🇺🇸🇪🇺 If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth), they should be beyond appalled by this "deal"

It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits

The "deal" is:

• The EU now gets charged 15% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU
• The EU agrees to invest $600 billion in the US, for no other obvious reason than pleasing "daddy"
• The EU will "purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment"
• The EU commits to buying 750 billion dollars worth of very expensive US LNG, specifically $250 billion for each of the next 3 years

In exchange for all these concessions and extraction of their wealth they get... nothing. I'm not even exaggerating, that IS the deal: the EU gets nothing.

This does not even remotely ressemble the type of agreements made by two equal sovereign powers. It rather looks like the type of unequal treaties that colonial powers used to impose in the 19th century - except this time, Europe is on the receiving end.

More worryingly, this sets a dynamic and a precedent: what do you think happens next from here? In the 19th century, were colonial powers content with their first unequal treaty? Of course not - one of the key rules of geopolitics is that weakness only encourages further exploitation.

Again, this is Europe's century of humiliation.

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand