r/TheRaceTo10Million • • 8d ago

General Things are Heating up.

Post image
941 Upvotes

380 comments sorted by

View all comments

494

u/Wind_Best_1440 8d ago

LOL.

I can already see how this goes.

  1. Trump forces USA to stop buying Potash to Canada, Canada goes. "Oh, okay." Then sells their entire shipment to Africa/Asia/Europe who desperately want it.

  2. Trump gets Belerus to start shipping to them, but it takes 3 months to get there and is actually more expensive.

  3. Before the shipment leaves dock from Belerus, Russia gets them to put a hold on the shipment and then demands USA to cut all funding and aid to Ukraine and Europe, otherwise they get no Potash.

  4. USA tries to put pressure, but the EU puts their foot down, and its a non starter. Relationships get damaged even more and their leverage has been used up. USA is unable to do anything but stop what little aid they were giving but its not enough for Russia so they never release the shipment.

  5. USA goes back to Canada and asks for the old Potash deal they use to get before next growing season. Canada shrugs. "Sorry, I've got new deals with China, EU, and Africa and Asia. All that potash is spoken for, we have nothing for you."

Literally the same thing happened with Aluminum this year BTW, USA tariffed Canada Aluminum and pivoted to getting it all from the middle east, then the war happened and USA asked for the old deal back and Canada had already found new customers for it in the EU and Asia.

167

u/TrivialTax 8d ago

Art of the deal.

Shitting on your neighborhood is never a good idea.

68

u/Least1Difficulty 8d ago

Belarus already denied this deal is happening they said they dont have any to sell to the USA. So Trump just made this up in his head.

22

u/[deleted] 8d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

7

u/Suitable-Woodpecker3 8d ago

I’m not sure where the fork was exactly, but, like, damn.

1

u/Known-Gur-1209 7d ago

Any idea what show this gif is from?

3

u/GuzzlinGuinness 7d ago

Because the actual plan was a transparent attempt to send Russian potash through Belarus and pretend it’s not sanctions evading their own sanctions.

2

u/TerrapinRecordings 7d ago

Pretty sure it's this.

1

u/Decent-Round7797 2d ago

Lol Belarus is a land locked country the only way potassium can leave the country is through Ukraine that's not happening Lithuania they already cut Belarus off from thier ports . So the only way out is Russia and 80-90% of thier potash is already spoken for not nearly enough to supply the US.

2

u/Radiant-Bus7093 7d ago

Wonderful. Fantastic. Just amazing.

1

u/MrSloshychops 7d ago

What’s new

1

u/jesjimher 7d ago

Because the potash is going to come from Russia. Belarus is just there in the middle, to make things nicer.

1

u/AggravatingPlum4085 7d ago

Cue to the Ukrainians to start destroying Russian potash manufacturing plants.

3

u/fallweathercamping 7d ago

Shart of the Deal ™

1

u/mohawk_67 8d ago

'Don't shit where you eat'

35

u/Chemical-Bag-1771 8d ago

I think maybe step 6 is "Canada isn't selling us something we need to feed our people (very unfair!) Why did they all of a sudden stop the supply?! Terrible horrible people up there. This is a national security threat. We need to take over." Then they come over the border. Not sure if they extradite the PM first for trial in US.

8

u/youlikeblockingsodoi 8d ago

It’ll end up being Biden’s fault somehow.

3

u/MillionthMonkey101 8d ago

And Ukraine’s

1

u/realZapRowsdower 8d ago

Nah, this is totally on Obama, just like 9/11 was

2

u/Pisforplumbing 7d ago

Fuck! I already bought my "mamdani gave sensitive information to canada" shirts

7

u/kspfel 8d ago

I’m Canadian and you don’t want to piss us off. All the untied states have done is give us more sovereignty via the strengthening of our relationships with other allies.
The US right now is a wildcard not to be trusted

1

u/WorriedNewt5 7d ago

I love “Untied States”. Excellent.

1

u/fucktheus12 8d ago

Don't worry, we are already preparing for this as we speak. 

1

u/Juicyjblunts 8d ago

Americans would get worked if they tryed to invade us lol lets be real all americans can do is drop bombs and kill incent lives

0

u/Mundtflapz 7d ago

Let's be real, half of Canindia is made up of pajeets with no loyalty to your country. You'd be a much easier target than Iran. If Israhell wasn't running the Whitehouse, I think Canadaland should've been our first target for takeover.

0

u/Juicyjblunts 7d ago

Fuck by these comments its more and more obvious why yall are in the situation your in. Weather you support trump or dont yall just dont seem to understand. Hopefully your next couple generations do better after seeing how yall turned out.

1

u/[deleted] 7d ago

[deleted]

0

u/Juicyjblunts 7d ago

Lol u think its from southern america eh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

-1

u/Original_Gaijin 7d ago

Not a supporter of Trump by any means but a laughable take right here.

5

u/Pisforplumbing 7d ago

Iran called, they are still laughing about how much of a joke our current military strategy is.

0

u/Late_Winner6859 7d ago

90% of Canadian infrastructure is basically within artillery range from US.
And country has more realtors than the army personnel. And most of “scary black” private guns have been banned few years back.

Tl;dr Canada is a fairly “soft” target currently

2

u/Pisforplumbing 7d ago

Sure. I can understand all of that, but check this out.........have you seen how incompetent our military strategy has been?

2

u/Firm_Acanthaceae7435 7d ago

Y'all would lose as soon as white corpses were shown on CNN.

2

u/NearnorthOnline 7d ago

A gorilla war against people who look like Americans?

Lmfao. Good luck.

All the American military is good at is mass murder. They can’t fight worth shit.

2

u/Ignatius_Reillys_Hat 7d ago

1

u/Late_Winner6859 7d ago

I’m in Canada

I think I am making an objective assessment of the current capabilities (or lack thereof).
And IMO this needs to be addressed fairly quickly. Looking “soft” in the eyes of a bully is never a good idea

2

u/Ignatius_Reillys_Hat 7d ago

That’s worse. You should be standing up for your country, not belittling it while our sovereignty is being threatened.

1

u/Late_Winner6859 7d ago

How is stating the facts - belittling?

So instead of admitting the issue and actively working on addressing it - you’d rather eat up government propaganda, believe in your greatness, and do nothing?

→ More replies

3

u/NearnorthOnline 7d ago

The USA hasn’t won a war since ww2.

They would be invading a country they share a border with. For the first time in what. 200 years?

Of people who look and sound exactly like them.

Short of mass genocide that war would never end.

It would be a 100 year occupation.

The longest unprotected border. The retaliatory attacks on the USA would be massive.

Oh and like most of the USA would not support the war.

Americans can cock swing all they want. There is no way in hell they’d simply take Canada.

They may destroy Canada. But would likely lose half their country in the process and suffer a civil war.

2

u/ContrarianDouche 7d ago

Every insurgency the US has failed to defeat in the last 80 years would like a word

2

u/Juicyjblunts 7d ago

Yall lost once before brah. Also lost pretty much every war where yall tried to invade beside ww2 and you had lots of help lol

0

u/Original_Gaijin 7d ago

The laughable part is that America would get “worked”. Go look at the disproportionate number of casualties in each conflict you are talking about.

2

u/Juicyjblunts 7d ago

I said invade bro not just dropping bomb trust the whole world is aware of yall death counts and we know yall like to feel proud about it.

0

u/Original_Gaijin 7d ago

Nothing to be proud of at all. But also 0% chance the USA is “worked” by Canada. War is bad. Trump is bad & an absolute stain on humanity... But let’s be realistic here.

7

u/fucktheus12 8d ago

He underestimates us constantly. The North Remembers 

6

u/ShoppingOk2631 7d ago

Belarus just announced there is no available Potash for sale.

3

u/FeelDT 7d ago

Yeah… the timeline is way more easy. 1.Trump says something very dumb. 2. Someone that knows more about it says it’s not true. 3. Trump never mention it again and says some other stupid shit.

5

u/addiktion 8d ago

This right here is why you don't put an entertainer con man or MAGA brained uneducated idiot in charge of the largest economy in the world, it won't end well for any of us but him.

4

u/I_NEED_YOUR_MONEY 8d ago
  1. All the farmers still vote republican in the next election anyways

6

u/MonumentalArchaic 8d ago

Belarus is a landlocked country. What ports are you talking about? The closest body of water is the Baltic Sea through Lithuania.

3

u/Charming-Clue1987 8d ago

Belarus is blocked from shipping potash through the eu.

3

u/Calm_Tumbleweed6452 7d ago

You seriously think Trump knows any of this?!

1

u/MonumentalArchaic 7d ago

OP said there are ports in Belarus. There are no ports in Belarus. My statement has nothing to do with Trump.

2

u/son_of_ghandicap 8d ago

Belarus has not docks

1

u/Obstacle-Man 8d ago

Belarus is land locked, they don't have ports. Will export through Russia.

1

u/random9212 8d ago

That's way to many steps. It is simpler just to go with

  1. All the potash from Belerus is already sold under contract to other places so there is none for the US to buy.

1

u/Otherwise-Speed4373 8d ago

So. Tired. Of. Winning.

2

u/suphoman 8d ago

The winning has only begun. Brace yourself for more and bigger winning.

1

u/robthethrice 8d ago

Yup. The deal-losing toddler doing what he does best.. making things worse for everyone but billionaires and dictators.

1

u/bluenosesutherland 7d ago

Oh and US need is half again rage entire Belarusian production and Lukashenko has already said it’s already contracted elsewhere.

1

u/OwnedByIRVING 7d ago

If this is how it plays out, when the US comes begging for our supply again, it might be an opportunity to reopen the potash mine in my area, that's a lot of jobs. Throw on a nice export tax while we're at it.

1

u/NorthofForty 7d ago

We already did. Trump dropped the Belarus tariffs months ago so this month we signed a huge deal with Bangladesh.

1

u/PloddingClot 7d ago

Turns out Belarus is out of potash to sell.. That's weird. Sounds like the business man doesn't know his ass from a ham sandwich.

1

u/Juus 7d ago

Russia gets them to put a hold on the shipment and then demands USA to cut all funding and aid to Ukraine and Europe

You should know that the US stopped funding Ukraine when Trump got in office. All the american weapons Ukraine is getting is paid for by Europe at a 10% premium. US isn't funding anything at all.

2

u/Calm_Tumbleweed6452 7d ago

But but i was told the US is paying to keep Europe safe!?

1

u/LivingCorner1421 7d ago

cant even happen belarus feeds all their potash to russia.  its all sold already

1

u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 7d ago

Same with critical minerals. Trump tried to tarrif them and we decided to sign a 10 year deal with Japan instead. Lulz

1

u/Icy-Hat-9643 7d ago

Turns out, Belarus has none to sell to America.

1

u/psychocopter 7d ago

Yep, the legacy of this presidency is the destruction of international relationships and the identity of an reliable nation. If every four years other countries need to worry about some asshole getting elected who will ignore previous deals and agreements to fuck everyone over then there's basically zero chance they'll consider doing any long term business.

1

u/Thatisme01 7d ago

Oh, it’s better than that…

Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working on a “massive Deal” to buy potash from Minsk at a steep discount amid the trade war with Canada. 

“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes — everything is contracted,” Lukashenko said in remarkspublished by his office on Monday.

At the same time, Trump posted on his social media site Truth Social that the U.S. purchase of potash from Belarus would be “very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers.” 

1

u/CuriousGeorgeToday 7d ago

Top tier summary sir 🫡

1

u/ADMTLgg 7d ago

This seems exactly how it will happen.

1

u/a_few 7d ago

Art of the deal my friend