This administration is the best thing that happened to the European Union nations when it comes to the economy. During the second half of the Biden years, the crazy bounce back the US economy did with regards to economic indicators (not the same as actual sentiment on the ground) made it look like we were going to be left behind, and we would be essentially buying any high-value western products from the US and US only. Even nations like mine who survived the pandemic in terms of health effects faced terrible regrowth.
The "protectionist" policies and soft power self-immolation that happened next means that we might be able to make strides in not just catching up to the US, but also becoming a more trusted trade partner for all other nations just for the sake of doing the same thing we always did.
Even the king of the Atlantic co-operation, the military industrial complex, turned upside down in a month. Everything US administrations since the 1950s had been building and had locked in is up for negotiations now. I can't even imagine how much ground China is able to gain since even they are looking like a more stable trader compared to the US. And yes, I'm saying the US as in the entire nation, since videos of Tim Cook bribing your president made me realize that the ownership of business in the US is nearing completion, and that footage looks a lot like how Putin liked to bully business owners in front of TV cameras back in the day [0].
Thanks for helping my country survive for a few more years. The brain drain to the US has pretty much dried up.
It honestly truly looked like that from over here. Every penny the wealthy middle class earned would go to American stocks. No one was savung money by investing in the local stock market. Business news became more about American Big Tech and less about local up and comers. It felt like everything was being made for the US or by the US. Re-starting the German war industry is something no EU politician could have achieved. We have a golden opportunity to leverage China as well as enter LatAm and African markets in the absence of US soft power.
The "protectionist" policies and soft power self-immolation that happened next means that we might be able to make strides in not just catching up to the US, but also becoming a more trusted trade partner for all other nations just for the sake of doing the same thing we always did.
Even the king of the Atlantic co-operation, the military industrial complex, turned upside down in a month. Everything US administrations since the 1950s had been building and had locked in is up for negotiations now. I can't even imagine how much ground China is able to gain since even they are looking like a more stable trader compared to the US. And yes, I'm saying the US as in the entire nation, since videos of Tim Cook bribing your president made me realize that the ownership of business in the US is nearing completion, and that footage looks a lot like how Putin liked to bully business owners in front of TV cameras back in the day [0].
Thanks for helping my country survive for a few more years. The brain drain to the US has pretty much dried up.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsDLrUieJg