Europe is allowing itself to be dominated by the US. It just isn’t admitting as much
theconversation.com
Being honest about US influence during Donald Trump’s second term could help Europe resist it.
  • Visstix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    Yeah I was really hoping they would call their tariff bluff and just stopped exporting.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    It is a quasi-mafia logic of international relations, based on intimidation, brutalization and the subordination of “partners”.

    Almost as if the current US president was a New York real estate thug who’s worked hand in hand with the mafia his entire life.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      2 days ago

      This is what happens when the political class is just neoliberal corporate-whores who act on behalf of capital. They bend the knew to fascism, the same as 99.99% of corporations do.

      There is no room for ethics or morality in business.

      • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        Oddly enough, there’s actually a lot of room for ethics and morality in business. Unfortunately for the vast majority of people there isn’t a lot of room ethics or morality in personally enriching yourself to new, more disgusting levels each quarter while refusing to take even the slightest hit to your stock portfolio. Shareholders don’t care about strong businesses with happy, loyal employees, they care about number go up and if the business implodes it’s just simply not their problem as they pull all their assets and go invest somewhere else.