Yes, indeed the sixty-year-long era of the extended Marshal Plan might actually come to an end if President Trump wins the 2024 election, and Europe can no longer benefit from one-way tariffs and generous USA subsidies. This stark reality is once again the concern for Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
Warning that President Trump’s outlook toward a self-sustaining Europe would mean a challenge to the norms of modern democracy, the rotating president of the Union is worried that tailored skinny pants and slim cut suits might soon be selling next to tractor boots and big fur hats.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union presidency on Tuesday warned that the foundations of democracy will be put to the test during the November U.S. election, envisaging a scenario where the longstanding trans-Atlantic alliance could unravel ever more.
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo of Belgium, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said that “if 2024 brings us ‘America first’ again, it is really more than ever ‘Europe on its own.’”
De Croo spoke in an address to the EU legislature only hours after former President Donald Trump’s landslide win in the Republican Party’s Iowa caucuses.
His words harked back to the 2017-2021 Trump administration, when U.S. relations with Europe took a nosedive because of near-incessant trans-Atlantic quarrels about trade, security and military cooperation that eroded trust and cooperation.
De Croo said the 27-nation EU should quickly learn to stand more on its own and that in case of a Trump victory in November, “we should, as Europeans, not fear this perspective. We should embrace it.” (more)
Ya think?
Should be anyway
Another reason to vote for PDJT.
Just 1 more of the thousands of reasons. I do believe this next Presidential election will be voting for TOMORROW, for are children and grandchildren.
That’s right boy. Embrace the suck.
Argentina’s Milei delivered some hard truths in Davos today.
I’m liking him more and more.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-world-danger-milei-warns-dei-doom-dimon-touts-trump-critical-issues
I appreciate the effort he puts into his hair, and those sideburns.
Europe will not be left on it’s own.
President Trump’s family will help out by building Trump Hotels all over Europe.
Reminds me of Joan Rivers
God Bless
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Is that the equivalent of “Ask me if I care?” If so, right there with you!
That was the question I asked upon receiving a Christmas gift from a first cousin, who has spent decades doing genealogical research. She presented every family member with a bound volume of genealogy but only as it pertained to saints, scholars and royalty. Hundreds of documented entries.
I was singularly unimpressed and deliberately did not acknowledge the gift. Seriously, how does being a descendent of Charlemagne get President Trump back into the White House?
Unless, of course, there’s a modern-day Charles Martel awaiting in the wings… 🙂
Thank God for Charles.
Trump is or will be the new “Hammer!”
You figure you’re worse off by receiving this gift? It wasn’t what you wanted and you don’t appreciate the effort? What ever happened to re-gifting? I guess I’ll just give you money next Christmas.
There was a line delivered by Tom Selleck in a forgotten flick. Paraphrased it would be:
“De Crook, you can’t have no idea how little I care.”
The U.S. has been assisting Western Europe to recover from WWII for nearly 80 years. Way past time for Europe to stand on its own.
Or not.
I could give 2 shits about those Socialist trash ….
Treavor, it sounds like you are admiring those f$cks out in the field.
World War II ended almost 80 years ago, yet some of the “elite” in Europe still want the USA to shed the blood of our young men for their defense, to say nothing of the American taxpayers.
The EU is on a mission to make US behave like them, caving to unelected officials in every aspect of our lives.
I believe PDJT will turn the masses in those countries around and show them the way to sovereignty. It has already started with the farmers’ protests in Holland and now in Germany. The PEOPLE are waking up.
Eff DAVOS and the WEF.
The IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER has been invited to Davos
Iran foreign minister in Davos: Attacks on Israel will end if Gaza war stops
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/davos-iran-says-it-shared-intelligence-mossad-with-iraq-2024-01-17/
Foreign Secretary’s meeting with the Foreign Minister of Iran, January 2024
Foreign Secretary David Cameron met Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 17 January.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretarys-meeting-with-the-foreign-minister-of-iran-january-2024
Iran Foreign Minister Issues Stern Warning to US
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had a stern warning for the United States and its allies during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Speaking to journalist Fareed Zakaria on Wednesday, Amir-Abdollahian blamed the U.S. and Israel for increased hostilities by Iran-backed groups in the region.
Amir-Abdollahian specifically pointed to the United States’ failure to recertify then withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) during President Donald Trump‘s administration in 2017.
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-foreign-minister-issues-stern-warning-us-1861680
It was already stopped, asshole.
Cry me a river you pos Commie!
Not to worry. I’m sure all the young Somalian immigrants will be eager to pitch in and lend a hand.
LOL
How many times have missionaries spent years in the jungle trying to teach water sanitation, farming, being self sufficient and in the end they reverted back to their primitive ways.
Helping all these starving nations made us feel better not them. More often than not the natives never got one penny.
It truely is time to tell Europe they are about to repeat they sew
If you meant “Reap what they sow”, then I’d say yes but Good Luck!
Because lately they are trying to not sow anything and instead attack the farmers who have been sowing the continent’s food seeds for centuries.
Tant pis!
Et leur pisse coule le long de leurs jambes comme les vaches effrayées qu’ils sont
Beurk!
Do we need any more reason to vote for President Trump than the fact that our enemies, both foreign and domestic, are terrified of him?
None.
Republic, Baby, Republic.
🎵 I want you back. 🎶
🎶 I want you back. 🎵
🎵 I want you back for good. 🎶🎵
Hey EU….WE’RE BROKE!! All of these parasites have sucked us dry already and it’s long past time to pick them off of our backs! Figure out your sh!t on your own for a change. But…thanks for another great reason to vote 💥🇺🇸TRUMP 2024🇺🇸💥
Glad they’re finally catching on.
If I don’t live at my neighbors house then I shouldn’t be expected to pay their bills!
BOOM!
The EU should be dissolved. Every Country/Nation should stand on its own Sovereignty and be governed by duly elected people who vow to uphold the sovereignty of their Country. Eff this New World Order with the WHO, the CDC, and other unelected officials trying to mandate our lives.
The Common Market devolved unto a real shit show, didn’t it?
The European Union is just the former Soviet Union shifted westward.
EU had it both ways: (1) they took our money and (2) they got to spit in our faces.
The face of freedom.
The face of serfdom.
American money is the foundation of European socialism.
Yes. We made it easy for them to subsidize their people, their medicine, their lifestyles, and their politicians. In return, they got to tell us how great socialism is while sneering down at us. If it wasn’t for OUR MONEY then they couldn’t have “enjoyed” socialism.
They have the means to hand out free stuff to their own, because we funded all their heavy lifting.
The EU project is an artificial construct. Frenchmen are not Germans, Poles are not Hungarians, and Italians are not Greeks. This has been true for thousands of years, and no amount of Eurovision contests or UEFA championships is going to change historical realities created by human nature.
Without US funding the EU falls apart. If the Eu falls apart the entire WEF construct falls apart.
That is why Trump and the sort of populism he represents is an existential threat to Davos.
Oui, Oui! It is time for all of us to claim our independence from globalism.
The German, French, Polish etc. people are actually fighting back while the average American nimrod
wonders who might be in the Super Dick Bowl.
Sometimes I just wanna puke.
This clown just made a statement that should be an embarrassment to all Europeans. What the heck, they aren’t capable of standing on their own. Sounds like he just explained why their leaders need to be fired.
“…..De Croo said the 27-nation EU should quickly learn to stand more on its own and that in case of a Trump victory in November…….
That is the whole point of a Trump victory in 2024. You nailed it, DeCroo.
Embrace it.
No foreign aid for anything to any country with taxpayer money would bring all countries to their knees and benefit the American taxpayers.
We the People are taxed for the benefit of government workers, politicians, globalists and foreigners.
And We get NO benefit.
End the endless!
I heard them saying that leading up to 2020 too. And just like that, the fake pandemic was manufactured.
Correct. What demonic & sinister acts will they deploy for November 2024. I fear the worst.
Touché.
I saw your question regarding the 7% support, drop out, endorse and yet overwhelmed with influencers.
IC operative – Sundance 1/10/23
Why influence if no longer in the race?
Who is paying for it and why?
Attempted Trojan horse infiltration.
Connect the dots, only like you can.
Tallyho
I thought you might like that.
👊
You guys are killing it.
7-11 gonna burn our President big time.
“QUARRELS”, Quarrels. That is what they want to call one group of nations mooching off of ONE NATION for 80 years. The one group of nations is happy to cash the check while looking down their noses at the people slaving away so that they can pretend that their society is better than the USA. But now that the USA, under PDJT, will be no longer subsidizing the moochers they want to pretend that we are just quarreling.
The wealth that has been STOLEN from the working people of the USA over the past 80 years has got to be staggering.
“His words harked back to the 2017-2021 Trump administration, when U.S. relations with Europe took a nosedive because of near-incessant trans-Atlantic quarrels about trade, security and military cooperation that eroded trust and cooperation.”
‘s about time!
It’s long past time you got out of our pocket, cousin.
YES
Big Fur Hat reference.
Nice.
Let them enjoy their sovereignty , without my checkbook.
all these supposed reasons “Not to vote Trump” turn out to be great incentives
Wow, what a silly life lesson for him! 😉
Give that guy a comfort 🐶 puppy…😛
Your mooching days will be over, and we don’t give AF!
Time to wean these foreign governments off the USA teats. I am sick and tired of having my tax money given away. We have our own internal needs that should be addressed first, but as we’ve learned, our lawmakers have a tough time laundering money when it stays within our borders where it can be followed.
Remind me how the EU saved us from our southern border invasion – how they rose to our defense and sacrificed their own on our behalf?
How they funded weapons and material to protect our borders.
Hell, how many skedaddled sunshine warrior Ukrainians signed up to defend ou borders. 2 million Ukranians fled their own country’s war for “independence”. How about giving us a hand with ours, eh Ukes?
Lazy bastards. Stop dehumanizing Europe and embrace world prosperity with healthy fair trade
They’ve suckled at uncle Sam’s teat for 6 decades past their “wean by date.”
It’s long, long past time for them to put their big boy & girl panties on.
Europe should be self sufficient anyway. The American tax payer has carried a larger burden than the European tax payer for their defense for over 70 years now. THAT IS LONG ENOUGH!!!!! IMO,NATO should be disbanded.
Yes, it’s time for you to pay rent, phone bill and car insurance.
The only reason the Europeans can feel so magnanimous towards the hordes of immigrants is due to the largess of the American taxpayer.
Wow, what we are learning huh about all these slime balls.
Hello, Hello, Europe. The USA, with the help of Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland and maybe Ukraine killed the cheapest energy piped into Europe. Ukraine ginned up by the U.S. MIC, and their political lemmings in DC, plus Brit Festus, got into an unnecessary war with their far larger, more powerful neighbor on the premise of “you provide the flesh, we’ll provide the iron.”
NATO was just “jobs for the boys” until you threw too much sand into your neighbor’s face. And.
You rely on LNG from U.S. fracked gas fields.
Maybe it’s time to retreat, rethink and remember what Europe has lost from 2 centuries of European wars. Think, think hard.
Best news I heard all day!
Talk about a self-report
“we should, as Europeans, not fear this perspective. We should embrace it.”
I, for one, am EMBRACING the idea that I will no longer have my taxes confiscated to pay for the defense of European nations who look down their noses at “the Ugly Americans”. Let them start paying for their own military expenses and then see how quickly all their vaunted “Social Programs” dry up because there are no more funds to cover their costs!
The EU needs to be promoting peace all over the globe but mostly in their own backyard, and then learn to embrace it.
Memo to EU: Most of America today is no longer of Northern European origins.
There is no longer a “special relationship” by heritage, culture or sympathy.
Unlikely the hordes of Latin illegals in the US have any sympathy for Spain or France either.
You are on your own, no matter who is POTUS in 2024.
The world needs to come to at least one stark reality. Democracy does not apply to the citizens. Its just all about them. The US gives billions to Europe and we get nada. Reminds me of an old song from the 1970’s she got the gold and I got the shaft.
Last time I was in Europe, it wasnt as friendly as I imagined to American service men and women. 1977.
We are like responsible for those Socialist communist ass-wipes.. F*** off *****
They do have the worth of a bad smear.
Used to love the original picture but now it makes me sad. Poor Abe and his wonderful work for his country. My heart still aches for that loss.
About time for them to stop counting on the US for defense and for subsidizing their budgets with US money.
According to one site, the most egregious and blatant lie from Davos came from Jake Sullivan, “Through a combination of steady deterrence and steadfast diplomacy, we seek to stop the spread of conflict and to create the conditions for de-escalation.”
Jake just regurgitates what he is told by his “betters” in the CIA and the MIC.
Yup, while the very opposite of what he says is true.
In other words – Through a combination of military force and punitive sanctions, we seek to spread conflict and create conditions for escalation.
I guess driving the cost of, essentially, everything helps in that goal of deescalating and stopping conflict. Making almost everyone destitute usually makes people PO’d and angry but Jakey has another perspective.
So, EU not interested in reciprocity? Who knew? Answer: Trump
He exposed them all.
So say we all…
Can someone explain why Belgium exists?
I visited Belgium a little over 2 decades ago. what i saw was very lovely , with mom and pop restaurants and antique shops, cobblestone sidewalks, and beautiful churches; again, mom and pop houses where they rented rooms to overnight visitors. I wonder about those those lovely places and people. Are they being held hostage like the rest of us???
Most of the Collective West is just that, hostage to corruption that most don’t even recognize.
It is a beautiful land, miss it.
For Belch jokes.
So Germany has another way to invade France?