Trump says at NATO summit he has ordered cutoff of US trade with Spain

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-ordered-cutting-off-all-trade-with-spain-2026-07-08/

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midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 88 pts · 47d (6 replies)

Literally not even possible, he's continuing to refuse treating the EU as a single trading partner. He's the most inept diplomat. He's dumber than the ancient inbred monarchs. Everyone is ignoring him, Spain is ignoring him, Bessent is ignoring him. It's embarrassing on so many levels.

Mihies@programming.dev · 15 pts · 47d (4 replies)

Yet, at the same time everybody is appeasing him 🤷

midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 47d (3 replies)

I honestly don't see it that way. I see the EU biding time to disentangle the two economies. I think there are real arguments that they should be more aggressive toward the US, but I also believe that leaders need to put their personal dignity beneath the needs of their people. If appeasing his useless banter gives Europe a few more months to transition, it will hurt less when they eventually have to pull the plug. I also see the same thing happening with the whole NATO/daddy thing. I believe the shift from friend to foe already happened, and everything for the past few years has been posturing for an eventual messy divorce.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 12 pts · 47d (2 replies)

appeasing his useless banter gives Europe a few more months to transition

Many in Europe are currently watching in awe how the leaders of France and Spain constantly refuse to appease him.

Regarding "pulling the plug" I don't see that happening. I rather watch and expect a gradual change that may even continue after Trump, but does not require any radical target like zero trade or something.

midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 47d (1 reply)

I think it's likely that the US will force Europe to choose sides in a war. They've already tried and largely failed with Iran so far. That's the pulling of the plug I was referring to, being forced to do so by the US, not that zero trade is actually the goal, just that the EU must work to blunt the impact of eventually defying US hegemony.

I also think Biden's tenure was the final straw that proved to EU leaders that the US won't be an ally for much longer, regardless who is in charge. He changed close to nothing about Trump's foreign policy, in Afghanistan, Iran, the Mexican border, the pentagon's ballooning budget, Cuba. There is not a future, in my mind, where the US is not involved in an ever-intensifying global conflict that will eventually force Europe's involvement, regardless which idiot the corpos choose to lead.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 2 pts · 47d

US will try to force Europe

ftfy

Madison420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d

Even if he says the eu the president can't stop trade that's Congress and the supreme Court pretty literally just told him in lawyer speak "you can't do this you fucking idiot, read the Constitution like once ever."

SrMono@feddit.org · 31 pts · 47d

So the two bases get closed too? Or is somebody cherry picking? 🙃

remon@ani.social · 24 pts · 47d (1 reply)

I see he still hasn't learned how the EU works ...

trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 47d

How on Earth should such a monumental moron be capable of learning?

jdr@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 47d

Blackrock can fuck off though

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 9 pts · 47d

Is that more than 100%?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 47d

Tfw literally nobody considers your threats credible 😛

GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 7 pts · 47d

This always reminds me of playing fallout, but you remove all skill points from "intelligence". You can still play the game, but each dialogue option is the same, single, non coherent option, and your dialogue partners offer help or talk to you like a toddler.