Warren Buffett Criticizes Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Trade Can Be an Act of War’

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Than anything, I think, than we’re talking about now. And there is no question that trade trade can be an act of war. And I think it’s led to bad things. Just the attitudes it’s brought out. In the United States. I mean, we should be looking to trade with the rest of the world, and we should do what we do best, and they should do what they do best. And I don’t think it. That’s that’s what we did originally. I mean, we were good at producing tobacco and cotton. 250 years ago. And we traded it and we want a prosperous world with eight countries with nuclear weapons, including a few that are what I would call quite unstable. I do not think it’s a great idea to try and design a world where a few countries say, ha ha ha, we’ve won, and other countries are envious. So. So my import certificate idea, which went no place. I think we got extra copies of probably not a great demand for the copies. If anybody did. And if you’d like and write the office, I think we could. We could probably send you a copy of it. But the main thing to do is not use trade should not be a weapon. And the United States, the United States, we’ve won. I mean, we have become an incredibly important country starting from nothing 250 years ago. There’s nothing, anything like it. And it’s a big mistake in my view, when you have 7.5 billion people that don’t like you very well, and you’ve got 300 million that are crowing in some way about how well they’ve done, and I don’t think it’s right, and I don’t think it’s wise. I do think that the more, the more, the more prosperous the rest of the world becomes. It won’t be at our expense. The more prosperous will become and the safer will feel and your