It buys a reduction in unhappiness, which is a good first step to hapiness, but money can’t take you the next step of actually appreciating what you’ve got.

Unfortunately, what I suspect will happen is some thing along the lines of:

• US imposes tariffs on EU
• EU responds with tariffs on kind
• trump says the EU are being unfair and increases tariffs
• EU increase tariffs in response
• Days later, trump claims some sort of negotiated agreement and cancels tariff increase
• EU cancels their tariff increase
• trump claims is is a jeenious! as he got the EU to drop those horrible, evil, tariffs.

We might get the condensed version without the increase steps, but the general shape of his process seems to be becoming clear.

In this, trump’s acting in the same way he did in his first term. He believes and promotes the opinions of the last person who spoke to him. Thus time Starmer was that person, and he’s been trying to get trump to maintain support for Ukraine for a while. This new stance will last until someone else comes along and persuades him otherwise. I would expect to see various E.U. leaders falling over themselves to say how great trump is for restarting support to avoid this happening.