Posted on 08/02/2025 3:54:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Shock turns into outrage. Europeans feel they’ve been duped by Donald Trump. But the trade deal merely lays bare the EU’s accelerating loss of power.
Anyone familiar with German politics has long known that Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, is no political heavyweight. Her record as Germany’s family and defense minister speaks for itself. She lacks the intellectual and strategic abilities to navigate or reform complex systems.
Yes, she was outplayed by Trump during the trade negotiations -- as expected. But this misses the point. What Europeans are loudly lamenting is not just a bad deal, but the expression of their own geopolitical weakness...
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First: the idea that America has long dominated Europe through imperialist policies. On the contrary, U.S. administrations under Biden and Obama closely followed a globalist agenda in European style.
Together with their allies in Brussels, London, and Davos, they implemented destructive climate agendas, pursued inflationary monetary policy, and built welfare states modeled after Europe.
The roots of this lie 100 years back in Roosevelt’s New Deal. America has never been fully free of European influence.
Second: the belief that the EU is a freedom project committed to market principles and private property. The EU was founded as a bulwark against the Soviet empire, but from the start, it was statist in nature -- especially under Franco-German leadership.
Criticism of its socialist trajectory is still branded as conspiracy theory. But the facts speak clearly: Over 50% government spending ratios, Brussels' war on free speech, energy sector nationalization, suffocating regulation -- Europe is hurtling toward a new socialism.
The reason this isn’t more widely recognized? Mainstream media have done a masterful job of covering it up.
They act as cheerleaders for the green climate-socialist agenda, masking Europe’s collapse in idealistic brushstrokes.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And so are its sisters, Climate Change, Socialism, Globalism, Systemic Racism, and LGBTQ.
So glad to see the Climate Change lie choking on its own vomit.
Woke, Climate Change and all the other liberal fantasies are either dead or dying rapidly, Canada, UK, Australia and the broader EU are still holding on to the bitter end.
Woke May be weakened, but collectivists always have the next heavy fist ready to make life hard. It’s likely creating food shortage.
“The EU was founded as a bulwark against the Soviet empire”
That wasn’t the reason. It was founded to compete with the USA.
Personally, I think it’s Trump who got played. They didn’t agree to a deal. They agreed to a framework, which will take years and never pass. But with this framework agreement Trump can’t add new tariffs so they took the bullets out of his gun. By the time a trade agreement comes up it will look nothing like this and Trump will be out of office.
” It was founded to compete with the USA.”
Bump
And to Destroy the USA also.
The euros are such duplicitous dupes. These elitist poofters deserve what they get. ...and I think they are going to get it in spades.
Shut up and pay the man
The Marshall Plan is over
Correct
“But with this framework agreement Trump can’t add new tariffs….”
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You must be talking about a different Donald Trump than the one currently living in the White House, because that one will scuttle a deal at the drop of a hat if he believes that he’s been snookered.
Personally, I think it’s Trump who got played.
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Wow. Ten years we’ve had to study Trump. You’ve wasted this time, and haven’t learned anything about the man. Perhaps you’re retarded? Start with Art of the Deal if you’re not.
Let them eat croissants!
Most importantly, the future lies East of Suez
Europe has stagnated and suffers terminally from the unmanageable EU bureaucracy
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
The haughty Brits and the arrogant French are being invaded by a 7th century ideology and it is destroying them, and they
are butt hurt about trade?
Seems to me there are bigger things to concern them.
A new version of that constellation of fading stars aka The Seven Sisters.
I knew Trump was getting his way with the EU when I saw the photo of him sitting across from Ursula V. holding her hand gently, like some Black Knight who has greatly impressed the Queen. Libs and some of the Womyn must have been livid at that image. Ursula had been charmed and seduced by the
“Orange Dragon”. It was an outrage!
The Donald can lay it on thick when he wants to.
Drive a stake through its heart, and stuff a clove of garlic in it’s mouth just to make sure it stays that way.
My basic attitude toward tariffs is that if they levy a 30% tariff on our 787 we should levy a 30% tariff on their A350.It’s as simple as that.
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