Good to see. Europe can reduce its reliance on Windows and start using European software like SUSE Linux, KDE, and Ubuntu. Also the article mentions AI: Europe has its own AI expertise, like Mistral AI, the French company.

Damn they really are high on ideology aren’t they. They pretend to be anti-imperialism but they are pro-imperialism, as long as the imperialism is not western.

Lemmy.ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad will insist that any allegations of Chinese government wrongdoing are false slander, invented by evil western imperialists

America at the moment keeps providing reasons why Europe and Canada should seek to become more independent of the US

I don’t know a lot about him and his positions. He seems more sensible than MAGA, but I guess that’s not difficult.

I was looking at Democratic polling for 2028. Newsom and Kamala Harris are apparently leading the polls. Pete Buttigieg and AOC are a bit behind in 3rd and 4th place:

I would be interested to see primary debates between Newsom and AOC. But I guess that’s 2 years away.

Apparently Newsom and Kamala Harris are currently polling the best to become the Democratic nominee in 2028. If you think Newsom is evil then okay, but I think he would be less evil than MAGA. Some people might hope for someone like AOC to be the nominee, but she seems to be polling worse.

Trump 2.0 is probably JD Vance. But I don’t accept the logic that a Newsom presidency would necessarily lead to Trump 2.0, a.k.a. Vance

I’m not in favour of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I’m definitely not in favour of civilians being harmed. The point is that America asked for help after 9/11 and Europeans did help, with some giving up their lives.

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Maybe you’re similar to the tankies then, who claim to be anti-imperialist, but who are actually pro-imperialism as long as the West is on the receiving end of pain.

I think this episode has been a big wake up call for European leaders and I assume they’ll be pretty wary of Trump for quite a while. Ursula von der Leyen said this in Davos yesterday:

…geopolitical shocks can – and must – serve as an opportunity for Europe. And in my view, the seismic change we are going through today is an opportunity, in fact, a necessity to build a new form of European independence

If Trump keeps this up, you think Europe will have our back after another 9/11?

You’re right. As you said, Europeans supported the US after 9/11, and died in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to help the US. The only time that NATO article 5 has ever been invoked, it was Europe helping the US. I guess Trump and his administration have no appreciation of that at all.

Like you say, Europeans will not want to help the US if a time comes. Public opinion will be against it.

Maybe people are wary of Russia because of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. And because of Russia’s poisonings of enemies (Alexei Navalny in 2020, Sergei Skripal in 2018, Alexander Litvinenko in 2006). And because of Russia’s many threats to nuke Europe (e.g. here).

The economic damage to Europe would be high if that were to happen. Also Europe wants to keep the US onside for defence cooperation.

In an ideal world, if Europe were all-powerful, I’m sure Europe would want to cut ties with the US as soon as possible.

The ones which I hope will take place… but again, who knows

Throughout the history of the US they’ve gone from bad presidents to good presidents, from isolationist to internationalist. So I think it’s possible that a better president will win in 2028. But who knows at this point.

I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone from Lemmy.ml admit something negative about China.

To me it seems that the US, China, and Russia are all behaving imperialistically, which is pretty worrying.

I had a look at some stats regarding how EU citizens perceive the EU. I found this recent EU survey which interestingly shows that EU citizens trust the EU more than they trust their national governments:

Also that link says that “74% say that, taking everything into account, their country has benefited from being a member of the EU”. So perhaps the EU will survive and strengthen, despite its critics like those in the Trump administration.

Maduro seemed like a dictator to me, but I don’t know if unilaterally removing him from Venezuela by force is the best option. Ideally Venezuelans would decide for themselves who they want their leader to be.

Communism is supposed to be a left-wing position right? But I’m saying I’m not sure I would see China as properly leftist given their behaviour. Wanting to take external territory potentially by force seems imperialist to me, and I would see imperialism as a right-wing behaviour.

the US actually has a lot of interest and dependency on Taiwan, meaning they would get militarily invovled immediately

Assuming Trump is rational. I’m not sure if he is.