> Instead the EU is engaging in increasingly protectionist activity to build more domestic industry. yes, this is why it was created, it's why it exists! I ha

> Instead the EU is engaging in increasingly protectionist activity to build more domestic industry. yes, this is why it was created, it's why it exists! I have absolutely no problem with the US deciding to re-balance its economy using tariffs, that is its sovereign right but I have a problem with it using them as a tool of coercion against its "allies" to achieve foreign policy objectives and not to mention the direct threats of annexation > But if the EU "decouples" from the US, there's no incentive for the US to not, for example, take over Greenland. if you assume the decoupling has completed, then the rest of the west would by definition be capable of defending itself without being subject to coercion/blackmail (there's also the the two nuclear powers treaty bound to defend it)