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Trump has rejected the EU's "zero-for-zero" tariff offer on cars and industrial goods, demanding instead that the bloc commit to purchasing $350 billion of American energy to offset the trade deficit.

Following his implementation of 20% tariffs on EU goods last week, which triggered significant market downturns, Trump indicated openness to negotiations while emphasizing his "America First" stance.

He also criticized EU product standards as "non-monetary barriers" designed to block American exports.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Wait, wait, wait.

Trump, under the direction of parties unknown, is trying to force the EU to buy U.S. energy resources, and that’s the linchpin of his trade war with them?

Is he trying to give Europe a nudge back to Russian oil supplies?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If you’re a (western) European leader returning to Russian energy is at best shortsighted amnesia, at worst blatant malfeasance. There’s several reasons to not go back to Russia:

  • Official legal based sanctions on Russian energy
  • Ukrainian drone based ‘sanctions’ on Russian energy
  • Russia’s track record of energy blackmail/hybrid warfare
  • LNG and oil production available in your EEZ/the EU, albeit at higher cost than imported
  • Domestic solar, hydro, and wind manufacturing/generation is ramping up
  • French nuclear energy exports
  • Domestic politics ie. voters turning against Russian imperial aggression/expansionism

Eastern Europe has a slightly different incentive mix, but there’s still a lot of reasons to not

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those are very well considered points, but Trump is an idiot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

tRump is an idiot influenced by putin.

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