The EU’s reaction to getting a taste of its own medicine is downright humorous:
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyden has three big concerns with the new trade/tariff reset. I strongly suggest everyone to read the EU concerns slowly to fully absorb decades of hypocrisy now surfacing:
- The EU will not be able to compete for U.S. market share with 20% general tariffs and 25% auto tariffs.
- The EU must deploy countermeasures against the risk of losing industrial capacity and manufacturing to the United States.
- The EU must defend itself against China dumping cheap products into the EU now rejected by the USA.
Von der Leyen is concerned mostly about the extremely valuable U.S. consumer being leveraged by President Trump, essentially blocking exploitation from EU and Asia. The EU will not tolerate losing access to the most valuable customers in the world, Americans.
So, just to be clear, the EU is now going to a) fight a shooting war with Russia, b) fight an economic war with the USA, and c) fight an economic war with China.
I strongly recommend exiting the so-called Union at the earliest opportunity to every leader of an EU member state. The EU is the last surviving vestige of the neo-liberal world order and it’s going to collapse soon.