Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 week agoDo you have the phrase “out of the frying pan and into the fire” in Europe?
Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 week agoDo you have the phrase “out of the frying pan and into the fire” in Europe?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 week ago
that doesn’t apply.
It’s better to distance ourselves from them before we get caught in their dumpster fire and also get burned.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
And how do you plan on doing that today? You are also delusional like Trump if you think you can just cut ties and happily watch US go up in flames. That simply isn’t gonna happen, certainly not before his current term ends.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It can happen pretty fast, look what Russia did with those sactions.
The EU, their neighbour, simply got replaced.
We can certainly do the same with the US.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
The USSR was not thoroughly embedded in the world economies. Nor did it have as staunch of allies in major positions in EU government as the US does today. Don’t get me wrong, despite being in the US, I do think that countries divesting and becoming less dependent upon a slave state, like the US, is a good thing. However, as the “Great Recession” demonstrated, EU economies are very much entangled with the US economy, with few lessons seeming to have been learned in the last decade and a half.
Sure, the US might be more impacted, but the EU will not be unscathed, if there isn’t more effort to decouple and ditch neoliberal policies. That kind of stuff can’t happen overnight.