Starting on February 1st, 2026, all of the above mentioned Countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland), will be charged a 10% Tariff on any and all goods sent to the United States of America. On June 1st, 2026, the Tariff will be increased to 25%. This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.
That would be a good opportunity to throw the EU-US trade deal negotiated last year into the dustbin, since Trump has already violated it with the tariffs and no one in the EU was happy with it anyway. They only accepted it at the time because they were afraid of the U.S. ceasing to support Ukraine otherwise. Well, the U.S. doesn’t support Ukraine anymore anyway.
So… us Americans have to pay even higher prices just because our Pedophile-In-Chief wants to invade another country?
It’s time for the EU to drop the anti-circumvention laws pushed onto them (and other countries) through trade deals long ago. It’ll enable a true right to repair, as well as resilience against foreign influence by being able to inspect and replace firmware and software.
While they’re at it, maybe reduce copyright after death too.
Cory Doctorow is right!
It’s time to take this seriously, I think. Every time Trump throws a tantrum and starts threatening a trade war, the European leaders come out and say that they’re concerned. And “Oh my! This behavior is not becoming of an American president.” This is what American foreign policy looks like now. We should end our reliance on American digital services as soon as possible.
@Bob @Beep
Should have done that decades ago already!
Unfortunately “as soon as possible” for the #EU @euparlament generally means many years of procrastination.
Those are my favorite countries!
Pedobear Donnie can’t even maintain a chain of thought to the end, but he wants to a king at 80. Just die the hell faster already and spare us the drama and the rambles of a psycho pedophile.
Not sure we care anymore, since the free trade agreement between EU and Mercosur was signed today. We don’t really need to trade with the US anymore. South America provides a huge export market for our products, and they supply better quality agricultural imports than the US can anyway.
It’s not about buyin, but about selling
Phew. I’m glad Trump doesn’t remember my country exists.
LOL
For long the EU and Japan has subsided the US military industrial complex. All the US made artillery must be replaced with indigenous made.
For long the world has subsidized the tech companies of US who has only stolen data and manipulated the public. The tech companies must be tariffed and replaced with homegrown open source alternatives.
Why would they give a shit that Trump is going to raise taxes on Americans again?
It will really hurt some industries. For example film & TV production will be badly hit.
What exactly does Europe sell to USA that they NEED to sell for the film & tv production to happen?
The production is the sale.
I don’t get it, it’s not like companies will stop buying rights for good movies/tv shows because there’s tariffs on them, and they’re not buying bad content anyways. Movie tickets and streaming subscriptions will just become more expensive for US customers to compensate and that’s that, the same thing that happened to every other thing tariffs were applied to.
Talking about production, not distribution or exhibition. US studios will have little incentive to produce in Britain if that film then becomes subject to tariffs.
More incentive to local film industry?
American movies are all about CGI and explosions, mostly, nowadays. I’ll take a low budged film with a good story and acting any day.
@qyron @ohulancutash
I believe that partly explains how the US is mutating into a tyranny of roving street gangs. They all see themselves in those violent scenarios.
The production? There are very few European companies making films in the US, and this would encourage them to film in Europe, so still not sure how that is bad for Europe.
US companies making films in EU are not importing anything, so tariffs don’t apply to them, and since it’s a US company they even hold the rights for the produced work so it doesn’t apply to that either.
What am I missing?
You have it the wrong way around. US companies producing in Europe are importing the film to the US.
EU companies producing in the US are importing to EU.
Apparently a lot of hard to replace stuff. Just after the recent trade agreement, which favours the US, a study came out that the US would do much worse if tariffs hampered trade the EU.
We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs, or any other forms of remuneration. Now, after Centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back — World Peace is at stake! China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it. They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently.
This is just a small start of his ramblings and man, he’s taking some good drugs there because how hard do you have to be tripping balls to even remotely believe any of that shit.
Literally every word is a lie there and it just gets worse
I’m reasonably confident that neither Russia nor China have any interest in Greenland. Primarily because they clearly don’t. They could have attacked Greenland at any point in the last 60 years they haven’t.
China is primarily interested in the Middle East, India, and Africa and Russia is not currently in a state to be threatening anyone else, least of all NATO.
New EU deal with China coming in 3… 2… 1…
China is benefiting greatly from the old orange felon’s blunders.
I think we all should start treating the USA as russia and accept the fate of the world. China doesn’t look that bad now. At least they keep their genocides inside their border.
I hate this timeline where I see China better option than US.
For the next 10 seconds before they invade taiwan
- China has not used their military offensively for the past like 30 years, I don’t see why start now
- Xi has said repeatedly that he will not use military force and instead will use the existing economic and cultural ties to push re-integration
- If they invade Taiwan militarily they risk a nuclear war, definitely will suffer heavy casualties, will destroy the world’s economy (which will hurt them a lot as well), and the only thing they would gain is a pile of burning ash. There is no practical reason to do it and you can call Xi many names but not impractical.
@balsoft @pixeltree
Xi could *substantially* improve his global reputation if he opted for a cooperative approach to relations with #Taiwan. They have been at loggerheads for decades because their govt systems & economies have been very different, but it’s China that is now evolving closer to Taiwan’s market-economy model. But they could be more inspired in establishing a more cooperative political model.
Either way, it is for the Taiwanese to choose their destiny.I think it’s almost verbatim what Xi is saying - cooperate, build more and more economic and cultural ties, wait for the decline of capitalism and the people of Taiwan will want to reunite with mainland eventually. They are already really close socially, culturally and ethnically (most Taiwanese are Han), the only thing separating them is politics.
@balsoft
He hasn’t though. Either verbatim or not. He’s been sabre-rattling & playing war games around Taiwan.
When has he actually approached the Taiwan govt with any respectable offer of long-term cooperation?When has he actually approached the Taiwan govt with any respectable offer of long-term cooperation?
Under more reasonable Taiwanese rule there was a lot of goodwill and cooperation going both ways (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Cooperation_Framework_Agreement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Strait_Service_Trade_Agreement etc).
Under new, even more pro-imperialist government, there doesn’t seem to be much room for cooperation when Taiwan repeatedly rejects attempts at cooperation and beefs up their military with american weapons. I agree that Xi could be more accepting and cooperative, but it’s not primarily his fault.
China hasn’t been directly involved in anything even resembling a genocide since the death of chairman mao at least. There are human rights abuses and questionable decisions (such as not sufficiently opposing the ongoing gaza genocide) but nothing compared to the horrors on earth supported by US and some european countries right fucking now.
I don’t know any EU countries harvesting organs from a whole ethnic group while simultaneously enslaving them.
I don’t know of China doing that either, apart from made-up stories from some guys, directly affiliated with the US government, who weren’t even there. Uighurs do have their rights systematically abused and face unfair persecution as an overreaction to terrorism. This fucking sucks, but it’s clearly not a genocide and nothing like what you’re describing. Even English Wikipedia, which historically is biased towards US propaganda because it is sourced from western media, has stopped classifying it as a genocide.
Meanwhile Germany is sending weapons and diplomatic support to a literal genocidal apartheid state, which has been bombing civilian infrastructure and shooting children for fun since the founding, with at least 100k dead (at least 27k of them children) just in the last 3 years; France & UK are still empires which hold land overseas and continue doing “soft” - cultural & economic - imperialism in their sphere of influence; and all western quality of life improvements are sustained on exploitation of cheap unregulated labor from many global south countries, enforced by the US invading and/or overthrowing everyone who tries to stop it.
Some of what China is doing domestically sucks. The Uighur thing is bad, LGBT rights are not enshrined into law and instead exist in a legal vacuum, the internet censorship is shit, the wealth inequality is growing, the one-child policy was a bad idea which led to a femicide and creation of “second-class citizens”, there are still regions where the rural population lives in slums (the last two are being slowly addressed though).
But it’s not even close to the current level of suffering caused by western imperialism.
Of those states, all but the UK and Norway are EU member states and Norway is a member of the EEA, so its practically impossible to single them out with tariffs. Trump should really understand this by now, as it isn’t the first time he tries to single out EU/EEA members with his tariffs.
You think that man is capable of proper economic understanding? His brain in soup, cocaine, and memories of when he could get his dick hard enough to molest children.
Do us a favor and boycott USA and all of our products we need help getting rid of this cancer
We should all sell our US bonds, 10% of them, and then repeat for any further tarrifs.
