Trump Just Hit EU With Massive Tariffs, Are We Heading For WW3?

Like, no, but it’s not great news.

Alright, here we go again, deep breath… Donald Trump has reignited his trade war with the EU over ownership of Greenland, increasing tariffs 10% and threatening to go up further if Denmark doesn’t hand over the frozen wasteland that no one actually wants anyway.

So this is literally just blackmail?

EU shares took a massive hit, particularly in sectors like credit, luxury goods and vehicles. Gold and silver, however, have hit an ATH, which is never really a good sign about the stability of the global economy. Oh, and the dollar is down, and people are panicking about an impending depression so all round good news.

Europe is discussing its response and could potentially hit back with similar tariffs but currently world leaders are playing down that possibility and playing up diplomacy. Likely we’ll see a back and forth for a bit, some European leaders will have a meeting with Trump, kiss his ass for a bit, offer some conciliation prize like idk, a military spending or ownership of the military base or something and the whole thing will cool down when he sparks whatever the next international crisis will be.

Shall we spin the globe? How about Taiwan? I think it’s Taiwan’s turn to be in the news next.

Trump-ed up charges

We know how this playbook goes, Trump threatens the craziest possible scenario, the world freaks out and everyone writes about it and then placate him with less than what he asked for but what he actually wanted all a long. It’s exactly what he did with the tariffs and everyone falls for it every time.

And the reasoning never matters, in this case it’s because China and Russia are a threat to Greenland which err, they are not. Yeah, China has investments in rare minerals extraction there, but they’re only interested in soft power there atm. Russia on the other hand, sure I’m sure they’d love a bit of Greenland but never in a million years are they invading it when it’s right on America, Canada and Europe’s doorstep. (shh, yes, i know Ukraine, but that’s different, shh.)

The only country it would really make a difference for is, surprise, surprise, America.

This is your standard imperialism, pure and simple. Except we live in the age of liberal democracy where imperialism, by and large, is ineffective compared with diplomatic and economic solutions.

So no, we’re not heading towards World War III. Maybe we’ll see things heat up a bit but our current civilisation is built on these alliances, it’s in no one’s interest to start fighting.

Why do you think this is a tariff war and not an actual war?

Trump will walk away with some small win once the dust has settled but his greatest legacy in this debarkle with be the continued erosion of diplomatic relations with his closest allies.

Good work, Mr. Trump!

And as a special bonus, here’s DJT’s 100% real letter to Norway’s Prime Minister. And no, it wasn’t written by a child.

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.

“Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.

“I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

So much for isolationism…

For more on this story, read this: Greenland’s Response To JD Vance: “Sorry, Who Are You?”