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If they go crawling back to the US I feel that all retaliatory tariffs against the US should also apply to the EU.
The EU functionally cannot do anything but neoliberalism and sucking up to the US. When this runs counter to basic materiap reality they will just create "loopholes" where they overpay and subjugate themselves, such as their self-imposed energy crisis where they still buy from Russia and the US but at exorbitant cost.
Surely they'll do the right thing this time 
From the related headlines:
There’s a psychosexual dimension to Trump’s tariffs. You don’t have to be Freud to see it
They took "all politics is sexual pathology" to the next level.
Only after communism will history, and politics free of sexual pathology, truly begin.
Archive link if anyone wants to avoid the paywall (the "tariffs are psychosexual" one): https://archive.is/UfwyN
Correct me if I'm wrong, but pharma tariffs from the US don't seem all that scary from the EU perspective since the cost is just gonna get passed onto health insurance companies and therefore patients, but they don't seem likely to lose that market. It's just going to make life worse for people in the US who depend on those medications. On the other hand, China is a 1.4 billion person market which seems like it would be pretty hard to pass up.
The pharma companies have also been front-loading anyways, in preparation for this:
CSO data published on Tuesday showed there was a more than five-fold increase in pharmaceutical exports to the US in February compared with the same month last year, up from 1.87 billion to 10.45 billion euro.
Exports to the US in general were up 210%.
EY Ireland partner and chief economist Dr Loretta O’Sullivan said: “This bears all the hallmarks of a pre-emptive strike.
“The pharmaceutical sector was not alone in frontloading in February; the drinks industry also took steps to get ahead of policy shifts by the Trump administration, a smart move now that whiskey and other products have been hit with a 10% tariff.
no more half measures walter