You’re right, and I personally hope it does end up with bifurcation. Because the alternative if it continues on its current trajectory is far worse. It’s astoni

You’re right, and I personally hope it does end up with bifurcation. Because the alternative if it continues on its current trajectory is far worse. It’s astonishing how many countries have given up massive amounts of sovereignty over their own legislative power to a US-EU coalition that seeks to rewrite the whole worlds taxation and regulatory frameworks to suit their own interests. It’s framed as anti money laundering, anti tax avoidance, anti terrorism ect… but it’s really just the worlds most powerful governments trying to rewrite the laws of every other country in the world using non-legislative processes. Pillar 1 is a great example of that, most environmental treaties are too, and so is the fact that just about every foreign aid commitment comes attached with a treaty that requires countries to sign up to ICSID arbitration (here’s a great interview on how monumentally corrupt that system is: https://youtu.be/vDsp2apG5zQ?si=7IusNjr-E3SgmE6S https://youtu.be/vDsp2apG5zQ?si=7IusNjr-E3SgmE6S). Annexation would actually be a preferable outcome imo. At least then people would actually know what was happening in their own countries, rather than just being endlessly frustrated that their governments seem to be serving everybody other than its own citizens, all the while generally having no idea what any of these systems are, or that they even exist.