It all seems so surprisingly unnecessary. Angry geriatric man f*cks the world up for generations to come, then in a short bit he will die, and not have to live through the consequences.
EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification
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#12"Carney said this more isolationist approach, where there's a "world of fortresses," will make countries poorer, fragile and less sustainable. But it's coming nonetheless and Canada must work with like-minded allies where possible to push back against domination by larger, wealthier and well-armed countries." New trade relationships are being forged surprisingly quickly in the midst of all this. Anyone have a list of…
(Mercosur*, for "Mercado Común del Sur"[0]; Mercator was a geographer from the 16th century[1]).
[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... ("Glossary:Mercosur")
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator ("Gerardus Mercator")
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If by pissing off you mean "making foreign entities follow European regulations", then, yes. But also, that's exactly what US, China, and Russia do too.
Don't break the law. It's simple.
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#14"Carney said this more isolationist approach, where there's a "world of fortresses," will make countries poorer, fragile and less sustainable. But it's coming nonetheless and Canada must work with like-minded allies where possible to push back against domination by larger, wealthier and well-armed countries." New trade relationships are being forged surprisingly quickly in the midst of all this. Anyone have a list of…
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We're not dependent on their energy. One example: we get 10-12% of our LNG from Qatar. No one power controls all tech or markets. There are American and Chinese tech companies who are dependent on European tech companies (ASML being one of the better known examples). The whole point of globalization is that we're all interdependent on each other. All that being said: Europe has a ton of work to do. The spirit of your…
Russia is still an energy provider to Europe. Do we provide any security guarantees to Qatar or can protect the shipping lanes? We can not. It is controlled by the US, which is also a major supplier.
For every political squeeze EU can do, the US can squeeze 10x as hard.
ASML also has quite a lot of US suppliers. We are all tech dependent on each other, but China is working hard to fix that and the US also.
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#16This means that US keeps paying the old WTO MFN tariffs (low) while EU keeps paying the high ~15% tariffs like it has since the July “deal”.
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#17"Carney said this more isolationist approach, where there's a "world of fortresses," will make countries poorer, fragile and less sustainable. But it's coming nonetheless and Canada must work with like-minded allies where possible to push back against domination by larger, wealthier and well-armed countries." New trade relationships are being forged surprisingly quickly in the midst of all this. Anyone have a list of…
Mercosur took 20 years to finalize and if it wasn't for recent unhingedness of American politics, I would expect it to get vetoed by special farmer interests in the last minute. But the threat became too big for that.
But yeah, there will be some urgency now. In times of need, people find out that all the "necessary" bureaucracy isn't really that necessary. War or threat of war is the only thing stronger than red tape.
(For an analogy, when Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany put most of its regulations aside to build some infrastructure for import of liquified gas in mere 6 weeks or so. The same infrastructure, under peace conditions, would take some 10 years to litigate against every NIMBY and eco-organization out there.)
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EU pissed off Russia when Russia invaded Ukraine?
I have read that narrative before, in fact it was just a few days ago when Trump lied that he will be forced to take Greenland because Denmark and Norway is pissing him off by withholding the strategic location of Greenland from him.
Same same.
Maybe we need to be more confrontational to assert our own borders and independence and stop trying to please autocrats and wannabe autocrats?
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#19It all seems so surprisingly unnecessary. Angry geriatric man f*cks the world up for generations to come, then in a short bit he will die, and not have to live through the consequences.
Even if Trump died today, Vance would continue his nefarious job.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're not dependent on their energy. One example: we get 10-12% of our LNG from Qatar. No one power controls all tech or markets. There are American and Chinese tech companies who are dependent on European tech companies (ASML being one of the better known examples). The whole point of globalization is that we're all interdependent on each other. All that being said: Europe has a ton of work to do. The spirit of your…
Russia is still an energy provider to Europe. Do we provide any security guarantees to Qatar or can protect the shipping lanes? We can not. It is controlled by the US, which is also a major supplier. For every political squeeze EU can do, the US can squeeze 10x as hard. ASML also has quite a lot of US suppliers. We are all tech dependent on each other, but China is working hard to fix that and the US also.
The US is providing security guarantees to Qatar? When did the Senate vote on those?