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What does a trump have against Switzerland? We don’t make anything they want to buy so they should be punished?

Also why does he get to make trade policy via truth social? Everything is an emergency with him, including not having a monopoly on automatic watches.

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One theory is general authoritarian bent against democracy and therefore desire to hinder more democratic countries to make them look less well functioning... indeed hitting Switzerland with much higher tariffs than even China is wild.

Average citizen on receipt of news that swiss business is impaired

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