> The only thing that has changed since the latest elections in the US is that there is a government that more closely defends the interests of the US.
This is a huge understatement of the current political situation in the US, where old allies are suddenly being treated extremely unfriendly and where stability is no longer something you can count on given how quickly the situation has deteriorated since Trump took office. While it is allegedly being done to "more closely defend the interests of the US" the ends may not justify the means.
We don't have an issue with the approach on a fundamental level here in the EU, but we would have liked this move to have been made in a more progressive fashion, as it makes the US look like a very unpredictable commercial & military partner.
> Getting rid of good relationships with the US will weaken European tech (and not just tech) even more.
Forcing EU to improve their own tech and military development is something that is being done in response to the US' lack of predictability, nobody's being "fooled" by talking heads, people just generally love the feeling of safety and predictability.
I'd like to understand why you're assuming this will weaken European tech though - what is this based on specifically? We can develop our own versions of anything you make in the US, we have the engineers and the US is no longer really leading even in AI initiatives thanks to the Chinese open sourcing their AI tech.
This is a huge understatement of the current political situation in the US, where old allies are suddenly being treated extremely unfriendly and where stability is no longer something you can count on given how quickly the situation has deteriorated since Trump took office. While it is allegedly being done to "more closely defend the interests of the US" the ends may not justify the means.
We don't have an issue with the approach on a fundamental level here in the EU, but we would have liked this move to have been made in a more progressive fashion, as it makes the US look like a very unpredictable commercial & military partner.
> Getting rid of good relationships with the US will weaken European tech (and not just tech) even more.
Forcing EU to improve their own tech and military development is something that is being done in response to the US' lack of predictability, nobody's being "fooled" by talking heads, people just generally love the feeling of safety and predictability.
I'd like to understand why you're assuming this will weaken European tech though - what is this based on specifically? We can develop our own versions of anything you make in the US, we have the engineers and the US is no longer really leading even in AI initiatives thanks to the Chinese open sourcing their AI tech.