OPINION
Donald Trump is about to treat Mark Carney huge lesson for delusional mistake (Image: Pool via AP)
The EU commission are doing their nuts over that beastly , Possums. How dare he threaten them with two hundred percent tariffs on their wine and other alcoholic beverages? Bang out of order, is that! The best part of the whole wind up though is that an especially rabid Europhile wally, one Guy Verhofstadt, has really blown a fuse. Mind you, it doesn’t seem to take much to get this moron to throw a hissy at the best of times, does it?
Does have a beef with the EU? Well, to be perfectly honest, I think he does and I’m clearly not the only one. Is it justified? I’d say so. Post World War two saw the complete rebuild of Europe, with the US leading the way in funding it. None of the world’s banking systems were effectively functioning except for the USA, the UK, and Switzerland. This, along with the legacy of the true cost of the first AND the second world wars, mightily exacerbated the world’s financial woes post WW2 too.
Perhaps the best way to view this brouhaha is by stating what should be obvious; Europe has enjoyed an amazing post war evolution financed initially by the United States, subsequently heavily subsidised by the US taxpayer ever since.
Moreover, European defence capabilities have only endured courtesy of the Americans in large part too.
Trump certainly has an axe to grind with the EU who think nothing of accepting American largesse on the one hand and fleecing US multinationals with over the top punitive “tax” assessments, for example, on the other. We are only too well aware in this country to what lengths the EU will go to protect and project the “European Project”, which is more than amply illustrated by the grossly opportunistic way the EU seeks to control us even though we are no longer a member state.
The Trump administration have served notice, which pre-dates the 2024 presidential election result too, that the US will no longer be the world’s whipping boy whilst paying for the “privilege” at the same time.
ran his election campaign on a crystal-clear agenda. In matters of trade imbalance or other demonstrably prejudicial anomalies historically the norm post WW2.
Trump received a very clear mandate from the US electorate in November last year that fully supported his conviction of there being a grossly biased world trade order.
We know, for example, don’t we that our erstwhile friends in Beijing engage in questionable and, on occasions, nefarious questionable trade practices?
Book cooking and setting third world or, if you prefer, developing nation debt traps are all part of the CCP agenda, malign and self-serving as it clearly is.
Trump recognises all of this, AND the extent to which the EU bullyboys exhibit precisely the same tendencies. Enough is enough, Possums.
The prospect of falling under the control of the motley EU again or being at its mercy ought not to be entertained.
Trump loves it, of course, with the emergence of that ghastly pontificating windbag new Canadian PM, who has made little secret of his personal feelings towards him.
Mr Carney is about to get a lesson in geopolitics that he’ll likely never forget. If he seriously thinks that cosying up to Macron and Two-Tier is going to help in his pending Trumpian confrontation, then he is seriously deluded.
The Donald wants and rightly expects a more level playing field with US trading partners. The days of the US being taken for a ride and playing the worlds patsy are over.
Make America Great Again, why don’t we?