@parismarx

Who makes those concessions and why?

Is it maybe that europe depends on US tech too much and would need its own tech to become empowered to actually say no to trump? ...maybe afte rall european tech could save us?

@parismarx

sorry.
not gonna happen.
when jewish Isis did this last round of ethnic cleansing EU did nothing even for the show.

now nobody takes EU seriously .

https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-century-of-humiliation-could-be-just-beginning/

@parismarx

The EU will cave just as they did with the tariffs before. The Trump admin will simply play the military card again. Europe has grown into a plutocracy where only economical interests mattered for a long time, neglecting investments in defense capabilities after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Thus, if Trump and his goons tell the EU oligarchs and their politician puppets that they'll have to shed blood if they want to keep their independence, the ruling caste will gladly accept the yoke.

@parismarx Good article - I do miss a reference to the most obvious avenue the rest of the world has to ending US technofeudalism: Rescind IP protections derived from DMCA 1201 & let companies reverse-engineer the everloving crap out of every single piece of Big Tech software & hardware.

If you feel up to it you could also add that with the insane amounts of money spent on licenses, switching to or even building alternative tech is most certainly realistic & even makes good fiscal sense.

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it has been said before he was even reelected: he is the best thing that has happened to the European project.

The capture of politicians left and right by bigtech and the dramatic lock-in of citizens, businesses and public sector was a given.

This humiliation and overt coercion is a potent shock. If Europe has still a pulse and a firing neuron it will have to do something. Ofcourse it may not, but that too is good to know.

@parismarx

Appeasement won’t work with this dictator, a nasty punch on the nose would…