Juggling With Eggs<p>Will <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> listen to what the mainstream economists have proposed or will they go for a full on retaliatory response?</p><p>A symmetric response may lead to a full on trade war, but what would an asymmetric look like? Are there policy decisions that could hurt the US in other ways than a counter tariff? </p><p>Stop buying US military hardware<br>Stop providing US with security intelligence <br>Encouraging national boycott’s of US products<br>Work with other international powers create new WTO</p>