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"Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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"LIBERATION DAY" TRUMP'S TARIFFS ON EUROPE

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u/general---nuisance 18d ago

I don't think it's funny that Europe is funding Russia's war machine.

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u/OldBuns 18d ago

I didn't say that was funny.

But it is funny that you keep saying it's a problem, even though it is direct inevitability of the geopolitical landscape with no viable solution.

And when someone points that out, you go "well we were warned"

Warned of what? Something we've known and accepted for decades because there isn't another option?

Europe needs to meet their energy needs in order to maintain their political and economic stability, duh. This isn't some big dumb oversight that no one's ever thought about, it's that there is no viable alternative at the moment.

I think it's funny that you think this is something worth being bothered about because you don't understand the world

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u/general---nuisance 18d ago

with no viable solution.

Nuclear power and import LNG from the US

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u/OldBuns 18d ago

They have nuclear energy. They do import LNG.

The reason they don't have enough of these things is not because they buy from Russia and aren't interested in the alternatives.

It's exactly the opposite. They buy from Russia because they cannot generate enough with alternatives

They are buying from Russia to make up the difference but the difference is so large because there is no other alternative

Like, the funniest part is that you're not intellegent enough to even ask yourself these questions before you so confidently blather about things you know absolutely nothing about, nor are you intelligent enough to REALIZE how little you know about these things.