• sunglocto@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Seems like Trump’s strategy is to now bully countries into getting what they want. "I want them out!!! I want Canada!!! I want Greenland!!!

    He’s basically the equivalent of the kid that flips over the monopoly table when someone bought a property before him.

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      3 days ago

      He literally is a petulant spoilt brat nappy wearing trust fund kid with unresolved daddy issues.

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          3 days ago

          Won’t happen. EU is designed to serve the US, but we’ll see countries breaking off and (re)uniting with Russia.

          • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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            2 days ago

            The problem with that is that anti-Russian sentiment is highest in the East, so there’s no way they will break off.

            Also Russia is not China, they barely have anything to give in a trade relationship. Also, the Ukraine invasion is scrounging up bad memories in most of the member states, so there’s that.

            In Hungary, arguably the country closest ideologically to Russia, EU membership has had a consistent 70-80% approval. They won’t break off.

            Also, the EU is designed to protect EU business interests against international ones, so they will go where the money is, and under Trump, that may cease to be the US.

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              11 hours ago

              It’s highest in the North-East, lowest in the South East.

              There’s currently no direct land connection between Russia and Moldava/Slovakia/Romania/Hungary,
              and without it, there’s no potential protection.
              Georgia is already slowly turning around.

              Russia is an ally of China. What they have to give is the same as the EU (Germany) has to give with the US as their ally.

              So far the EU has done everything in power to not protect EU business interests and favor US business interests over anything else.

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        3 days ago

        They should start now. Countries should cut off trading with the US once Trump starts making threats in their direction, instead of waiting for him to make up his mind and do something. He’s too used to there not being any consequences.

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        4 days ago

        That is the only logical step. You can’t make deals with someone who throws you under the bus at the next opportunity 🤷🏻