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@LanderPeterjohn @AllegedlyDrew The tariffs are a mistake because manufacturing requires dirt cheap inputs and The US workforce isn't. For the other examples do you really think that the US will win by behaving like the playground bully? They will just work harder to plot behind your back.

@AllegedlyDrew "China hollowed us out" ? Every decision to offshore - every single one - was made by a US board of directors. Don't talk bullshit.

The single most important thing President Trump is doing, is cornering China, and breaking the hold they have on the global economy. You will all look back on this moment and you will thank President Trump. Panama Canal (China was buying up all the ports) Venezuela (China was using it as a gas station) Iran (China was using it as a gas station Tariffs to restore American manufacturing (China hollowed us out) Winning the space race (China is already trying to mine on the moon)

@LeighQuilter @FUDdaily Most of the hard right is AI bots and outside agents. Come the revolution they will be nowhere to be found, comrade. What is the sound of one hand clapping?

I agree that it would push Britain closer to civil war. I’m not quite as sure they won’t attempt it though. I do think we need to resist the temptation to think we can win the argument again by pointing to the EU’s requirement for new membership applicants to agree to adopt the Euro. We all know how the EU operates. They’re sticklers for the rules, until it suits them not to be. Then they can dispense with all that. I predict they’ll be all too willing to give a pliable UK government a sweetheart “returning member” deal on our old terms. The ratchet will resume from there.

This simply isn't going to happen. Any government attempting it (especially without a referendum - which also isn't going to happen) would be pushing Britain one step closer to civil war.

@FUDdaily No point even discussing this until they remove the AI bots from social media. We don't do common sense on here anymore.

@mobbs_mentality Nup, it's just Trump largesse. He had to do something with the 5,000 troops he threatened to remove from Germany. He couldn't bring them home. Next, he will be sending good ol' Poland a bill.

Model allies deserve model treatment!

@Ashley905555 @benonwine Americans brag. It's what they do.

@benonwine Yeah, tbh I don’t think you guys have it in you. You’re being shafted every single day, no one does nothing. You should start with 🔥 ing down #10, make sure tha prick is on it.

Does anyone else feel we may be on the verge of a civil war in Britain.

@benonwine You are not a human being.

@RLHeinrichs US troops should be close to russia.

Not one to disagree with Foldi. But this is a win for the US. Russia is straining the edges of NATO and although allies are now truly building up and investing in conventional defense, Russia fears the U.S. above all. Poland and the Balts and Romania are the front and to the extent they’re safe, deterrence holds.

@uk_sf_writer @ColinBrazierTV @siwmaebutt @Keir_Starmer You think £3.7bn is a big deal?

@ColinBrazierTV @siwmaebutt Is Sir @Keir_Starmer aware that deals like this are only possible because of Brexit? If he is, why is he committed to getting us back under Brussels's control, so it can destroy our businesses. Especially the 92% that don't trade with the EU?

Today Starmer is “hailing” a huge deal between Britain and the Gulf states worth £3.7bn. This was made possible by Brexit freedoms (we can now negotiate our own trade deals). But Starmer isn’t “hailing” that. Because his party plans to reverse Brexit. politico.eu/article/keir-s…

@justadeployable @StateDept Like Russia?

@StateDept We need to move to countries that want us there and stop supporting these traitors

SECRETARY RUBIO: I don’t think anyone is shocked to know that the United States and the President are very disappointed in NATO right now. If NATO countries like Spain are denying us the use of these bases, why are we in NATO? We need to discuss that.

@StateDept It's because NATO was not set up to help the US attack whomsoever it pleases. It was primarily set up to defend against Russia and the soviets. And look what a horlicks the US has made of that!

@MarkVipond Probably the price you will have to pay for the stupidity of Brexit. But of course they won't want the UK in the Euro if it will destabilise it.

New EU members have to adopt the Euro and sign up to Schengen. The UK would be a new member. Sorry if that's too complex for you to understand.

@jamesandpolicy @tomhfh ... and Brexit is not "a tool". It is a decision by 50% of the UK electorate that it doesn't need to trade with Europe.

@DDeWinter3 @tomhfh Where did you conclude that? You have been fed it. The UK’s last economic figures out performed France and Germany. How? The reality is brexit is a tool. And it has been used poorly.

Believing that rejoining the EU would meaningfully impact living standards is such a high status low information opinion. You have to wilfully ignore the energy crisis that has tanked the German economy as it has our own. You have to studiously ignore the French economy's sclerosis as debt piles up and entitlement reform is continually defeated. You have to obstinately ignore the fact that the key driver of global growth today is avoiding the EU like the plague, as tech firms set up their Europe offices in Brexited London - free from the jurisdiction of the disastrous EU AI Act.

@jamesandpolicy @tomhfh And what exactly have you been fed, James? Generally accepted that UK has unsustainably high debt levels and IMF has predicted that UK will have the worst growth. Trump has shown us that we now live in a world where size matters, so UK doesn't.

@jamesangima @modo_xbt Good luck on your own with ebola.

@modo_xbt Europe has nothing, its rich courtesy of plundering powerless but resource rich African countries. Look at France, without its former colonies in Africa, it will be a third world country. These are the parasites that survive off the sweat and wealth of Africans.

Why should Europe be more wealthy then a Vietnam, china or India in the 21st century? What value does it offer the world. For example I think Australia should ideally remain quite wealthy due to our enormous natural resource reserves. Germany was like the last bastion of Europe providing value in engineering but isn’t their auto industry kind of collapsing. If you look at China it’s the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, with Vietnam taking over the low complexity stuff. India provides global IT, literally every tech company is currently culling their own staff, blaming it on AI and then outsourcing to India. Even Mexico should be richer than Europe in a few decades as they become the manufacturing powerhouse of North and South America.

@tomhfh The brexiteers said we would set up lots of lucrative trade deals with the world. Didn't happen, Tom. Lost a shilling but didn't find the sixpence.

Since Covid, developed european countries have done terribly. Comparable european economies have done worse than Britain. This is thanks to a once in a century pandemic and a european energy crisis. If you think you can isolate and identify Brexit amongst all that you're kidding yourself.

@BpdLion @sabrinaeccles @jessalinecaine @d5_rss No, it was for trade.

@sabrinaeccles @jessalinecaine @d5_rss You do realise that the reason why the EU exists is to stop European countries going to war again?

Why are the left so obsessed with the flipping EU? You know historically the left massively disliked the EU so it’s interesting how over time allegiances have shifted

@sabrinaeccles @jessalinecaine @d5_rss The trading part of the EU works quietly in the background and is the unsung success story of the EU. What would happen to the trading part, Sab?

My question would be, what would happen if all European countries just left the EU and stopped paying the ludicrous amounts of money? Nothing, the democratically elected governments wouldn’t fall, the countries wouldn’t stop working. The EU is outdated unelected money tree for certain people and organisations. Pointless enterprise.

@jessalinecaine The centre is pretty obsessed with it as well, Jessaline. Which only leaves ... ?

@MPIainDS "Overwhelming" is a lie. Are you so worried that you would lie? Interesting ...

The Labour party has no electoral mandate to override the biggest vote this country has ever seen when voting for Brexit. We must defend the overwhelming democratic vote of the British people and fight to make sure Brexit is not betrayed. The Labour party’s internal leadership psychodrama should not hide the fact that they plan to take the UK back in to the expensive clutches of the EU. In short Labour want to wreck Brexit. express.co.uk/news/politics/…