I think Europe sees this as a stopgap solution to mitigate the economic impact until the midterms. If the dems win the house back - which appears likely - they’ll stop Trump’s illegal tariffs and reverse those “deals” that Trump had no right to make in the first place.
Also $600 billion additional investments in US, that could made in EU.
I never said dealing with an overbearing ultramilitarized jingoistic fascist state was easy or convenient. I’m just saying, as concessions go, this one doesn’t run against immediate European interests that much.
Ford vehicles sold in Europe are designed and built in Europe. They’re not imported.
They’re all sketchy apart from Norway and the UK. My point being, if you want to starve Russia of petrodollars, you can’t procure Russian oil from Russian client states and pretend it’s not Russia oil.
Europe would be better off not buying oil from dictators in the Gulf, dictators in America or dictators in Russia. But they can’t afford to forgo all of them, and the war currently raging at Europe’s doorstep is being waged by the latter. So if they have to choose which shitty countries to buy oil from, the US is part of the lesser evil mix as far as they’re concerned.
“Europe is very closed. We don’t sell cars into Europe
There’s no space for oversized gas guzzlers in Europe. And the one US car brand that sold well in Europe, Tesla, was torpedoed by its own Nazi CEO. How is that Europe’s fault?
We don’t sell essentially agriculture of any great degree,”
Raise your standards for food safety and Europe will buy. Europeans are more demanding with what they stuff in their mouths. But the way deregulations and the dismantling of the FDA is going in the US, it’s not going to improve anytime soon.
For the nth time, tariffs are import taxes levied on the LOCALS importing from a country being tariffed (well, import tariffs anyway). All Trump did here is ensure European companies that traditionally sell a lot in the US diversify and find non-American customers to break their dependency on US customers that don’t buy as much anymore. That’s good for Europe in the long term.
As for energy, Europe needs it to avoid buying Russian oil and gas anyway. So it’s a great way for Europe to avoid dealing with sketchy petro states to get energy.
I hate to be that guy, but I will point out that “man” in English can mean both a male human and humankind in general.
As in “Man is a wolf to man”: women too can be wolves and victims alike.
Or “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”: womankind is definitely included here.
Call it sexist. I even agree that it is. But the fact remains that, for historical and outdated patriarcal reasons, “man” in the English language, like in many others, does bear that meaning.
As for “man” being in “necromancer”, I reckon it’s like “fun” being in “fungi”: you’re not interpreting it right 🙂
Many people have been calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and much more, but somehow when a random dude without a real job in ridiculous white clothing does it, it matters.
That’s the power of cults…
What’s happening in the US in general is a somber day for the world.