Tariff Meltdown FAILS: Washington PANICS as Europe Officially Calls America's Bluff

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]United States government is currently acting like a desperate mob boss and is starting to realize that the neighborhood that it's been relying on for profit all these years is starting to buy from another supplier. We have to look at the situation that's happening right now, especially with the 25% tariffs that are being put down on European automakers. Cuz we have to call this exactly what it is. This isn't about protecting industry or manufacturing in America. This is economic coercion. That's all that it is. The turnberry agreement in itself was supposed to be a partnership, but the United States was trying to cudel the European Union to essentially bend the knee. American government took out the baseball bat that is the tariff and is just trying to take out the knees of European manufacturing at this point.

[00:00:44]And this doesn't help anybody in the United States because if you slap down a 25% tariff on a BMW or any car that comes out of Germany at this point, you have the auto industry in America who's trying to convince broke Americans to pay $90,000 for a truck that costs twice as much as it did just a couple months ago to fill up the gas tank. So, the entire thing is unsustainable. It works against the American people and it's just a way to punish the European Union for not following the United States lead into Iran. These are punitive measures.

[00:01:17]That's exactly what they are. There isn't anything that was done by the European Union to call for these kind of measures to be taken. And that's one of the reasons why you've seen Europe distance itself as much as it can defensively and economically from the United States. This is a perfect example because you can't be in an alliance where the leader is actively trying to punish people for not doing exactly what they say. That's not how this pact works. It's not how this it's not how these trade agreements went. Now Trump's going out and he's saying that Europe failed to hold up its end of the agreement. But the Turnberry agreement itself would lock the EU into a position where they'd still have to pay 15% um tariffs across the board while the U while the United States paid essentially nothing. And like we said in the last video where we talked about this, you know, this would flood the European trading block with industrial and agricultural goods where the domestic market just couldn't compete.

[00:02:17]And I think the most interesting thing about this though is that Europe is essentially calling America's bluff at this point. It's looking at Trump. is looking at whatever he's posting on true social and saying you're gonna taco, you're just gonna you're gonna back down or worse comes to worse, we're just not going to deal with you anymore because you're an unreliable partner. And that's coming from Burn Lang, the chairman of uh the EU's parliament. Essentially, it's like this. The EU is tired of being bullied around by Donald Trump. The EU is tired of being bullied around by the American government. So it it's essentially saying, listen, we have been tying together new trade deals to cut you out to make sure that you can't pull this on us anymore. So you go ahead and do whatever damage you think you can do.

[00:02:59]We have partnerships with Australia, partnerships with India. Our trade deal between the EU and Meroker just kicked into high gear. We have an entire new market in America. They're gambling here. The bet is that the $30 trillion economy that the United States has, that consumer base is just too lucrative for the EU to turn away from it. But the thing is, a price has to be paid at some point when it comes to strategic sovereignty. And that's the goal of the European Union. That's the goal of pretty much every actor that's outside the United States right now who sees the United States as an unreliable, dangerous, and predatory partner at this point. So, over 70 years, European politicians have been treating the United States presidents uh like they're some kind of rich unhinched uncle who's always going to pick up the tab for dinner. But now they're openly calling Washington DC unreliable. And they're threatening immediate retaliation.

[00:03:54]Nature is healing. Nature is healing. So Europe says, "Washington DC, do what you want. Go ahead and put a 25% tariff on our cars here. We're going to immediately go ahead and retaliate.

[00:04:06]We're going to put tariffs on your blue jeans. We're going to put tariffs on your bourbon. We're going to tariff your hormone infused chicken breast into oblivion because the the buck stops here when it comes to the the predatory trade policies that the US is that the US is trying to put on that the US that the US continues to try to put on Europe. And the thing is here is that the play that's being made, it's completely obvious. This entire scenario, the pressure points that have been put on the European Union, on the people in Europe, the people here in Amsterdam who have to pay much more for the petrol to put into their cars.

[00:04:50]All this has been done by design for America to go ahead and try to push these policies through to enrich corporations in America. to talk about the energy crisis in Hormuz. It's being used energy crisis is being used to leverage the United States position as the country that's going to be affected last by the break in the energy supply chain to further its position on those who are already being impacted. You can look at uh the prime minister of Singapore coming out and saying that you know these effects right now we are suffering through are going to pick up and continue. Supply disruptions will persist and may worsen in the months ahead.

[00:05:33]Globally, inflation will rise, spreading from energy to food and then other essentials. Some economies may well slip into recession and all this will put rail pressure on businesses, workers and households. The situation in the Middle East has evolved and it remains highly uncertain. The straight of Homos has been closed for more than two months.

[00:05:57]The impact is being felt not just in higher prices but also in tightening supply.

[00:06:03]Airlines have cut floods. Factories are reporting delays and the disruptions will not stop at energy. Fertilizer, food and other essential inputs will be hit next.

[00:06:17]We can expect shortages in more items to emerge. These things do not recover overnight. It will take months at least before the situation stabilizes. In fact, the pressures are likely to intensify.

[00:06:31]>> And the thing is there's silence in America about this because again, America is the last to be impacted.

[00:06:38]So, it's really a betrayal of the kind of good faith policies that have been exchanged between our governments um for near a century at this point. There's always been jocking for position. Every country wants to get the best deal that it can, but these measures, these measures, like I said, they're punitive.

[00:06:59]All we need to do to see what they're trying to do here is look over to Canada. Now, Canada Softwood is still facing something like a 35 to 45% um combined tariff in duty. It's it's devastated the ability of Americans actually build new homes. But for the Canadian industry itself, it's caused a massive disruption. And of course, lawsuits are going on and there's hope that the courts are going to put an end to these things. But even when the Supreme Court in the United States goes ahead and says that the tariffs that are being put um all over the world, right, that they're illegal, the thing about this administration is they're good at finding pretty much any loophole that they possibly can to do whatever they want. Like I said, the American administration in charge right now is not acting in good faith. And that is exactly why um the world is just kind of backing off at this point. And that's why you're seeing nations like Denmark, especially after this administration threatened to move on Greenland. So many European nations right now are moving away from their their industrial defense contracts sourcing the United States to spend that money at home domestically or through more safe and stable partners abroad. Of course, the news just dropped yesterday of the 5,000 US troops that are going to be pulled out of Germany.

[00:08:19]And I think this is honestly something that can be expected and should be expected more, especially as Europe finds itself in the position where it wants to distance itself um from an entanglement with the United States, especially when it comes to their foreign policy. But the truth is there's less need for these troops to actually be stationed across Europe as Europe commits to more spending here domestically. So you're going to see more of a draw down in Europe. The thing about this is uh Russia is taking this as a victory. It's it's seeing this as a great victory strategically because in that transition between a dependence on the United States and a more sovereign um defensively independent Europe, there is a gray area of vulnerability and that is what Russia is looking to exploit. I mean, every measure that the United States has taken has really only strengthened Russia's position, whether that be economically or militarily.

[00:09:18]Now, thankfully, Ukraine has absolutely outperformed any kind of expectation on the battlefield. They've become world leaders of drone warfare. You couldn't have expected that, honestly, at the beginning of this war. Everyone thought that Russia was going to go in and steamroll them. But Europe steps up. The winds of change are blowing and the United States is not in favor on the world stage anymore. Nations all over are just cutting away because they should. Like I said, it's pretty obvious what's happening. In the end, it's good to see Europe stand up to the United States of America because the harm that's coming from its foreign policy at this point is being felt globally.

[00:09:58]And when America decides to cut off the cheap gas that's coming to Europe and then sell expensive gas to Europe and then try to tax the cars that Europe is using that fuel to make by 25%. This is the equivalent of America breaking out the baseball bat and breaking guy's legs and then trying to sell him the wheelchair. What people from the United States are are starting to understand is that the unipolar moment only existed because the middle powers allowed it.

[00:10:23]You're not a hegeimon by force. That is a dictatorship. Your hegeimon by popular consensus or agreement.

[00:10:33]America ruled essentially because it was allowed to rule. And now that rule was being absolutely challenged out of necessity because the leadership that it shown is toxic to the world. And the days of Washington DC dictating the global economy are over. Europe just called its bluff and the rest of the world is taking notes. Elbows up. Food for daughter as always.