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This is the sort coercion which will make the EU regulators know where real power lies. For too long EU extra territoriality has penalised US companies, which h

This is the sort coercion which will make the EU regulators know where real power lies. For too long EU extra territoriality has penalised US companies, which have just been eating the fines and then producing onerous localisations to stay under EU compliance. With Trump 2.0, the EU will have to bend the knee

toomuchtodo 2y ago
Europe will simply start decoupling from the US, as the US was doing with China and supply chains. The US military is already on the decline, from both a human and hardware force projection perspective.
- chiefalchemist 2y ago
  > The US military is already one the decline, from both a human and hardware force projection perspective Interesting cause the budget isn't declining. Where is the money being shifted to?
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  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-navy-recruit-numbers https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-n... https://indi.ca/the-us-military-is-in-a-death-spiral/ https://indi.ca/the-us-military-is-in-a-death-spiral/ https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105341 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105341 https://www.rand.org/nsrd/projects/NDS-commission.html https://www.rand.org/nsrd/projects/NDS-commission.html
    - chiefalchemist 2y ago
      And the response to this would be what? Even more budget. File this under: The MIC is not a conspiracy theory. What's on the decline: The value the US taxpayer is getting per dollar spent by The MIC. Under Obama (this is mentioned inhis 2016 State of The Union) the USA spent more than the next 10 counties combined. Most of those are allies. Gawd only knows what that stat is now. If all the spending is resulting in a decline, something is wrong.
      - toomuchtodo 2y ago
        There is no solution, as there is no will to fix it. Once there is will, then potential solutions become relevant.
        chiefalchemist 2y ago
        Well it doesn't help when the traditional anti-MIC political party no longer pushes back against The MIC. Now we have hawks and hawkier. Most everyday Americans call the MIC a conspiracy theory, and have no idea its name's source was exGeneral / exPOTUS
  - seo-speedwagon 2y ago
    I’m not trying to pick on you specifically but that is precisely the kind of neoliberal thinking that has caused such rot in the US (and more broadly, western) military. Is spending a lot of money the goal or the measurement here? If your goal is actual effectiveness, then things such as force structure, results in recent conflicts, production rates, etc. are what you’d measure. If your goal is funneling money to capitalists then yeah sure budgets and adherence to “%GDP spending targets” from your vassals is what you’d measure.
    - BillyTheMage 2y ago
      This is the capitalist empire. Funneling money to capitalists might not be the only goal, but it's no less than goal #2.
    - chiefalchemist 2y ago
      It's not the spending that's causing the rot, it's the receiver of a good chunk of that spending. Prez Eisenhower said it best... Beware of The MIC.
belter 2y ago
Trump will help make 2025 the year of the Linux Desktop in Europe. You heard it here first :-) These pressures will finally push the EU to drop Office and Windows...
Terr_ 2y ago
Yeah, just like how the people behind Brexit managed to deliver on their promises of massively favorable new trade terms for the UK. We'll just force the EU to do what we want or else we take our business to China! Meanwhile, we'll force China to do what we want or else we'll take our business to the EU! Plus we can throw Canada and Mexico into the mix, and show them who's boss. There is absolutely no way this genius "alienate every viable major trading partner simultaneously" strategy could ever fail. I mean, even if other countries somehow exhibit more intelligence than a turnip and compare notes, this is America! We don't need 'em! We'll just trade with nobody and get super rich until they come begging to our feet. Sadly, I fear the above sarcasm is closer-than-not to what some freshly-appointed folks are gonna try to do.
- throwgfa 2y ago
  You know Britain is irrelevant power, right?

toomuchtodo 2y ago

Europe will simply start decoupling from the US, as the US was doing with China and supply chains. The US military is already on the decline, from both a human and hardware force projection perspective.

chiefalchemist 2y ago
> The US military is already one the decline, from both a human and hardware force projection perspective Interesting cause the budget isn't declining. Where is the money being shifted to?
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- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-navy-recruit-numbers https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-n... https://indi.ca/the-us-military-is-in-a-death-spiral/ https://indi.ca/the-us-military-is-in-a-death-spiral/ https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105341 https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105341 https://www.rand.org/nsrd/projects/NDS-commission.html https://www.rand.org/nsrd/projects/NDS-commission.html
  - chiefalchemist 2y ago
    And the response to this would be what? Even more budget. File this under: The MIC is not a conspiracy theory. What's on the decline: The value the US taxpayer is getting per dollar spent by The MIC. Under Obama (this is mentioned inhis 2016 State of The Union) the USA spent more than the next 10 counties combined. Most of those are allies. Gawd only knows what that stat is now. If all the spending is resulting in a decline, something is wrong.
    - toomuchtodo 2y ago
      There is no solution, as there is no will to fix it. Once there is will, then potential solutions become relevant.
      - chiefalchemist 2y ago
        Well it doesn't help when the traditional anti-MIC political party no longer pushes back against The MIC. Now we have hawks and hawkier. Most everyday Americans call the MIC a conspiracy theory, and have no idea its name's source was exGeneral / exPOTUS
- seo-speedwagon 2y ago
  I’m not trying to pick on you specifically but that is precisely the kind of neoliberal thinking that has caused such rot in the US (and more broadly, western) military. Is spending a lot of money the goal or the measurement here? If your goal is actual effectiveness, then things such as force structure, results in recent conflicts, production rates, etc. are what you’d measure. If your goal is funneling money to capitalists then yeah sure budgets and adherence to “%GDP spending targets” from your vassals is what you’d measure.
  - BillyTheMage 2y ago
    This is the capitalist empire. Funneling money to capitalists might not be the only goal, but it's no less than goal #2.
  - chiefalchemist 2y ago
    It's not the spending that's causing the rot, it's the receiver of a good chunk of that spending. Prez Eisenhower said it best... Beware of The MIC.

belter 2y ago

Trump will help make 2025 the year of the Linux Desktop in Europe. You heard it here first :-) These pressures will finally push the EU to drop Office and Windows...

Terr_ 2y ago

Yeah, just like how the people behind Brexit managed to deliver on their promises of massively favorable new trade terms for the UK. We'll just force the EU to do what we want or else we take our business to China! Meanwhile, we'll force China to do what we want or else we'll take our business to the EU! Plus we can throw Canada and Mexico into the mix, and show them who's boss. There is absolutely no way this genius "alienate every viable major trading partner simultaneously" strategy could ever fail. I mean, even if other countries somehow exhibit more intelligence than a turnip and compare notes, this is America! We don't need 'em! We'll just trade with nobody and get super rich until they come begging to our feet. Sadly, I fear the above sarcasm is closer-than-not to what some freshly-appointed folks are gonna try to do.

throwgfa 2y ago
You know Britain is irrelevant power, right?