[cmehdy]

Let me rephrase it for you:

"If you don't let us steal every bit of income we can while operating in your countries where your local companies don't have a value larger than the GDP of Switzerland or Mexico, then we will get angry at you for figuring out ways to make them pay the taxes they should pay. So we'll make sure to prop up our Boeing that is failing due to issues unrelated to you, and we'll slap random luxury goods taxes on it for some luck"

That's petty alright.

As pointed out elsewhere, the EU put taxes on Harley Davidson a few years back following the taxes on steel from the US. That was petty too.

FWIW same thing happened with Canada in the last few years with new tariffs both ways. Mostly petty too.

Maybe one day we'll figure out ways to try and nurture making everybody grow together rather than making everybody lose more. For all its faults, the EU is an attempt at that (internally, because we've got to start somewhere).