Trump: Might pull out of the WTO and thinks the EU was created to beat the USA

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Trump is right.

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Whatever you might think of the WTO, a unilateral pullout and imposition if broad tariifs would be the worst shock to global markets since the wall Street crash. I'm starting to think Trump is actually a Marxist plant who wants to dismantle capitalism.

Let him saber rattle on the WTO to get better deals and/or to replace multilateral deals with bilateral deals where the US has more leverage.

As far as the EU goes, Trump is right. It was, in part, created as a one-Europe government to counter the United States.

[Seriously?]

Whatever you might think of the WTO, a unilateral pullout and imposition if broad tariifs would be the worst shock to global markets since the wall Street crash. I'm starting to think Trump is actually a Marxist plant who wants to dismantle capitalism.

Let him saber rattle on the WTO to get better deals and/or to replace multilateral deals with bilateral deals where the US has more leverage.

As far as the EU goes, Trump is right. It was, in part, created as a one-Europe government to counter the United States.

No. That was a small part of the french motivation, but it was never the main goal for france, and it wasn't a goal at all for any of the other 5 founding nations.

Small part, in part = the same thing. So I don't know why we are in disagreement here.

It's also just common sense. A combined Europe has more economic clout than one that's not. Since Europe and the US are economic rivals, there are some benefits to the EU in that realm.