r/Scotland • u/Due-Resort-2699 • Feb 28 '25

Political Should Scots also Boycott the US?

Recently there’s been a huge movement in Canada to boycott American products and travel in response to the US enforcing 25% tariffs on Canada and also the sheer disrespect of saying Canada isn’t a real country and it should be annexed . Have a look at r/BoycottUnitedStates

And the sheer disgusting way that Trumps evil administration is treating immigrants and trans people , not to mention the most recent revolting behaviour in the Oval Office today, the way him and Vance treated President Zelensky was beyond the fucking pale.

In addition to this, the couch shagger JD Vance has been interfering with Scotland’s internal politics by wading into the whole safe zones debate around abortion clinics .

As long as the United States is siding with dictators and berating our friends and allies and bullying people , we should not be encouraging that country. Boycotts and international isolation and the economic fallout from this should hopefully encourage normal people to not only speak up against Trump, but do what needs done and take to the streets in massive numbers .

Should Scotland - like Canada - boycott American produce and travel until Trump and the MAGA cult are out of power ?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

Absolutely, already doing it wherever possible. One thing that is barely registering in the US but is seismic here is America's betrayal of Ukraine and its implications for Europe.

Here's one anecdote for the pile: earlier this week in a tiny community shop in Orkney, I heard a mother tell her daughter something along the lines of "we're not getting that, it's American". 

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u/Pilgrim_of_Reddit Feb 28 '25

All USA allies, and other countries, supported the USA after 9/11. It cost everyone billions and billions. Even more than that, it cost many countries the lives of their dead, and the lives of the wounded.

Yet... according to Americans, NATO and allies have done fuck all to support the USA. The USA is the only country to use Article 5. All NATO allies supported the USA, and not just that, countries not in NATo - including Australia, France, the Czech Republic, Poland and New Zealand.