Hell, over here in germany the AFD has quite some tummy aches with Trump and his buddies. They tried their best to prop him up... but nobody wants to hear that stuff. And now they are at the point were they have to decide how to proceed further.
Always funny to see political parties scrambling for cover due to their own, and entirely foreseeable, decisions. :)
Fuck, I am from Finland. Hard to keep up with the fuckery your president is doing. We even send Alex (our president) there to lose in golf in order to keep the orange turd happy. Next time he might actually just win and not lose on purpose.
We cant really start WW3 with Europe, if Europe sanctions our tech sector and calls our bonds the US military will be too busy with the *total collapse of the united states of America as a contiguous country* to invade anyone
This is what my brother in law says too, he works at the Danish military and this whole fuckery situation is very closely monitored.. But yes this is also the impression i got from him when he spoke about how likely a 3rd world war is.. Again, i wouldnt put it past big Turd to try though..
No, but the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to set tariffs. Although they can delegate some authority to the President. Now we can argue the president has obviously exceeded this authority, but legally that decision is decided by the courts, even if it flies in the face of all common sense. Like how we have "asset forfeiture" despite the 5th saying you can't be deprived of property without due process.
No, they are not. NATO is a military alliance, there's no economic duties associated with it. That means if a country pulls ahead by dumping something on the market, trying to undercut everyone else, the necessary economic counter-measures can be applied. This includes tarrifs. If done right that's hardly a problem.
Unfortunately, Trump is far from doing anything right. Which is kinda the problem.
The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.
That's no economic duties, it's a promisory article of how things should be. And quite frankly the whole "seek to eliminate conflict in their interational economic policies"?
That still lead to tariffs between the USA and Europe, which according to Article 2 would IDEALLY not be the case.
Article 2 is rather wishy-washy, with no legal bindings or actions that HAVE to be taken. As I said, more of a promisory note, which is still important given that NATO is a group of allies.
Well analysed! I do however not agree with Putin being Trumps handler. He is Putins ally, sure, but someone in Trumps closest circle is the one that gives him the ideas. Trump is not smart enough for this on his own, who is whispering in his ear? That needs to be sorted if you ever want your country back to normal again.
There's been a couple mentions in the news of veterans from our country who came to the aid of US troops in the war and were given flags as a thank you. They have taken the flag boxes down now and a couple wants to return them to the embassy.
90-95% of them. It IS a cult after all. I have seen quite a few of them on social media now arguing that it is no problem invading Greenland because "we won't attack our allies, because we have never had allies, just weak trading partners".
What many people don't get about tariffs is that it makes an imported product effectively unable to compete/non-viable economically. As a French dude, I know that local wine exports to Florida (100k's of bottles) stopped instantly due to tarrifs 4x prices. It does hurt exporters.
of course it does. However with things like medicine, that is necessary and not produced locally, it hurts the US more. Trump just made medicine cost 10% more in a country without public heath care.
im very limited in how i can, but ive did my best to move my little 401k out of the US. i have no doubt this regime is willing to burn us for the smallest amount of gains for themselves. this regime serves the oligarchs, who are happy to gain more control over less because they feel they can take more later. their whole ambition is to burn the world so they can create it in their image. if we can survive trump and take back control, we need to arrest them too.
yes, but the world is being to move past us. we arent going to recover from some of this damage. nations are looking to new trading partners. even mexico and canada are giving up on NAFTA and going by sea to eachother. trump has killed our agricultural exports, killing our manufacturing, killing our energy sector. 2 of those 3 arent going to recover. we are running head long into being a pariah like russia. the world is going to recover, we arent.
Only Trump could find a way to extort other countries and still lose money. What a fool. I can't wait to dance in the streets when he dies. Soon. Please let it be soon.
Neither, famously, is the UK. Honestly the brits choosing to show some feckin spine and side with Europe instead of defaulting to its traditional position as the US's geopolitical lackey is telling as to how far the US has slid
I knew the US was fucked the moment Biden barely won. It should have been extremely obvious that Trump was not only incompetent, but also compromised. The fact that Trump still had support from nearly half the country shows that America didn't reject a con man, but merely upset a few outliers. America learned nothing. Fixing America isn't a matter of electing a Democrat next election, there needs to be a total rejection of the GOP, and I don't see that happening.
It always seemed to me that these videos are staged this way to make them "look different". But if it really was just their personal preference to avoid discomfort/anxiety, I guess I'd take that.
I shall put this here: Adolf Hitler implemented significant tariffs on other countries almost immediately after taking power, using them as a tool for economic nationalism, to promote German self-sufficiency (autarky), protect agriculture, and pressure trading partners like Scandinavia and the Netherlands, leading to trade wars and retaliatory measures as Germany prepared for war.
Sorry, that's wrong. Hjalmar Schacht was the Minister for Economics and the boss of Reichsbank. He invented the MEFO bills for the massive spending Hitler wanted for the Wehrmacht, but the primary task was to soften the blow Germany and the world took due to the tariffs imposed by the USA after the Wall Street crash. Hitler wasn't in power at that time, as a matter of fact it was these tariffs and the resulting economic crisis which lead to his rise in power, as only he warned that would happen.
Everything I read indicates tariff were a policy introduced by Hitler due to the depression and not in response to those imposed by the US: When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy. The changes included privatization of state-owned industries, tariffs, and an attempt to achieve autarky (national economic self-sufficiency).
Weekly earnings increased by 19% in real terms from 1933 to 1939,[8] but this was largely due to employees working longer hours, while the hourly wage rates remained close to the lowest levels reached during the Great Depression. Reduced foreign trade would mean rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.
The only way this works though is (as Anthony aludes to) if you have the product being tariffed available domestically, otherwise tariffs just cost your citizens more money (because companies paying higher prices will pass that cost onto their customers) and the extra money paid in tariffs goes into (surprise, surprise) the government (aka Trumps personal bank account).
In fact it's actually worse, because if you have products produced locally and overseas, putting tariff on the imported products actually drive up the price of locally made products by reducing cost competition and also increasing input costs if raw materials have to be imported to manufacture locally, which is often the case, there is almost no good side to universal tariffs, at least I have yet to see one!
Also, since the EU is a free trading union, those EU countries could just make their exports go over an other not sanctioned EU country to avoid the tariffs.
Russia is certainly happy today what with headlines being all about Trump and Greenland we Russia says "This is what we have been long warning you about.".
Thanks. Does he have more items posted, here or anywhere? I already understood those concepts, but I found that he summed these issues concisely and completely.
Thought it looked familiar, but was quite not sure. It's a neat game, I should play it again. At least I'll have nothing but time once my current job ends in a month... *sigh*
Ugh, I hate games with a premise that intentionally causes stress. Like WHY? Why even play those types of games? I LIKE having everything completely under control and not at risk of completely spiraling into chaos within a moment's notice.
Similar to Terraria in that it is 2D. That’s about where it ends. ONI is a colony sim so your goal is to keep little dudes alive and grow industry that makes living more enjoyable
"Not easily fixed" is an understatement. I think we're talking about at least a generation here, and that only if the American people stop this madman soon, and thereafter implement very robust measures that ensure someone like trump will never get into that office again.
Both seem unlikely. For that reason I think the transatlantic partnership is dead for the foreseeable future.
if we actually have midterm elections, that would be the best possible outcome. no way democrats are going to get a majority though. even with current public sentiment, there are still strongholds of republican support. I am actually expecting repubs to pick up a couple of seats even. we would need a veto proof supermajority, which is never going to happen. it is quite literally impossible.
The conservatives have been propagandized to the point it is going to take some type of severe and brutal sledgehammer of reality (blood or money) to bring even the twinkling hope of realization.
Sadly, even that is slim as they are more likely to be "This is all their fault!" based on their mind set and what they have been fed.
A generation ? Nope - this will take until the US reimagines their election system, in such a way they are no longer in a state of perpetual elections. If the threat of war KEEPS resurfacing every time there's a change in the balance of power in the US, then they can never be a trusted ally to ANYONE, ever again. That ship has sailed COMPLETELY.
Within a generation is charitable. We've undone 80 years of world order in just a year. I wouldn't be surprised if every living American adult today would never see normalized, amicable relations with Western Europe except in a scenario like Germany and Japan under post-WWII reconstruction and occupation.
Canada just announced today that middle sized economies need to ban together to cut out large economy practices holding everyone hostage. Trump has flushed all the gains post WW2 down the toilet to the point the old model for doing things is now dead.
This is exactly how I feel. Speaking as a tourist. I am glad I visited Hollywood, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon back when Obama was President. Because I don't see how I would think about ever visiting the US again. Your Immigration is so out of control. And even if that gets fixed, what Trump did to Ukraine is unforgivable. Not respecting that deal is the ultimate break of trust one country could do to another, and signaling to other countries they can never ever trust you again.
Oh O blame Biden for something else. Biden didn't release the Epstein files. He could have had, seeing how Trump has total control over the DOJ to redact every word and picture on the files. Biden could have released every single file unredacted.
As a European, I really hope so. I hope this is the starting point for breaking away from American imperialism. Here in Europe we’ve been paying the price for over 20 years — recessions, the post-COVID economy, and wars right on our doorstep. If we have to make one more effort to free ourselves from U.S. dependence especially technological and military ..well, we’ve got thick skin. I just hope European leaders finally step up and show some backbone.
They’d need to actually sanction the USA. Remove the US dollar as the base currency for the European and other stock markets. Corporate overlords won’t like that so I doubt much more than strongly worded statements in front of cameras and poor people being sent to shoot each other is going to happen.
Id differentiate between actual kowtowing and flattery used in the hopes of manipulating him to stop doing things. In the latter it's just words, but nothing of substance is given to him.
The one saving grace for me as an American, as I starve to death thanks to moron Trump, is that maybe Europe will have to admit you cause a lot of your own problems. Like you wanna blame post COVID woes on the USA instead of, I dunno, conservatives across Europe implementing austerity measures the decade before?? The UK eg is fucked bc of their repeated own goals. Their labor party is run by a capitalist. Austerity. Brexit. Pedo monarchy. Etc
Five generations. It'll be at minimum five generations before they ever trust us, and that's after we dispose of the fascists and the liberal enablers of fascism. Specifically, people like Jeffries and Schumer have far too much control, and the corpo advisors in the DNC are hellbent on alienating everyone to the left of their center-right position.
Do not give Newsom even the slightest chance at the presidency. He may be able to repair relations, but he will absolutely sell out Main Street.
I keep recommending that Americans better operate under the assumption that there won't be meaningful elections anymore.
If there are, nothing -- NOTHING -- is more important than defeating fascism. You see where the principled stances against Kamala got the world? First defeat the fascists, everything else comes thereafter.
That's fair. But I absolutely know that Newsom would flip flop and give Fascism oxygen.
THAT is why I don't want him as POTUS. He would harm us, while rebuilding business ties with other countries - that's why he's at Davos right now. Not fighting fascism, but connecting with the people who'd rather enable it.
The Americans also need to disenfranchise around 70+ million fellow citizens because they cannot be trusted to vote in good faith or even self-interest but in pure blind hatred for everyone else.
As horrifying as that number is, there's still more Americans who aren't like that. There should have been an easy majority over Trump, but too few voted. With DEEP reforms of the American system, these hateful bastards would not get their president. With better education their numbers would shrink. With better social systems the fear of losing everything would vanish.
As a resident in one of the named EU-countries we are not viewing Americans the same way as we do with Russians. Why would I/we trust or share anything with someone who's goals may be to bring harm to you and your country.
Also, Denmark bought a bunch of military gear including F35's from the US instead of the Swedish and other EU-alternatives to boost their relations with US. And this is what US, not only Trump but US, have to offer in return.
As an European: There is a "easy fix" for the US. But we don't believe it will take place. Dem win with 65% to 70%. AOC will be speaker of the House in 2026. Trump will be impeached in December 2026. Members of the Supreme Court will be impeached. Trump and his Administration lands in Prison for their Crimes. (There are lot of them) the Court system is fixed and cleansed of political judges. Thats a realy easy fix.
Disagree. Europe needs long-term stability and reliability. The American voters within the American system of elections have proven that they can't be trusted. We can't restructure everything every 4 years if Americans decide the next madman belongs in the White House too.
As i said one of the biggest Problems is the judical system which got rigged in 2017-2020 in preperation for the takeover now. Without cleansing it of the Fascist Judges everything it won't be a real turn back. As we saw with Biden. So those Judges needs to be cleansed and removed. Before that there is no possibility for trust. It's like in Poland where the PiS tried to removes the judges and Tusk is now trying to reinstate a new independend judical System but Nawrocki is blocking it.
That's not going to stop EU from attempting complete autonomy from US. Doesn't mean it won't trade with US, but it will make sure it can cut ties whenever.
They won't be trusted for generations. The problem isn't just trump it's the poorly educated and racist underpinnings of the entire American society. That's going to take decades to change. The US will never be world leaders in anything again.
The US can't be trusted, period. Because the whole political system has shown it has either no teeth or no will to even work in the constrainments of its *own* rules. And thus nobody is going to trust the US again, because what's to say who comes next that the Republicans gather behind like he's the fucking messiah and nod off everything with religious fervor?
Not enough. They also need deep reforms to their entire political system. The EC, Citizens United, gerrymandering et al needs to go. Education needs to be MUCH better. Propaganda outlets like Fox News must be made impossible to exist. Americans must also, for the first time, hold the people who got us here accountable. From the president all the way down to ICE fascists, judge jury jail.
A few other things that need to happen; 1. Repeal the 2A, eliminate police unions and increase the required qualifications and training for police. I’m not saying they can’t have guns at all, but the 2A has been abused and led both to actual violence but also certain segments of the population being ungovernable (remember throughout Biden’s term everyone saying he couldn’t go after Trump because all the gun-toting MAGAts would go ballistic?). Combine that with police forces hiring
bottom-of-the-barrel candidates and police unions protecting bad cops, and you’ve got a situation where justice is applied selectively, the government doesn’t have a monopoly on the use of force, and when the government does use force it isn’t reliably justified. 2. Free healthcare; the current HC system in the United States serves to keep many people impoverished and disenfranchised, unable to bargain with their employers in any meaningful way because losing their job could mean losing their
life (or a family member) when suddenly they can’t afford insulin. 3. Make public servants appointed and not elected positions - jobs like judges, sheriffs, hell even coroners get elected, meaning that the decisions made by the people in those roles are driven by what will get them reelected instead of what is the correct thing to do. Again, this means that justice gets applied selectively, and has allowed things like systemic racism to persist in the American south long past the Jim Crow era.
More easily fixed if we execute every cunt involved, change our laws to prevent this shit from ever happening again including the ability to automatically close loopholes that appear as people develop loop holes to get around the new laws
Let's be real, US-Canada relations will never go back to what we perceive as normal; they simply can't. Just like Europe now knows they can never again afford to rely as heavily on America as they have been, restoring the former degree of friendliness and cooperation with America is, and will always be, an existential mistake for Canada.
I would be extremely surprised if damage to transatlantic relations clan be repaired in a generation, and if Americans actually spill NATO blood, and 1/2
Illegally annex an autonomous territory of a sovereign NATO nation for the sake lil' Donny Diddles' latest temper tantrum, even that'll be a long shot 2/2
This is how we as a European should hope that 2026 will be the year the empires of China, Russia and the United States collapse. And that Europe finds its backbone and starts leading the world to a better future, and not to this dystopia of oligarchs and megacorps that these 3 empires have tried to take us to. Dystopian fiction is fun (CP, SR & 40k) as long as they stay fiction
China will not collapse. China is doing pretty well, all things considered. And by China I obviously mean the Communist Party. Russia... meh, maybe if Putin bites the dust. There's no real "Crown Prince" there, so the infighting could be brutal for the entire state. The US Hegemony is gone though. Maybe not visually right now, but they've basically showed the world that they are not to be trusted. And by "they" I don't just mean Trump. There's a whole system enabling him.
China CAN collapse. They have real troubles that are seldomly reported about. Let's start with the overreporting of the population living in the provinces. That's managed locally and for DECADES the numbers have been fudged on the provincial level, due to getting more money if there are more people.
We talk about, IIRC, 200 to 300 million or more people straight up not existing. That's catastrophic if you plan long term... as China tries.
If you look at European conservatives and the far right, some of them might actually try to establish bilateral relationships to the US. Just look at Hungary or maybe Italy.
Orban is an unpleasant exception, but the regular European conservative wants stability. Things ought to be calm, reliable, as they've always been. That ain't Trump.
Now, our European fascists have been strengthened by Trump (and domestic issues). Where ever they take over, like in Hungary, well that's a different story. But other than them I don't see anyone not learning the lesson here.
Oh they're way ahead of you on that. Look up the International Democratic Union, which is a talking shop for right-wing dickheads to collaborate internationally. Real "democratic" people like Orban, Farage and Harper.
Last night I told my dad that we are gonna be on probation for decades with the rest of the work. He said that “the world will know it’s a one off and take us back after trump is gone” I reminded him that this is the second time we elected trump. It shows that we can, and probably will, elect another despot in the future if huge changes aren’t made.
Oh, and btw: for most Europeans it's more like the fourth time. Dubya wasn't as bad as trump, but he was very bad still. Old Europe/New Europe (against us/with us), institutionalized torture, an illegal war with countless casualties... all that and more was that dude. Trust was at a historic low back then too.
Yeah… he’s an idiot. He tries to have a good heart, and I feel there is a core of one somewhere in there, but he lets his trauma rule him. He quietly homophobic because some guys tried to sexually assault him once. He’s quietly racists because he thinks he didn’t get into the FBI because of affirmative action and there being a black man in his applicant group. He thinks he is super smart business man who has only ever had failed business due to “other people not knowing what they’re doing”
He voted for trump again (2020) after saying he regretted it the first time. He probably voted for trump a third time in 2024. He wants to vent his anger and trauma onto people he thinks somehow wronged him. He’s a vengeful, willfully ignorant moron, who only learns through pain, if he learns at all. He also has VERY intense ADHD that he refuses to do anything about because he thinks it’s a superpower. He can’t finish the smallest of tasks but can think of 10000 ways to fail at said task.
OnyxTurret
Okay, finally correct use of POV.
StarchildDreamer
If only oxygen was not included in certain specific airways...
RevolutionOnHerLips
I am deeply, deeply weary of being an American.
PierreGyss
"since we know that he could not strategize his way out of a tic tac toe game"... oooch, that is violent.
FakeFlagger
You know you fucked diplomatically if you pissed off and united European conservatives and liberals on the issue.
Bhurano
Hell, over here in germany the AFD has quite some tummy aches with Trump and his buddies. They tried their best to prop him up... but nobody wants to hear that stuff. And now they are at the point were they have to decide how to proceed further.
Always funny to see political parties scrambling for cover due to their own, and entirely foreseeable, decisions. :)
hsalonen3000
Fuck, I am from Finland. Hard to keep up with the fuckery your president is doing. We even send Alex (our president) there to lose in golf in order to keep the orange turd happy. Next time he might actually just win and not lose on purpose.
Gonstackk
I like this guy and nice, playing Oxygen not included.
Thojira
Took me a second until I saw the repeating horizontal lines
override367
We cant really start WW3 with Europe, if Europe sanctions our tech sector and calls our bonds the US military will be too busy with the *total collapse of the united states of America as a contiguous country* to invade anyone
Gwenx
This is what my brother in law says too, he works at the Danish military and this whole fuckery situation is very closely monitored..
But yes this is also the impression i got from him when he spoke about how likely a 3rd world war is..
Again, i wouldnt put it past big Turd to try though..
MerlintheRogue
The war will be over before it ever started. The economy would straight up implode.
pififu
I wish i could upvote this 100 more time. So true
FakeFlagger
Imagine someone robbing you at gun point and telling you: “If I don’t rob you someone else will, and besides, I’m a nicer robber.”
SamuraiChemist
Any tarrifs are arguably already a violation of article 2 on the NATO treaty.
tetondons
No, but the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to set tariffs. Although they can delegate some authority to the President. Now we can argue the president has obviously exceeded this authority, but legally that decision is decided by the courts, even if it flies in the face of all common sense. Like how we have "asset forfeiture" despite the 5th saying you can't be deprived of property without due process.
Bhurano
No, they are not. NATO is a military alliance, there's no economic duties associated with it. That means if a country pulls ahead by dumping something on the market, trying to undercut everyone else, the necessary economic counter-measures can be applied. This includes tarrifs. If done right that's hardly a problem.
Unfortunately, Trump is far from doing anything right. Which is kinda the problem.
SamuraiChemist
From the NATO website:Article 2
The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.
Bhurano
That's no economic duties, it's a promisory article of how things should be. And quite frankly the whole "seek to eliminate conflict in their interational economic policies"?
That still lead to tariffs between the USA and Europe, which according to Article 2 would IDEALLY not be the case.
Article 2 is rather wishy-washy, with no legal bindings or actions that HAVE to be taken. As I said, more of a promisory note, which is still important given that NATO is a group of allies.
MyCommentsUsuallyHaveTypos
Extortion? You don't say...
HenryLongfellowIII
I thought only "bad" countries did economic coercion? Maybe when it's on a existential and planetary scale instead of wee diplomatic tiffs it's okay?
Kleverin
Well analysed! I do however not agree with Putin being Trumps handler. He is Putins ally, sure, but someone in Trumps closest circle is the one that gives him the ideas. Trump is not smart enough for this on his own, who is whispering in his ear? That needs to be sorted if you ever want your country back to normal again.
Seras91
And every of this countries bled for the US when they called for help after 2001.
Doompug
There's been a couple mentions in the news of veterans from our country who came to the aid of US troops in the war and were given flags as a thank you. They have taken the flag boxes down now and a couple wants to return them to the embassy.
Pokegeologist
Trump is playing 3D chess with checkers game pieces and still shouts down anybody who refuses to agree he's winning.
MidnaDS
If you don't sell me your island, I will make things more expensive for my people.
iamthemurray
*Trump uses struggle* hurts everyone in the party but himself
Hotjoe1991
"5D chess" -MAGA drooling dipshits
Clayman8
*refuses to sell island even harder* https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1OWdzMWE1YXN5andyZDlqZ3B5MnllZWt0bnFmYmo0YnBxZTd1bGkzayZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/viEM13XhzGgA8/200w.webp
AdrianMole
I wonder what percentage of Trump supporters still think the tariffs are paid by others than the American people.
Beardedgeek72
90-95% of them. It IS a cult after all. I have seen quite a few of them on social media now arguing that it is no problem invading Greenland because "we won't attack our allies, because we have never had allies, just weak trading partners".
tolzun
What many people don't get about tariffs is that it makes an imported product effectively unable to compete/non-viable economically. As a French dude, I know that local wine exports to Florida (100k's of bottles) stopped instantly due to tarrifs 4x prices. It does hurt exporters.
Beardedgeek72
of course it does. However with things like medicine, that is necessary and not produced locally, it hurts the US more. Trump just made medicine cost 10% more in a country without public heath care.
ProjectDA
im very limited in how i can, but ive did my best to move my little 401k out of the US. i have no doubt this regime is willing to burn us for the smallest amount of gains for themselves. this regime serves the oligarchs, who are happy to gain more control over less because they feel they can take more later. their whole ambition is to burn the world so they can create it in their image. if we can survive trump and take back control, we need to arrest them too.
HenryLongfellowIII
Where tho?
ProjectDA
out of the US. this regime is deadset on destroying this economy in everyway possible.
nalmeth
Except the American economy is very much tied into the world economy. What's bad for the US economy is also bad for the world.
ProjectDA
yes, but the world is being to move past us. we arent going to recover from some of this damage. nations are looking to new trading partners. even mexico and canada are giving up on NAFTA and going by sea to eachother. trump has killed our agricultural exports, killing our manufacturing, killing our energy sector. 2 of those 3 arent going to recover. we are running head long into being a pariah like russia. the world is going to recover, we arent.
Septcanmat
Oh no, it hurt itself in its confusion!
MyGreatestFearBoner
Basically the MAGA super move.
MarkWatneysVicodinPotato
Underrated comment right here!
redditmcredditface
dude nailed it. I trust him for the sole reason of that giant model rocket
Earlgreyhot6
Finally some intelligence
WiiShaker
Only Trump could find a way to extort other countries and still lose money. What a fool. I can't wait to dance in the streets when he dies. Soon. Please let it be soon.
Svartsinn
Is that guy editing Noita maps?
verityauger
Norway is not a member of the EU. Just fyi.
t9dawg
True, I think it's just that saying "EU" became synonymous with "Europe" in casual chats, especially on Twitch and youtube streams.
Thorketil
This “small” fact goes far beyond Trump’s political understanding.
Grimmrog
yes but they are part of NATO
verityauger
Absolutely. Founding member.
Wholivesinapineappleunderthetree
And Schengen Agreement
TeddyBruhsvelt
Neither, famously, is the UK. Honestly the brits choosing to show some feckin spine and side with Europe instead of defaulting to its traditional position as the US's geopolitical lackey is telling as to how far the US has slid
HenryLongfellowIII
They have even lost Nigel Farange. That's quite the accomplishment.
patta8388
Funnily enough, the Brits hurt that position by themselves by leaving the EU and making themselves less relevant.
Teledabby
still better than stupid bottle caps! /s
nalmeth
We should replace Dump with this kid. He has more braincells than the entire GOP.
aristera
I knew the US was fucked the moment Biden barely won. It should have been extremely obvious that Trump was not only incompetent, but also compromised. The fact that Trump still had support from nearly half the country shows that America didn't reject a con man, but merely upset a few outliers. America learned nothing. Fixing America isn't a matter of electing a Democrat next election, there needs to be a total rejection of the GOP, and I don't see that happening.
Aragorn195
Trump has already announced he's not go through with the tarfifs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/21/trump-framework-greenland-tariffs-threats
He TACO'd yet again
TZO2k15
He is the emperor of all nerdom, his explanation was poetry; there's a reason why nerds rule…
So all due respect ⇒
VaclavUrbanek
I kinda hate this gimmick. Why not just normally talk to the camera? Why create this illusion of effortlessness?
Seras91
maybe talking directly into the camera makes them uncomfortable
VaclavUrbanek
It always seemed to me that these videos are staged this way to make them "look different". But if it really was just their personal preference to avoid discomfort/anxiety, I guess I'd take that.
varonicaED
I shall put this here: Adolf Hitler implemented significant tariffs on other countries almost immediately after taking power, using them as a tool for economic nationalism, to promote German self-sufficiency (autarky), protect agriculture, and pressure trading partners like Scandinavia and the Netherlands, leading to trade wars and retaliatory measures as Germany prepared for war.
Amanquatia
Sorry, that's wrong. Hjalmar Schacht was the Minister for Economics and the boss of Reichsbank. He invented the MEFO bills for the massive spending Hitler wanted for the Wehrmacht, but the primary task was to soften the blow Germany and the world took due to the tariffs imposed by the USA after the Wall Street crash. Hitler wasn't in power at that time, as a matter of fact it was these tariffs and the resulting economic crisis which lead to his rise in power, as only he warned that would happen.
Thorketil
Goldensands
Yikes.
varonicaED
Everything I read indicates tariff were a policy introduced by Hitler due to the depression and not in response to those imposed by the US: When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy. The changes included privatization of state-owned industries, tariffs, and an attempt to achieve autarky (national economic self-sufficiency).
varonicaED
Weekly earnings increased by 19% in real terms from 1933 to 1939,[8] but this was largely due to employees working longer hours, while the hourly wage rates remained close to the lowest levels reached during the Great Depression. Reduced foreign trade would mean rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.
StellarJay77
The only way this works though is (as Anthony aludes to) if you have the product being tariffed available domestically, otherwise tariffs just cost your citizens more money (because companies paying higher prices will pass that cost onto their customers) and the extra money paid in tariffs goes into (surprise, surprise) the government (aka Trumps personal bank account).
varonicaED
In fact it's actually worse, because if you have products produced locally and overseas, putting tariff on the imported products actually drive up the price of locally made products by reducing cost competition and also increasing input costs if raw materials have to be imported to manufacture locally, which is often the case, there is almost no good side to universal tariffs, at least I have yet to see one!
StellarJay77
One "good" side... it makes the rich even richer.
PerkyPervertedPet
Also, since the EU is a free trading union, those EU countries could just make their exports go over an other not sanctioned EU country to avoid the tariffs.
B0reas
Smart summary, Anthony. Thanks. What r u playing?
ifoundthelight
Oh I thought it was rimworld.
FuzzyX
Russia is certainly happy today what with headlines being all about Trump and Greenland we Russia says "This is what we have been long warning you about.".
FenrirSonOfLoki
I'm sure it's more like "Finally, our hard work pays off."
PuppyBella
Who is Anthony? Does he post? or did someone else make this post?
Gunslinger8912
The guy in the video. @silentmiddlechild
PuppyBella
Thanks. Does he have more items posted, here or anywhere? I already understood those concepts, but I found that he summed these issues concisely and completely.
serleth
Same username on tiktok
PuppyBella
thank you
greggbert
It is only the best game ever oxygen not included
gcleff19101
Looks like factario or something similar.
RuminatingYak
It's 'Oxygen Not Included' by Klei, the same guys that made Don't Starve
gcleff19101
Aaahh yup that's the one. Watched a stream just a little bit of it once, another game not for me
Acecakes
Its "Oxygen Not Included"
Ketheres
Thought it looked familiar, but was quite not sure. It's a neat game, I should play it again. At least I'll have nothing but time once my current job ends in a month... *sigh*
ManguPixel
What looks like puffs of smoke had me confused but the gas reservoirs are unmistakable. Wonder what those are. A mod?
Redoneter593
Ugh, I hate games with a premise that intentionally causes stress. Like WHY? Why even play those types of games? I LIKE having everything completely under control and not at risk of completely spiraling into chaos within a moment's notice.
Magnar1183
Is it a game similar to Stardew Valley or Terraria?
ShadowSayain
Similar to Terraria in that it is 2D. That’s about where it ends. ONI is a colony sim so your goal is to keep little dudes alive and grow industry that makes living more enjoyable
Magnar1183
Yarp. That would be a game I'd be trash at.
DeanSledgehammer
I thought it was Rimworld.
InitHello
Nah, that's definitely ONI. Rimworld is also fun, but looks very different.
Zeterai
No, Oni is a different game entirely, from back in the depths of history when Bungie wasn't a shambling corpse in the guise of a studio.
Efreeti
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
"Not easily fixed" is an understatement. I think we're talking about at least a generation here, and that only if the American people stop this madman soon, and thereafter implement very robust measures that ensure someone like trump will never get into that office again.
Both seem unlikely. For that reason I think the transatlantic partnership is dead for the foreseeable future.
onlymostofthetime
if we actually have midterm elections, that would be the best possible outcome. no way democrats are going to get a majority though. even with current public sentiment, there are still strongholds of republican support. I am actually expecting repubs to pick up a couple of seats even.
we would need a veto proof supermajority, which is never going to happen. it is quite literally impossible.
Selfinflictedwounds
You are still being too optimistic....
The conservatives have been propagandized to the point it is going to take some type of severe and brutal sledgehammer of reality (blood or money) to bring even the twinkling hope of realization.
Sadly, even that is slim as they are more likely to be "This is all their fault!" based on their mind set and what they have been fed.
Eidodk
A generation ? Nope - this will take until the US reimagines their election system, in such a way they are no longer in a state of perpetual elections. If the threat of war KEEPS resurfacing every time there's a change in the balance of power in the US, then they can never be a trusted ally to ANYONE, ever again. That ship has sailed COMPLETELY.
Pokegeologist
Within a generation is charitable. We've undone 80 years of world order in just a year. I wouldn't be surprised if every living American adult today would never see normalized, amicable relations with Western Europe except in a scenario like Germany and Japan under post-WWII reconstruction and occupation.
SilverNicktail
Kinda like Brexit, but much worse.
FenrirSonOfLoki
"This bargain no longer works." No going back. The Golden Age is over.
SarcasticComment
Canada just announced today that middle sized economies need to ban together to cut out large economy practices holding everyone hostage. Trump has flushed all the gains post WW2 down the toilet to the point the old model for doing things is now dead.
awkungen42
It won't happen because our government is owned by billionaires.
Hexidimentional
Several generations, Much like the harm he has made to Canada's relationship with the usa, the EU has long memories.
Poppypoppoppop
This is exactly how I feel. Speaking as a tourist. I am glad I visited Hollywood, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon back when Obama was President. Because I don't see how I would think about ever visiting the US again. Your Immigration is so out of control. And even if that gets fixed, what Trump did to Ukraine is unforgivable. Not respecting that deal is the ultimate break of trust one country could do to another, and signaling to other countries they can never ever trust you again.
khora
I'd argue Biden did it to Ukraine too. The game was to prevent Russia from winning and from losing.
Poppypoppoppop
Oh O blame Biden for something else. Biden didn't release the Epstein files. He could have had, seeing how Trump has total control over the DOJ to redact every word and picture on the files. Biden could have released every single file unredacted.
SomebodythatIusedtonope
As a European, I really hope so. I hope this is the starting point for breaking away from American imperialism. Here in Europe we’ve been paying the price for over 20 years — recessions, the post-COVID economy, and wars right on our doorstep. If we have to make one more effort to free ourselves from U.S. dependence especially technological and military ..well, we’ve got thick skin. I just hope European leaders finally step up and show some backbone.
xedd82
They’d need to actually sanction the USA. Remove the US dollar as the base currency for the European and other stock markets. Corporate overlords won’t like that so I doubt much more than strongly worded statements in front of cameras and poor people being sent to shoot each other is going to happen.
WackyTicTacCasualty
Stopping the kowtowing to him would be a good start
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Id differentiate between actual kowtowing and flattery used in the hopes of manipulating him to stop doing things. In the latter it's just words, but nothing of substance is given to him.
shitheadtookmyname
The one saving grace for me as an American, as I starve to death thanks to moron Trump, is that maybe Europe will have to admit you cause a lot of your own problems. Like you wanna blame post COVID woes on the USA instead of, I dunno, conservatives across Europe implementing austerity measures the decade before?? The UK eg is fucked bc of their repeated own goals. Their labor party is run by a capitalist. Austerity. Brexit. Pedo monarchy. Etc
NKato
Five generations. It'll be at minimum five generations before they ever trust us, and that's after we dispose of the fascists and the liberal enablers of fascism. Specifically, people like Jeffries and Schumer have far too much control, and the corpo advisors in the DNC are hellbent on alienating everyone to the left of their center-right position.
Do not give Newsom even the slightest chance at the presidency. He may be able to repair relations, but he will absolutely sell out Main Street.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
I keep recommending that Americans better operate under the assumption that there won't be meaningful elections anymore.
If there are, nothing -- NOTHING -- is more important than defeating fascism. You see where the principled stances against Kamala got the world? First defeat the fascists, everything else comes thereafter.
NKato
That's fair. But I absolutely know that Newsom would flip flop and give Fascism oxygen.
THAT is why I don't want him as POTUS. He would harm us, while rebuilding business ties with other countries - that's why he's at Davos right now. Not fighting fascism, but connecting with the people who'd rather enable it.
TrueLegateDamar
The Americans also need to disenfranchise around 70+ million fellow citizens because they cannot be trusted to vote in good faith or even self-interest but in pure blind hatred for everyone else.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
As horrifying as that number is, there's still more Americans who aren't like that. There should have been an easy majority over Trump, but too few voted. With DEEP reforms of the American system, these hateful bastards would not get their president. With better education their numbers would shrink. With better social systems the fear of losing everything would vanish.
But that's all hypothetical, of course.
slack3rdav3
I say we go the way of Australia and make voting mandatory, while making it a holiday. everyone votes.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
One very obvious measure. In my country, we vote on Sundays. Doesn't even have to be a holiday.
slack3rdav3
not everyone has Sunday off.
patta8388
The Alliance is dead.
US Hegemony is gone.
Most people just haven't realised it yet.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Here in Europe a lot have. Probably most
patta8388
Touché.
trikks
As a resident in one of the named EU-countries we are not viewing Americans the same way as we do with Russians. Why would I/we trust or share anything with someone who's goals may be to bring harm to you and your country.
Also, Denmark bought a bunch of military gear including F35's from the US instead of the Swedish and other EU-alternatives to boost their relations with US. And this is what US, not only Trump but US, have to offer in return.
Thanks I guess
Elkarlo1977
As an European: There is a "easy fix" for the US. But we don't believe it will take place. Dem win with 65% to 70%. AOC will be speaker of the House in 2026. Trump will be impeached in December 2026. Members of the Supreme Court will be impeached. Trump and his Administration lands in Prison for their Crimes. (There are lot of them) the Court system is fixed and cleansed of political judges. Thats a realy easy fix.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Disagree. Europe needs long-term stability and reliability. The American voters within the American system of elections have proven that they can't be trusted. We can't restructure everything every 4 years if Americans decide the next madman belongs in the White House too.
Elkarlo1977
As i said one of the biggest Problems is the judical system which got rigged in 2017-2020 in preperation for the takeover now. Without cleansing it of the Fascist Judges everything it won't be a real turn back. As we saw with Biden. So those Judges needs to be cleansed and removed. Before that there is no possibility for trust. It's like in Poland where the PiS tried to removes the judges and Tusk is now trying to reinstate a new independend judical System but Nawrocki is blocking it.
khora
That's not going to stop EU from attempting complete autonomy from US. Doesn't mean it won't trade with US, but it will make sure it can cut ties whenever.
Cargobiker530
The United States can't be trusted until Trump's gone. The current Supreme Court majority is impeached & removed & the GOP crushed like a soda can.
shorey66
They won't be trusted for generations. The problem isn't just trump it's the poorly educated and racist underpinnings of the entire American society. That's going to take decades to change.
The US will never be world leaders in anything again.
unluckyandbored
The US government needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up.
johneventually1
America 2.0
patta8388
The US can't be trusted, period.
Because the whole political system has shown it has either no teeth or no will to even work in the constrainments of its *own* rules.
And thus nobody is going to trust the US again, because what's to say who comes next that the Republicans gather behind like he's the fucking messiah and nod off everything with religious fervor?
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Not enough. They also need deep reforms to their entire political system. The EC, Citizens United, gerrymandering et al needs to go. Education needs to be MUCH better. Propaganda outlets like Fox News must be made impossible to exist. Americans must also, for the first time, hold the people who got us here accountable. From the president all the way down to ICE fascists, judge jury jail.
Septcanmat
A few other things that need to happen; 1. Repeal the 2A, eliminate police unions and increase the required qualifications and training for police. I’m not saying they can’t have guns at all, but the 2A has been abused and led both to actual violence but also certain segments of the population being ungovernable (remember throughout Biden’s term everyone saying he couldn’t go after Trump because all the gun-toting MAGAts would go ballistic?). Combine that with police forces hiring
Septcanmat
bottom-of-the-barrel candidates and police unions protecting bad cops, and you’ve got a situation where justice is applied selectively, the government doesn’t have a monopoly on the use of force, and when the government does use force it isn’t reliably justified. 2. Free healthcare; the current HC system in the United States serves to keep many people impoverished and disenfranchised, unable to bargain with their employers in any meaningful way because losing their job could mean losing their
Septcanmat
life (or a family member) when suddenly they can’t afford insulin. 3. Make public servants appointed and not elected positions - jobs like judges, sheriffs, hell even coroners get elected, meaning that the decisions made by the people in those roles are driven by what will get them reelected instead of what is the correct thing to do. Again, this means that justice gets applied selectively, and has allowed things like systemic racism to persist in the American south long past the Jim Crow era.
NKato
Agreed.
PassionAggressive
More easily fixed if we execute every cunt involved, change our laws to prevent this shit from ever happening again including the ability to automatically close loopholes that appear as people develop loop holes to get around the new laws
SlaaneshiRightsFront
Let's be real, US-Canada relations will never go back to what we perceive as normal; they simply can't. Just like Europe now knows they can never again afford to rely as heavily on America as they have been, restoring the former degree of friendliness and cooperation with America is, and will always be, an existential mistake for Canada.
I would be extremely surprised if damage to transatlantic relations clan be repaired in a generation, and if Americans actually spill NATO blood, and 1/2
SlaaneshiRightsFront
Illegally annex an autonomous territory of a sovereign NATO nation for the sake lil' Donny Diddles' latest temper tantrum, even that'll be a long shot 2/2
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
I did preface the time frame by assuming a best case, nay, utopian case scenario. Anything less than that and the time will extant significantly.
Suomijuusto89
This is how we as a European should hope that 2026 will be the year the empires of China, Russia and the United States collapse. And that Europe finds its backbone and starts leading the world to a better future, and not to this dystopia of oligarchs and megacorps that these 3 empires have tried to take us to. Dystopian fiction is fun (CP, SR & 40k) as long as they stay fiction
patta8388
China will not collapse. China is doing pretty well, all things considered. And by China I obviously mean the Communist Party.
Russia... meh, maybe if Putin bites the dust. There's no real "Crown Prince" there, so the infighting could be brutal for the entire state.
The US Hegemony is gone though. Maybe not visually right now, but they've basically showed the world that they are not to be trusted. And by "they" I don't just mean Trump. There's a whole system enabling him.
Bhurano
China CAN collapse. They have real troubles that are seldomly reported about. Let's start with the overreporting of the population living in the provinces. That's managed locally and for DECADES the numbers have been fudged on the provincial level, due to getting more money if there are more people.
We talk about, IIRC, 200 to 300 million or more people straight up not existing. That's catastrophic if you plan long term... as China tries.
And that's just one problem.
Suomijuusto89
It is good to live in hope, said the tapeworm
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
That a Finnish saying?
Suomijuusto89
yeah, Because (toivo) hope and (usko) faith are traditional Finnish male names. But google translate doesn't recognize them as names.
knispler
If you look at European conservatives and the far right, some of them might actually try to establish bilateral relationships to the US. Just look at Hungary or maybe Italy.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Orban is an unpleasant exception, but the regular European conservative wants stability. Things ought to be calm, reliable, as they've always been. That ain't Trump.
Now, our European fascists have been strengthened by Trump (and domestic issues). Where ever they take over, like in Hungary, well that's a different story. But other than them I don't see anyone not learning the lesson here.
SilverNicktail
Oh they're way ahead of you on that. Look up the International Democratic Union, which is a talking shop for right-wing dickheads to collaborate internationally. Real "democratic" people like Orban, Farage and Harper.
LoudBirb
Oh... so leaders who are "Democratic" in the same vein as the Democratic Peoples' Republic of North Korea.
prosper020
Last night I told my dad that we are gonna be on probation for decades with the rest of the work. He said that “the world will know it’s a one off and take us back after trump is gone” I reminded him that this is the second time we elected trump. It shows that we can, and probably will, elect another despot in the future if huge changes aren’t made.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Oh, and btw: for most Europeans it's more like the fourth time. Dubya wasn't as bad as trump, but he was very bad still. Old Europe/New Europe (against us/with us), institutionalized torture, an illegal war with countless casualties... all that and more was that dude. Trust was at a historic low back then too.
khora
Bush also put tariffs in place against Europe.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Tell him hi from me, and that you're right and he's not.
prosper020
Yeah… he’s an idiot. He tries to have a good heart, and I feel there is a core of one somewhere in there, but he lets his trauma rule him. He quietly homophobic because some guys tried to sexually assault him once. He’s quietly racists because he thinks he didn’t get into the FBI because of affirmative action and there being a black man in his applicant group. He thinks he is super smart business man who has only ever had failed business due to “other people not knowing what they’re doing”
prosper020
He voted for trump again (2020) after saying he regretted it the first time. He probably voted for trump a third time in 2024. He wants to vent his anger and trauma onto people he thinks somehow wronged him. He’s a vengeful, willfully ignorant moron, who only learns through pain, if he learns at all.
He also has VERY intense ADHD that he refuses to do anything about because he thinks it’s a superpower. He can’t finish the smallest of tasks but can think of 10000 ways to fail at said task.
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Damn man. Sorry, that's rough. For both of you.