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Honestly, this is a genius play by Trump. He put 50% tariffs on India and now he’s telling Europeans they have to follow. Except their economy is far less self sufficient, so their only choice will be to do more business with the US.
they’re gonna ignore him so he’ll threaten tariffs on the EU for the 17th time
I mean they already knuckled under when he imposed his trade “deal” on them. I expect exact same thing will happen here. The geniuses running the EU painted themselves into a corner. They want the war to keep going, and they need US backing to do that. Now Trump will say that the US already put tariffs on India, but the EU is undermining that by continuing buying energy from India. So, either EU stops that and buys energy from the US exclusively, or the US will leave them to hang.