US and Qatar say new rules will hinder imports of LNG, posing ‘existential threat’ to European economies
  •  Havatra   ( @Havatra@lemmy.zip ) English
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    2 months ago

    “Its implementation could jeopardize existing and future investments, employment, and compliance with recent trade agreements,”

    Jfc, they think they know best, and threaten with “here’s your potential future if you don’t agree with us”.

    "Venture Global is grateful for the Trump administration’s final approval of CP2, a critical project that will supply American allies with low-cost LNG for decades, support thousands of jobs and greatly benefit the US balance of trade,” Sabel said.

    And they’re vastly overestimating their prospects, having a mentality of “the US is the greatest nation!”.

    I have hopes that these people in power will eventually stop their high-horse ravenous capitalism, but I imagine that day will only come after my lifetime…

  •  Aceticon   ( @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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    2 months ago

    After the EU Commission capitulated like a house of cards, faster than their own shadow, to Trumps’ big-tariff-stick backed demands that extremelly dangerous and highly poluting American trucks were allowed in the EU, obviously more and more demands to “screw the safety, quality of life and health of EU citizens for the profit of American companie” would follow.

    Trump’s behaviour in just about everything exactly follows the bully pattern (he’s not even subtle or sophisticated about it) so him making further and ever more damaging demands, backed by exactly the same threath as worked for him last time around, was not just predictable but pretty much guaranteed.

    I also suspect Americans have a lot of blackmail material on members of the EU Commission, most of whom were hardly competent and honest politicians to begin with.

    I have no doubt that China are the ones who will come out ahead in all this shit if only because they have an actual spine and American blackmail material doesn’t work anywhere as well against the crooks in power there as it does against the crooks we have in power in the EU.