Depends on how you count I think. The lower tariff does almost nothing in offsetting the big drop in EU trade, so in pure economic terms it would have been better to have the full tariff but be a member of the EU. Kind of like dropping £100 and then seeing finding 10p a benefit.

China is also opening new coal plants iirc. A few years ago I heard that if my home country (Sweden) stopped all co2 emissions today, the co2 savings would have been wiped out in a week, by China opening new coal plants.

The US might have gone dumb, but that does not make China good.

Feel free to cross post. I just put up content that I find interesting and that I think others might also want to check out.

Do it have to have an account on piefeed to post there?

Caveat, is that a synonym for felon?

Everything has benefits and drawbacks, question is if the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. I think it does personally, because a strong EU can stand up to the US and China.

Down almost 5% from western Europe in 2025. I thought (hoped?) that the drop would have been bigger.

Can we please stop voting articles down just because we disagree about the subject at hand?

Agreed. I’m not a fan of militarism, but it’s pretty clear that Pax Americana is over, so we need our own defence industry. Sad as it is.

I2p?

The nukes were in Ukraine, but the launch codes and control of them were in Moscow. Also Ukraine were in no position financially to keep them. Getting rid of them were the best option for Ukraine at the time.

The fact that the Americans voted for a demented felon who appointed Kegsbreath the alcoholic is the real problem.

Thank you. I love Switzerland, but they (you) benefit massively from the EU, as does all member states. Pretending otherwise it’s just dumb.

We stand together or we get eaten by the US or China. Simple as.

What do you mean with “… let their economy be too dependent on EU labour and interconnected with EU”?

A large company with deep pockets, with the ability to influence politics, so yes, I’d say it does matter.

Germany iirc. So yes, they know.

The living standard is also much higher now. More people expecting more help from the state with more complex problems. Let’s for example take a premature baby that would have died 20 years ago can now be saved and can live a long life, but needing 24x7 care by medical staff. Or the fact that our parents and grandparents live longer, but care and medicine cost a lot more.

I’m not disputing that the top takes too much, but the standard of care, medicine and other things cost too.

She did give away a lot of money to charity. About 16% of her wealth when she became a billionaire iirc. Gave to help children in poverty and to fight the disease MS.

I don’t know much about her stance on trans people other than she seems to believe that there is a difference between trans and biological women. Feel free to drop a good link where I can educate myself.

Anyway, reading comments here make it sound like she’s a modern day Hitler that’s never done anything good in her life, and that sounds both unfair and untrue.

Do they want more migration? Because this is how you get more migration.

Not surprised.

As much as I hate those silly headlines I don’t change them. The editor will have to live with the shame.

So that’s reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and incompetence instead.

The shooter should still be prosecuted.