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Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’
(www.theguardian.com)
Fucking do it then, cunt!
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Wtf kinda drug are the elite in the US on?
Russian psy-ops boosted by algos from coked up tech bros.
Would love to be in the guy's head for just 5 minutes, to see if he's high or crazy or what.
see if he's high or crazy or what
Either compromised, or bought and paid for, is what he is.
High and crazy, but mostly
Other feasible options, yes!
I mean, we have retaliatory tariffs ready to go too, and I'm not sure they'd be any less damaging.
If we went nuclear shutting off power to New York and water to Seattle and Boise is a thing we could do.
They backed off twice already. Its a joke at this point.
Oui oui le tariff oui
The EU was setup to help protect Europe and enable them to have better control over overly enthusiastic capitalist companies such as those found in the US.
But what do we expect from a low intelligence puppet of Russia?
Do it. See what happens to that beautiful country of yours. What do you even provide the world besides shitty tech like meta and microsoft?
I believe Europe is importing quite some LNG, since we are weaning off Russia's gas teat
And suddenly Norway (not part of the EU or custom union) was exempt since I think energy and gas is what we live off these days.
I wonder how viable it would be to crack Canadian bitumen to produce methane for Europe
DO IT! COMON! DO IT! Make every european leader more alligned with the EU and push us more and more together and more indipendent again!
DO IT! SCARDY CAT
I'm in the EU and I very much I hope he does, beause the response will be spectacular: apparently there is an Act from 2023 that the EU can respond to this by suspending intellectual property rights of US companies, plus from last time Trump was President the EU learned to target counter-Tariffs for maximum political effect (basically hitting Republican states hardest) and that will also work fine in targetting US companies politically affiliated with Trump (bye, bye, Tesla!).
Also it will definitelly finish off any lingering delusions of European politicians that the US is an "ally".
Any attempts of anyone to do anything he doesn't like is an attempt to screw him in his eyes.
The EU's major effect isn't harm to the us but keeping France, England, and Germany from shooting each other
And the bloc of 50 united states was formed to screw the bloc of european union ?
Wake me when that pussy manages to even speak in his own cabinet meetings without elon interrupting.
Trump is kinda right. Charles De Gaulle wanted a united Europe to prevent Anglo-American influence. Aside from his Anglophobia, he vetoed UK joining then EEC because he thought UK is a Trojan horse for American influence into Europe. He also thought that the British are reluctant Europeans anyhow, so why let them in?
Fast forward 60 years later, and De Gaulle was found right. US companies tried to lobby the EU through UK. The Brits voted for Brexit, and the US finally became an unreliable ally.
For so much of the French being chauvinistic in a cringey way, they are right not to commit to Anglo influence or Atlanticism, presciently. The French still likes to assert their own global influence but in multilateral way with other countries. Macron and De Gaulle are correct for looking for strategic autonomy.
Edit: I also want to add, that the Brussels effect forces other countries to adopt higher standards and regulations if they want to trade with the EU. Obviously, many right wing Americans such as Trump don't like this.
Brussels effects haters be like: "I really fucking hate USB type-C cables being on every device where it makes sense! I want to bo back to expensive and crappy proprietary cables only the original manufacturer is allowed to make!"
You will plug in ze usb c and you will be happy
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That, nukes, NATO... It may have been rank anglophobia, but man, did history prove him right...
I know it’s a whine, but roughly a quarter of the country voted for Brexit.
please do. people should keep reminding this in social media platforms and everywhere else until he has no choice but to do it
Screw U orange shit4brains. You get what you give loser
food undercooked? tarriff!
Food overcooked? Believe it or not, tarriff!
Isn’t it the other way around. The USA was formed to screw over the European world powers.
The US was a white colonialist project that once it became strong enough wrestled independence from the colonialist nations that started it, pretty much like has happenned all throught History.
IMHO, the people it was formed to screw over were the natives of the land the colonialists stole - so he members of the native Indian tribes.
The EU was formed to screw the US... THE EU WAS FORMED TO SCREW THE US?! Bruh dude is possibly channeling Hitler and Stalin simultaneously. That's the only thing that makes sense. Or he's terminally dumb. One of the two.
Well, his definition of "screw over" is probably when the other side of a negotiation pools resources to be able to negotiate in a balanced way.
In that mindset, workers make Unions to "screw over" big companies.
Because that's essentially what the EU is: a polling of resources of many small and a few mid-sized countries to on Internation Trade matters negotiate as a block and hence in a balanced way with large countries like the US and China.
Given Trump's background of using his money to take advantage of contractors for his companies by using lawsuits with no hope of winning meant only to drain out the resources of others and make them quite, it makes perfectly sense that he would see those others pooling resources to be able to face him as "screwing him over" and in that "logic" the EU being created "screw over" the US.
It's the same "I'll respect you if you respect me" dynamic in an imbalanced-power system.
I'm screwing you over if I personally feel bad for what I'm doing to you (never happens, therefore I'm always fair). You're screwing me over if you inconvenience me.
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Mmm... Orangutan starts throwing shtuff at all the other apes and then complains when they don't want to hang out with him any more
What a ferkin ashole
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