• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    6 hours ago

    US blowing up Nord Stream and crashing German economy seems to be the obvious one. Germany sealed the documents on the investigation and won’t release them to the public now. The EU is in deep economic trouble after three years of economic war with Russia, and that’s what’s driving political unrest all across Europe as we speak. The US has been actively taking advantage of the situation by poaching European industry with the inflation reduction act under Biden, and will further squeeze Europe with tariffs under Trump. If you don’t see Americans pulling ahead then you have absolutely no clue regarding what’s happening. Americans have a secure energy supply and Europe doesn’t.

    The EU can try to improve relations with China to counter the US, but that won’t solve the energy problems EU has. It will just mean that EU will become more dependent on Chinese manufacturing going forward.

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      If you don’t see Americans pulling ahead then you have absolutely no clue regarding what’s happening. Americans have a secure energy supply and Europe doesn’t.

      If only there were a country with twice the total landmass of the EU, rich in all types of resources, that is ideologically extremely close to the EU and has just been spurned by the US and is actively looking to realign itself with more reliable allies. Can you think of anyone?

      EU will become more dependent on Chinese manufacturing going forward.

      This is not a bad thing in the short term. China is not an ideological ally but they are at least rational and not raving lunatics like the US.

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        If only there were a country with twice the total landmass of the EU, rich in all types of resources, that is ideologically extremely close to the EU and has just been spurned by the US and is actively looking to realign itself with more reliable allies. Can you think of anyone?’

        Canada is as much of a vassal of the US as the EU, and it’s highly unlikely that it would be allowed to spurn the US in this way.

        This is not a bad thing in the short term. China is not an ideological ally but they are at least rational and not raving lunatics like the US.

        China is indeed a much better partner than the US, but in the long run Europe needs to figure out how to become self sufficient if it ever wants to be genuinely sovereign. This means figuring out how to produce cheap energy domestically and creating essential industries that can produce things people need. So far, it’s not the direction things are moving in.