I see this as an absolute win - EU tech businesses get bolstered, and we no longer depend on the country that apprehends tourists[1] or denies entry to scientists because their social media has unfavorable opinions about their great leader[2]. Call it whiny, I call it common sense.
Even in positive sum games, “always nice” is not a good strategy, because when somebody is not “nice”, you will lose. This is even a larger problem when somebody has a bad behaviour multiple times in a row not by accident. This later is exactly what’s happening.
