Comments on: The art of the EU deal – and the art of reporting about it https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:29:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814807 Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:29:10 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814807 Trump’s words are always a big part of his negotiations, they are not principled ideals of universal applicability.
He knows how to use leverage to get the best deal, and he’s now doing so to get the best deals for America.

]]> By: BenDavid https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814335 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:33:49 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814335 In theory, the EU acting as one, at least could. Had they said “F you right back, we’ll cut you out of our markets”
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They are in no position to refuse a deal of any sort:
1. They bet on renewables, and are now energy-dependent.
2. They bet on Ukraine, and therefore cannot get that energy from Putin
3. They now must pay for their own defense, and to shore up Ukraine if it’s still important to them.
4. Internal reform of their welfare states is a dead letter, a political impossibility.

The EU project was always driven by one part furious jealousy of post-war American hegemony – and one part lingering appetite for centralized oligarchy (Europe’s burned and bandaged fingers always steal back to that fire…)

Instead of appeasing the Euroleeches to keep NATO together, Trump basically called them on their various follies, left them to their own devices, and now they have been forced to come back as chastened vassals in the American economic-political sphere.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814171 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:55:34 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814171 Hmm

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1950173713359655140

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814157 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:44:31 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814157 He had a team that was undermining him at langley pompeo state tillerson and mattis pentagon and yet he was still able to take out suleimani baghdadi and raimi but it took three years his domestic team was also full of weasels like cohn at nec

]]> By: Gordon Scott https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814143 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:49:38 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814143 Trump definitely didn’t know what he was doing in the first term. Man oh man this time I am surprised every week as he puts opponents on their heels.

He may have the most effective cabinet in history. I knew Burgum could be really good, and he is. I NEVER thought Rubio and Gabbard would be good. Boy was I wrong.

One of the things Trump had to do in business was to hire good people and let them do their jobs. He’s been willing to sit back and let them shine, and it’s made his administration far more effective.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814128 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:01:02 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814128 Xi Jinping is in trouble at home, his imperialist megalomania being one of the biggest knocks on him, so we do not need Trump to give him any kind of international boost! China regards breaking promises as a virtue, so they do not deserve any of our regard – cut them off at the knees!!

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814123 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:11:48 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814123 Rufus T. Firefly on July 28, 2025 at 8:05 pm:
This conversation between Oren Cass and Michael Shellenberger seems to track similar views:
https://www.public.news/p/oren-cass-trumps-us-eu-deal-is-the

On the EU deal, one of the commenters raises a caution that ” there is no deal with the EU as von der Leyen does not have the authority to sign anything: she has only a mandate to negotiate and report back to the Council, which ultimately decides. https://www.eclaireur.eu/p/no-deal-donald-eb9 We’re in reality TV territory here.”

It appears that one or more opera singers have to finish their arias before the curtain comes down on this trade story.
It is funny that we don’t hear more from the media about the influence of George Washington, John Quincy Adams, and maybe Jackson as precursors to this “America first” program for trade and foreign policy in general. I don’t really know much about how it works, but if the WTO ends up being disemboweled from these deals, I hope we don’t end up throwing out useful rules and regs along with the excessive ones. Some international trade and interconnections/ interleaving/ interdependency among nations will continue beyond a deglobalization pull back.

]]> By: physicsguy https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814109 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:31:00 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814109 Tier 6: federal district judge issues injunction to stop Tiers 1-5

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814102 Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:05:52 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814102 Mike Plaiss wrote, “… pretty clear what he is doing here … using access to U.S. markets … We are the world’s biggest consumer by far … No other individual country can compete with that.”

100% accurate and how was it so hard for so many educated pundits to not understand this? No negotiation is certain until it is concluded and there is additional uncertainty until we see how it plays out, but what he was attempting seemed obvious.

Yet I read and heard expert after expert screaming against the attempt, always arguing against a strawman that was never part of the plan.

]]> By: Former legislator https://thenewneo.com/2025/07/28/the-art-of-the-eu-deal-and-the-art-of-reporting-about-it/#comment-2814088 Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:41:57 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=143060#comment-2814088 I’ll be curious to see how many of those regulations are identified and categorized. For example, Tier 1, Agency lacked legal authority (e.g., NEPA regulations couldn’t lawfully be implemented by the CEQ, which was a big decision from the DC Circuit recently). Tier 2, Agency acting outside Congressional authority/major questions-type decisions. Tier 3 – Agency was wrong in its spending cost calculations. Tier 4 – Congress wasn’t authorized under Art. I Sec. 8 to legislate these issues at all, or left to the states, or infringes on executive power, or not proper “general welfare” etc… Tier 5 – regs are void for vagueness. (bigly fight in the courts on the last two types…).

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