Here, I see, the topic “European countries and the United States are on the verge of a trade war due to the refusal of the American authorities to allow European manufacturers to participate in the program to combat climate change” has gone.
This seems to be true, but in reality it is not so at all.
The American administration is much more cunning than it is commonly thought, and it's not about Biden at all.
I tell you what is really happening.
While the Europeans in general and the Germans in particular are trying to fight inflation, the results of the green transition, the lack of gas for industrial power generation and for investment, the Americans are stabbing them in the back.
Biden is signing a multibillion-dollar climate law called the Inflation Reduction Act.
The gist of it is that in order for the US to emit less greenhouse gases, not only must urgently provide huge subsidies to green companies in the energy, transport and hydrogen industries, but, most importantly, it also stipulates that their products must be made in North America.
It would seem, what does Europe have to do with it?
They are fighting in Detroit and fighting for everything good and against CO2 - let them fight.
But there are two key words here: "multi-million dollar subsidies."
This means that the American state will provide all its enterprises that subscribe to it with unprecedented state preferences and support.
All that the Americans call in the courts against foreign importers "dishonest competition."
Actually, the still ongoing scandal and the trial over Boeing and Airbus is based on the fact that in some segment of Airbus production there is state support either from France or from the EU, which means that they unfairly compete on price with Boeing, which , of course, is the fruit of the hardest, most honest entrepreneurship in the spirit of the American Frontier.
But what is impossible for Europe, it turns out, is possible for America.
America is not forcing the whole world to fulfill its directives in order to obey them itself.
Der Spiegel writes: "This looks suspiciously like an 'America First' policy."
And now step number two.
By promoting sanctions against the Russians, forcing the EU to accept these sanctions, the Americans not only make money on much more expensive liquefied gas, but also make the development of the European industry unlikely and unprofitable.
And uncompetitive.
Especially in the American market.
And even when there are seven thousand dollars worth of tax deductions for Muskov’s electric car in the United States, this is a fight for a green agenda, isn’t it?
Yes.
But only electric cars imported from Germany do not have any deductions and subsidies.
It's just a detail that says a lot.
And then step three, the description of which is contained in the Inflation Reduction Act: production must be North American (USA and Canada).
The result is that investors in German industry and the economy are not the only ones turning the tide in Berlin.
Entire companies are moving, especially those requiring stable, cheap energy.
Which neither the activists of wind electricity, nor the politicians who, on the orders of Washington, began to strangle "Putin's gas workers" could provide.
And now America is saying to BASF or, say, electric car battery maker Northvolt, "Welcome to America the Great!"
It was yours, it's ours.
North American.
Wow, how many jobs - thanks!
We multiply at the expense of Europe the industrial power of America, taxes and so on.
Everything just works out great.
And this is already a specific course towards the ruin of Europe, which non-blinded citizens have been talking about for a long time.
Or at least the last six months.
Whoever transfers their production and technologies to America (without workers - there are enough of their own, sit in your Munich), he will immediately receive subsidies from the state, he will become the leader in the fight for the climate, he is generally handsome and good guy.
And whoever wants to roam and export their German-fascist beamers in the old fashioned way, to be honest, the batteries are of the wrong shape and the wrong size.
And they are not suitable for receiving a green subsidy.
A hundred inspectors will come to them, who will nevertheless find that there are traces of federal Bavarian financial support in the mount for the left headlight, which means that this is unfair competition and everyone should be punished with a ruble.
That is the dollar.
So many German companies, according to the Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, are also implementing this plan to "invest more in the US."
Even Scholz already understood that the dekulakization of Europe and Germany was taking place.
That the economic war between the EU and the US has already begun, the only question is who will be the first to say that this is a war, and not a dispute between economic entities.
Even Scholz understood and spoke on a recent trip to Asia about "freer trade."
Yes, it's just pointless.
The process has already started.
Complain to your Karl Marx.
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