Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’
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Someone fucking ball gag this rapist to shut him up.
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canadians should continue to buy canadian or the EU, asian anD SA. remember when china no longer needed soybeans from usa the last tariff he did.
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I think it's both
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welp, orange donvict did promote his platform as "America First!".
The EU was formed for America First!
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terminally dumb
This one
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sloth on ketamine
Elon?
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Definitely channeling Putin.
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Bloomberg is reporting it's pushed back to April 2:
But you're right, he's all over the place about it.
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Maybe replace them with Ukraine. I here they have great drone technology.
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Oh my gosh, this is so fucked up.
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You never know, he just might
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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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To be fair, the EU has some pretty insane tariffs on everyone outside the EU.
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2 sides to that coin. You also only need presence/trade deal once and you've access to a very large market as a whole all at once. In the end, everyone loses with throttled trade for no other reason than "I don't like them!!" Transatlantic trade has been very beneficial for both sides of the pond for many many decades...
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It's not just a yes or no. Theorically, they have to do many things about corruption, economic stability. They are not supposed to be at war to apply and not to have unstable countries beside. Accepting Ukraine now, would be against all the neighbors countries that have been struggling to enter.
EU have to help them getting out of this war (preferably by pushing Russia out entirely), then make peace, then help rebuilding so they are conform to enter.
I really hope we manage to make them get there! But it's long for a reason: stability. -
As EU citizen, I don't think that's a good deal for us, as we are importing food that do not match our environmental criterias. It's anti-concurrential for inside food producers that have to conform these environmental laws.
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food undercooked? tarriff!
Food overcooked? Believe it or not, tarriff!
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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.
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Isn’t it the other way around. The USA was formed to screw over the European world powers.
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He is completely wrong. The EU was formed after WW2 to prevent another war on the continent and to increase economic cooperation. The fact that makes us a much stronger block for negotiating trade deals was a side benefit, not its purpose. And it only works to screw over countries that are trying to screw us first.
