EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act

We... do? Of course, if you'd like to name whatever wars we're a) involved with and b) not fighting ourselves, then that would be splendid.

Anyway, how is that relevant to enforcing the DSA on X?

> We civilized them. And we may have to civilize them again.

What does this even mean? What do you mean by "civilize"? Also this sounds very much like how colonialism and imperialism were justified back in the 19th and 20th centuries.

But again, what does this have to do with X and DSA?

> But until they turn to yet another genocide maybe we should just let the Europeans have at each other.

Russia is currently conducting a genocide over in Ukraine, for example by kidnapping children and bringing them over to Russia and beyond, for example to North Korea.

This is a war crime and also genocidal. So by your admission you ought to be helping.

But again, what does this have to do with X and DSA?

> We can pay them the $150m to let them take care of Ukraine themselves. It was bad enough we had to drag them by the nose to the water. Maybe enough is enough.

We are taking care of Ukraine. Most of the aid is coming from various EU states, and the organisation itself.

Of course, the United States is the largest singular donator and also has donated some very important capabilities to Ukraine, for which people should be and are thankful for, but the claim that Europe isn't doing anything for Ukraine is just false. Could we do more? Absolutely. Should we? Yes. But that doesn't mean that nothing is happening.

But I must ask again, what does this have to do with X or the DSA?

\1 In real actual history, the US didn't developed a working nuclear weapon based on UK provided designs until after the German surrender.

So in real history there was no chance to "glass" an active EU war zone during WWII.

\2 In the GP's fantasy history in which the US left Europe alone to deal with the Nazi's on their own, the MAUD folk would have never passed on their research to the US and the US would have wallowed in their belief that nuclear weapons were impractical and continued on messing about with atomic power from big piles.

> Anyhow, we've unofficially signalled we are leaving the responsibility of Europe's defenses to Europe by 2027 [6] - meaning member states have no choice but to end up buying American gear or completely vacillate to Russia on Ukraine.

Or just buying from the existing European providers? Most American gear has a (sometimes better, cf. all the stuff even the US buys from European companies) European based equivalent. The only major exception is the F-35, but at least one 6th gen European jet is in the works, and unless fighting with the US, an 5th gen stealth fighter isn't really that needed. European manufacturers need to increase output, and they have been working on it and have done so quite a lot already.