“That’s a, nice economy you got there. Be a shame if, something happened to it. Fortunately, my cousin Salvatore runs a heating oil business. You get your heating oil from him, and only him, there won’t be any problems, capisce?”

EU leaders will most likely capitulate, but there is a non-zero chance we are about to witness an incredibly graceless pivot to Putin in the European liberal press, which would be incredibly funny

Tie yourself to the biggest bully the world has ever seen, and then complain about being bullied? You ever hear the one about the scorpion and the frog?

Euros being demanded tribute under the Anglo-American Yoke

Europe should tell the US to fuck off. Sadly, given the sycophants for American imperialism that form a big a part of the governance, I’ve a sneaking fear they may well just say yeah okay.

That’s it? That’s not even that much on an international trade scale is it? I know it won’t be the end of it, but even as a start this has real “Dr Evil demands 1 million dollars” vibes

Edit: unless bending Europe to the will of the US very publicly is the real point?

to be amerikkka’s friend

I guess the picture for the article including BiBi is to let the EU know that if they reject the deal, it’s because they are anti-semites.

There it is

Lmao tell him to eat shit

J-JDPON Don?

“Who’s the colony now, Hitlerites?”

Conversion is about 8 Twitter incs

I remeber posting about how I thought mercantilism was about to make a comeback as neoliberalism keeps faltering last summer, but I didn’t think it would be this blatant.

No, Trump is holding US citizens hostage. We’re the ones this hurts.