Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?

In all honesty: European citizens retain, amongst other things, their health benefits when being laid off.

In a full blown trade war I would much rather be in Europe than see my money going to the oligarchy in the US.

Is the EU threatening to take Alaska or support the Venezuelan government against the US or something? Because the feigned ignorance around why the EU is tired of the US isn't really interesting.

It's a modern problem in a lot of places, but especially in America that what people see on TV and social media is reality to them - which is heavily distorted. It will have to start reaching their own paychecks in order to have an impact. There are rumors that the administration will stop making Social Security payments, let's see how that goes.

> the market alternative

It's interesting that you imply the European Union is communist or state capitalist in a similar way to the Soviet Union or that European Alternatives are not part of the market, analogous to state-produced consumer goods in the Soviet Union. It's especially interesting (which is a nice way of saying preposterous) considering the primary function of the European Union has always been a European single market (the EEA includes the EU and EFTA) to ease trade between countries in Europe, with most other concerns logically following downstream from that (e.g. moving towards a United States of Europe is a logical consequence of the need for a state to back the Euro which was a logical consequence of the desire to avoid currency exchange when trading goods within the EEA).

Considering the only thing the Soviet Union and the EU have in common is part of their names in English and there's literally no similarity between Soviet consumer products and European Alternatives other than that they're foreign to the US, I struggle to understand what the point of your comment is supposed to be as good faith demands I assume the nonsensical implication is unintentional.

Frankly us Europeans (similarily: Canadians) have no choice. Trump demonsttated quite clearly that if you're down he will squeeze every last drop out of even his closest allies — just look at how he treated Ukraine.

So the choice is to be at the whim of a despotic tyrant from abroad or do your own thing. I guess there aren't many populations out there who'd prefer the former.

But I also see it as a chance. Europe is the biggest single market in the world and got a lot going for itself. Becoming less reliant on US security guarantees and other things the US provides was overdue. Trumps predecessors understood that keeping European potential moderated by ultimately ensured US influence within Europe remained strong.

So as much as I hate to witness what my American friends do to themselves, it feels like Europe is waking up, finally.