Furious that European forces have arrived in Greenland, Donald Trump now adds another 10 percent tariff on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland, and threatens to raise it to 25 percent by June.
That is a 25 percent increase to all Americans dependant on European medicine.
He is steering directly towards a total trade war. Follow the US stock market closely, because this can go completely haywire.
Source: Truth Social.
@randahl if the EU had the courage to hit him by applying tarriff on the Software and Tech industry, lets say the double of the US one on EU with automatic update if he change his.
It would destroy his economy overnight.
@randahl that’s because everyone let it work. He threw a tantrum and every world leader fell over themselves to be the ones to make him happy. Now whenever he wants something he’s going to throw the same tantrum. You can capitulate now and lose Greenland but you’ll get the same tantrum when he wants Canada, and Mexico, ect.
7 more EU countries with strong tech bases that could repeal anti-circumvention laws and really fuck over US tech companies by providing adversarial interoperability or migration tools or firmware jailbreaks.
Trump is a completely unreliable partner. Shame on this backstabbing traitor…
History will not judge lightly on this madman.
@randahl
mad at EU so he taxes Americans ... take that EU
@randahl We can all help by boycotting US products.
@randahl He vented through a tweet. He has not legislative powers to impose tariffs, Congress does.
@randahl Here is the post from a site that posts all of his weirdness, so you can read, without entering the toxic zone: https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/34583
@randahl Does it mean USA will pay 10 or 25% tarifs when they will buy Greenland? He makes this land purchase more expensive... strange deal...
Consider for a moment the psychology of the principal involved.
You could declare a trade embargo of exports to the United States.
That quarter kind of leverage though would require the EU to be technologically independent of the United States.
Technological sovereignty really is a thing…
If you haven’t heard Cory Doctorow’s recommendation for measures at the EU has to reclaim tech sovereignty, consider restoring the right to reverse engineer and to repair. Basically shred up elements of trade agreements that criminalize what is a property right.
You can spice up that measure by stridently declaring that frees markets from the shackles of USSR style centralized command and control economics.
@randahl What is Danish for “Elbows up?”
@kralcttam we do not have that exact expression. We will sometimes say “keep the gun powder dry” to indicate that you should stay prepared things turning ugly.
@randahl
The Danish PM alluded to a common Danish pre-game pep talk the day before the Rubio/Vance meeting (that cigarette one).
The standard version is "We come together, we leave together" (Vi kommer sammen, vi går sammen.)
She said "We come together, we stick together and we leave together" (Vi kommer sammen, vi bliver sammen, og vi går sammen.)
#WeComeTogetherWeLeaveTogether
#ElbowsUp
#ViKommerSammenViGårSammen
@kralcttam
@randahl Fuck him! He thinks he can bully everyone to do what he wants. I'm looking forward to ditching any US based streaming and cloud services possible. Enough of the orange nazi dictator and his paedophile friends.
@randahl The EU will now need to rip up the trade agreement with the USA and pointedly stop buying US oil and LPG.
It starts to get messy when we start selling off all those US bonds, at that point it really could melt down quite spectacularly with a US default a couple of years later.
@randahl It's funny how quickly Trump turned from "The Nordics are the good immigrants" to "Fuck those guys".
@randahl it'll quietly get dropped again within a week or so. Nobody cares anymore.
@randahl I - for one - will pay it. Freedom is not free.
@randahl
It's ironic, because this is in direct response to Europe sending troops to defend Greenland - a lack of defence against Russia and China being exactly what Trump was supposedly complaining about! Nothing to do with minerals of course.
@dave you are exactly right, Mr. Robinson. Time and time again, Trump’s arguments fail even the simplest of logic tests.
@randahl
I find it very depressing that the media, in the UK at least, report what Trump says as if it has some deep meaning or longevity. The man is a failed business man, an adjudicated felon, and a sociopath. His desire for personal financial gain is matched only by his desire for adoration and publicity.
@randahl I hope that all the leaders who have kowtowed to trump's whims will now see that if you give a criminal rapist exactly what he wants, you don't get a friendly criminal rapist... you get a criminal rapist who believes he'll get everything he wants no matter how badly he behaves.
@randahl is this the final call for Denmark and the world to finally ditch Microsoft
@randahl I could imagine we might get power shortages close by the american forces facility's suddenly.
#closeramstein #shotdowngoogle #criticalinfrastructure
@randahl As it could be expected, he unilaterally denounces the “deal” we passed with him only a few months ago.
When will our countries finally understand and start to act rationally. We should cancel all F35 contracts and threaten him of reciprocal tariffs. Yes it would coat us, but this is the only language that he understands.
@randahl Everyone in Europe should give a clear answer with their buying behavior. Goods for which we have alternatives are not bought. Starting with Coca-Cola and McDonald's to Tesla and US-owned brands such as Milka (Mondelez). Do we need Disney, Warner, Netflix or Facebook/Instagram and all their shit?
When will the Europeans finally understand that they are not friends, but enemies.
Let's cut the marionette cords that captivate us.
@floe @randahl
Yes, and the other as well. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and many others. Every $ revenue they don’t earn in Europe counts. Let get Started.
The Tech companies are not easy to replace, but there is no alternative, or do we want finally end as an US colony?
The tech companies are not easy to replace, but there is no alternative, or do we ultimately want to end up as a US colony? So start with simple things: Delete Facebook, Instagram, X and Signal. Are they not necessities, or?
@randahl this is an attack on EU unity, he's testing if the EU is actually willing to fight for Denmark. But if they're not then why be in the EU? This could be an existential battle for the EU.
The one thing Trump can't win is a trade war with the EU, though. I hope we starte selling off US bonds.
According to some Canadian sources, NATO means : non Amerikkkans #theracistrpistfelon opponents.
"Furioso por la llegada de fuerzas europeas a Groenlandia, Donald Trump impone un arancel adicional del 10% a las importaciones procedentes de Dinamarca, Noruega, Suecia, Francia, Alemania, el Reino Unido, los Países Bajos y Finlandia, y amenaza con aumentarlo al 25% para junio.
Esto representa un aumento del 25% para todos los estadounidenses que dependen de medicamentos europeos.
Está encaminándose directamente hacia una guerra comercial total. Sigan de cerca la bolsa de valores estadounidense, porque la situación podría descontrolarse por completo.
Fuente: Truth Social."
@randahl „Follow the US stock market closely, because this can go completely haywire.“
Exactly, look at your ETFs and reshift to non-US if you want to keep your savings/invests.
@randahl why do we still bother with kowtowing to the US impressed rules that we can't reverse engineer their tech and e.g. repair it John Deere tractors ourselves without paying the US.
