The response from the EU is exactly what we would expect to see from the end of the 80-year-old Marshal Plan.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyden has three big concerns with the new trade/tariff reset. I strongly suggest everyone to read the EU concerns slowly to fully absorb decades of hypocrisy now surfacing:
#1 The EU will not be able to compete for U.S. market share with 20% general tariffs and 25% auto tariffs.
#2 The EU must deploy countermeasures against the risk of losing industrial capacity and manufacturing to the United States.
And #3 The EU must defend itself against China dumping cheap products into the EU now rejected by the USA.
von der Leyen is concerned mostly about the extremely valuable U.S. consumer being leveraged by President Trump, essentially blocking exploitation from EU and Asia. The EU will not tolerate losing access to the most valuable customers in the world, Americans.
Showcasing the mindset, Ursula von der Leyen vows to take all action needed to retain U.S. customers, even if those customers no longer want her products. The USA will allow Europe access, or there will be hell to pay. I must say this is quite funny.
(Via Politico) […] Von der Leyen said Trump’s tariffs would have dire consequences for consumers and businesses that have prospered through trade with the United States since World War Two.
[…] The EU chief executive said the bloc would ready countermeasures against Trump’s latest tariff broadside, in addition to a €26 billion package responding to tariffs he has already imposed on steel and aluminum. At the same time, she vowed, Brussels will work to protect the industries most exposed.
“We are already finalizing the first package of countermeasures in response to tariffs on steel, and we are now preparing for further countermeasures to protect our interests and our businesses if negotiations fail,” von der Leyen said from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where she was attending a summit.
“We will also be watching closely what indirect effects these tariffs could have. Because we cannot absorb global overcut capacity, nor will we accept dumping on our markets,” von der Leyen said, as the bloc braces for a flood of cheaper exports coming from China and elsewhere that will be shut out of the U.S. market. (read more)
As noted by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, all of the global trade partners would do themselves a favor if they did not react emotionally with increased countervailing duties.
The currently outlined U.S. reciprocal tariffs represent a ceiling amount levied. The goal is to lower the tariffs to zero by eliminating all trade barriers. If the EU raises their baseline tariffs, the only thing that happens is the U.S. side increases at the same proportion. The higher von der Leyen goes in her tariffs, the higher the U.S. countervailing duty applies.
von der Leyden looks like she drinks the blood of Christian infants.
It is so interesting that Von der Leyen knows they could get to 0 tariffs just by negotiating with our trade reps, and instead she is choosing the aggressive path of fighting back. Who benefits from that? They will just lose the US market for all their products. Is that what they want?
It seems like those in charge of the EU do not care about their own people, the people with businesses who create jobs, the people who need jobs to survive, and the products they create that can add to the livelihoods of all their people.
This is what happens when the cabal starts to taste their own medicine.
“It seems like those in charge of the EU do not care about their own people, the people with businesses who create jobs, the people who need jobs to survive, and the products they create that can add to the livelihoods of all their people.”
Causing it all to burn to the ground……..so that they may lord over the ashes.
they don’t because they belong to the WEF
Henry Kissinger was the Architect of the WEF, Klaus Schwab is just the janissary he mentored.
(Also, they stole the name from economist Martin Armstrong’s World Economic Conference.)
Notice the “we get our enemies to kill each other” have now caused animosity between the White Christian countries- the US, the Commonwealth, the EU, Russia, the EE (Eastern Europe.)
The Plan was to degrade and destroy both North America and Europa…because no one else stands a chance against the Masters.
Well, the commie von der Leyen is doing her part.
The more likely outcome is that businesses will relocate to the U.S. losing not only market share, but jobs and tax revenue. That approach is a lose, lose for the EU. How myopic, but not surprising. EU leaders are just not capable of seeing the reality of the card they hold (ie. not the winning hand).
Most surprising was this observation by Sundance:
“The goal is to lower the tariffs to zero by eliminating all trade barriers.”
That’s exactly right, and nobody, including me, noticed!
Reciprocal tariffs can go up OR down
Personally I don’t think they’ll go down to zero but at a much lower rate now and will be more fair, specifically in favor of the US. China has a massive trade surplus that feeds their economy. We need to end that and Trump is doing what’s necessary to do so.
When you have bought and paid for allies in the US Congress, what would be your first impulse?
Their own hubris will bring them down politically. Remember “Let them eat cake”? That did not turn out too well for some monarchs in France back in the day either.
80 years of the European welfare state, 36hour work-weeks, 60-day vacations, US defense umbrella etc. are all predicated on massive unreciprocated benefits flowing to them from the USA. It is very hard for them to give all that up. To most Western Europeans that is all they have ever known their entire lives. They are all Trust-funders.
It’s not hyperbolic to say the US subsidized entire nations. This ends now. God bless Trump.
They’re trying to see if whining, crying, groaning to the media will get them any traction short term, it won’t, since the media committed suicide in Brandon’s 4 year reign of terror. The only long game these fools play is total globalism. We ain’t playing. FAFO.
EU, allowing unrestricted immigration from Muslim countries shows they don’t care about their Citizens, much the same way Democrats allowing open borders proves Americans take a backseat to their quest of forever power & wealth via campaign funds & insider trading tips from their Donor Class. Too many Republican Establishmentarians went along for their place at the Sewer, DC cocktail circuit, thus giving rise to the Uni-Party & Deep State.
The communists from the EU are about to get some startling lessons.
Am I the only person to notice that USAID-funded Politico failed to identify the current EU tariffs on US goods…?
At some point that information blockade is going to burst. I think it may already be starting as some US media outlets are starting to ask The Simpleton Question, “Well, just a second, Minister. What were YOUR tariffs set to before Trump announced the USA’s? Wouldn’t the USA’s tariffs be zero for most things if yours were zero?”
A great question for non utopian, statist, collectivists…or non-Democrats to keep it short and point the blame at the leaders of the UniParty..
They had a great bit from CNBC ironically where two of the anchors were asking fat bum Doug Ford, “Why aren’t you dropping your tariffs if they say they’re so bad?”
Of course the fat head couldn’t respond and just rattled off nonsense about Trump. It really is the million, or perhaps, billion dollar question: “Why don’t all of you drop your tariffs on the US?”
Many have suggested:
The paradigm shift of women widely competing with men in nearly all spheres, spurred by the industrial age, has wrought profoundly negative effects stemming from the resulting imbalance of yin dominating yang.
That’s what comes to mind looking at Von der Leyen and her pantsuit ilk.
Genesis lays out God’s plan for women to be helpmeets to husbands and child rearers, and biology confirms it. Women pursuing professional careers instead is a tragedy.
And on a related note, women dominating K-12 government schools have irreparably feminized generations of males.
Pandora’s Box is broken, we cannot restore balance.
Pray for males crushed by government schools, and for all children in America still being injected with genetic manipulation serum with overwhelming evidence of grave harm. For no good reason. (Notice how RFK Jr. is silent? Why is that?)
https://modernity.news/2025/04/03/tucker-carlson-horrified-as-dr-mary-talley-bowden-drops-chilling-covid-statistic/
Genetic manipulation serum injections comes under the heading of ‘environmental toxins’ – which have been specifically targeted by Sec. Kennedy; his sole work for the past 2+ decades.
He will be @ss@ss!n@ted if he speaks the ‘V-word’ outright; the ConMedpHARMafia reps on the confirmation committee panel assured him of it & confirmed so.
All Sunlight will expose all in God’s timing; not our timing. It would be better if RFKII didn’t get rubbed out while doing it.
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Sunlight is growing – already started if paying attention
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“Contemporary narratives about vaccines, including that they eradicated polio, are based on a “fairytale” that ignores the harms vaccines have caused, researcher and author Dr. Suzanne Humphries said in an interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
2:33:10 Suzanne Humphries, MD, author of ‘Dissolving Illusions’, on Joe Rogan (full)
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“Dr Humphries is a conventionally educated medical doctor who was a participant in conventional hospital systems from 1989 until 2011 as an internist and nephrologist. She left her conventional hospital position in good standing, of her own volition in 2011. Since then, she’s been furthering her research into the medical literature on vaccines, immunity, history, and functional medicine. She is the author of “Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History.”
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I have her book. She is wonderful.
The Bible has many women warriors. There are quite a few, among many ethnicities, women warriors. It is not just “women” who are trying to emasculate our males. Many women have raised, still do raise males with the warrior ethos. It is in the parentage first, and foremost.
I’m familiar with strong women in the Bible, principled, Godly, but im not familiar with the aspect of women as warriors.
Most of their women, if you’re paying attention, were part of a harem.
Agreeance.
Based on a lifetime of experience with the subject matter.
With exception on “RFKjr silent” – he is making at least one major move per week.
A large number of major problems – I believe he is aligning a phalanx to make the big move.
Kind of like Ike stockpiling troops and material on the British Isles in prep for the right day for D-day.
Very good observation.
You can’t just say:
“Oh! Today’s a good day to invade Europe – let’s do it!”
Preparation for D-Day was many many months… if not years.
RFK Jr has only been in office for approx 60 days – not enough time yet to invade Europe.
I’ve heard he’s working on getting Pig Pharma ads off tv.
If he keeps away from the cameras, and does that sort of thing, more power to him!
Yep. Repeal the 19th Amendment.
And 17th
From an economic status it approximately doubled the number of workers and drove down wages. Now it’s practically necessary for a household to have to workers just to make ends meet.
Yeah, but the government got a lot more income tax payers!
Amen
I spect there will be a colossal reset very soon. Trump is a “gather all your necessities” moment, “git right with God” opportunity then hell will erode our morals even more until eating and survival will be back seat to insanity. You see, history shows confusion rules under Lucifer, that nothing will go untouched except the believers and they will greatly diminish under a rule of Satan.
When you see these freaks all tattooed up with piercings and colored hair, butchering their bodies and condemning common sense for insane practices, you’re looking at how hell operates. You’d think it was punishment, and it is, but self inflicted. Why, because we were not programmed by Lucifer but God to carry his character. And when you take on the ways of sin, separation, fallen nature, low vibration, no morals, however you wish to understand it, you will destroy what is you. Not what is God, for he is perfect.
Hell is where you go if you can’t stand God and what he is, and it’s a choice. One made at every second, this moment and all the rest. Like a diet, you can cheat for awhile, you can lose weight, you can “pretend” but it must be a life of discipline. And only by relationship because we like playing in the mud. By the way, embracing that fact and asking God to guide you away from the filth is the first step. “ God save me a sinner” a mud skipper, a bag of dirt, a filthy lost soul. He promises us he will save us “if” we repent. Repent means ownership of what you are, dirt.
Just a thought. I was allowed to see ego as it is. It is a place of confidence, a source. So it has a place, but it must be rooted in God. If what you are is God ordained in ego you are as Christ was. He was confident and sure of his abilities and place with God. His ego was pure. “I can only do what my father says” remember that? John 5/19
I think all titles of these unelected EU official should be in quotes: EU “President” Ursala. Her real title is Globalist-Soros worshipper.
“… And #3 The EU must defend itself against China dumping cheap products into the EU now rejected by the USA….”
I only *hope&pray* America rejects en mass cheap toxic crap dumped here from china all along – FiNALLY!!!
Only buy MADE IN USA and there is no issue whatsoever for US/us from the above.
One exception –
Fiji water will still be an economical way to gently/slowly chelate aluminum from body/brain tissue – it is high in silicate, which is how Nature/God sequesters the element/metal aluminum from contaminating/poisoning Human beings.
Only profiteers’ hubris determined it was a good idea to break the natural sequestration & flood the Human environment with aluminum.
Medical chelation is expensive, yet unfortunately necessary and therefore a fair bargain even at the higher price… Fiji water is an everyday positive step in the process.
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I would gladly pay double for American made parts that I only have to install once rather than pay half the price for Chines junk that I have to install 2 or 3 times just to get to a part that actually works.
All day every day & thrice on Sunday, Joshua… nothing else makes any sense.
Exactly. I paid about double and then some for US-made pressure gauges after continually replacing the cheap ones from China. They paid for themselves very quickly, and I still have one left from my original upgrade purchase.
Just reading that pathetic threat by that globalist sow is laughable. What she should have said was
” Without the US subsidizing 75% of the global economy, weak azz financial blow hards like those running the EU have zero clue how to stand on their own financially”
I spent 5 years in the 1980’s in post WW II W. Germany as a member of the USAF and I can tell you first hand how unappreciated US service members were and how difficult the Germans made it for us. Starting with out of sight rent costs for off base housing (there was a waiting list to get on base housing). The US pumped billions of $ into the German economy for years. Where is the reciprocity? A lot of my friends had serious financial difficulties over there protecting those poor helpless Germans from communist tyranny. I’m glad the EU is getting theirs. F them
I had the dubious honor of being born in Germany as an Army brat. We hated it there. Germany deserves everything they get.
F them indeed.
Whats unsaid is that we’ve been subsidizing their green agenda by handling defense costs and essentially shielding their few remaining industries. Now their industries will have to compete, and with their ongoing slide into the stone age due to climate scam driven deindustrialization, they don’t stand a chance. It’s more than just trade and tariffs, these changes are a mortal blow to the greatest grift machine of our age. And that’s why their apoplectic.
True, Sundance, it is quite funny.
The EU will tolerate whatever President Trump deems appropriate.
The demon Ursula will soon learn this.
Or not.
#NCSWIC
Governments around the World encouraged their workforces to raise wages for so-called better lifestyles. They priced their commodities out of the market. Communist Countries flooded the market. Manufacturing was discouraged and big finance took over the running of those countries. Who is squealing now. The Stock Market. Creators of nothing.
perhaps the country of origin should be more prominently displayed
on packaging of all products coming into this country
I want an easier process to discard other nation’s products
and to purchase made in USA
YES and Particularly ALL food products. Food is something we can easily compete in. It makes no sense to offshore any of it Chinese frozen Chicken parts? Why? Tank raised Shrimp? YUCK
Not just assembled, etc.
The Unelected EU Dictator Publicly Confess That Trump’s Tariffs Have Devastated Their NWO System
Wow.
This is such a shake-up of almost every entrenched special interest around the world.
Still gathering info, trying to comprehend. Although the broad outlines I think I understand.
It appears there will be many individual plot lines, as smart nations drop their tariffs and other non-tariff barriers.
The principle is clear to me, and has been ever since PDJT started talking about the USA getting screwed in trade deals.
When I keep the principle in mind, each piece also becomes clear.
“The goal is to lower the tariffs to zero by eliminating all trade barriers. ”
I’ve been telling people this, but I can’t remember where I saw Trump say it. Anyone know?
their brains are completely broken by Donald Trump’s common sense.
if this has been posted sorry for the duplication.
“Never stare at Italian mob boss’s large breasted daughter too long..
… lest you find out too late
…she traveled from Maryland riding in a rikshaw
…selling baby parts”
… Confucious
Amazing, just amazing. Nancy sounds more Trumpy than Trump!
One reason the EU and Canada are resisting and announcing counter attacks is because they are pushing Congress hard to take this away. Dems are easy patsies and identify with their leftist globalists. The RINOS and various other R’s butthurt by screaming wealthy donors are joining the fight to claim their “rightful power over taxation”. The resistance may overcome even the House. A Presidential veto may be necessary.
Hate to be so simplistic on this but, frankly, if Ursula von der Leyden is apoplectic, all is good.
I will give thanks to many around me and to SD for the reporting. Ausgezeichnet!!!
She and the rest of her EU parliamentary fiends and their benefactors are in for some extreme pain. They are inherently incapable of adjusting due to their personalities and their determination to be feudal lords that live on the souls of the people.
To do what is best for the people and nations of the EU is to them suicide, for it means the end of their personal ambitions of conquest. At the same time they are unwilling to admit they are rapidly losing control on the larger game board and will be unable to win should they decide to engage in a financial battle.
As a result they are more likely to chose suicide for themselves and what is likely to be stark consequences for their people with ever more desperate moves. As with all cornered, feral animals they will lash out with increasing desperation.
With this hostility and the fact that they want WWIII, President Trump will have the justification to officially pull out of NATO.
I hope that she’s correct. FUvdL. She already has VD in her name.
Maybe they view their economic destruction as a path to what they really want. Marxism. And can blame Trump all the while
Didn’t PM Margaret Thatcher Warn Europe 40+ years ago, “Socialism is great until you run out of some one else’s money to spend”? I guess they just ran out of our money.
What was it Elon Musk said about detecting fraudsters, something he learned while at PayPal… If you cut off their money you can tell who the fraudsters are because they will always be the ones who scream the loudest. The honest people usually don’t say anything, they just assume it is some error. Fraudsters are the ones who make all the noise.
The EU and Canada are who are screaming the loudest.
This is all a charade to create different economical zones this blog has been predicting for years.
You realize the Trump tariffs also serve as an attack on the criminal government(s) of the EU, not the European people, who are our brothers and sisters.
This is a war of liberation. The EUSSR holding our ancestral homeland must be destroyed.
Likewise, economic warfare is also a strike against the City of London banksters and their terrible creation, the BIS central banks (which were created out of war on our ancestral homelands, beginning with the Versailles treaty.)
How did the CIA/USAID foment so much war, corruption, and turmoil around the world?
Through economic hit men.
This is Trump flipping their own table back onto them, using their own weapons to push positive social revolution like Lech Walesa did in Poland, instead of what Victoria Nuland did in Ukraine.
The signal – more government subsidies like have been done for Airbus over the decades to keep jobs. That’s what the EU members are good at. This is also the China playbook but on a grander scale.
Alien alert!
Guess your EU countries should probably start to actually make stuff and put the welfare people to work.
It’s called HUman CApital. Busy hands build character and a nation.
Oh, you’ll have to dump the socialist shit, though,for it to work!
Trump is a master. All these goons will be kissing his rear and crying while doing so. The US has cornered all these welfare moochers who have nowhere to turn if they turn away from the US market. No other market on the planet can save them. China’s consumer spending is pitiful compared to ours, roughly half despite them having over a billion people. The trade imbalances we have prop up their economies and without it, they go into severe recession.
Trump will have the biggest “I told you so” jar ever.