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“Europe has not started this confrontation,” Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Union’s executive, said in a speech. “We do not necessarily want to retaliate but, if it is necessary, we have a strong plan to retaliate and we will use it.”

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Do it! Nullify American IP, take what we have.

All our Trump-licking companies will love that. And it would be a bigger loss for the US than EU.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago

Looking at NVIDIA at least, a significant portion of that "American" IP is European PhD students developing IP for billionaire companies. I imagine the same happens elsewhere too.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I still want to know what happened to all the free trade Republicans of just 2 decades ago?

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

It’s like they used to mostly care about money, with the hate being a convenient tool to bring useful idiots on board.

Now it’s more like they mostly care about the hate, with the laughable money/prices promises being the useful tool to bring dumdums along.

Or it’s just that our politicians have been compromised and are not acting in the interest of other empire(s).

[–] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago