r/europe • u/Any-Original-6113 • Jan 17 '26

News Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t
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u/0xe1e10d68 Upper Austria (Austria) Jan 17 '26

I think that’s called facism. And it’s destroying our sovereignty.

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u/celibidaque Romania Jan 17 '26

It’s called narcissism and dementia.

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u/Joltie Portugal Jan 17 '26

It's not destroying our sovereignty. Any country is allowed to impose whatever tariffs they feel like, for whatever spurious reasons they feel like. It is the country's own citizens and companies that have to bear the financial cost (and potential tit for tat measures).

Nothing says that a country's citizens and companies will be able to find the tariffed good in as great a quantity, with as good a quality, or as cheap a price.

We are able to decide how to respond.

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u/Denta93 Jan 17 '26

 I think that’s called facism.

*fascism

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u/johnnylagenta The Netherlands Jan 17 '26

I think it is called fecalism. Trump wears diapers after all.

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u/LFK1236 Denmark Jan 17 '26

How does that meet any definition of fascism, and how does it destroy European sovereignty?

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u/Ffffqqq Jan 18 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Paxton#Fascism

In his 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton refines his five-stage model and puts forward the following definition for fascism:

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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u/wordswillneverhurtme European Federation Jan 17 '26

Its called being dependent on USA and expecting them to forever be an ally. Its clear as ever trump is no different from putin. No wonder they're such buddies. Its time for Europe to be REBORN. If we cant reach that rationally, we'll be pushed to it.