• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Unfortunately the EU has no say

    Actually we do, when Trump last time threatened EU, EU suspended the ratification process of the trade deal, and Trump IMMEDIATELY pulled back.
    EU has lots of options to retaliate against USA, for instance tax on American IT services is a very high ranking one.
    Just Denmark alone supply 70% of insulin to USA. And handles 30% of container cargo to USA. This was revealed recently because of Trump threats against Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
    USA is far from as independent as they like to pretend, they have dependencies even on a tiny country like Denmark of only 6 million citizens.
    EU has given many admissions to USA under Trump, but patience is running out.

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      2 hours ago

      I like the option of not acknowledging US copyrights, patents, or trademarks for a minimum of one year

      Let’s see how quickly the oligarchs attack Trump

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      EU has lots of options to retaliate against USA

      They do indeed. Aren’t they like the third largest economic market in the world? They can make it really sting if they’re motivated.