After the EU Commission capitulated like a house of cards, faster than their own shadow, to Trumps’ big-tariff-stick backed demands that extremelly dangerous and highly poluting American trucks were allowed in the EU, obviously more and more demands to “screw the safety, quality of life and health of EU citizens for the profit of American companie” would follow.

Trump’s behaviour in just about everything exactly follows the bully pattern (he’s not even subtle or sophisticated about it) so him making further and ever more damaging demands, backed by exactly the same threath as worked for him last time around, was not just predictable but pretty much guaranteed.

I also suspect Americans have a lot of blackmail material on members of the EU Commission, most of whom were hardly competent and honest politicians to begin with.

I have no doubt that China are the ones who will come out ahead in all this shit if only because they have an actual spine and American blackmail material doesn’t work anywhere as well against the crooks in power there as it does against the crooks we have in power in the EU.

How about you go fuck yourself, Trumpistan?

“Its implementation could jeopardize existing and future investments, employment, and compliance with recent trade agreements,”

Jfc, they think they know best, and threaten with “here’s your potential future if you don’t agree with us”.

"Venture Global is grateful for the Trump administration’s final approval of CP2, a critical project that will supply American allies with low-cost LNG for decades, support thousands of jobs and greatly benefit the US balance of trade,” Sabel said.

And they’re vastly overestimating their prospects, having a mentality of “the US is the greatest nation!”.

I have hopes that these people in power will eventually stop their high-horse ravenous capitalism, but I imagine that day will only come after my lifetime…

Incredible how US has become a cliche of every 1990’ish evil character 😅😢

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response the EU is probably going with: 🧎

The demands from this admin are meant to specifically crush the spirit of the EU.

deregulate your car legislation and tear up your pedestrian friendly capitals

deregulate your food safety laws, and allow cheap US slop to destroy the traditional EU food scene (no more gruyère, you’re gonna have Cheez Whiz)

deregulate your green sector, time to pump those pollution numbers up

Yes my lord and spiritual leader

So they invest in LNG and then threaten supposed “allies” to protect that investment. You know instead of investing in renewables or anything

So what they want is just at odds with the survival of our civilization. It would be utterly self-destructive to allow that. One can only hope that more “natural” gas facilities explode. As with coal, the only natural place for it is in the ground.

One thing one can do as in individual is consumer’s boycott. In our home, we have gradually reduced the heating temperature from 21°C to 18°C. Together with that we moved to a flat with much better insolation, that has cut our heating costs flat out to half - from a 50% of the costs in addition to rent to a mere 20%. It took a little getting used to, I put on a sweater at home and use a blanket when working in home office. But that’s a small price when it means that fewer young men, women and childs are killed in Ukraine.

We also placed a flexible camping dish tub in the kitchen sink which only requires 5 liters of warm water instead of 12. Again, a small change but effecting real savings.

And is it so important that we have a surplus of hot water? As long as humanity still needs fuel, it is probably needed more elsewhere. Perhaps some girl in India can be taken to a hospital in time instead. It is a wonderful truth of life that indeed everything is connected. What we do matters.

And last not least, the move has enabled my partner to get rid of her car because of better connections. Again, a lot of money saved.

And any money saved on fuel means also: Less money to companies, people and states which are outright set out to kill us. Why should we pay for crimes against us?

All that is, of course, not a substitute for taking to the streets. It is wrong to behave passively when our civilization is under attack. But money talks too, and it is the only language that some people understand.