7d ago

Europe Made Major Trade Concessions to Trump. How Did That Happen?

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Some European politicians are dismayed that the European Union did not drive a harder bargain, but facing the threat of a damaging trade war, officials say they had little choice.

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Limp-wristed removed babies. In 2024, the EU was the biggest trading partner of the US and China was the 4th. China got Trump to back down, the EU could have done the same. But the EU is headed by do-nothing-status-quo conservatives, so of course they backed down, they can't do anything but to capitulate when it comes to the economy or their ratings.
- I'm not even sure it's good for their ratings...
Ven der Leyen is a conservative. She's doing what all conservatives do when facing Trump.
What I don't get is why the EU hasn't sacked her.
- see if she'll survive a no confidence vote now
A deal with America isn't worth the paper it's written on. A large part of American society consists of criminals, degenerates and corrupt nihilists.
While there are many sane Americans, my experience living in the US suggests they unfortunately don't have what it takes to implement real anti-corruption reforms, judicial reform and rehabilitation/internment programs for degenerates.
They are too well off to do anything (until it's too late) and are generally unwilling to think outside the box of local provincial orthodoxy. They will always come up with excuses to do nothing.
- I wouldn't say a large part. I mean we have what, the worlds largest % of the population in prison or something. Most of them are only criminals by the local definition, and wouldn't be criminals elsewhere. So we got that going for us.
  
  I meant criminals in the ethical sense, not necessarily in the judicial sense. Compare how the American judiciary treated the Sackler Cartel verses "Chapo" Guzman of CDS.
  Mind you, this is of course not unique to the US. What is unique is that many Americans openly defend such corruption (while also parroting some copytext provided by Sackler Cartel lawyers). That's what I meant by degeneracy.
So many people, businesses, and countries have given Trump BJs to stay in his favour and all it does it show him he can come back and bully them again for more.
But I'm sure it'll work out this time.
E.U. officials offered a simple response. The situation could have become a disaster, setting off an all-out trade war
A bad thing for the 1% on both sides and a the best long-term outcome for the 99%. "Global trade" exists to keep a few thousand people around the world happy and rich and you worse off for it.
So they went with what in the short term appeared to be the better of two evils. Ignoring the long term always works out. But I don’t blame them I guess. They didn't creat this mess, and they just want to stall to see where it goes.
Maybe something to do with the nukes the US just moved to the UK?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nuclear-threats-are-back

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