Trump demands that Europe completely halt energy trade with Russia and impose a 100 percent tariff on countries like China and India that continue to purchase Russian oil and gas, with the primary target being China. The EU considers supporting Ukraine a moral obligation, but no one wants to fire the first shot. They know their ammunition is limited, and if they target China, China will retaliate immediately.
At the same time, the US may not aim its bullets at Russia but at itself. In this video, we discuss why Trump makes such a pointless demand and why he negotiates with China, calls Xi Jinping his good friend, yet shamelessly urges other countries to confront China.Regarding the Ukraine war, there is no doubt about Russia’s accomplice. Trump has repeatedly stated publicly that Putin is his good friend.
After taking office, he constantly demanded that Zelenskyy abandon territory and negotiate with Russia, claiming Zelenskyy is a dictator without public support, clinging to the presidency. Charlie Kirk, a hero in Trump’s eyes, held one of his most important views before his death: Crimea belongs to Russia, Zelenskyy is a clown, and the Russia-Ukraine war is Biden and Zelenskyy’s war, unrelated to the US. This war was orchestrated by former US President Biden, executed by Zelenskyy and Putin, and currently, the only major world power openly supporting Russia’s territorial claims is the US.
At a high level, Trump himself has explicitly stated that Ukraine cannot reclaim its territory. The claim by this American hero that Crimea belongs to Russia is clear support for Putin. If supporting Russia is a crime, the US should be the first to be sanctioned.China neither instigated the Ukraine-Russia war nor provided weapons to any country after it began. In international forums like the UN, China consistently calls for negotiations between both sides.
China maintains economic ties with both Russia and Ukraine, selling civilian products to Russia and large quantities of civilian drones to Ukraine, meaning legitimate trade based on payment. No one in China has ever recognized Russia’s sovereignty over occupied territories or demanded that Ukraine negotiate with Russia at the cost of surrendering land.
It is hard to understand why China should be sanctioned.Regarding trade with Russia, the US continues to do business with Russia to this day, relying on Russian supplies for many minerals and metals. Why does it demand others cut ties with Russia while continuing its own trade? I can say no president in human history has been as shameless as Trump, surpassing Modi to become the new king of clowns.
If Modi’s biggest flaw is boasting, at least he stopped provoking Pakistan after a defeat. Trump, with no memory, resumes provocation as soon as the pain of China’s rare earth sanctions eases.Trump’s reasoning is simple: he is Putin’s loyal fan and wants Zelenskyy to surrender, or the US will cut off supplies.
However, anti-Russia sentiment is mainstream in the US, so he dares not act openly. Thus, he makes unreasonable demands of the EU. If the EU complies, falls out with China, and faces Chinese retaliation, the US eliminates a potential competitor. If the EU refuses, he can blame Ukraine’s defeat on Europe, not his own incompetence. If Europeans are unwilling to defend their homeland, why should the US help? Yet he forgets that, regardless of who is in power, he represents the US as a nation.
Although Biden started the Ukraine war, the US must take responsibility to the end. Supporting Ukraine is the US’s undeniable duty, and Trump has no excuse to shirk it.The US is vigorously pursuing reindustrialization. Competing with China industrially is hopeless, but it has an edge over the EU. The US can demand the EU confront China, Russia, and even India, driving up EU energy prices and industrial costs, causing the EU to lose external markets and cripple its industry. The US can then seize the opportunity to attract European companies to set up factories in the US, smoothly completing reindustrialization.
The US does not care about the EU’s losses, having cultivated numerous interest proxies in the EU, such as the former German defense minister, now EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen. She never speaks for European or German interests; her core task is to receive texts and emails from Washington and execute America’s orders.Take the automotive industry as an example. China controls nearly all core electric vehicle technologies, with large scale, low costs, and high efficiency.
The US, though slow to act, has Tesla to hold the fort and can still compete. The global market is finite, and after China’s aggressive expansion, the US wants its share and cannot allow Europe’s auto industry to remain strong. European automakers, especially German ones like Mercedes, BMW, and Volkswagen, have long led the world but heavily rely on China’s supply chain and market. Falling out with China means losing the largest single market and the highest-quality, lowest-cost supply chain, tantamount to suicide.
Thus, even the most foolish European leaders will not agree to the US’s demands. Von der Leyen may ask Europeans to bleed for the US, but asking them to rip out their hearts for the US is something even fools would refuse.I hope Ukraine and Russia negotiate soon, end the fighting, and Russia makes concessions by returning some territory to give Zelenskyy a face-saving outcome. Everyone returns to the pre-war state, restoring trade.
China may lose its market advantage in Russia but does not mind. All start from the same line, removing trade barriers for fair competition, using the most civilized and open means to see who is stronger. Such competition benefits humanity most, but it is unclear if European and US politicians dare to compete fairly with China or insist on resolving issues with fists.
If they choose fists, China does not mind facing their gang-up, but they should consider who stands in front and whether they can withstand China’s first punch. Honestly, I am curious to see if Europe still has real men. If they dare not say no to their American boss, China can teach them a lesson: real men should think independently, not act as pawns for others.