Comments by "Joey" (@Joey-ct8bm) on "EU leaders push back on US subsidies and expanding protectionism | DW News" video.

We react to what other countries doing. I can't give you a better example than this video. We have the belt and road in the EU from China and had gas, oil and grain from Russia. We're now forced to do this because of China, Russia and the US.
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@Tmb1112 Outage! He just said let's work together. We've regulation on food from the US because it's literally poison for instance. That's why we don't have free trade with the US. The standards in the US are much lower than the EU on most things. Those crazy opiods too by the way. Cars do not apply. A Ford or Tesla do pass our safety regulations. If the US had higher standards we would've signed more trade deals. To put it in simpler terms... US standards are basic and don't serve the people at all. They actually kill people.
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@danielarcadia7243 We make weapons in Europe! We make the advanced chips to make those weapons. No ASML, No new chips for weapons. We can always pivot to China. The belt and road ends in Europe. That means we can withhold and tax everything from China to the US and vice versa. We also have all the money from all US big companies. Google, Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft all store their money in Luxembourg, Ireland and the Netherlands to evade tax. Those companies in the US we would call shell companies. Just for appearance. A example from you... Apple has $215 billion in foreign subsidiaries, compared to just $16.6 billion in the US. We could kill Apple by snapping our fingers. You should see the lists of companies having their money in Europe. Spoiler alert! It's all of them! Nike, Coca cola, Mcdonalds you name it. We just need to press a few buttons and all that money is gone. It would crumble the US economy overnight. The New York stock market would fall instantly. A dead drop to zero for all big companies. Who's dry fooking now!
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@danielarcadia7243 True, but it's hard to pay for war when your economy is collapsed. Get the Chinese on board and the US is gonna have a very hard time. The European countries have the strenght of Russia's army. It's not like you can walk right in. The Navy of France and Britain alone equal the strenght of Russia's Navy. Europe also has more airpower than Russia. On the ground it's different story though. Skimmed out on that one. Let's see if people wanna work the US warmachine for free. I don't think so. They would need to force people. That would be civil war in the US knowing US politics. We can just sit back and watch it unfold in Europe. But let's not fight and just work with each other as allies against countries like China and Russia. Much better for the both of us.
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@danielarcadia7243 In the top 10 weapons exporters there are 6 European countries. France and Germany export more weapons than China for instance. Our submarines and ships are the best in the world. The Leopard 2 tank is considered one of the best in the world and Jet fighters too. The best airforce in the world is Sweden for instance. We would win the battle against Russia in the Europe. We have a much more advanced army than the Russians. We could never win a war against the US alone of course, but it wouldn"t be a cakewalk.
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@danielarcadia7243 I just explained why a tariff would be a awful idea. 1. we have the crucial machine to make microchips. 2. We hold the trade route to China. How are you ever build anything without Chinese goods and minerals. 3. What would we need from the US we can't get from Asia, the middle east or Africa.
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@danielarcadia7243 You think everything fully comes from the US that they make. 🤣 Almost nothing advanced is made in the US. All that technology is made in Asia with minerals from Africa. Nothing in a iPad or IPhone is made in the US. Tariffs will slow the US economy down. Do you think Europe is gonna buy the expensive stuff from the US or the cheap stuff from other countries? The price of a IPhone would rocket in price if it was made in the US. Everybody would buy the much cheaper Samsung. That's how the market works. Everything would just become more expensive. We would counter the tariffs and then you would counter. So on and so on. Not productive at all. Nobody wins. If you look at what rich people buy in the US it's all foreign. They buy a Ferrari, European furniture, European clothes, European watches and a house in Europe. Their technology is all made in Asia. If you look at what rich Europeans buy almost nothing is from the US at all. A tariff war would be awful for the US because they buy mostly foreign. They will pay any price for European stuff. We won't.
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@andrzejszpak688 Luxury goods you buy from Europe. Japan is very much behind on EV's, they make excellent gas engines though. Cheap clothing is more India and Sri Lanka by the way. I love the sunglasses industry. In India they make Dolce Gabbana sunglasses and we put a Dolce Gabbana logo on it in Italy and put a made in Italy on it. Then sell them for 2000% the value. Sunglasses are the biggest scam in the world. I wouldn't trust anything in clothing which have a label made in France or Italy.
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@andrzejszpak688 You're actually using something European right now. Bluetooth WIFI and your semiconductor technology from ASML.
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