTO is necessarily a good thing. It isn't. International organizations range from "mostly harmless" to horrorshows. (The mostly harmless ones are a basically specialized phone books with an information exchange/meet people conference every year or so - think ACM.)
Tariffs are a bad thing, but the US is a big enough gorilla that the WTO would figure out some way to accomodate the US in that circumstance.
- krakensden 17y agoLet me rephrase that. Pissing on _every_ _single_ other country we do business with by unilaterally ending free trade after we've spent decades setting up free trade agreements (and organizations like the WTO) seems like a suboptimal stratagem to me.
- anamax 17y agoYes, but that's different. It has almost nothing to do with membership in the WTO.