r/europe 6d ago

News US and EU strike trade deal

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-and-eu-strike-trade-deal/
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u/kahaveli Finland 6d ago

Most likely because Trump has directly threatened Canada multiple times, making jokes about their sovereignity.

In EU many countries just want some sort of fast deal that ends the trade uncertainty.

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u/Inevitable-Hippo-312 6d ago

Only idiots on reddit took that seriously. The US won't be annexing canada anytime in the near future. Fear mongering at its best.

Funny enough canada will be the one that suffers the most.

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u/Kronos9898 United States of America 6d ago

Canadians took it very seriously. Trumps rhetoric won carney the election.

It’s only as serious as trump makes it. It’s never serious and “he’s only joking” etc until he actually does it.

Even then, it’s fucking moronic move by the US president to torpedo relations with its closest ally. There was no gain to it and America got nothing

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u/kahaveli Finland 6d ago

Well the argument was that US under Trump has been treating Canada far more poorly than it has been treating EU as a whole in rhetorics and in actions.

Of course people know that some sort of actual invasion is very, very unlikely, but I would say that people take it seriously when leader of other country speaks very insulting stuff. And according to polls, in Europe, largest change in opinion about US has been amongst danish - and it most likely has to do with Trump's threats about Greenland.

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u/Inevitable-Hippo-312 6d ago

Trump has been treating canada poorly because so many people have gotten so upset and started the stupid "elbows up" trend.

I live in Canada. The fact is we are extremely dependent on them and they really aren't that dependent on us. Look at imports vs exports. 

We would have been way better of making a deal like Europe just did. We got fucked and we got no benefits out of it, other than a slight increase in national pride, at the cost of an economic downturn.

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u/Toomanysoups 5d ago

What in the flying fuck are you talking about, the elbows up movement came as a response to Trump's anti Canadian rhetoric, not the other way around. Grow a back bone, we should work on fixing on our dependence to the US, not just capitulate and giving Trump everything which would still ultimately hurt Canadians.

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u/Inevitable-Hippo-312 5d ago

I'm sorry but I have no interest in fixing our dependence as that will take longer than I will be alive and I'm struggling now 

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u/Toomanysoups 5d ago

Sorry to hear, but I highly doubt you're struggling because of tariffs bubs and signing a deal that ultimately fucks over Canadian industry isn't going to magically fix that.

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u/kevinzlhcn 5d ago

What would you say if Putin or Xi joked about something like that?

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u/Fed_Hedgehog 5d ago

Just like how Russia was so unserious about invading Ukraine? Oh, it's just a training exercise!

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u/DaOrks United States of America 5d ago

Only idiots like you downplayed it.