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The stingy Germans and their tightly pulled purse strings are about to be loosened. This is quite huge news.

Who do we have to thank? TRUMP. Whether he realises it or not, he will make Europe great again.

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I was hoping lgen could act as a harbour against more volatile sectors of the market. Perhaps earn itself a safe haven status given its high yield and UK listed stock which will be more insulated from trumps tariffs. There's still time for the markets to treat lgen as such if things get worse.

Europe waits whit baited breath what trump has in store for them. Reluctant to put cash anywhere until trump let's us know what he intends to do with the EU.

Bit of a contradiction there from you last post lokiloo?

Trump stops the flow of weapons into ukraine, but you state ukraine needs defending? Hmm odd action for a man that wants only war. Then you bemoan about trump sending weapons to defeat once and for all a terrorist organisation and defend Israel (who actually pay for their weaponry)? So if trump is not allowed to use weapons, then what? Youll go to the front with your woke bretherin and have a parade and sing along on the front? Or is there woke agendas at play here, and war is fine as long as it suits our agenda.

Its fine lokiloo, everybody has an agenda. The left, the right, the centre, me, your grandmother. What I cant stand is the left on their pedestal preaching their dogoodery and one love to the world when they are more than happy to continue drip feeding ukraine weapons. Don't be a hypocrite lokiloo.

It sounds like you are one of those bandwagon hoppers, jumping onto the latest woke cause that's in fashion on Instagram. Don't be one of those, they are the very worst sort.

Well that fell through support like it wasn't even there. Who knows where it could land now.

Another nail in Europe's coffin today. How much longer do they think they can sit around, have meetings to discuss next meetings, and do nothing. The world is now moving at 100mph. Europe haven't even moved the speedo needle yet!

I am absolutely loving watching the EU go crazy over this. The dusty EU beaurocrats have no clue what to do or how to react to trump, and still think their useless words mean anything without action. Its brilliant. The woke mind virus has well and truly stunted their brains it seems.

EU have 2 choices. Step up right now without a day to lose or dissolve. This is happening faster than even I predicted under trump. The only reason I like trump is because he is the only man that can force Europe to be great again. Sometimes a few whacks from a sledgehammer is the only way to restart an engine that has completely ceased.

And now the EU have that lovely word TARIFF to look forward to. Europe is at war on two fronts whether they like it or not! This is the price to pay for laziness, cowardice and wokeness folks.

Think of all the trillions of euros of european money wasted in the years gone by on woke causes like opening the doors to mass immigration and foreign aid that have done nothing but weaken Europe to the point they face today!

Bloomers has a valid point whether you like it or not. The response to ukraine has been a disaster, a scandal, weak weak weak! anyone who says otherwise are deluding themselves. Ukraine has constantly been dripfed weapons to keep the war alive, but not enough for any decisive push. Weapons always came too late, weapons requests were always rejected at first, but always eventually given. The EU and US have been so weak and pathetic in their response, they make a jellyfish look upstanding. if they were so bothered about Putin, they should have made it clear from the beginning that troops would be sent in full force as soon as russia crosses the Ukraine border. But no, that was ruled out immediately. How much more of an invite could you give putin? When Macron refused to rule out troops in ukraine, the whole of EU, US and UK rebuked....utter cowards.

At least trump is being decisive in saying that they want out. Thats better than letting the war drag on by dripfeeding weaons that achieve nothing but more death, destruction and prolonged suffering with no end in sight. All we currently have is a lot of bluster from the mouthpieces of EU beaurocrats but never any decisive action.

Go full in on ukraine and send a full force to clear russia out, or get out of ukraine. The liberals and wokes across europe have made the first option completely non viable and are more bothered about spending our money on woke agendas so there is only one option left. End the war like trump is trying to do. There is no middle ground here. Words mean nothing at this point.

Europe have nobody but themselves to blame if Ukraine capitulates. Of course the liberals will blame Trump, but they need to take a good hard look at themselves and ask who is to blame for Trump getting back into power? Liberals went too far with wokeness, alienated and pushed agendas on the centre masses and then wonder why they voted Trump? Now Trump will restore much needed balance and equilibrium. In the next couple of election cycles, I believe reform has a real shot at power to balance out what has happened here in the last couple of decades.

So far, it seems trumps tactics are going to plan. Putin is being built by trumps own hands a half decent off ramp, and has he finally gotten the EU to act? That in itself is a big achievement. Lots of noise from starmer today, lots of right noises but will it follow with action?

Starmer has been elected by the students to stand up and give the presentation to professor trump of the EU plan it seems.

Starmer definitely been talking to Blair re "coalition for the willing" line, trying to cash in some of blairs very hard earned US chips. A great line for any other president in the last 100 years...but not trump. He is not very sentimental and does not have a great attention span. The comment probably went over his head.

Trump, however frightening it is to the EU beaurocrats, must play trump at his own game though. Show some strength and character. Fight fire with fire.

What would be interesting is if Zelenskyy now called Trumps bluff and said F U to Trump, and relied solely on europe to continue the war, completely refusing to negotiate or surrender with Putin or do any deals with Trump.

Extremely high stakes, but Trump has to be a little careful not to push so far. He forgets that europe are so weak and useless, that Zelenskyy may feel he has nothing to lose by doing this without long term security arrangements. This would hurt trump a lot! it would take away a significant amount of Trumps aoura of invincibility, as he has the effectively failed the US electorate by promising to end the war in Ukraine. Trumps ego would take a hit, his dealmaking prowess would take a hit, and it would essentially be a massive failiure the democrats can then capitalise on and galvanise. If Trump followed through and turned its back on Ukraine, would the world turn its back on the US?

We would then see if any of the EU words would translate into action, or would they just roll over and allow ukraine to capitulate. Would EU rise to the challenge? it would be a do or die moment for the EU. If they do nothing, Ukraine would essentially be lost. Would EU finally start severing its US umbilical chord and grow its own backbone? Could this be the masterstroke required to end US dominance of the western world and force the EU to reamerge as a force to be reckoned with instead of laughed at, and seen as equal to the US instead of a puppet who needs its homework checked by professor Trump?

I wouldnt say Zelenskyy doesnt hold any of the cards.

The EU nations have a bunch of spineless paper pushing, virtue signalling cowards for leaders! Pure weakness is what got ukraine into this mess.

So what are the options. Perpetually drip feeding ukraine just enough weapons to repel any further russia advances without any meaningful end in sight to the war?

Trump is absolutely right on this. Make a deal or we are out! And let the EU continue the fight if they want to pursue this madness.

I have zero love for putin. But the EU will never do anything to actually make a difference, and help always came too late! When macron made a decent suggestion to not rule out boots on the ground in ukraine, the whole of EU rebuked him and biden ruled it out. Pure cowardice that emboldened putin! So what's the point in continuing this?

How do Europeans have the right to feel angry about Trumps dressing down of zelensky?

So will Europe finally rise up and throw hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up ukraine?? Ha doubt it. They will just carry on whinging and yet again still expect the US to do the heavy lifting and start crying when the US says "enough is enough, sort it out or we are out"!

Trump said it loud and clear. Europe, take the reins and pull your weight! Ukraine do not need your words of support! They need your cash and hardware! Especially as its more your problem than ours. Sort out your own back yard, we have done enough!!!

Yeah. Expectations are rock bottom, but this company has a seriously nasty habit these days of missing even those expectations.

This could crash through 330 support on any dissapointment. Seems risky even for a trade until results are out

There's no doubt any tariff imposed by trump will affect sales of luxury items. Any cost increase will also increase prices of 2nd hand goods, supressing demand.

I'm waiting a bit longer to buy back until trump stops beating his chest.

Feels like EU leaders and starmer are flying in to washington to visit the headmaster Mr Trump one after the other to get their homework marked. Starmer got a D. More effort required. May be enough to avoid detention though.

Meanwhilst the EU....an F. Detention in the form of savage tariffs.

Very close to key support now. Key lows of 330 - 340 nearly reached. Might be worth piling back in for the bounce.

Meanwhile reeves keeps banging on about growth like a toddler who has learnt a new word, but still unable to grasp the actual meaning or concept of it. Never heard a politician say "growth" so much, but still continues to take actions that will achieve the exact opposite.

I am 100% convinced that reeves did not know the meaning of the word growth until the bond market taught her the word a few weeks back.

Yeah, odd day. Seems like one of those days where traders selling momentum took over. I expected it to hold at least a 5% rise but there you go. Still, it's definitely good news and the CEO is making moves.

Auction was interesting. Back up to 244. Do doubt we will head back up over the coming trading days. Seen this pattern many times before.

Here here! That spineless jellyfish starmer doesn't have the balls to do such a thing, and instead insists on this stupid plate spinning act, one foot in and one foot out of the EU whilst trying not to upset trump. The bloke is pathetic.

Trump is very literal. He will see straight through starmer very fast and slap him down for his foolishness and give him an ultimatum. Choose a side or else! How many more olive branches will starmer slap away before trump starts to get bored of that ingrate starmer?

We are out of the EU, end of! Starmer is like the prat who can't get over his ex and keeps endlessly messaging her. Why can't the fool flirt back with the far more sexy US?

Yes lokiloo. With Trump, it is that simple. How hard is it to understand that Trump is not some stuffy EU technocrat where you will have discussion after discussion for half a century before any action? If starmer really wanted a deal, it would happen fast. If any of our politicians had an atom of experience in business, they would get the blokes personality and what makes him tick! Trump is not a politician, he is a businessman who wants the best deal!

Very overdramatic lokiloo. No souls would be necessary...although not much harm would come to us if some of trumps immigration and bargaining techniques did rub off on us. We are more overrun than the USA! I'd choose trump over the EU in a heartbeat.

Now is prime time for the UK to strike and finally take full advantage of brexit. What do we do?? Still play ball in brussels, I.e. fukall. Its infuriating.

I'm actually centre in politics. But the centre has lost all meaning and become so distorted and left leaning that in today's world I would be classified as solid right-wing. Trump is a massive overly right-wing counterweight to restore balance, but just typical rightwing in old money. Just as liberalism was a massive counterweight to restore authoritarianism post 1945 which has now run its course and reached its crescendo. Now you will give me the "progression" argument. The simple fact is though, this Liberal progression has simply not worked for everyone, otherwise trump would not have got in. Calling the majority of the US electorate fascist and naazzis for voting trump or farage is futile and tone deaf at best.

Yeah lokiloo. It is that simple. Someone who has the balls to remove us from the idiotic ECHR, someone who would strike a knockout trade deal with trumps USA, ect ect ect. What do they do? Keep running back to Brussels! We are still half in half out.

Let's put emphasis on "former" lokiloo. Former under bidens crappy government. Biden was a big anglophobe. Trumps US is a very different game and it helps that he is a massive anglophile! All we have to do is reach out!

Sick of people who thinks the US owe them stability. No...that's your governments job!

Its that sort of thought that gets you into this mess!

Hilarious starmer thinking he the piggy in the middle. He makes a jellyfish look upstanding compared to trump...and trump even held out an olive branch last week. Grow a backbone and choose a side man for gods sake!