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

Alas, the US declared Ukraine's president a dictator, is literally talking about annexing its allied neighbors, and launched a trade war against them and the EU.

The EU has been very explicit about wanting to maintain good relations with the US but the US unilaterally decided to treat its allies as enemies (except for Israel) and instead cozy up to Putin. Canada, Mexico and the EU have been extremely consistent and very measured in their responses.

If you don't want allies to turn into enemies, I'm sorry but you need a regime change. Unless you are literally asking for the rest of the world to join forces and invade the US to depose the government, I don't know what you expect us to do. This is on you, not us.

By the way, allegedly Trump is working on an EO that would declare fentanyl a WMD, which would legally justify military strikes in Canada and Mexico. I'm not saying the US is going to do that but given that Trump refuses to acknowledge the Canadian president and instead consistently refers to him as a "governor", and keeps insisting that Canada should be part of the United States and that the border is illegitimate - I'm sorry but this scenario is beginning to sound increasingly more plausible, especially once the tariffs on imports from Canada (e.g. fertilizer) will start to directly affect Americans and Trump will need someone to blame for the damage he caused. This isn't conduct appropriate for an "ally".

Large companies aren’t driven by opinion/ethics/politics except where there’s a branding incentive, so the motivation here is cost/risk.

That these same companies are actively trying to nope right out of the US tech market where they can shows that they’ve priced in very real costs to both Trump’s unpredictability and the very predictable response to tariffs in their domestic markets.

Trump’s second term may end up being a great thing for tech markets outside of the US, as it drives investment into those regions and actively away from the status quo of SV hegemony.

Here are a few examples:

- The expulsion of the English from Havana in the 18th century

- The European inquisitions, and while we are at it, some elements of faith in general.

- Hitler's fascism (Hitler was elected)

- Fidel Castro's Cuba

- North Korea

- Italy's demographic problem

- Japan's demographic problem

... and so on. In all cases, you need the cold clarity of hindsight and a lot of detachment to see that people were acting foolishly. But during the time when the events are ensuing, stoked passions and outright manipulation prevent people from acting rationally. It's not like people act irrationally because they want to. It's simply too difficult to accept the right information, since each argument opposed to one's own beliefs is interpreted as a move from the enemy group.

This is the world we live in.