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EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims
(theconversation.com)
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The whole trade war circus is just another pathetic narcissist circus. Trump’s tariff tantrums and the EU’s “proportionate response” reek of performative politics. Neither side cares about actual people—just protecting their fragile egos and corporate donors. The deficit numbers? Smokescreens for incompetence. The real issue is that EU consumers don’t want hormone-pumped beef or plastic cheese, and Americans prefer European engineering over their own gas-guzzling relics.
Regulatory theater on both sides masks a deeper rot. The EU’s “precautionary principle” is just protectionism with a fancy name, while the US whines about “unfairness” while subsidizing Big Ag to dump Monsanto corn globally. Neither bloc will admit their systems are broken, clinging to late-stage capitalism’s death spiral.
Trade wars won’t fix this. They’re distractions from the real crisis: a global governance model built on exploitation and denial. But hey, at least the propaganda machines on both sides get fresh content.
Your first paragraph is spot on, but you couldn't be more wrong about EU regulations. Regulating the safety of food isn't theater or protectionism, it's a common sense defense against corporate cost cutting basically poisoning the food supply like in the US.
EU gets a lot of things wrong, but having higher standards for what you're allowed to sell to consumers as food than the US does is emphatically NOT one of them.
The EU’s so-called “higher standards” are just another layer of bureaucratic theater designed to placate its own citizens while hiding the rot underneath. Sure, they slap a fancy label on their food policies, but it’s not about protecting people—it’s about protecting markets. The precautionary principle? A shield for their agricultural lobby to keep out competition under the guise of safety.
Meanwhile, the US isn’t poisoning anyone; it’s just playing a different game of corporate greed. Both systems are broken, but let’s not pretend one is morally superior. The EU’s smugness over “standards” is laughable when they’re still importing slave-labor goods and dumping waste in Africa.
It’s all hypocrisy dressed up as policy. Don’t buy into their self-righteous propaganda.
Big paragraph.
I went to Germany, and drank their beer.
It’s just. Better.
Lmao. Well, I can't argue with that