[fosk]

Yes. When the rubber meets the road, they have total control because what is anybody going to do about it?

[martin_a]

What are you going to do to keep the American tech sector up? Point guns at people so they post on Instagram?

[fosk]

We are talking about geopolitical and financial power, not Instagram.

[jajko]

You would be surprised what 96% of the mankind can do to a perceived bully. Just keep doing what you're doing

[fosk]

Europe is both financially bankrupt and incompetent, with poor governance continuously hindered by the ambition of each country within the “union”. It will take decades at best for the EU to be competitive, assuming it won’t disintegrate before which is also a very real outcome.

And I say this as an European.