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Isn’t it more likely, that Russia is basically doing damage control over europe uniting due to too hasty action on Trump part?
Trump did what Russia wanted initially but the tactic was wrong and this triggered the opposite of what Russia needs (scared divided europe).
Instead Europe, UK, Canada and even Australia began to distance from the US in terms of economic and military power. - Bad for current US (any administration), bad for Russia, ok for China (possibly better leverage against Russia and US if more players are stronger)
Another thing is USD vs euro, which could also throw lots of things into the air, if europe decided to push euro more for world currency - especially through the angle of being more stable in past decade. Less risk in general.
Thus, Trump now is trying to keep Europe from uniting until Russia has the pieces in place to pull the rug for the best possible result for Russia.
Why does Trump do this for Russian benefit? Beats me, but there seems to be a reason for him and that’s all that matters in the end.
Just how I see it could be, might be completely wrong as well. I thought americans would never reelect Trump too, so there’s that.
Europe doesn't have to push.
Trump is doing the tariffs to stop the Dollar from being world currency according to Yanis Varoufakis
The problem with the Euro and why it's so stable is that its supply is tightly controlled. If there is to be any Euro vs USD to be widely used in world markets for trade, more Euros have to be made available worldwide for countries to use. Such an increase of supply will have destabilizing effects in the economy and will be more challenging to keep stable, as now the ECB must consider the trade happening with Euros wordwide and not just eurozone trade in its currency supply control.
Additionally, the EU would face less competitive exports, which is one issue currently faced by the US that Trump is trying to fix because he doesn't understand economics, but can't.
Overall the EU would require a much more robust financial asset trading and regulation infrastructure to handle being a world reserve currency.
It's not just whoever currency is the top dog, a world reserve currency requires a finely adjusted economic policy that the ECB must be prepared for.