Donald Trump signed, Germany in trouble. “The long -term goal of the US is even more ambitious”
Economic arguments about the harmfulness of customs wars make no sense. The White House treats duties as a political tool – not to say weapons. In the case of Europe, it is about extorting US support in confrontation with China: customs can be equally effective here in changing the EU attitude as American ostentatious urbi to Putin’s Russia. Trump’s long -term goal of new customs rigors is even more ambitious: the point is for the whole world to pay taxes in America.
After Canada and Mexico, it was the turn of Europe. The US moves with the campaign aimed at an unfavorable – from the point of view of the White House – trade from the EU: duties on aluminum, steel, and now also to European – mainly German – cars are to lead the Union to urgently listen to the needs of America.
The European Commission flexes the muscles, announcing retaliation, but it can be the same as with the forced Actions of Trump’s awakening of the European Defense Industry.
The south of Europe is resisted in his debt because of their hypothetical threat to war with Russia, and at the same time does not want to go to the customs war from the USA, that their fault, cheese and olive oil would not be treated by Trump like German cars.
Americans have not known from today that without Europe support, it will be difficult for them to win a confrontation with China. And the EU does not smoke at all. Even loved in the EU, Joe Biden was celebrated with a receipt, when in exchange for the support of Europe in the war with Russia in Ukraine, he demanded help in the struggle with China.
– Let’s not get caught up in the war – this sentence, spoken by the French President Emmanuel Macron, is now reflecting the Union with a loud hiccup.
This is exactly the same as Trump’s team says about the problems of Europe today, harassing the EU with ostentatious approximately to Putin’s Russia and a coarse reminding that without a US military umbrella, the Old Continent will be an easy boot for every aggression for a long time. This method, although brutal and causing outrage at European salons, turns out to be effective.
Several accurate American kicks in European complacency have already forced drastic changes in a very frivolous approach to the EU defense abilities. What will come of it will still turn out.
