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The Definitive Analysis of the U.S.-EU Trade Deal

29 July 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Here it is, from Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris, on July 28th:

https://theduran.com/us-eu-trade-deal-trump-gets-everything-ursula-gets-nothing/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfvE_R1rzY

“US-EU Trade Deal. Trump gets everything, Ursula gets nothing”

28 July 2025, Christoforu & Mercouris

0:00

All right, Alexander, we have uh a trade

0:02

deal or or the frameworks of a trade

0:05

deal between the United States and the

0:07

European Union. Uh Trump and Ursula,

0:11

they met in Scotland at Trump's golf

0:13

course, and uh and Trump uh dictated the

0:17

terms

0:19

of the agreement to to Ursula and to the

0:21

European Union. Uh there there really

0:23

were no, in my opinion, this was not a

0:26

negotiation.

0:27

Uh, this was not uh a dialogue between uh

0:31

two

0:32

two equal powers or or or peers. This

0:37

was basically the the empire dictating

0:40

to its vassel, uh, how things are going to

0:43

go down, and and that's what we actually

0:45

saw in the meeting. Trump [was] reading from a

0:48

prepared uh script or or notebook. He

0:52

was reading the the terms of this

0:54

framework that were agreed upon and and

0:56

Ursula just just sat there very very

0:59

subdued, uh humiliated.

1:01

Yeah.

1:02

It [the video] showed that she was humiliated,

1:04

and she just nodded her head and and the

1:06

only comment she could come up with was

1:09

uh that at least we we got a deal with

1:11

the US, and at least we have some

1:12

stability and that's all

1:14

the EU got. I don’t, I don't even know if

1:16

you can call that getting something out

1:18

of this deal, stability or or something

1:21

like that. But um do you want to go over

1:24

the the deal the the terms of the deal?

1:26

Do you want me to to to say I mean — 

1:30

MERCOURIS: She got nothing. I, I — she

1:32

got nothing. But the US got everything.

1:34

He got everything. He got absolutely

1:36

everything that he wanted. Of course,

1:37

he's threatened 30% tariffs, but he's

1:40

gone for 15% tariffs. Everybody thought

1:43

that he would go for 15% tariffs. He's

1:45

gone for 15% tariffs. CHRISTOFOROU: He’s um

1:48

Some countries got 10[%], Alexander.

1:50

MERCOURIS: Yeah, I know. CHRISTOFOROU: Yeah.

1:50

So, so the EU didn't even get 10%.

1:53

MERCOURIS: No, I know. Absolutely. 15% tariffs. Um,

1:57

quotas on steel, but of course quotas are

2:01

another way of imposing tariffs

2:03

ultimately because it means that um the

2:06

EU is agreeing to restrict its steel

2:10

exports to the US and the United States

2:12

can just adjust those in any way that it

2:14

wants at any time. No reciprocal tariffs

2:18

in the EU against the US, nothing. plus

2:21

promises

2:22

zero

2:23

to to you know to send more investment

2:26

and funding, and all of that to the to

2:29

the U.S. Um, paying the U.S. for what

2:33

exactly?

2:35

Trump a few days ago announced that he'd

2:38

done this same sort of deal with Japan

2:42

except it turns out that he didn't

2:43

because the Japanese said that they

2:45

didn't know what he was talking about

2:47

and they hadn't agreed anything or

2:48

signed anything. Well, maybe that's true

2:51

or maybe it's not. I don't know. But in

2:53

in the case of the EU, there is no doubt

2:56

whatsoever. Um, Trump made he put out his

3:00

demands and Ursula folded and I mean

3:03

it's an abject performance and um I'm

3:07

going to say something. I think that in

3:09

terms of Europe's economic future,

3:15

it is going to be a long-term shock

3:18

that's going to accelerate

3:19

de-industrialization.

3:22

Almost as bad as the energy shock the EU

3:26

imposed on itself in February 2022 when

3:30

they cut themselves off from Russian gas

3:32

and oil [likewise to please the U.S. regime]. And by the way, on that um

3:36

Ursula um has also said that they're

3:39

going to continue this process of

3:40

cutting themselves off completely from

3:42

Russian gas and oil. And where are they

3:45

going to buy it from? From the United

3:47

States.

3:48

CHRISOFOROU: Yeah. She said the the Russian um the

3:52

the United States uh LNG is is

3:55

affordable and better. It's just better.

3:57

It's better and it's affordable

4:00

compared to to the pipeline right next

4:02

door [which was less than a third the price]. CHRISTOFOROU: Russian gas.

4:04

Yeah, she's still going with that,

4:06

right?

4:07

Um,

4:08

you know, there there are a lot of

4:09

analysts that that are saying, you know,

4:11

don't

4:12

don't um don't say that there's a

4:15

there's a deal yet because Trump said

4:18

this with China, he or the Trump White

4:20

House said this with China and with

4:21

Japan. So, right now, you just have a

4:24

type of framework. Um, this is just more

4:27

uh talk from the Trump White House. Uh

4:30

maybe yes, maybe no. But I think you you

4:32

brought up a good point. Uh the

4:35

difference with with the meeting with

4:36

the European Union than with Japan and

4:39

China is that here you have the

4:42

President of the United States

4:44

sitting next to

4:47

the European Commissioner reading out

4:50

the terms of the deal of this framework.

4:53

He's reading it out. It's clear that

4:55

he's gotten the the paper and he's

4:57

reading out bullet point by bullet point

4:59

what they're going to agree on.

5:01

Yes.

5:02

And we have it all on video.

5:04

And there you have Ursula just nodding

5:07

along and agreeing to everything. And

5:09

when she was asked by reporters to

5:11

comment, the only comment she could come

5:14

up with is, "Well, at least we got a

5:16

deal."

5:18

That's that's the only comment she could

5:20

come up with. And then afterwards she

5:21

started talking about how she's going to

5:23

uh how the EU is going to invest 750

5:26

billion uh in uh purchasing US energy

5:31

over three years 250 billion a year. And

5:34

this is this is great because the the US

5:36

LNG is is more affordable and and better

5:39

than the Russian uh energy. She actually

5:41

said we are never going to to to uh to

5:44

purchase Russian energy. We do not want

5:47

Russian uh fossil fuels in Europe. Uh so

5:50

I I mean it was it was a a humiliation

5:54

for the European Union. Everyone accepts

5:56

it. Uh Marine Le Pen said this was a

5:58

humiliation. Um said it was a

6:01

humiliation.

6:01

MERCOURIS: Bayrou, who is who is Macron's prime minister

6:04

said the one time when the uh Macron's

6:08

own government, Bayrou, is agreeing with Marine

6:10

Lepen.

6:11

There you go.

6:13

CHRISTOFOROU: Guy Hostat said it was a humiliation. I

6:15

mean he he's the guy that was pushing in

6:17

the the EU parliament. Yes.

6:19

pushing to to cut off completely to cut

6:22

off uh Russia and China. And now he's

6:24

saying that this is this is just a

6:26

travesty. He's saying this this deal

6:27

that Ursula accepted.

6:29

I have read and heard various other analyses of the deal, such as the normally excellent “Moon of Alabama”, and the ones that he links to, but this one is not only succinct and complete in its analysis, but 100% based on relevant and unchallengeable facts (without speculations such as in the others), all of which that Chrisoforou/Mercourris describe are essential to understanding this situation, which is the relationship between an imperial country, the U.S., and its 27 EU colonies. Simply put: Europe is being flushed down the toilet by the U.S. regime. And those victims are going along with, endorse, that flush. Like Mercouris said (at 3:15), “it is going to be a long-term shock that's going to accelerate de-industrialization” of Europe. This is the key to what they are here volunteering to do.

Why don’t Deutche Welle, NPR, BBC, Fox News, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc., broadcast this discussion, which is between two of the world’s best-informed analysts? Aren’t these mainstream media supposed to be hiring ‘the best’? Why don’t they? Well, would they if all of them are propaganda-organs for the empire (which means the U.S. regime)? Would they hire people such as these?

On 28 September 2022, I headlined “How America Is Crushing Europe”.

On 24 June 2023, I headlined “Now the Pay-off Comes from Blowing Up the Nord Stream Pipeline”.

Is this the way that independent sovereign countries would behave? Or is it the way that an empire behaves?

If a country behaves that way, is there even a possibility that it might be a democracy?

How would the news-media in such a country behave?

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.