Isn't this an outright tribute payment from a vassal? Lmfao
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where does this put us on the path to the American Warlord Era?
What the actual fuck is going on?
he doesnt know how to run a business or the american economy, plain and simple. he's bullied so many into giving him money for decades he thinks it will work if he tries the same with sovereign nations.
It's got to be this. He's running the US economy like it's a business. Not even like a legitimate business but a shitty business that uses mafia tactics and eventually goes bankrupt.
I just hope all those feckless EU leaders aren't stupid enough to be shaken down
This is how he's always been, he's always been a failson who got ahead on Mafia tactics. He inherited a ton of contacts and networks from his father along with a ton of money, and pissed it away on gaudy gold toilets and bankrupting casinos. He never actually ran a proper business in his life.
I've never actually verified this but I have always been entertained by the talking point that he woukd be richer if he just put his inheritance in an index fund.
I've never actually verified
It's true. Google hint Robert Reich index fund Trump. Reich has mentioned it at least a few times.
Haha nice
And used the casinos to launder money from the Russians
This is one of the least logical Russiagate accusations I've ever heard.
The casino was open until like 2014 but wasn't all that popular through the 2010s. Let's call tbe peak the 90s to the early 00s.
You're suggesting that some nebulous "Russians" (who? Politicians? Oligarchs? Gangsters? Typically only gangsters need to launder money) took their ill-gotten roubles, converted them to USD (already a form of money laundering, doing this alone would suffice), flew to Atlantic City, gambled it away in Trump's casino, converted their winnings back to roubles (losing heavily during the exchange rate process), and flew back to Russia, because Trump was friendly or something? All at a time when Russia was politically neutral to the US during the Fukuyama End of History era? At a time when the rouble wasn't banned from global markets? What fucking purpose would laundering their money in a different nation's currency altogether actually serve?
Do you actually think before you post or do you just fire off some fucking Tom Clancy fanfic with Trump and Spooky Russians :tm: attached to it and expect it to be taken at face value?
???
The "seized" (stolen) money from the 2022 heist?
that uses mafia tactics
So basically how we treated the global South except with Europe, to which they're upset because only 'the coloreds' are supposed to be treated like this.
God I really hope this indeed becomes the century of China.
With the brain drain and scientists fleeing to Canada and Europe, it may be European time again.
Not a chance. EU is doomed for decades at least. Deindustrialized, vassalized to the US, expensive energy, war with Russia. They are fucked more than anyone.
not to mention too racist to make the correct choices
European time again
Europe thrives via violent colonialism, not scientific advancement; science is more of a China thing
The problem, I think you'll find, is that a lot of those scientists aren't lily white, which is tantamount to a crime in Europe
I'm bearish on EU and Canada. Canada because they are also going through their capitalist realism phase of light neoliberalism party vs heavy neoliberalism party. EU because they want to defund all their social programs to throw people into a meat grinder fighting Russia
He's running the US economy like it's a business.
I've met a few small time capitalists (like they own small factories with less than 50 workers) in my day and the one thing that unites them is that all of them believe that governments should be run like a business.
These people are imbeciles and they've convinced large swathes of people to believe the same. It's incredible.
a shitty business that uses mafia tactics and eventually goes bankrupt.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The issue is that he has nukes
I just hope all those feckless EU leaders aren’t stupid enough to be shaken down
It's not a stupidity, they are compradors. Just they are now compradors whose master fucked up good old Al Capone advice about gun and a kind word.
A whole union of nations none the less.
It's a shakedown, pure and simple. The US is supposed to be a winner, but it's losing and so he needs EU money to not look like a loser.
Dear EU....purge your Nazis. Make a deal with BRICS. Tell the US to fuck off.
EU
purge your Nazis
EU countries created Nazism, Nazism will destroy western Europe before western Europe destroys Nazism I'm afraid...
EU politicians reading this: Got it, make deals with nazis, purge BRICS. Fuck US (sexually)
Unfortunately this is more likely of the two senarios.
There wouldnt be anyone left in the EU to do the purging
Dear EU, not someone from the global South myself, but just wanted to tell you to check your mail from them saying some variation of either 'tag you're it' or 'told ya so'
I mentioned previously that I think current US policy is a continuation of previous US policy of disrupting and targeting Europe. Ukraine, Nordstream, Greenland, Tariffs, and now this.
They want to fuck Europe.
They want to fuck Europe.
who doesnt
right in the adriatussy
They want to fuck Europe.
The question is whether the strategy is best understood in its continuity (deep state persisting between Trump, Biden, Trump again) or if there is discontinuity that is important to the overall analysis.
Ukraine and Nordstream make sense under the Biden strategy, but I’m not entirely sure to what degree Trump’s neocons are backpedaling on Biden’s overall strategy in Europe. Is it appropriate to lump Greenland and the tariffs in the same framework as Ukraine and Nordstream?
But then it should have been only the eu, not the whole world 
Germany crushed workers wages and rights so they can export more to the US.
Give me five points if you wanna do business in our territory
The misanthrope in me wants to watch the EU and the US&A get into a dick waving contest. I assume the EU would win were something like this to take place?
The EU would split before the US would split.
Bit idea : WWIII alliances end up being the exact same as I and II
no, that'd be boring. i still hope the faultline in europe will be along the aldi nord/sud split.
would make for a more balanced HOI4 game
maybe the world will be like, oh wait, we don't need america now get your fucking military off our land.
The US is an important market for the EU plus all the stuff like services they would have to pay to make from scratch, i see both losing
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