The EU functionally cannot do anything but neoliberalism and sucking up to the US. When this runs counter to basic materiap reality they will just create “loopholes” where they overpay and subjugate themselves, such as their self-imposed energy crisis where they still buy from Russia and the US but at exorbitant cost.
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If they go crawling back to the US I feel that all retaliatory tariffs against the US should also apply to the EU.
The EU functionally cannot do anything but neoliberalism and sucking up to the US. When this runs counter to basic materiap reality they will just create “loopholes” where they overpay and subjugate themselves, such as their self-imposed energy crisis where they still buy from Russia and the US but at exorbitant cost.