However, it should be EU policy to force the dissolution of US monopolies on the European market - if only to reduce the risk of blackmail.

No no no… you have a point.

krasnov is doing a pretty good job so far.

It's not such a bad idea for us to consider honestly. What army can be maintained without taxes from CA, NY, IL?

I am. It's giving me a semi

After Farage it would be "Sell your NHS to us and give us access to sell our shitty food into your markets"

I encourage you to stop buying almonds anyway lol

Almond eaters go straight to hell, I saw a documentary

Because the EU has resisted the ultra-rich and the corporations in many ways recently (imposing rules, fining bad behavior) and the ultra rich just want to bully the world according to their whims which leads directly to the new attitudes in their party? Or could be the fact that russia also desperately wants the EU to be dead.

The republican party only serves the mega-rich and russian interests, so most of their actions can be explained by who gains from them, either mega-rich or russia.

The EU hasn't been compromised like the US federal government and at least, to some extent, still looks out for the interests of its citizens.

Conservatives and neoliberals only care about making rich people richer.

It's not conservatives, all actual conservatives understand now more than ever how needed the EU is. This is a coordinated attack on liberal democracy and the rule based world order coming from actors whose n.1 foreign policy objective is destroying them. Russia, China and Trump all have the same goal and that's undoing liberal democracy, or at the least rendering all liberal democracies useless.

The EU isn't letting them rape and pillage.

Lets scare them more by more power to the EU parliament and start federalising

Not just that, we also need to aggressively combat our own far right. We need to tackle it in Hungary, we need to tackle it in all of Europe.

That means, improving livehoods for the proletariat that thinks itself "middle class" and "lower class". That means actual proper taxation of large companies. And that means actually combatting corruption!

Eh... you're being even more short sighted than Trump.

EU leaders are not children. They have plans that goes beyond who the current president is.

We've been Allies for a very long time. Exchanging technology, products and services. It's not as easy as just "cut them off". A lot of companies in EU have taken steps to become more independent in case of a major fallout with the US. But it's not exactly the thing you hear about on the news.

I can only speculate from what I know of my workplace. We are taking steps. But it takes time. We can't just stop all services and take a break for 5 years while we spend God knows how much money developing our own software and solutions.

We still need to keep a cash flow while we transition.

Unfortunately, the dreams of the Russian elites for the West are becoming increasingly real since Brexit,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

And now their vision aligns with that of the American elites in power.

Farage giveth, Farage taketh. -1984 or something.

I am as puzzled as you but whatever the case it‘s fantastic comedy. I laughed at that punch line in the end.

And think long and hard if you have an economy on a similar scale as the UK

"Everything will be fine with ~~Steiner's attack~~ Farage's government"

Their reward was getting a poorer country.