Posted on 12/16/2025 3:51:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Downing Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on Tuesday evening that the prime minister’s office claimed that the UK remains in “active conversations with US counterparts at all levels of government” about the wide-ranging deal for the technology industries in both countries to cooperate.
The agreement, previously billed as historic, was paused after the US accused the UK of failing to lower trade barriers, including a digital services tax on US tech companies and food safety rules that limit the export of some agricultural products. The New York Times first reported British confirmation that negotiations had stalled.
The White House and Downing Street did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tuesday’s developments come as relations between the US and the EU are likewise chilling. The Trump administration threatened European tech firms on Tuesday with economic penalties if the EU refused to roll back what it called “discriminatory actions”. The Office of the US Trade Representative accused the EU and some member states of “discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines and directives against U.S. services”.
The Trade Representative’s office said in a post on Twitter/X that these companies could face fees and restrictions on foreign services. The bureau singled out European companies, including Accenture, DHL, Spotify and Siemens as being able to “operate freely in the United States for decades, benefitting from access to our market and consumers on a level playing field.
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Too many threats and posturing. Just do it.
Brits have always been deniers. They denied we had the ability to kick their asses out of our country. After WWI, they denied, or pretended Germany wasn’t rearming their country. Neville Chamberlain initially denied Hitler was a tyrant, instead thinking he was a reasonable guy to cut a deal with. Chamberlain foolishly believed him when he said he had no interest in any other countries but Czechoslovakia. “Peace in our time.” Deny, deny, deny.
The point is that we are always cleaning up their mess.
“is on hold is not permanently stalled”
ROTFLOL!
Britain got us involved in the 1953 coup in Iran that put Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the CIA's choice on the throne. Britain had wanted to conduct the coup, but they didn't have the means to do it, so America did their ugly work for them.
"So we abandoned Europe after WWI, after all the aftermath was not our problem."
America never signed the Treaty of Versailles. The U.S. Senate opposed certain provisions, one being the establishment of The League of Nations.
Personally, Germany had no right to complain about the provisions of the Treaty. They signed the damn thing, then didn't want to abide by it. Krupp, Germany's largest weapons manufacturer admitted at Nuremberg, that after WWI, they had never stopped manufacturing weapons, even after it was banned by the Treaty. If you're going to start a war, you'd better make damn well sure you win it. If you aren't victorious, then you have no right to demand any kind of treatment, especially if you aren't in the position to demand anything.
They had no choice but to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
The Germans had to make payments to the Western Allies which ended up crippling the German economy, leading to hyperinflation.
Hitler was able to gain quite a following in Germany because he was blaming the Treaty of Versailles.
If the Western Allies did not mess up the treaty ending WWI, Hitler would never have emerged in Germany.
Europe is our enemy. Crush them with tariffs and sanction their judges and prosecutors until they elected right wing parties.
Awww. They should have thought of that before they entered Belgium to invade France, and started a war. And when that ass-kicking wasn't enough, they started a Second World War. It took them almost 100 years to pay their WWI reparations. At all these years later, Germany hasn't learned any lessons from those two World Wars.
"Hitler was able to gain quite a following in Germany because he was blaming the Treaty of Versailles."
And how stupid those same people would feel today to know that the man they followed, according to his DNA, had an increased genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, as well as having a mutation on a gene called PROK2. Variants in this gene are a cause of Kallmann syndrome, which condition can delay puberty and cause undescended testicles, low testosterone levels, and possibly a micropenis. But at least he had no Jewish ancestry.
"If the Western Allies did not mess up the treaty ending WWI, Hitler would never have emerged in Germany."
If Europe had been more stringent in their policing of what was going on in Germany after the Treaty, instead of ignoring Germany's violations of the Treaty, then perhaps a Hitler never would have come to be. As it is, Europe only paid attention to the reparations part, and turned their heads away from the rest.
The treaty was fundamentally flawed. And they decided that they wanted to punish Germany. Okay. They didn't even follow through on that part. Instead they pissed off Germany and provoked them into starting WWII.
Once again, the Americans had to return to Europe to clean up their mess.
If Germany thought the Treaty was flawed, then they shouldn't have signed it. Instead, they signed it, and then ignored it. Germans weren't pissed off enough about the Treaty until Hitler told them they were, and then they followed a whack job into war, standing back and allowing him to invade multiple nations, and conduct genocide on people he had a personal hatred of. It's one thing to be angry about a Treaty you signed. It's a whole different story when that war you choose to engage in goes much farther than the arguments you originally had with the Treaty your country signed. Those men who went to war for Hitler, swore an oath of allegiance to Hitler, not to the country they were supposedly fighting for.
I asked AI for you.
Yes—Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles under coercion, facing the threat of continued blockade and renewed war if it refused.
So AI says that the big, bad country that started a World War was intimidated to the point that they felt compelled to sign a Treaty they didn't agree with. Sucked to be them.
The French got us into the Vietnam war. They begged us to intervein when they were being beaten. Kissinger complied by coming up with the Domino theory. But the Vietnamese hated China and still do it was always like that. And once we left this Domino thing never happened like they said. So it’s just another example of the US being duped to do their dirty work.
We can also thank the CIA for our involvement in Vietnam. They never met a war they didn’t want to screw up.
I mean, they can decide to have it in 2030 or even as late as 2031.
Their excuse is that they're rolling out Digital IDs for everyone.
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