President Donald J Trump announcing the end of the 80-year-old Marshall Plan (aka The European Recovery Program) of one-way tariffs against American imports has triggered a very predictable response from the European Union.
While saying the EU is prepared to enter negations toward a zero-tariff trade reciprocity, Comrade Ursula von der Leyen simultaneously announced that Brussels is prepared to launch countermeasures against The United States, in an effort to retain economic control and access to a U.S. consumer market they must exploit for their economic survival.
Speaking in very deliberate terms, the EU Komisar states the U.S. decision to demand reciprocity, and fairness will deliver “immense” and “dire consequences” for the New World Order and “global trading system.” von der Leyen proclaims that global citizens will be impacted with higher grocery bills, shortages of medication and increased costs for transportation.
The leader of the world’s largest bureaucracy stunningly proclaims President Trump’s tariffs will increase the “burdens of bureaucracy.” The one-sided benefits and “interests of the European Union” will be protected at all costs. WATCH:
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Regarding “countermeasures.” Again, we repeat the predicable response. Together with their unelected ally in Canada controlling the North American response, watch for the EU to target Big USA Tech companies and financial service sectors.
The goal of the EU will be to assemble a tariff countermeasure response that will deliver political pain, not economic consequences. That’s just how they roll. The EU will leverage disgruntled Wall Street, banking and Technocracy sectors in order to put political pressure on Donald Trump to back down.
Optically this is the worst possible type of pontificating EU spokesperson to generate internal American opposition. Frankly comrade Ursula, MAGA don’t give a damn. [Pinky Finger Salute]
Time to leave NATO as well.
it’s time for the US to do what Donald Trump‘s doing, turn inward and focus on getting our country healed and back on track if that’s possible. F the EU, f Southeast Asia, f the Middle East-America first.
We have not been helping them, We have been fueling the corruption.
In some circles it may be termed “enabling”. The parasite always screams when the host withdraws nourishment.
And I for one, beg the USA to stop fuelling the corruption of the UK elites.
Every time a European leader emerges who does want to focus on getting their country healed they are viciously attacked and marginalized. Orban, LePen, Weidel, Fico, etc. Even Meloni gets attacked when they get the chance.
Yaaas!
Add the UN to the list of, “let’s get the hell outta there!”
And get the UN outta the US!!!!
Leaving NATO is short sighted and weakens the US. We need those military installations and bases on foreign soil to project power. Just get them to pay their full share and transition the US to becoming a smaller piece of the NATO pie.
Respectfully, it is about more than money. Those corrupt European nations will get us into an unnecessary war by the automatic triggering of a US military response to an attack by Russia. The Europeans are playing with fire in Ukraine and we cannot allow the US to get suckered into their war. Further, to see what these EU / NATO nations are now doing to their political opposition (France, Romania, Ireland, etc.), we are no longer defending democracy over there. We need to normalize relations with Russia and leave NATO, with the EU building the infrastructure to defend itself.
“We need to normalize relations with Russia and leave NATO,……….”
And most importantly, it needs to be done in that order. First things first is to establish long term trade agreements with the Russians. Agreements where both nations prosper, Bigly. This encourages long term stability. We need to remember that neither Trump or Putin will remain in control of their nation’s foreign policy forever. Economic security and peace going hand in hand is the best way to ensure no future globe conquering ambitions from either party. At that point then yeah, NATO can become the EU’s problem. They can keep it at their own peril.
I don’t see why, our country has plenty of nuclear weapons and oceans to protect us from outside threats. Canadians and Mexicans are not a credible threat.
Nope the Monroe 2.0 envisions Northern Hemispheric PowerbBase from Greenland to the Panama Canal and Diego Garcia as Raheem Kassandra said on Steve Bannon today.
It’s a total pivot from the old EURASIA as being the center where US fights. Not anymore let the EU sink away with all their Allahs.
The USA can project military power when truly needed to defend its citizens’ interests via its Navy, its extensive network of military satellites, ballistic missiles, drones, and USAF stealth aircraft.
Let the elitists in the EU defend themselves or else pay sufficient costs into NATO to cover US military bases, personnel and munitions based in their respective countries.
Personally, I’d prefer we get out of NATO & the UN.
Should have happened when USSR fell. But never too late. Let’s stop living in the 50’s.
tell it to neocons/uniparty whores….
“tell it to neocons/uniparty whores….”
Don’t forget the elephant in the room, the good ol’ Military Industrial Complex.
And pretty much any other supra-national organizations we’ve become entangled with since the end of WWII. None of them is useful to us in any way, but they take our money and expand their worldwide influence exponentially, ad infinitum.
It’s a series of political steps on the way to one-world government. It’s not unreasonable to say that much of the degradation of our country: culture, national identity, prosperity and power is attributable to the machinations of these entities.
And withdraw from Germany.
that big, close, special relationship we had with Europe… minus the money… turns out to just be another classic arrangement between the John and the whore.
well said
At least the John got SOMETHING in return….😉
Shame?
I am not sure who you think the John or the whore are MB, but the EU more than any other of the leeching nations sure makes me feel like a whore. Working my ass up and down for decades (pun intended) only to give our gov’t 50% of what I earn for them to turn around and give it the EU through one way tariffs, subsidizing their nanny state, their defense and while providing them three day work weeks.
We bailed them out of two world wars and the cold war. Yet here we are, $34 trillion in debt and they are crying about us pulling out (no pun intended) of their globalist scheme.
Don’t forget the early pensions and long holidays.
Teacher, not being able to think of a way Johnny can twist this one, says give me a word that ends in r-e.
Dirty Johnny, not to be repressed, shouts “crack whore…”much Ms. Taylor’s chagrin.
We save their butts in WWII, from Germany (ironic), that’s the thanks we get. Maybe we shouldn’t help any more.
Our USA “leaders” in the past made us both the John and the prostitute whereby we are screwing ourselves.
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No quarter at all should be given to the EU or China, they are not repentant.
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We need to claw back all the wealth given away the last 80 years and restore it to the citizens of this great republic.
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Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, Eph. 6:14
Wake-up people. Everything we’re seeing is just tacit admission that the bankers are still in charge. They’re in charge in the U.S., the EU, and everywhere else. Bring down the bankers and restore sound, honest money. Demand your freedom or accept your slavery quietly. You can’t have both. It doesn’t work that way. Choose wisely.
Bankers are people too.
You both misspelled banksters.
I was trying to be nice for once…
Usurers
In regards to the bank presidents & CEOs, I think that’s debatable!
I’m going to need to see scientific proof.
When the economy is weened away from the banksters, where the US and hopefully all other countries become trade and finance independent, then the global banksters will have less power and influence. And once we get close enough to that mark, I’m sure ending the Federal Reserve will begin.
No, bro, it doesn’t work that way. There is no “weening”. You either demand your freedom and expose them, or you accept their terms. The bankers aren’t just going to quietly slip away into the night because they got shamed or tricked. This is big $$$ and big profit. You are delusional if you believe there will be any “weening”.
Sounds like the Europeans who want war on Russia while at the same time depending on Russian petroleum.
Russia could turn Europe to glass in the blink of an eye, and Europe knows it. Just a question of whether the banks could profit off it or not? Hedge accordingly. My money says no.
just one visit City of London(banksters) by Dr.Orteschnik(Hazelnut)….resolve your qst……
How do you propose going about that chore? Enlighten us please.
The truth is, you should have been planning for it all along. If you are not flush with cash and PM’s, you’re screwed. The hour is late. The time for “enlightenment” has passed. We all know it. I’m sure your question was in earnest, though. I don’t doubt your sincerity.
I don’t think people are asleep to this. The stock market selloff is a admission that the financialization of the US economy is in danger.
hokkoda: The financialization of the US economy is the danger.
*Boom*
We all know the stock market is a rigged game. Only the most savvy should play there. Not against it. It just requires a lot of understanding. And, yes, the U.S. is in serious trouble. This has been apparent to anyone paying attention for the last 60 years. If ’08 didn’t wake one up, I don’t know what could.
She doesn’t even know how far she’s in over her head.
Oh, look at that top picture that Sundance posted….she knows alright, but she is desperately trying to bluff her way out of the corner that she backed herself into with four decades of arrogance and a complete lack of respect for the people who actually do the work and make her little world run!
She gets the *script* each morning that she reads from. Much like the media.
Frau not happy. Global idiocy run amok!
Rothschild banking monopoly big sad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank#Statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks#By_market_capitalization
The Rothschilds have been the anti Semite’s favorite boogyman for over 2 centuries. They were never what anti Semites touted them as being even when they were the richest family on earth. WW II and intermarriages have knocked them down into the lower ranks of the banking world. Just forget all the great philanthropy works they have done and continue to do. They are a fine family.
Anti Semites big sad.
Wikipedia now there’s a creditable source.
Isn’t one of the former places the NPR/PBS liar “worked”?
What’s the German form of Karen?
gretchen!
Sgt. Schultz in a skirt, maybe?
Frau Blücher
LOL! I forget the meaning but I think it is “glue” which would be why the horse would be upset to hear the name.
Frau doom
A real man steps up and takes Macron’s place/sarc.
You must be talking about Macron’s “wife.”
We need a “Boston Tea Party 2025.”
However I’m not sure what Europe produces that would be worth dumping in the harbor.
some of their tea is rather nice.
Dumping in the harbor is not allowed these days. Tell the libtards they’re Teslas and let them go to woke (work) on them.
WE meet at the Old Mill at dawn…….
We could just dump the Europeans in the harbor.
Media talking heads and lawyers first
K-Street lobbyists too.
…. thus creating a major fishkill.
🤣 🤣
BMW’s and Mercedes.
My son said something similar about a “Boston Tea Party 2025”. I told him that’s what I signed up for when I voted. I’m all in with PDJT.
Them.
Sure it will cause some sort of burden. After all, America has been the backbone and without it, it will take effort to stand.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Israel to ELIMINATE the trade deficit AND trade barriers with the U.S., Netanyahu just announced… and he calls on EVERY country to follow that example.
“We will eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it VERY quickly… we’re going to also eliminate trade barriers, put up unnecessarily. Israel can serve as a model for many countries who ought to do the same.”
“Very quickly… we’re not talking about words. We’re talking about results.”
Cont …and Video linked…
See, they get it..
Now? Israel wants to act now? Consider me suspicious.
I’m always suspicious when they want to act.
I’d take a discount on IWI, FAB, or Meprolight products.
They owe us!
Bibi’s lips are moving…color me suspicious that he means a word he’s saying.
Since EU does not purchase anything from US, don’t see how this could raise prices for EU. Their manufacturers will have to lower prices to dump excess goods.
The EU had a powerhouse industrial centre…once.
Their full throated allegiance to Gaia has destroyed it, and there has been no smack in the gob to knock a hefty dose of reality into them..
Add in unlimited immigration from the third world, not of anyone who can add one smidgen to economic growth, which drains Europe’s taxpayer funded resources.
Also add the mindless pursuit of war with Russia…
Europe is weak in every sense and getting weaker.
Ursula talks tough(ish), but she knows Europe has few if any cards to play.
They are in the midst of committing suicide and are imprisoning anyone who dares to notice and speak up about it.
She and her globalist cohorts are still in the pretend phase of decline showing no signs of stopping their authoritarian, destructive agendas.
Donald Trump and his negotiators will eat her lunch.
Bon Appetite, Mr President.
They are just throwing their temper tantrum and don’t realize that Dad isn’t f’ing around. They’re about to get spanked.
Oh Betsy you come thru again!👏🤣
Fortune favours whoever gets lucky, LtoL 😉
Exactly, wine will be cheaper for french people !
Correct, but their real concern is not that is will raise prices for the average EU consumer (as you pointed out it will NOT).
The EU elite know that by lowering cost of goods due to the surplus supply caused by not selling to the US….this will also lower the profits to the EU’s elite corporate entities AND lower the amount of Value Added Tax (VAT) that the EU can collect from it’s own citizens.
“Since EU does not purchase anything from US, don’t see how this could raise prices for EU. Their manufacturers will have to lower prices to dump excess goods.”
My first guess would be that EU is getting major kickbacks from their vassal state Chinada on the pass through of products from Chinada to the U.S.
So it is likely less about prices rising in the EU than it is about the E.U. oligarchs losing their grift.
I don’t know, but I bet that the pass through of products is a much bigger issue than people are acknowledging.
All I see is a sugar baby freaking out because the only Sugar Daddy in town is leaving her.
She’s the perfect example of a nepo baby. Her Nazi Granddad would be proud.
Trump needs to tell the EU all negotiations will be with individual countries and that any country involved in trans shipping will be subject to another 25% tariff.
They seem to think it’s 2017 again, Trump’s ‘read your damn book’.
From Andrei Martyanov…
Tariffs Are Meant To Bankrupt Europe …
… which is the “source” for globalism and totalitarianism.
That is why I am willing to give Trump the benefit of a doubt. Just that–a benefit–I don’t know the endgame as it relates to Washington and London.
Ah, yes–Wall Street has nothing to do with real economy, only with speculation which kills one.
And that’s why I don’t listen to Martyanov anymore. The purpose of the tariffs is not to ‘bankrupt’ Europe but to strengthen the US.
See how free speech works.
Exactly. Same here. Stopped listening to him over a year ago.
This is how unelected bureaucrats destroy countries. Time for us to withdraw from UN and NATO. Without our funds and aid they will wither in economic pain. FEU.
So if the EU doesn’t have lopsided trade deals do they really have economies? Are the existing economies overvalued?
Bingo!
“Frankly comrade Ursula, MAGA don’t give a damn. [Pinky Finger Salute]”
Personally I would just ignore and would not bother expending the energy.
“They” want to cause a ruckus. Let them while we go on with our lives and take care of our business.
wrong finger
That is what “they” would be expecting.
Personally, I often find it advantageous to do the unexpected.
“…from great uncertainty, to the disruption of the supply chain, to burdensome bureaucracies…” sounds familiar? Geez, these people did the same thing during COVID and didn’t blink an eye when it when it came to America suffering. Comrade Ursula and her ilk can go pound sand as far as I’m concerned. 100% behind President Trump. Screw these pinky Europeans.
Wow… the ticks hate the dog!!
The dog just got fed a pinch of chewing tobacco..
Let her carry on. Europe is a sh*t hole!
Right to reply: Could just as well be Los Angeles, but we’ve also go homeless, everywhere.
I know, but that is pretty old England, and its a slum!
She’s always got the ‘deer in the headlights’ look.
My, my such appreciation for what the United States has done for them the last 80 years. Not even a thank you.
Don’t mess with a sleeping (HaHa) giant!
I’d love for the EU to get together with Canada to make MS Windows irrelevant. That would be a GREAT start on attacking US tech companies. Bill Gates and his Microsoft is simply evil and predatory and increasingly so.
If they go after Google and destroy them so that we don’t have to? All the better.
US tech is completely captured by US Intelligence and as such it is corrupt and a HUGE part of the reason the big tech monopolies exist as they are today.
And I’ve said elsewhere. I hope Europe outright BANS all US GMOs. They are poison and they are killing the people of the USA.
I’m very pro-USA but if the EU makes itself useful by helping to add pressure on US business which is not good for people in the US and around the world? I’m good with that.
I bought a new laptop a few months ago with Windows 11. It is “twitchy” and “glitchy”. I have been online researching the problem and it seems to be a universal consensus. Unless some new OS arrives, I will have no choice but to try Apple for my next laptop. I don’t know if Lexus comes with too much baggage to be dependable?
Microsoft Windows, Android and Google … Satanic brothers.
Wipe that hard drive and install Linux Mint. Looks and acts just like Windows, minus Bill Gates.
I agree with the guy who replied to you. Linux is really “getting there” but you still need to tweak and learn things. But that’s a good thing. Give Ubuntu or anything non-RedHat. IBM/RedHat has gone so woke with their DEI they are being sued for firing white men as part of their DEI campaign. One of three are already going to jury trial and one of three was dismissed with NO reason given by an Obama judge… (surprising! shocking!)
Sorry, The training wheels are going back in the garage.
The new world order? That should perk up some ears.
Too late. It should have perked-up a lot of ears in the 70’s. Even Bush Sr. mentioned it. Astute observers knew which way the wind was blowing.
Comrade Ursula is trying to play high stakes poker with a deck of Old Maid cards. It won’t work this time. What she faces reminds me of what we used to call in football, smash mouth. It will be a matter of weeks before she comes begging for forgiveness.
They wouldn’t even have their vaunted FREE Healthcare if it wasn’t because of the $$$Money you and I gave them from one sided tariffs.
They could probably give 1 free bandage per citizen but …
Von der Leyen’s threat to hit Americans with higher grocery bills and medicine shortages follows a pattern we’ve seen before—and it rarely works out for the person making the threat.
OPEC tried this in the 1970s with the oil embargo. It caused pain initially, but it pushed the U.S. to build reserves and pursue energy independence. OPEC’s long-term influence declined.Britain blockaded Germany in WWI to cut off supplies. It worked militarily but caused massive civilian suffering and helped fuel postwar resentment, feeding the rise of extremism later on.The U.S. did something similar with the Soviet grain embargo in 1980. It was meant to punish the USSR, but they bought grain elsewhere, and U.S. farmers took the hit. The policy was dropped within a year.So, when von der Leyen warns of real-world pain for American consumers, she’s walking a road full of backfires. These tactics usually harden resistance, not weaken it—and rarely end the way the aggressor hopes.
“ will deliver “immense” and “dire consequences” for the New World Order and “global trading system.”
Good. That’s the plan.
85 years of “recovery aid” is more than enough, thank you.
Can’t believe that she’s even spouting Merkel’s slogans from 10 years ago! Does she think we don’t remember them?
Or has she been in Davos so long, SHE can’t remember?
Does she even know what started this 80 years ago, that save Europe’s rebuilding?
“… “immense” and “dire consequences” for the New World Order…”
What’s not to like?
I liked that phrase best of all
Ursula as Sundance said , all of MAGA extend to you the greeting of the day, Pinky Finger Salute along with the good ole American classic of the middle finger salute.
Hey Ursula, greetings and Salutations.
UK imports power from Norway Hydro plants to have their green scam work it disrupted the prices in Norway.
They wanted more, Norway’s people said no more and gov listened.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/wake_up_call_for_uk_energy_planners.html
Reminds me of my Mom hollering “close the door!! I am not air conditioning Orange County!!” when I was a barefoot kid..
Dang, you had air conditioning.
Yeah my parents and grandparents sure didn’t. We were spoiled come the early 80s..
We had a “swamp cooler” for one bedroom.
One sided counter measures? Boy is this broad a simple minded fool. It’s been okay to stick it to the America, but damn us we do it to them.
-What the EU (and the Biden Administration) attempted to do to Russia over Ukraine, it is now attempting to do to the US over tariffs. The weaponized financial system is now being turned against Americans.
Didn’t work against the Russians, and won’t work against us.
-“von der Leyen proclaims that global citizens will be impacted with higher grocery bills, shortages of medication and increased costs for transportation.”
Is she talking about tariffs or the Build Back Better program?
-“The leader of the world’s largest bureaucracy stunningly proclaims President Trump’s tariffs will increase the “’burdens of bureaucracy.’”
Translation: you are impinging on the privileges of our aristocratic neo-feudalism.
Take away their EBT ( European Balance Transfer) card.
“…we will be watching closely what indirect effects these tariffs could have because we cannot accept global over-capacity, nor will we accept dumping on our markets…”
Of course, it’s OK if there is global dumping on American markets!
Heh… yeah if only it were just inside trading. I think it’s more along the lines of “creating NGOs and writing laws and otherwise getting government spend money on them.”
Dude, even Republicans know we’re bankrupt. The system is being collapsed. Memes don’t mean sh+# now.
You should go over your prep again. It might make you feel better..
Bless Dick’s AI heart.
Attempted Intelligence can’t talk sh!t!! I almost wish it could because I never got any snappy comebacks from real live Leftoids either! It’d be nice to get backed into a corner conversation wise once in a while..
“Attempted Intelligence.”
I am sooooo
stealingborrowing that one for future use………..Why would I do that? What did I state that was in error? Memes are just another way of capturing people’s minds and thoughts and steering them in a particular direction. They can be funny and useful, but they can also be propaganda.
I don’t get it.
What can’t sustain itself, won’t! Make every day the best day and live your happiest life.
I agree! It has been a blessed ride. So thankful and happy I was given life when I was.
That wasn’t the finger I was thinking of…
The EU will be going into a depression and so plan for war with Russia to get underway. NATO is loading up troops in Lithuania. Europe needs to default as the push for their digital currency is nearing its birth. Capital Controls is what they will do. This is why Gold came to our shores. The Smart money knows what’s coming!
You will have a once in a lifetime chance to invest in our markets. I’m hoping to get a response from Secretary Howard Lutnick regarding a letter I recently sent his way. I’ll keep you all posted although I’m not holding my breath.
I respect President Trump and wish him the best during our rebirth!
Noticed Gov Newsom getting into the tariff act. I do not think he knows that his Franchise Tax Board levies a user tax on foreign imports. In fact CBP provides (!) California with all of the import filings.
Adding this to my DOGE CBP list, btw.
The EU: Tariffs are a terrible threat to our democracies and way of life.
Also the EU: We tariff the US at 10-25% and it’s no threat to them.
Again the EU: We can’t afford to fulfill our obligations to NATO.
What will the EU and the Deep State do to US?
To me she looks like and sounds like the Matron guarding a concentration camp. (Sorry, too many Steven Spielberg movies.)
Can anyone tell me why Americans should subsidize products made in foreign countries?
Now imagine your bi-monthly paycheck having a “foreign government tax deduction for every foreign country in the world listed on your stub called the Marshall Plan fee for life.
How is this any different?
The American people have been conned for years by our own politicians in DC.
Every single one of them needs to be primaried and we start over with representatives who are not bought and paid for.
Pops used to say “ReElect No one”.. I’ve seen the slogan on lapel pins.
I use that for judges.
Countermeasures against America?
Are they going to throw their Brie in the Atlantic Ocean?
Check it out. After that 50% warning, US markets aren’t crashing, EU and Asian ones are.
https://www.marketwatch.com/
Being millimeters from losing your life on a deliberate assassination attempt gives you tons of perspective and renders all F’s to give at ZERO. These people have NO IDEA who they’re dealing with. Trump knows he has the golden goose of the world and holding all of the cards. Political pressure and bad press is white noise when you are given a second lease in life. Let’s go!!
That ain’t no “PINKY FINGER “…