šŗšøšŖšŗ Donald Trump has shown up the European Union. Heās revealed that the worldās largest single market is a paper tiger to be kicked around, with basically no leverage or strength to resist American demands.
All of these supposedly fierce backroom tariff negotiations have yielded an incredibly one-sided deal ā really an unparalleled embarrassment. As announced yesterday, the EU promises to invest $600 billion in the U.S. economy and to make $750 billion worth of āstrategic purchasesā of oil, gas and the like over the next three years. We also promise to buy a bunch of American military equipment.
In return for giving the Americans $1.35 trillion, we earn the privilege of a 15% baseline tariff on all of our exports to America and we drop our own tariffs to zero. At least we donāt have to pay the 30% tariffs Trump threatened!
While von der Leyen was trying weakly to put a happy face on her total failure, Trump gave her what we might call a softer Zelensky treatment. He twisted the knife in the wound, calling out the idiocy of EU wind energy in an extended soliloquy that will surely keep the fact-checkers and the regime deboonkers up late for weeks to come. I transcribe his remarks in full, because the whole moment was wonderful:
And the other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. Theyāre killing us. Theyāre killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains. And Iām not talking about airplanes. Iām talking about beautiful plains, the beautiful areas in the United States. And you look up and you see windmills all over the place. Itās a horrible thing. Itās the most expensive form of energy. Itās no good.
Theyāre made in China, almost all of them. When they start to rust and rot in eight years, you canāt really turn them off. You canāt bury them. They wonāt let you bury the propellers, you know, the props, because theyāre a certain type of fiber that doesnāt go well with the land. Thatās what they say. The environmentalists say you canāt bury them because the fiber doesnāt go well with the land. In other words, if you bury it, it will harm our soil.
The whole thing is a con job. Itās very expensive. And in all fairness, Germany tried it and, wind doesnāt work. You need subsidy for wind and energy should not need subsidy. With energy, you make money. You donāt lose money.
All the while von der Leyen had to sit there, absolutely frozen except for a curiously accelerated rate of blinking, as she learned in real time that weakness and submission do not in fact invite conciliation.
Obviously nobody would take issue with Trump striking the best deal he can for the United States, but from my perspective this deal is a low point for Brussels, who are presently strangling our industry with overregulation and literal deindustrialisation policies, and who cannot even leverage the bundled negotiating power of the 27 EU member states to do anything but promise to send the Americans over a trillion dollars and pay 15% tariffs forever.
The EU sucks partly because Europe is not a country and the EU does not have clearly articulated geopolitical interests, and partly because some of its most influential member states have forgotten the very real geopolitical interests that they do have. People like Ursula von der Leyen are stuck in a universalist liberal fantasy that never really existed and that has been openly repudiated for at least a decade now.
The answer to everything is not more human rights, more green energy, more third-worldist aid funding and more universalism. Sooner or later we will have to figure out how to survive in a divided world and how to secure resources for our economies. That project is utterly beyond unelected oblivious losers like Ursula von der Leyen, and it is also beyond withered Euro pseudo-statesmen like Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
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This is who the left supports and let into the country for 4 years under Joe Biden, people who hate us.
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š„GAZAP: Inside Turkeyās most powerful bomb in its history
Turkey has tested GAZAP (Anger), its heaviest and most destructive non-nuclear bomb to date ā shown at the IDEF 2025 exhibition
Key facts:
š“ Type: Thermobaric + high-fragmentation.
š“ Weight: ~970 kg (2,000 lbs).
š“ Blast density: ~10 fragmentation blasts per meter (vs 3 in standard bombs).
š“ Disperses 10,000 fragments on detonation, creating high heat and pressure over a wide area.
š“ Delivery: Dropped from Turkish F-16 fighter jets.
š“ Status: Fully certified and cleared for service.
š“ Designed for maximum area damage ā ideal for bunkers, fortifications, and troop concentrations.
š“ Complements Turkeyās NEB-2 "Ghost" bomb, capable of piercing up to 7 m of reinforced concrete.
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š¹šāļøšØš³ š°š Thai authorities have just arrested 3 suspected Chinese spies caught photographing military infrastructure near the border with Cambodia in the Surin province. They 3 men were also carrying falsified documents