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trump wants reparations from the EU
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What the actual fuck is going on?
It's got to be this. He's running the US economy like it's a business. Not even like a legitimate business but a shitty business that uses mafia tactics and eventually goes bankrupt.
I just hope all those feckless EU leaders aren't stupid enough to be shaken down
This is how he's always been, he's always been a failson who got ahead on Mafia tactics. He inherited a ton of contacts and networks from his father along with a ton of money, and pissed it away on gaudy gold toilets and bankrupting casinos. He never actually ran a proper business in his life.
I've never actually verified this but I have always been entertained by the talking point that he woukd be richer if he just put his inheritance in an index fund.
It's true. Google hint Robert Reich index fund Trump. Reich has mentioned it at least a few times.
Haha nice
And used the casinos to launder money from the Russians
???
This is one of the least logical Russiagate accusations I've ever heard.
The casino was open until like 2014 but wasn't all that popular through the 2010s. Let's call tbe peak the 90s to the early 00s.
You're suggesting that some nebulous "Russians" (who? Politicians? Oligarchs? Gangsters? Typically only gangsters need to launder money) took their ill-gotten roubles, converted them to USD (already a form of money laundering, doing this alone would suffice), flew to Atlantic City, gambled it away in Trump's casino, converted their winnings back to roubles (losing heavily during the exchange rate process), and flew back to Russia, because Trump was friendly or something? All at a time when Russia was politically neutral to the US during the Fukuyama End of History era? At a time when the rouble wasn't banned from global markets? What fucking purpose would laundering their money in a different nation's currency altogether actually serve?
Do you actually think before you post or do you just fire off some fucking Tom Clancy fanfic with Trump and Spooky Russians :tm: attached to it and expect it to be taken at face value?
The "seized" (stolen) money from the 2022 heist?
I've met a few small time capitalists (like they own small factories with less than 50 workers) in my day and the one thing that unites them is that all of them believe that governments should be run like a business.
These people are imbeciles and they've convinced large swathes of people to believe the same. It's incredible.
So basically how we treated the global South except with Europe, to which they're upset because only 'the coloreds' are supposed to be treated like this.
God I really hope this indeed becomes the century of China.
With the brain drain and scientists fleeing to Canada and Europe, it may be European time again.
Not a chance. EU is doomed for decades at least. Deindustrialized, vassalized to the US, expensive energy, war with Russia. They are fucked more than anyone.
not to mention too racist to make the correct choices
Europe thrives via violent colonialism, not scientific advancement; science is more of a China thing
The problem, I think you'll find, is that a lot of those scientists aren't lily white, which is tantamount to a crime in Europe
I'm bearish on EU and Canada. Canada because they are also going through their capitalist realism phase of light neoliberalism party vs heavy neoliberalism party. EU because they want to defund all their social programs to throw people into a meat grinder fighting Russia
Uh, oh. This will not end well at all.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The issue is that he has nukes
It's not a stupidity, they are compradors. Just they are now compradors whose master fucked up good old Al Capone advice about gun and a kind word.
A whole union of nations none the less.
It's a shakedown, pure and simple. The US is supposed to be a winner, but it's losing and so he needs EU money to not look like a loser.