The US tariff war against the European Union officially begins today. The Americans' aim should be to reduce the trade deficit and at the same time attract industry and rebuild the sector in the United States. What is the biggest lever that the Americans have? Of course, the core of the European economy, German industry. Due to its ideological furor in recent years, it has already damaged itself to such an extent through the climate packages, the withdrawal from nuclear energy, the eternal attacks on Germany's and Europe's key industry, the automotive industry, that it basically stands like a castle with open gates through which the battering ram of tariffs simply has to pass.

It is actually the biggest lever the US can use at this moment to bring about success very quickly, as large sections of the business community, especially in Germany, are more than willing to leave. Too deeply frightened by a policy that is no longer capable of reform, blindly following an attempt to keep a Keynesian model alive with the help of the climate narrative, which has long since been destroyed after American investors left the ESG sector in droves.

The policy driven by reason should now do everything in its power to deregulate and return to a market economy. An agreement with Russia should be reached as quickly as possible in order to regain control of the exploding energy prices (Europe is energy-poor), reduce taxes and cut the sprawling welfare state. But none of this will happen, because it would mean dismantling the power apparatus in Brussels, which thrives on spreading its subsidy machine across the continent like an octopus, relying on the economic potential of the private sector, which it systematically sucks dry. In this way, the parasite is destroying the host body, which is clearly visible in the falling productivity development throughout Europe - it is a death spiral that has been set in motion here and which is seemingly unstoppable.

European citizens are facing difficult times, but it is their responsibility to pull the emergency brake and return to a policy of common sense and force their representatives to do so. A general strike, a business strike or the systematic demonetization of the state apparatus could be the first steps. But something has to happen now, now at the latest.