Luongo: Trump Doesn’t Want Peace With The EU
by Tom Luongo,
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 09/01/2018
Donald Trump is on a mission. His goal? Destroy the post-WWII institutional order that has outlived its usefulness.
And there have been a number of major moves that fundamentally tear at the fabric of that order. In a span of a day we’ve had the following things occur in quick succession.
French President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference calling for a new “strategic relationship with Russia and Turkey.”
At the same time he softened the EU’s stance on Russia’s reunification with Crimea, saying Russian – EU relations needed “to be brought up to date.”
On the trade and tariff war with Trump, Germany called Trump’s bluff about free trade on cars by offering to scrap all import tariffs on theirs in exchange for the U.S. lifting them on light trucks and pickups, which Trump promptly rejected.
Trump then called the EU “Worse than China” and threatened to pull the U.S. out of the World Trade Organization.
Ayatollah Khamenei put pressure on the EU to stand up to Trump over the JCPOA, clearly threatening a return of their nuclear program.
Just last week German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, clearly frustrated with Trump’s endless dollar belligerence called for the EU to develop, like Russia and China, it’s own electronic interbank payment system to skirt U.S. sanctions.
So in one week we’ve had the Germans threaten SWIFT, the French question the validity of NATO and Trump threaten to leave the WTO.
All against the backdrop of the end of the Syrian Civil War and the potential withdrawal of U.S. troops from there while the Taliban arrive in Moscow to discuss peace terms with the Afghan government.
Is it just me or are things about to look very different very soon.
If we take Trump at his word then we were supposed to believe Trump wanted peace and free trade with the EU. In this case his word was this tweet from July 24th where he said:
The European Union is coming to Washington tomorrow to negotiate a deal on Trade. I have an idea for them. Both the U.S. and the E.U. drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies! That would finally be called Free Market and Fair Trade! Hope they do it, we are ready – but they won’t!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2018
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