Trump: L’UE è stata formata per avvitare gli Stati Uniti – e ne hanno fatto un buon lavoro

I am not religious in any way, but this man has to be the devil incarnate.

If he believes that anyway then we should do so.

*’…because we just go cold turkey, we don’t buy any more, and if that happens we win…’*

You see T, that requires actually telling your people not to do that. And guess what: they still did.

That’s rich coming from a guy that did more damage to the USA in a few months than anybody ever….

Narcissists always think that everything is about them.

So predictable

“Asked if the EU countries will retaliate in-kind to any US tariffs, Mr Trump replied: “They can’t, I mean they can try, but they can’t.”

Who else thinks he’s about to get a big surprise?

It is funny how this guy is pissing on the face of all his allies. He must be very very sure of himself.

I don’t think even Trump actually believes this to be true. This is just pretext for him to push even more bad policy that harms everyone.

The EU began by r*emoving tariffs* on coal and steel in an effort to prevent another world war. Now this ass hat is using tariffs to get back at those peace loving bastards.

«They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our farm products, they take almost nothing and we take everything from them. Millions of cars, tremendous amounts of food and farm products.”

How about all the technology that EU buys: Google, Facebook, etc.etc.etc. Is he planning tariffs on this too?

The US promoted European integration after World War 2. In fact the Marshall Plan was supposed to foster cooperation between the European nations and one of the factors that led to the foundation of the European Communities in the 1950s. 

In later decades the US supported further integration as a way for Europe to become more militarily independent (which unfortunately didn’t really happen) so it could defend itself better against the Soviets.

So of course, as everything Trump says, this is utter nonsense. 

It’s so weird that he is basically declaring economic war on us given that we are the 2nd/3rd economy in the world and we were partners with US, with many systems in place to make their economy stronger (huge market for their technology and defense companies).

It will hurt us in the short term, but at the same time, all that money that was previously going to US companies will be redirected towards EU companies.

Screw you orange goblin. Everybody had a good thing going until you came to power.

It’s a reason why the EU got the Nobel Peace Price and that trump will never get it. The EU was founded to avoid war, while trump wants to take over a bunch of countries…

Trump came into office expecting the EU to cave to his threats of tariffs, invasion and withdrawal of troops from Europe, and never expected the backlash that came from it.

when threatened with tariffs, European citizens voluntarily started buying European products over US products where applicable, and the EU made a much worse counter threat, which will have a much higher cost for the US than the US tariffs will affect Europe.

when threatened with no US military support, Europe banded together, and is quickly moving to making the US obsolete in the defense of Europe. The last ace the US held was the nuclear umbrella, and even that is being voided by France and the UK offering the same. Furthermore the EU is ramping up EU weapons industry, meaning less of the much increased military budgets will flow into the US.

When he thought he could steamroll Ukraine by withdrawing support, the EU pledged €200 billion for their continued war effort, and when he wanted to force a peace deal without the Ukraine and the rest of Europe, pretty much every leader said there would be no peace without them.

Trump is incapable of seeing any consequences as a result of his actions, so yeah, it’s clearly there to screw with the US and Trump in particular.

It probably doesn’t help that, assuming there are project 2025 puppeteers somewhere in the shadows in the while house, that he has completely botched the project 2025 design goals for Europe. It wants a stronger Europe that can defend itself from threats in Europe, including Russia and the Middle East, but it wants this strength under NATO with a central control from Washington. It also still wants the US to provide a nuclear umbrella to keep its allies dependent on the US.

He certainly managed to create a stronger Europe and increase military budgets across the board, but the EU shopping in Europe, and seriously funding the European weapons industry was not part of it. Every time the US sells military gear to Europe about 30% of the purchase price goes into the US treasury from compounded taxes.

Depending on how it plays out, a creation of a European army is also not what he wants. A unified European army, along with a nuclear umbrella by France and the UK, will essentially turn Europe into a superpower, one that is unlikely to jump every time the US says so. It also seems like nuclear proliferation is going to happen, which is also certainly not something the US wants.

Add to that the fact that Trump managed to burn pretty much every bridge ever built between the US and Europe in the past 80 years, and has been so effective that European countries are talking about leaving the US intelligence networks, and treating the US as a country we trade with, but otherwise don’t trust. Intelligence agencies are attempting to withhold information from the US under fear that it will leak to Russia.

Companies are doing risk assessments on using US based cloud companies, and at least a few large companies are considering moving the cloud presence to Europe instead. Several smaller companies have already done so.

So yeah, Trump has been effective at destroying things, and even if things go back to “normal” in 4 years, the trust lost in the past 4 weeks is not coming back. The cat is out of the bag now, and there’s no getting it back in.

I have no doubt trade will resume to some level when the tariffs go away, but not all of it. People will have new trade partners, and unless the US can compete on price, volume or quality, there’s no reason to switch. The level of trust required for mutual defense and sharing of intelligence is probably not coming back in our lifetime.

The most obvious russian asset ever