I personally hope the project excels, as the market shills keep telling me, competition is good for everyone.

Some EU / US competition, here we come.

Displacing yourselves from positions of influence won't do any good.

That'd be a positive feature, the reason for many not supportive of an EU within the US, @Weez.

On the other hand, we have such commonality among our respective cultures it's quite difficult to foresee any conflict resulting from such, @Weez.

It depends on what the future president decides, but I can imagine economics being possible point.

Military hardware is another point where competition will arise.

I see them as more of an ally granting resilience from geopolitical threats for the West.

Europe will be weaned off of American equipment

Sure, that's always existed, though.

And that's fine.

Weapons sales are less than a single percentage of our GDP, and that's all sales across the globe.

In the future it will expand quite heavily I'd imagine

There will always be the possibility of strategic conflicts of interest

Especially when it comes to China

Yes, but Europe and the US has always had, in majority, mutual interests.

🇪🇺 > 🇬🇧

lolwut?

Well, Chinese FDI has been greatly restricted by the EU.

ok...

but no

So, there's quite a bit of mutual concern there.

The US has basically enforced its will on Europe

Making US interests, European ones

do you think it was in Europe's interest to decolonize? lmao

are you a nigger?

As Europe slowly moves away from the US, this will 100% change.

Even Britain is restricting Chinese FDI. No one wants an FDI coming in, targeting their strategic industries by foreign cartels.

I kinda always hate these conversations because it always seems like some euro fag is mad at America so they really hope they break away from America and it works out

We're restricting it for critical infrastructure.

How is that a bending to US interests, when you have the PRC's state-cartels carving out large portions of strategic industries?

Just to get that “hahaha we won”

But that's really, about it.

We recently had a MASSIVE Chinese takeover of a pub chain

Because the PRC is pursuing a mercantalist path forward.

Worth a couple billion pounds

To European countries, technological hegemony of the US is pretty much as bad as thtechnological hegemony of China.

Exactly, Doom.

You see this reflected in their legislative maneuvers, slapping fines on US companies.

I’m not against Europe going it’s own path but I don’t understand why they dislike us so much

Dislike America?