The EU deal and windmills

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In which Trump makes the EU pay $1.35 trillion for the privilege of paying 15% unilateral tariffs on exports & lectures the Eurotards on the stupidity of wind turbines for good measure

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but it looks like the EU had offered either a mutual 0% tariff deal to the United States, or a 10% reciprocal tariff deal, and additionally to invest $500 billion in U.S. companies and $600 billion in “energy purchases.” Trump or somebody has revised both of the latter figures upwards (to $600 billion and $750 billion respectively) and added something that looks like “15% across [the board]” in the right margin. This would confirm that the EU got taken to the cleaners.¹

While von der Leyen was trying weakly to put a happy face on her total failure, Trump gave her what we might call a softer Zelensky treatment. He twisted the knife in the wound, calling out the idiocy of EU wind energy in an extended soliloquy that will surely keep the fact-checkers and the regime deboonkers up late for weeks to come. I transcribe his remarks in full, because the whole moment was wonderful:

And the other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains. And I’m not talking about airplanes. I’m talking about beautiful plains, the beautiful areas in the United States. And you look up and you see windmills all over the place. It’s a horrible thing. It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good.

They’re made in China, almost all of them. When they start to rust and rot in eight years, you can’t really turn them off. You can’t bury them. They won’t let you bury the propellers, you know, the props, because they’re a certain type of fiber that doesn’t go well with the land. That’s what they say. The environmentalists say you can’t bury them because the fiber doesn’t go well with the land. In other words, if you bury it, it will harm our soil.

The whole thing is a con job. It’s very expensive. And in all fairness, Germany tried it and, wind doesn’t work. You need subsidy for wind and energy should not need subsidy. With energy, you make money. You don’t lose money.

But more important than that is it ruins the landscape. It kills the birds. They’re noisy. You know, you have a certain place in the Massachusetts area that over the last 20 years had one or two whales wash ashore and over the last short period of time they had 18, okay, because it’s driving them loco, it’s driving them crazy. Now, windmills will not come, it’s not going to happen in the United States, and it’s a very expensive …

I would love to see, I mean, today I’m playing the best course I think in the world, Turnberry, even though I own it, it’s probably the best course in the world, right? And I look over the horizon and I see nine windmills. It’s like right at the end of the 18. I said, “Isn't that a shame? What a shame.” You have the same thing all over, all over Europe in particular. You have windmills all over the place.

Some of the countries prohibit it. But, people ought to know that these windmills are very destructive. They’re environmentally unsound. Just the exact opposite. Because the environmentalists, they’re not really environmentalists, they’re political hacks. These are people that, they almost want to harm the country. But you look at these beautiful landscapes all over all, over the the world. Many countries have gotten smart. They will not allow it. They will not. It's the worst form of energy, the most expensive form of energy. But, windmills should not be allowed. Okay?

All the while von der Leyen had to sit there, absolutely frozen except for a curiously accelerated rate of blinking, as she learned in real time that weakness and submission do not in fact invite conciliation.

People like Ursula von der Leyen are stuck in a universalist liberal fantasy that never really existed and that has been openly repudiated for at least a decade now. The answer to everything is not more human rights, more green energy, more third-worldist aid funding and more universalism. Sooner or later we will have to figure out how to survive in a divided world and how to secure resources for our economies. That project is utterly beyond unelected oblivious losers like Ursula von der Leyen, and it is also beyond withered Euro pseudo-statesmen like Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Marx Carney is a Trump whisperer so I have faith Canada will get a much better deal than Ursula did for the EU.

 

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Canada doesnt want a deal. If they deal then Trump will control policy here and Carney will be reduced to governor.

The deal is complete destruction to their agenda. None the less however they will sign and we the people will be better for it.

USA intelligence and military have massive leverage over the new Carney admin and Carney himself. Why do you think Euro leaders crumbled.

 

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Carney is about to get humiliated. So much for mr tough guy stand up to the USA.

The orange Cheeto wins