There is no conspiracy here. If you don't do business with the EU, the EU has nothing on you. They have no other mechanism for enforcing compliance. If you wo

There is no conspiracy here. If you don't do business with the EU, the EU has nothing on you. They have no other mechanism for enforcing compliance. If you would disrespect the king of Thailand, and you would go to Thailand, they might act on their laws and lock you up. If you would break Eu privacy laws, and you would try and do business with the EU, they might act on their laws and enforce their fines. There is no precedent being set here. Even the US is more than willing to freeze assets of foreign actors when they believe they have been wronged abroad. If you ignore the EU and the GDPR completely, nothing can touch you, you just can't do business with them until you stop ignoring them