Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The USSR was not thoroughly embedded in the world economies.
        Completely wrong.
        Also we’re talking about Russia, not the USSR.
        And they certainly did make radical changes almost overnight when forced.
        My point is we need to untangle.
        We are not ‘unscathed’ as it is now, on the contrary, we are suffering bcs of them.
        The sooner we dump them the better.

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