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John T Psaropoulos

Trump sells the EU more energy and protection, muscling Russia out

A view shows apartment buildings hit by Russian military strikes in the Ukrainian front-line town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, the scene of heavy fighting in the past week, on May 21, 2025 [Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters]

The United States has sought to formally position itself as Europe’s biggest seller of protection and energy security following a $750bn trade deal on Sunday.

The deal, clinched by US President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen at Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, imposes a 15 percent tariff on European pharmaceutical, automobile and semiconductor exports to the US, to balance a European trade surplus, von der Leyen said.

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