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| Europe accuses US of profiting from war. Well, they're not wrong. |
| 2022-11-26 |
| [Politico] EU officials attack Joe Biden over sky-high gas prices, weapons sales and trade as Vladimir Putin’s war threatens to destroy Western unity. They just can't stop themselves from calling it "Putin's War". The deep state is to blame, and yet the propagandists have to follow the guidelines. Europe isn't even angry about that, they're angry that America is making a profit. Nine months after invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is beginning to fracture the West. Top European officials are furious with Joe Biden’s administration and now accuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war, while EU countries suffer. "The fact is, if you look at it soberly, the country that is most profiting from this war is the U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons," one senior official told POLITICO. The explosive comments — backed in public and private by officials, diplomats and ministers elsewhere — follow mounting anger in Europe over American subsidies that threaten to wreck European industry. The Kremlin is likely to welcome the poisoning of the atmosphere among Western allies. Europe has subsidized its industries forever and America has laid down and taken it. It is rich that they would complain about such a thing. "I am shocked, shocked to see that gambling is going on in here!" "We are really at a historic juncture," the senior EU official said, arguing that the double hit of trade disruption from U.S. subsidies and high energy prices risks turning public opinion against both the war effort and the transatlantic alliance. "America needs to realize that public opinion is shifting in many EU countries." You couldn't hate us any more than you did under Trump, who you called worse than Hitler. Or Bu$hitler, who you also said was Hitler. And now Biden, a Democrat - you're not even calling him Hitler? What's the deal with pretending you're just now starting to get angry? The EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell called on Washington to respond to European concerns. "Americans — our friends — take decisions which have an economic impact on us," he said in an interview with POLITICO. The biggest point of tension in recent weeks has been Biden’s green subsidies and taxes that Brussels says unfairly tilt trade away from the EU and threaten to destroy European industries. Despite formal objections from Europe, Washington has so far shown no sign of backing down. At the same time, the disruption caused by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is tipping European economies into recession, with inflation rocketing and a devastating squeeze on energy supplies threatening blackouts and rationing this winter. As much as I hate the deep state, it warms my heart to see them doing this to Europe. It's about time someone stood up to them. If the deep state invaded Hell, etc. As they attempt to reduce their reliance on Russian energy, EU countries are turning to gas from the U.S. instead — but the price Europeans pay is almost four times as high as the same fuel costs in America. Then there’s the likely surge in orders for American-made military kit as European armies run short after sending weapons to Ukraine. Oh boo-fuckety-hoo. The NERVE, the absolute nerve to complain. They run a sky-high trade surplus with us, and this isn't even going to bring it even. It won't even come close. This will just put a tiny dent in their trade surplus, and they're screaming like a stuck pig. FUCK them. It's all got too much for top officials in Brussels and other EU capitals. French President Emmanuel Macron said high U.S. gas prices were not "friendly" and Germany’s economy minister has called on Washington to show more "solidarity" and help reduce energy costs. Ministers and diplomats based elsewhere in the bloc voiced frustration at the way Biden’s government simply ignores the impact of its domestic economic policies on European allies. If Biden invaded Hell, etc. When EU leaders tackled Biden over high U.S. gas prices at the G20 meeting in Bali last week, the American president simply seemed unaware of the issue, according to the senior official quoted above. Other EU officials and diplomats agreed that American ignorance about the consequences for Europe was a major problem. LOL he has dementia you stupid fucks. He's unaware of much, except when he has to go to the bathroom. And sometimes not even then. "The Europeans are discernibly frustrated about the lack of prior information and consultation," said David Kleimann of the Bruegel think tank. Officials on both sides of the Atlantic recognize the risks that the increasingly toxic atmosphere will have for the Western alliance. The bickering is exactly what Putin would wish for, EU and U.S. diplomats agreed. Therefore Europeans are Putin's tools. They are acting in the pay of the FSB. A day of reckoning will come for these traitors. |
| Posted by:Spike the Hairy6811 |
| #11 "U.S. because they are selling more gas and at higher prices, and because they are selling more weapons," and they are also spending billions of taxpayer dollars to support the war effort. That causes inflation that isn't helping things. But what this really is, is the Germans trying to blame someone else for the cold winter their citizens are going to face. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-11-26 21:55 |
| #10 |
| Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 2022-11-26 12:30 |
| #9 ^ The Ukraine mess goes back to the machinations that Bath House Barry's neocon brain trust foisted on the world. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-11-26 10:21 |
| #8 Nobody in the media seems to connect years of Biden family shenanigans in Ukraine with the war. It is Biden’s war more than Putins. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2022-11-26 09:45 |
| #7 Hey, if Uncle Sugar is going to claw back all the $$$ that have been used to subsidize "freedom" in western Eurineland these some 77 years since the end of WW II, we have a lot of work to do! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-11-26 08:24 |
| #6 ^ a left over mistaken lesson from post WW2. They've forgot we bombed the mf'ers into the stone age first which is probably why two of the most militaristic cultures in world history are now pretty much among the least. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-11-26 08:22 |
| #5 Why is the US the only country that consistently repays 'fuck you' with goodwill and unconditional assist? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-11-26 03:14 |
| #4 Nigh no longer being nigh, as it were... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-11-26 01:17 |
| #3 #1 Well, at least he didn't use any fancy words this time. Although I'm not sure that "f-ck" is an improvement. Anyway, the message is that there is a split within the West, which is one of the current Soviet propaganda themes. The main theme used to be that glorious victory was nigh, but for some reason that's no longer part of the canon. |
| Posted by: Matt 2022-11-26 01:16 |
| #2 I find it fascinating that Politico is suddenly so deeply unhappy with President Biden, now that the midterm election has been dealt with. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-11-26 00:28 |
| #1 Before I even scrolled down, I know it was one-hit-pony |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-11-26 00:06 |