Posted on 07/08/2018 5:42:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The EU was created to take relatively weak nations like the UK and France, take away their sovereignty and put them all at the mercy of Germany.
It seems the EU was also created as a competitor to the U.S. They don’t consider us as much an ally as we’d like.
“Second, it can raise tariffs on cars. France doesn’t care about either, but Germany will care a lot.”
France can afford ont to care about car tariffs, since they don’t export cars here. They tried years ago with the Renault Dauphine, but it was a worthless piece of crap! But France “can point with pride” to the Citroen 2CV! Everyone here is just dying to get one of those indolent greenhouses on wheels.
“Maybe if they had to pay for something once in awhile they wouldn’t be so damned arrogant.”
With Trump as our President, the EU is going to quickly run out of “other people’s money*”
* OURS.
While we are talking cars.. why cant we have the 6 cyl bmw that blew the prius out of the water for fuel economy? In comfort. Crony capitalism.
Let it be known that if we are attacked, we will react collectively and we will react firmly,” Le Maire said. …
OOOO...........Im scared
Even FIAT’s are a bit better.
In the pro-Adenauer press, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Christ und Welt, the Deutsche Zeitung of Stuttgart, editorials have been written assuring the Russians that Dr. [Konrad] Adenauer’s policy aims to create the security necessary for both the Germans and the Russians, and that this can only be brought about after Germany had become a third power factor which could employ its influence in such a way as to deter the United States “from starting a preventive war.” Thus, while in the short run the Bonn Government aims to create a United Europe, it hopes ultimately to reach a solid understanding with the Soviets at the expense of the United States.The EU has not changed from those years all the way down to today. And in a lot of ways, neither has Russia.
It is true, of course, that in the person of Dr. Adenauer, the West has been led to believe that the Bonn Government is deeply devoted to the furtherance of the common welfare of the West. But these estimates of Dr. Adenauer and his diplomacy are based on superficial evidence and ignore the fact that Dr. Adenauer was in the past a fanatical believer in the pan-German gospel that the Fatherland should rule Europe and the world. It is, therefore, no accident that the Ribbentrop diplomats and the Haushofer geopoliticians should be his chief advisors. They are prepared to create the Third Power Bloc under German domination through the financial help of the United States, and then turn around and make their final bargain with Moscow. …
— T.H. Tetens, “Germany Plots with the Kremlin” (1953), pp. 7-8
The EU must be (well, they are) stupid crazy with that tariff spat. Other than the odd Jeep or Corvette you see almost no US cars on European roads. They could pay the US a bonus (negative tariff) for the imports and still be way ahead by avoiding a higher US tariff on Euro cars...
Yaaayyy! I voted for that!! :-)
You favor us staying in NATO? Why? When was the last time any one of those countries showed us an ounce of respect or lifted a finger to help us? Every one of them, especially Merkel and May are the first out of the box to condemn the US, no mater what we do.
How long do you think it will be until our military bases in Britain or Germany are attacked by Europe’s newer citizens?
If the NATO treaty has found to have been abrogated by the EU (and I suspect there is lots of evidence for that, especially dating back to the Bosnian wars), then Trump’s idea of bilateral treaties/agreements with individual European countries ought to come into play. That can be a factor in uniting the European natives against the “migrants”, but not on the EU’s anti-US basis nor on the EU’s expansionist ambitions.
I would much rather President Trump negotiate treaties with individual nations rather than the EU as a whole.
As President Trump has said so many of our so-called “friends” have treated us so poorly over the years that now they believe it is their right to do so.
It is time to move on and find new more useful allies. There are many who would welcome us, Poland being one of them.
If US tariffs are bad for the US economy, why is no one discussing why country X’s current and retaliatory tariffs are bad for X’s economy?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3669470/posts?page=5#5
Thanks tO: kosciusko51 for this anti tarriff shredding reality!
If US tariffs are bad for the US economy, why is no one discussing why country X’s current and retaliatory tariffs are bad for X’s economy?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3669470/posts?page=5#5
Thanks to: kosciusko51 for this anti tarriff shredding reality!
Even Merkel’s essentially acknowledged this, per the OP here. They wanted to fight and win a trade war against the US quietly, with the US laying down and dying instead of fighting back, and what with the US’ first strike back actually working, they’re panicking.
One thing that I feel would make a decisive blow is to put a repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment on top of the tariffs, but what RINOs would go for such a proposal? although I suspect a majority of states would be all for such a thing.
They won’t say it, but like most liberals the EU supports such tariff imbalances because the U.S. is “too rich” and “too successful” and use it as a means to tax the rich so to speak.
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