EU hält Dringlichkeitssitzung zu Trumps Zöllen auf Grönland ab

But in the mean time, Eric is going to make sure the US doesn’t invade.

The perfect EU response: sell 10% of their US government debt on February 1st, followed by another 25% on June 1st. They’re weak and I expect them to roll over, but that would make him think twice. Consider it!

It’s going to be a confrontation at some point with what the US is turning into. What is left are democratic countries. Might as well draw a hard and unequivocal line now, something that may shock Americans into total rejection of the Trump admin before it is too late.

Good.

Tariffs are a tool that countries can use to protect domestic industries that work best when they are applied on a limited or case by case basis. When the default response to something you don’t like is an absurd tariff, it loses it’s impact and value. A large portion of the world has been encouraged by the actions of the Trump administration to move away from trading with the US and to seek other trade partnerships.

Government should be boring AF, businesses hate not being able to predict years/months/weeks in advance. Instability and uncertainty is one of the worst things you can have to encourage investment and business growth in your country. And at some point, people/countries look else where and (for the US) there are SEVERE consequences due to the position and soft power the US holds.

Can we slap back once please. We ain’t getting shit from that administration. Better to face reality now. You cannot win a stand off with a child without something hitting them in the face.

It now looks as of the EU will postpone the vote on the big trade deal they made with the US last year. That was the very unequal one where the US could tariff European products but not the other way around. Because these latest tariffs would break that agreement and as such could not be signed as a EU law. In a sense this would mean that Dumps stupidity saved Europe from their own stupidity. Ironic and stupid like everything right now….

I hope the deal gets slashed because it sends a „big“ signal and it was also something Dump and his maggots where very proud of. Now it can come crashing down because of his stupidity. And he has none to blame but himself (although he will of course try to blame it on everyone else).

Is it just them all gathering to laugh their asses off and make fun of trump for still having absolutely no idea how tariffs work and he’s just taxing US citizens while trying to punish the EU?

Grow some spine Europe. Appeasement and compromises didn’t work in the past with Trump. The blackmail attempts will go on and on and on….

Besides the whole Greenland situation, that is total madness, this proves another thing.

Not that there was really any doubt before, but Trump slapping new tariffs on countries that have made tariff deals with Trump’s US proves that all these deals are totally worthless. We wasted our time negotiating them. Tariffs will go up and down constantly only depending on what’s currently fermenting in Trump’s demented brain.

There can’t be any stability in trade with this US, making all business basically impossible. For international trade, the one thing worse than tariffs is uncertainty about tariffs. You never know if you earn or lose money on an import or export.

We should accept this fact and move on to other partners. The US has economically doomed itself.

Trade deals, including tariffs, cannot be put on individual EU countries. Same as the EU cannot issue tariffs on goods from Florida alone, or one country establishing free trade with California.

Trade deals are done on the EU level.

Speaking of which, EU just signed a free trade deal with South America (minus Venezuela)

„The population of the United States (America) is around 340-348 million, with recent estimates placing it near 348 million as of January 2026“

What blows my mind is why aren’t even a small fraction of these Americans not up in arms?

If my prime minister/government engaged in even a tiny fraction of what Trump and his sycophants are doing in the US, I would be up in arms and protesting as best I can.

But it’s like the US population is just sitting by watching all this happen, where’s the American pride, in the flag, the values, the freedom/democracy the US is always preaching on about in the past?

Dump US bonds and seize trump golf courses in Scotland. Sorted

Sell the bonds and close down murican bases. The US will not be there to help anyway if russia attacks. The bases are purely for US benefit.

At this point, I’m all for trading more with China and screwing the USA. China is a more reliable ally than the USA right now for the EU, and that was not on my 2026 bingo card. NATO is dead with a moron like Trump, so let’s kick the USA out of all EU bases if they make any moves on greenland.

And I am sure they will arrive at the conclusion that they need to seize the orange’s assets, sweep European stores of American projects and maybe put retaliation tariffs on the US….. Right…? Right?

He and most MAGA still don’t understand who gets hurt by tariffs.

That’ll teach him. 

Withdraw all eu countries from his big world cup this summer.