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Trump's threat to impose 50% tariffs on imports from the E.U. is just the latest attack. It comes amid a broader souring in relations and after months of economic sparring.

The European Union has pushed back against Donald Trump’s latest suggestion that he will impose a 50% import tariff on all E.U. goods, warning that transatlantic trade must be built on “respect, not threats.”

The rebuke came after Trump said in a Friday post on his Truth Social platform that trade negotiations with Brussels were “going nowhere” and suggested he would slap a 50% blanket duty on all European goods entering the U.S. starting June 1.

It was just the latest bellicose remark from Trump and came amid a broader souring in relations between the two global powers that has seen months of distrust and economic sparring.

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[–] elmicha@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers. It will take many years to replace these with something European. The same for Android and iOS, Windows and macOS and all the apps that were built for these. Cisco and Juniper - sure, just replace all of their hardware with something European.

Tariffs are insane when Trump applies them, they are equally insane when Europe will apply them.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers

No. That's the point. Those are exactly the institutions you want to target. We want them to switch away from American companies.

The point is stop relying on American stuff so yeah, tax the hell out of them so we stop using their shit.

Tariffs are insane when Trump applies them, they are equally insane when Europe will apply them.

You seem to believe that you can talk with the orange turd. You can't. The only reasoning fascism understands is strength. You never win against fascist by "playing fair", you need to hit them as strong as you can and make sure they won't stand up; so tax, tax them so hard that not a single soul in europe wants to ever use an american service again and let the orange cunt be devoured by the oligarchs that control their country and dream of ruling the whole world.

It's about time we tell the US to fuck off for good.