The tiger which is chewing on my leg today will be dead in 20 years, so why should I worry about it? The EU is the world's second largest economy in both strai

The tiger which is chewing on my leg today will be dead in 20 years, so why should I worry about it? The EU is the world's second largest economy in both straight GDP and GDP PPP. What it does today impacts the global marketplace. That is the point of the issue here. Also your reasoning is flawed. Look at how tech companies bend over backwards to please Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc. Any large marketplace has an inertia of its own, and companies will always be willing to sell out their principles in order to ensure they lead in any decent-sized marketplace.