re: #227 Anymouse 🌹

Hot take from Foreign Affairs:

Why Trump Can Safely Ignore Europe: It’s Leaders Readily Condemn but Rarely Act

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IMHO I challenge the premise of the article and what is meant by the word “action”.

We have a precedent, the Libya sanctions. The EU made it unlawful for EU companies to abide by US orders and indemnified those companies which were or might have been sanctioned. End result: complete nullification of US sanctions; US backed down.

Also the EU has achieved more effective results against amazon, google, apple, facebook, etc. than the US has (so far).

I think the author of the article defines “action” in more bombastic way than the EU does.