America isn’t protecting its allies. It is strangling their businesses.
Washington now reportedly wants the Netherlands to stop ASML from selling almost all chipmaking equipment to China—even older DUV machines, spare parts and maintenance services.
And if the Dutch refuse? The US threatens sanctions.
Let that sink in: an American government telling a Dutch company what it may sell, telling the Netherlands whom it may trade with, and threatening to punish both if they disobey.
ASML is Europe’s leading technology company. China has been one of its biggest markets, providing equipment sales and years of service revenue. Cutting off that business will not stop China’s development. It will hurt Dutch workers, weaken European industry and push China to build its own alternatives even faster.
Then, when Chinese equipment eventually competes with ASML, Washington will pretend to be surprised.
This is not an alliance. It is economic bullying.
The US demands that other nations sacrifice their companies, jobs and future competitiveness to serve Washington’s political agenda. Europe takes the losses. American politicians claim the victory.
How long will European governments accept being treated like obedient subsidiaries of the United States?
The Netherlands should defend its own companies and make its own trade policy. If Washington can destroy European business with a threat, then Europe is a hostage, not an ally.
So apparently the Argentine beef thing has to do with a powerful Orthodox Jewish business family down there who owns the beef.
They have close ties to both US and Israeli officials, and Trump wants to do them a solid.
🔸 Palestinian boy destroys his kites, fearing they’ll bring Israeli bombs
Muhammad Ahmad al-Mufti, a boy in Gaza whose father was earlier killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid, tore apart the paper kites he had made himself, after hearing Israeli Defense Minister Katz might strike over the kites, Gaza Relief Committee’s Eyad Amawi told Drop Site.
Furious and in tears, he mocked the Israeli leaders he blamed as he destroyed them. “So that Netanyahu is satisfied,” he said. “So that Katz is satisfied. So that Trump is satisfied.”
Minister Katz threatened a “forceful” response to Palestinian kites landing in areas across the border, and said Israel would treat them the same as drones.
“They want to deprive us of the thing we love,” al-Mufti said, breaking down. “I swear my heart is breaking.”
China's Foreign Ministry:
China has made clear on many occasions its firm opposition to illicit unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law or the authorization of the UN Security Council.
Economic wars and maximum pressure are not the solution.
On the contrary, they will only lead to escalation and risk spillover, which will disrupt the global economic and financial order and harm the legitimate interests of other countries.
Donald Trump is literally using the Treasury as his own personal piggy bank to pay his supporters.
We only have to look to @DataRepublican as an example.
There is no legitimate reason for the @DeptofWar to hire her. None.
And don't get me started on the payment to @GenFlynn and the attempts to pay all the J6 insurrectionists.
It is outrageous that my federal taxes are being used to pay MAGAts for their grift and crimes.
Israeli lawmaker Tzvi Succot smashes a Palestinian Memorial in central Palestine; his criminal act was done in coordination with the israeli army https://t.co/ilZt54UCZq
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou: "A friend close to the president told me there are 10,000 JFK assassination documents that will never be released - because every single one points directly at Israel.
Israel was angry that JFK wouldn't give them nuclear technology and was actively trying to stop them from acquiring it. So they decided to take him out."
Jared Kushner's secret meeting exposed the one thing that terrifies Trump: expert
David Rothkopf, global affairs columnist for The Daily Beast and a former international trade official in the Clinton White House, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Jared Kushner's secret meeting with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) signals that Trump is terrified of being impeached again. Kushner wouldn't have met with Jeffries unless the White House is preparing for Democrats to regain control of the House of Representatives after the midterms.
https://t.co/foQp5F65ex
She was shot in the back by Zionists while she was eating in her tent yesterday. She was 10 years old.
The collective West is united in its support for genocide.
@RepLuna The US government is PAYING MAGA influencers to push PROPAGANDA to Americans.
Expose the money. Expose the PROPAGANDA.
Ain't that right, @DataRepublican?
Why are suspected war criminals and human rights abusers allowed into Australia, @Tony_Burke?
Do you have no regard at all for Australians of Palestinian heritage, who've had family slaughtered in Israel's #GazaGenocide and torture gulags?
You don't want social cohension!
#auspol
This unethical headline is wildly wrong. The court ruled on the timing of an injunction, not the legality or merits of the psychotic executive order. This is the problem, below, we get these hack outlets spewing falsehoods into the public and chaos ensues. Idiots.
@infolibnews Ivanka Trump whose conversion to Judaism was blessed by the Israeli chief rabbi who called black people “ monkeys”⬇️ and whose Jewish husband. Jared initially broke up with her for not being Jewish ⬇️