Comments by "Joey" (@Joey-ct8bm) on "Germany's Scholz and France's Macron in Paris: How to deal with the Trump presidency | DW News" video.

  1. Of course.. Trump is putting 25% universal tariffs on the EU. We should do 50% tariffs on the US and keep ASML chip technology in Europe. Let's see how fast the US can apply Moore's law on chips. China tried for 15 years and didn't catch up yet. They are close though. Back to the Iphone 8 for the US.
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  2.  @-Nobody-1 You don't want that. The US economy would collapse without ASML. The US will be in civil war.
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  3.  @gabriellarose6126  Do we? How? 1.9 million soldiers in the EU. 600k more than the US. Also 400 billion in defence spending, that's 3× what Russia spends. War economy and start building more weapons. It ain't that hard. It's not like Russia is blowing my mind with advances in Ukraine. It's more a question of wanting to go into a war economy. There's still 3000 Leopard 2 tanks in Europe collecting dust and all the other kind of tanks you need to still add. The better newer Leopard tanks too. Ukraine has the older version. We aren't helpless.
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  4.  @gabriellarose6126  Like? My country The Netherlands is at 2.2%. 4 countries pay MORE in GDP than the US. Seems like the US is behind a country like Polen in NATO GDP. The way i see it that the highest GDP NATO member should decide everything, not the US. Trump should take orders from Polen. Maybe Melania should call her own country Slovenia, because they don't have a 2% NATO GDP. Would be funny if we say to Putin in Europe than he can have Slovenia. Let's see if there's any action coming to save Slovenia from the US. You do realize my country has 0% say in Slovenia right? Give them sanctions or something. I'm fine with that. Don't blame my country or Polen. All the rich countries are at 2% or above, also all the Baltic countries. Almost nobody is below 2%.
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  5.  @gabriellarose6126  Then you're low on GDP, because the US has a 10 trillion dollar gdp more than the EU. We don't control the budget of the US military. Are we paying too little or you too much on defense? I think the US has a too high defense budget. Don't you? You don't pay into NATO. You pay a percentile of your GDP on defence. My country has 40 F35s, so the US gets the manufacturing profit on my tax money, which we hate here in Europe. Aid to Ukraine isn't fair either, because my country gave away all the F16s to Ukraine and bought F35s, so we pay double in aid if the US gets the profit.
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  6. ? The US is European territory. 61% of US citizens are European. Including Trump and Biden.
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