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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over
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Invece di temere ciò che sta arrivando vedo l’opportunità per l’Europa.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over
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19 commenti
We can win this Trade War in the long run.
Me too. New and endless opportunities to build better products and services that what the US does.
Me too. The second largest reserve asset’s homeland is suddenly the only reasonably governed area of scale.
Europe will continue to be open for trade with the rest of the world, essentially the diametrically opposed model to the US that is more or less decoupling from the world economy. No other region is more interconnected and has more free trade agreements than Europe.
History has proven a million times that the more open approach is the more beneficial economically, especially long term. Nobody (should) know(s) that more than the US itself.
The American century is over and it was ended by the US itself.
Ignore USA as much as possible and reroute the money to EU based brands.
We need to remind ourselves the tarrifs are ONLY when we trade with america, the rest of the world will still be civil to each other.
Meanwhile the septics will get more and more isolated in every sphere, trade, mil sales, tourism and even sport.
I would like us to seize these opportunities by implementing the recommendations of the Draghi report to make Europe more competitive in innovation and technology with venture building.
For the human resources that we have and the available capital to invest, our laws and tax rules regulating business creation are so antiquated and out of touch it’s ridiculous.
At the same time we seem to have no problem allowing foreign corporations avoid paying any taxes locally by using suspicious company structures in fiscal paradises.
Let’s be realistic – trade barriers with the richest country in the world will have an effect. However, since that country has decided to go to war with *everyone*, it’s natural that trade flows will adjust. We will be worse off, but not quite as worse off as the yanks, who have decided to make it as hard on themselves as they could.
And hit the fucking us services sector, please? It’s not as if Europe is too dumb to make a decent social media platform
For this we must ditch american brands. It will hurt for sure, but it has to be done. Europe needs its own version of everything.
Honestly, there is a golden opportunity in the making. Should Europeans band together into a federalist bloc, and that’s not without its share of challenges, they are the best poised to be the defacto world leaders.
Ultimately, and this never gets pointed out enough, America has structural issues that have no hope of ever being resolved. Principally, they have no hope of escaping the financial and environmental burden of car-centrism, the for-profit model of healthcare, the two-party system, and runaway government debt. But the infrastructure maintenance bill is coming due. They don’t have the population density, and they no longer have the growth to sustain their infrastructure financing. They will literally crumble.
For motivating pressure, we have two existential threats, both East and West. And, with the UK currently on the outside, it is a sufficient political coup to establish English as *the* lingua franca (it already is in practice,) in order to cement communication and cohesion between all peoples under a single banner… *if* we can get some of our more linguistically passionate brothers and sisters to find a way to smear this in the UK’s face: “Well, we couldn’t possibly accept English as our lingua franca… but, seeing as how the English screwed up and left, yeah, sure. Why not do this as one more way to embarrass the Brexit leaders? To accomplish what they never could?” (Yes, it’s stupid and petty… but, if it works, it works.)
When about 40% of the EU understands English, there’s no legitimate reason not to. It further enables capital flight from the US, ease of political, business, and STEM communication, and further capitalizes on international tourism.
Finally, the EU has to figure out trade, free movement, and shipping better. Having stuff stopped at every border is a permanent slow-down to the economy. (Again, not without difficulty to achieve or potential consequences, particularly with healthcare costs/burdens, but.) Until people/goods can move as freely within the borders of the EU as they do between states in the US, it’s a permanent handicap.
I don’t know if it can be overcome and achieved within our lifetimes, but. Success is when you lift the barriers and almost no one moves, because everyone is doing well enough to be content with where they’re at.
As history showed time and time again, empires always crumble and fall. Rome fell to civil wars, invasions of Goths, Visigoths and Valdals. Yet, it took over 200 years to colapse. The *pax americana* hegemony lasted for 80 years and we will be witnessing its collapse in years, if not months.
Europe only has to follow this pace and divest swiftly into Africa, Asia, Canada, Latin America, Australia. As exports to the USA dwindle, so will imports (and these dumb “tariffs” will remain the same i.e. the ratio will remain the same).
It will take a few years and there will be an immediate impact on Europe’s economy.
But yes, this is an opportunity Europe cannot let go of.
Yes. It is a great opportunity but EU has to seize it by the balls.
Don’t pretend the EU won’t end the same way… (I’m a pro EU citizen).
We are going to open up to countries like China, which will surely do as well for us as with Russia 🤣
“He did not hide his intentions. He campaigned on them. He made them the central thrust of his election. He told Americans that he would betray our allies and give up our leadership position in the world.
There are only three possible explanations as to why Americans voted for this man:
they wanted what he promised;
they didn’t believe what he promised; or
they didn’t understand what he promised.
Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak.
And no empire can survive the degeneration of its people”
Very well put and cuts to the exact core of why this time is different to 8 years ago (aside from him being even more deranged and dictatorial)
I feel like I’ve been living in a different reality.
There are these posts essentially saying, ‘The centre of the world has SHIFTED! It is NO LONGER America!’
America was just powerful. A powerful nation. That’s all. It’s done plenty of crappy things over the years. It was never infallible, morally or in any other sense. Its human rights record is poor. It continues to pour truly obscene amounts of money into extractive industries each year.
I’ve even seen some hysteria about the end of SCIENCE. American science has been, frankly, pretty crap lately. Click-and-run experiment design, misapplied algorithms, shabbily defined parameters. A few great thinkers on the one hand, vast sprawling factories of mediocre research on the other.
We’ll be alright, lads.
EU’s debt ratio is 80% compared to 120% for the US. The EU is poised to increase spending over the next couple decades to deal with demographic shift to an older population and the collapse of the US. The US is poised to cut back spending over a few decades in order to deal with debt. The US might turn out okay if it ends up dominating AI, but it’s definitely facing headwinds while the EU has the wind at their back.
Exactly!!! it is in EU benefit to go ahead and forge trade agreements with China and Canada. Let America sort out its own issues. America wants to relive the 19th century, Europe and the rest of the world are already firmly moving into the 21st.
Yank here.
I don’t know how don’t know how any of this is going to play out; certainly Trump doesn’t, but there is a certain attraction to Isolationism that has taken hold among the American people. At this point, Europe must seriously consider the possibility that they might be on their own. I don’t think Trump will be around after 2028 but he has the power to make changes and establish new norms that won’t be that easy to reverse. My greatest fear is that these changes will inspire and promote similar movements in Europe and undermine NATO and the EU.