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It's an east vs west thing.
by daneel_w 11mo ago
It's an east vs west thing.
- qwertox 11mo agoAt the current rate the US will become an "even further east".
- jabron 11mo agoWhat does this even mean?
- exasperaited 11mo agoWhat it means is that in the future Europe will have to consider a Trumpist USA to be like a 21st Century version of a totalitarian Eastern Bloc or Soviet country: Orbanism, absurd projectionism, dangerous allies, the state demanding a share of businesses and directing sales and mergers, openly describing the EU (and now the UK) as not friends or even as enemies, trumped up prosecutions of political enemies, assuming that foreign surveillance is built into its products, etc. Some of these things are already here.
- exasperaited 11mo ago*protectionism
- dragonelite 11mo agoMore like west vs rest of the world. Its cold war round 2 but this time its the west that is starting to hide behind a iron/cyber wall.
- neko_ranger 11mo agolmao China is already in a cyber wall. What's wrong with building defenses if your opponent already has? What have they built the defenses for?