• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    While it’s easy to get frustrated at the world’s tepid response to Trump, the reality is the world’s reliance on US financial and tech companies makes things like sanctions and embargoes effectively impossible.

    And Europe has noticed. Between this, establishing European payment processors, etc they’re working towards a future where they can put real economic pressure on the US.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah. As usual, the bulk of the people realized too late that something needed to be done and only started doing it after it needed to be done, but at least it is being done. This is a pattern throughout history.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      the reality is the world’s reliance on US financial and tech companies makes things like sanctions and embargoes effectively impossible.

      Yeah, and I find it funny that there were plenty of naive and emotional calls to sanction US demanding world leaders to stand up to Trump. Good luck to them, it’s easier for them to make demands since they don’t make the decisions.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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        Good luck to them, it’s easier for them to make demands since they don’t make the decisions.

        We don’t need to sanction US, we just need to close the loopholes that allow the US tech to not pay taxes in EU. As simple as that.