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While you are lecturing me on words meanings, I would advise you to look up the meaning of "de facto."

If you were America's founding fathers and King George 3, the leader of their government, decided to put a 10000% tariff on goods meant for the colonies, do you think they would have felt blockaded?


No amount of tariffs makes a blockade. De facto blockade would mean that you can't trade with anyone.

But I give you something. US can de facto blockade itself by raising tariffs for everyone.

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