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Trade war is a set of trade related policies, winning a trade war is have a set of such policies which benefits your country. It doesn't even have to benefit yo
by cakealert 2y ago
Trade war is a set of trade related policies, winning a trade war is have a set of such policies which benefits your country. It doesn't even have to benefit your trade.
If you can cause more economic damage to your adversary than it can cause to you, then you can prevent the elevation of your adversary into a more significant threat.
So winning is certainly possible, especially because it can end in an actual war where one side will win.
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- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI understand how you can win a trade war against a geopolitical adversary, sure. What I don't understand is how you can win one against a neutral or friendly country. Even if you can cause 10 or 100 times more economic damage than the other guys can cause to you, isn't the small bit of damage you receive strictly worse than not receiving it by not having a trade war?
- fallingknife 2y agoThe win condition in that case would be that the leverage that being able to cause more damage than you take allows you to negotiate a better deal. It's like winning any other war. Both sides take damage during the war, but the winner is able to achieve its objective at the end.
- Zigurd 2y agoThis is true in the abstract. But finding an example would require calling Russia sanctions a "trade war." More correctly, it is an embargo, sanctions, etc.