We will see how this translates when the Commission’s orders pass to the European Parliament and from Brussels eventually to national governments and from there to the European street.

What Ursula von der Leyen (VDL) agreed with Trump on Sunday was the definitive capitulation of the old continent to the strategic designs of the US, still referred to as a ‘transatlantic partner.’ A historic humiliation, which Trump described as ‘a very satisfactory deal for both sides, a very powerful deal, the biggest of all deals.’

This is another step towards Europe’s total resignation, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has observed the unconditional support of the Euro-Atlantic technocracy in recent years, particularly since 2022. Trump will pursue the reindustrialisation of his economy at the expense of Europeans in a decisive stage of the plan launched in Kiev in 2014, with the destruction of Nord Stream in 2022 and the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2023, which is illegal under WTO rules and harmful to the interests of other trading partners, particularly Europe.

Since increasing its already unpayable public debt by more than 4 trillion - to almost 40 trillion dollars - with its famous ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ passed in May, Trump is achieving his goal of securing Europe, not as a ‘tax state’ (because it is not a state), but as 27 states together. This is only possible through the subordination of a non-democratic and centralised organisation such as the EU.

With the immediate obedience of Germany’s Merz and Britain’s Starmer, Rutte’s lobby in NATO and VDL and Kallas in the EU, Washington has also managed to coerce Europe into buying its expensive weapons and imposing the 18th package of sanctions on Russia, which effectively already also targets China and causes diplomatic friction between Europe and the massive Chinese market, which will not remain impassive.

As for the agreement reached last Sunday in Scotland, it guarantees that the EU will immediately disburse almost two trillion euros over the next three years. Brussels promises that its member states will buy €750 billion worth of energy from the US. VDL even stated that ‘US LNG is more affordable and better’ than Russian LNG, despite the fact that it has to be transported across the Atlantic in an expensive, time-consuming, and much more costly process that requires infrastructure that does not even exist yet. An insult to the intelligence of Europeans. ‘We want to put an end to Russian LNG once and for all,’ said the commissioner in the plural, omitting that the price to be paid will be borne by European businesses and consumers.

VDL also guaranteed that Europe will buy €650 billion worth of arms from the US military-industrial complex and that European businesses will invest €600 billion in the US economy.

Trump imposes 15% customs duties on most European products, particularly in the automotive and pharmaceutical sectors (compared to 2.5% under Biden). In ‘return’, the EU guarantees imports of US products with 0% tariffs so that Trump can balance his negative trade balance with Europe, revive his ever-problematic automotive industry, and make peace with his farmers and the pharmaceutical lobby, simply by using blackmail, with no response from this side of the Atlantic. Those who will pay the daily price will be the rednecks who voted for that buffoon.

‘I want to thank President Trump: he is a tough negotiator, but also a deal maker,’ summed up VDL, who is supposed to represent the economic interests of Europeans. As we have been warning here since 2022, when Brussels politicians embroiled Europe in the US war with Russia, Europe was being dragged into a trap designed to deliberately destroy the continent’s viability from within. Any doubts?

With the tariff war declared in January, Trump is getting what he wants. The juiciest and most tender part of this feast is Europe, thanks to its obedient political class traditionally linked to US interests. Through the European Commission, Trump guarantees the allegiance of 450 million vassals to achieve his plans for commercial domination over Europe, which is essential to pursuing his economic, financial, and monetary goals at the global level. We will see how this translates when the Commission’s orders pass to the European Parliament and from Brussels eventually to national governments and from there to the European street.

With the economy relaunched after six months of chaos and uncertainty in which the Federal Reserve refused to lower interest rates, Trump will meet with Jerome Powell, who will predictably do so at last. This will be an important victory for Trump to present in the first midterms in April 2026. At the expense of Europeans.

In his relentless war to “Make America Great Again”, Trump will conversely encounter tough nuts to crack in the negotiations he has planned with China, which will follow immediately. Latin America has also shown signs of strong resistance to the whimsical habits of the Mar-a-Lago negotiator. Brazil, in particular, recently gave a lesson in sovereignty and economic nationalism by not giving in to Trump’s shameful attempt at extortion. Had we in Europe shown similar bravery, we would not have to go through what is coming.

Ricardo Nuno Costa ? geopolitical expert, writer, columnist, and editor-in-chief of geopol.pt. Courtesy

https://journal-neo.su/2025/07/30/europe-humiliated-by-the-us/