The risk of US retaliation is too high. The US routinely use similar bully techniques against their partners (in Iran for instance, pour EU comptines asked the

The risk of US retaliation is too high. The US routinely use similar bully techniques against their partners (in Iran for instance, pour EU comptines asked the EU commission for help but ultimately we retracted from Iran as asked by the US). They are powerful enough to do that, we (countries in the EU) are not.