Geopolitics Prime

Sep 10

🇪🇺🤖💸 Europe’s Auto Industry Is Taking Its Economy Down With It Volkswagen has agreed to eliminate 100,000 jobs in total. Four German plants face uncertain futures, and the group can build roughly 500,000 more vehicles than it sells. Europe’s largest carmaker is shrinking on a scale it has never attempted in 89 years. The rest of the industry looks little healthier. European vehicle production has fallen 20–25% since its 2017 peak. Supplier ZF plans to cut up to 14,000 German jobs. BMW’s operating profit is at its lowest since the pandemic. Mercedes-Benz, Renault and Stellantis are all cutting costs. That weakness does not stay inside the car companies. The sector accounts for around €1T of GDP and supports 13M jobs. A vehicle plant buys steel, glass, plastics, chemicals, chips, machinery and transport services. Its workers support shops, restaurants and local housing markets. Its profits fund research, investment and tax revenue. Germany feels each lost shift all the way down the supply chain. The factory orders fewer gearboxes and seats. The foundry casts fewer parts. The toolmaker loses a contract, the railway carries fewer finished cars and the town collects less tax. Spread that across several manufacturers and industrial output, exports and household spending all take a hit. Europe has made the squeeze worse with its own costs. Electricity for energy-intensive industry in the EU averaged more than twice the US level and over 50% above China’s in 2025. That lands heavily on the foundries, glassworks, metal processors and chemical plants supplying each vehicle. The shift to electric cars was also badly timed. Manufacturers had to keep spending on combustion models while pouring billions into batteries and new platforms. Charging networks and purchase incentives developed unevenly, and many buyers found the new cars too expensive. Factories built for higher volumes were left underused. Chinese competition has exposed these problems. Chinese brands now hold more than 9% of the EU market, while US tariffs squeeze European exports from the other side. Import duties may buy local manufacturers time, but they cannot fill an idle plant or make its next car affordable. An empty Volkswagen production line means less work at the foundry, the glass plant, the toolmaker, the freight depot and the dealership. Multiply that across Europe, and a crisis in carmaking becomes a crisis for the economy built around it. @NewRulesGeo❗Follow us on X

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Pavel Rivers
European carmakers were stupid to follow US "norms" that they themselves don't follow.
Raven Alexander
Europe’s auto crisis is a supply-chain avalanche. When VW sneezes, foundries, toolmakers, and whole towns catch pneumonia.
Gregori
What is unfolding is beyond imagination Butchery of the elite Who will be Robespierre
Jack Barry
Let them eat sauerkraut.
David McCrillis
They are transitioning into military to support Ukraine. The problem there is they are borrowing the money to build the weapons. Not a good position in the long term so you need war to continue. So they scare you with “Russia Russia Russia” to take your money to build more weapons to keep the economy afloat.
Nemo Stongtoe
Thanks to Empress Von Der Leyen and her WEF Satanists Globalist..... WEF: Wreck Europe Forever.
Justas
Good news! European economy is sinking! It was about time to end the neo-liberal fairytales
AG NES
Workers don't need jobs. They need culling. War now is Germany's new mantra. Why else would the EU demons of NATO start a war with Russia, throw Ukrainians into it to begin mowing the grass? EU military spending now increased, false flags to raise the fears of EU nationals and increased production is underway to start a wider war and get ignorant, poor people to conscription into their army. If need be, people will be kidnapped, gang pressed and brutalised into going to the front. As Zelensky modeled that method on Ukrainians. Two and a half million Ukrainians, mostly men killed in the war. Ukraine now, supposedly conscription women. A criminal state now has eyes on women and single parents... what could go wrong with the Epstein class always looking for more opportunities during disasters? Wonder if all the conscripted women will go fight Russians? No.
Abu J Trump
Who gives a fuck about Germany? I hope their economy plunges into darkness the way they’ve behaved! Allies with Israel after what those people did to the Germans in the 1920’s & 1930’s beyond!
Andrey
Oh, wait, but they told us that strong economy is built on your neighbour Johnny who can open a plumbing shop, or a pancake cafe. Good luck selling that when your state-supported money-making corporations are down.
Andrey
Well, forced conscription is only one part of equation. The other is slave-factories where Ukrainians work for food. If someone demands anything better then he is sent to the frontline. And it’s going to be the same in Europe. Every European has a choice now: topple your deranged elites or watch your country slowly degrade into a Nazi state with slave-factories and wait until the first nukes start falling.
Thomas S
This is literally what the national socialists tried to prevent. They literally fought these European and American powers and lost which is why you are now in the jew world order. The more you blame the solution to the jewish problem the more you will dig your own grave.
ﾠ
Society has changed, there's a 0% chance of war or a coup happening in the West. Society is doing too well. they became accustomed to capitalist consumerism. there are nazi groups throughout the West, but most of them are federalists or zionists. Ukraine is an example, Ukrainians are being massacred en masse, but society doesn't care, there is no rebellion against Zelensky.
Andrey
Just recently, in China, there was a case when a company fired someone because of AI replacing that person, the government forced the company to hire that person back. Because “tech should improve productivity, not to replace people”. But in the West, any corp can fire anyone under any pretext, and a Westerner accepts it as a matter of life as usual, because they lost all skill of fighting back and because he is certain that more jobs will come his way as it usually was for the past 50 years. Well, not this time. “The past market performance is not indicative of its future performance”
Sean
That's funny, all I see is videos of chicks living large in Kiev nightclubs but males are strangely absent
Muslim= Sunni.
Exactly. WMD= Weapons of Mass Domination. "Neoliberal capitalism under the garb of Liberal World Order is a liar’s lair, in which common man as a voter and a consumer is potential asset and an exploitable victim." A first step to salvation is to realize that no ordinary person’s vote is comparable to those the string-pullers are able to buy. People then need to learn something about history and quit spending time on politicians who work for political parties that give people only the illusion of choice. People should concentrate on assisting the communities they live in, and help them become autonomous, transparent, and resilient. Then, at least, a genuine resistance at the local level can take place, because transparency is always a poison to the exercise of arbitrary force by those in power. And frankly, there is no exception. All governments are part and parcel of Elite Capture Philosophy (ECP). For them, the ordinary citizens are a matter of mob control. Watch the eye-opening interview with the co-founder of Hezbollah in which he spoke the truth. https : // m . youtube. com/watch ?v=cuchg9zHbRs
Segais
corp bosses doing a great job destroying car companies/ ownership for Agenda 30