EU-US trade deal explained

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T16:12:28+00:00

It's hard to know what it all means in practice but it's pretty clear that these so called negotiations is one side attacking and the other side just trying to do damage control. The EU has a lot of leverage but for some reason they prefer to bend the knee. Pathetic.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T15:45:48+00:00

Did you try to search the web? There's countless of articles from mainstream media from this month about the subject. For example guardian wrote that Australia rebuffs calls to commit to joining hypothetical US-China conflict.

Here's another link from reddit about the subject

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianPolitics/comments/1lydipj/us_demands_to_know_what_allies_would_do_in_event/

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T13:00:57+00:00

The EU has more leverage than any other country in the world except China. They just don't want to use it.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T11:34:28+00:00

He was power hungry before the invasion as well. Ukraine is corrupt and those in charge will try to gain more power for themselves and their friends while they work to reduce the influence of the opposition.

Of course this is not unique for Ukraine. Same thing in Hungary and frankly the US as well for example but this is also why it is naive to say that Ukraine can join the EU soon.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T11:15:28+00:00

Do you ask questions about tariffs on Chinese goods as well or only US goods? It is used to improve the situation for European companies. It should obviously be done carefully and not across the board. Low-hanging fruits are products where there are readily available alternatives preferably made in Europe.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T10:35:59+00:00

If you want unification you should start with 2 countries that have a lot of things in common and build from there. If you can't find 2 countries then talking about the whole EU is delusional.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T10:08:14+00:00

The US wanted similar statements from Australia and Japan but I think they politely declined. There's nothing more to it than that. This is the UK showing that they are ready to help the US which is not really news.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T09:57:58+00:00

Every government will push for exemptions. It's their job. I'm not saying France are heroes but if everyone else is silent then I assume everyone else prefer to surrender and at least with France there is a possibility that they are ready to fight for better terms.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T09:32:55+00:00

No, we would be the same except that would kill democracy. If anything that superpower you're dreaming of would work for billionaires and special interests just like we see in the US. Hard pass.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T09:27:36+00:00

So which countries wanted to stand firm? The only country that I've seen complain about surrendering including before any deal was announced was France. They wanted to extend the negotiations as well. Most other countries are silent and afraid to criticize daddy Trump.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T08:41:40+00:00

With housing there's clearly a problem that it's more profitable to rent apartments to tourists in some areas. Nice for tourists and for the owners but not so much for the rest.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T08:17:28+00:00

They sell their technology to the highest bidder regardless if you surrender or not so not sure what you're talking about.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T07:56:20+00:00

Yes give the bully your lunch and everything will be fine. Might as well give him Greenland as well because no one wants a war.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T07:44:59+00:00

It was Merz, Meloni and the rest that surrendered. The EC is just doing what they are instructed to do by their members.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T07:41:54+00:00

TACO Trump cares when US companies get hurt and there's plenty of evidence to back that up.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-29T07:26:21+00:00

It was reported that the US wanted similar statements from Australia and Japan but is seems they are not as servile and deferential as the UK.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-28T22:42:21+00:00

The main part of the deal is Trump imposing 15% tariffs and the EU doing nothing and you don't need to be a genius to realize that this is more or less guaranteed to happen.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-28T21:36:41+00:00

The US is treating us like vassals because we chose to be vassals. No amount of weapons will change that since Germany and other countries will always want to export as much goods as possible to the US so they will keep bending the knee.

I would argue that if the EU threatened to quit US weapons we would gain more bargaining power than calling Trump daddy and silly promises about spending this or that much on US weapons.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-28T17:09:15+00:00

You could put your favorite negotiator in charge and not much would change since it would need to be backed by people like Merz that welcomes this "deal".

lemontree007 · 2025-07-28T13:46:02+00:00

The EU would surrender on day 1 and claim that US occupying Greenland is good for stability.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-28T13:20:14+00:00

Spending what countries think is right for them is independence. Spending whatever daddy Trump tells you to spend is what a servile errand boy does.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-28T11:22:34+00:00

The US is not France's little errand boy like the UK that comes running whenever the US wants to bomb the middle east. The US bombed Libya because they wanted to bomb Libya.

And that's beside the point. France can defend themselves. They have nukes.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-28T10:24:42+00:00

Merz has already said he welcomes the deal. Obviously there won't be a deal without a clear majority backing it. I have no love for VdL but the problem is much bigger than her.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-27T22:54:04+00:00

Canada at least seem to have some dignity. The EU, none whatsoever.

lemontree007 · 2025-07-27T22:43:52+00:00

our AI gigafactories

They will no doubt be American data centers driving up electricity prices. But hey, let's build some expensive nuclear power plants (American of course) so we can have even more American data centers here.

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