EU considers $108B in retaliatory tariffs on US over Trump's threats (reuters.com)

The great divorce is underway. An exciting time for European tech.

Just one of the threats, actually.

True title: EU considers $108 billion in retaliatory tariffs on US over Trump's Greenland threat, FT reports

Long overdue that the Idiot in Chief got a taste of his own medicine. Target American tech firms first!

This is good. They need to make sure to target sovereignty-washing offers from MSFT and AWS as well, maybe that will finally get Europe's critical institutions off of US Big Tech.

We should allow ASML to sell machines to China. Europeans have nothing to gain from that embargo, US big tech are the sole beneficiary of it. Every US gov has been messing with our industry and we've accepted it because we collectively think we're weak: Airbus and Alstom are particularly prominent cases.

EU is in a tough place. Economically and security wise, we are in a bad situation due to the EU-Russian split, which was actually started by the US with their moronic NATO expansion policy during the GWB presidency. Now, when we are weakened, the bully comes and takes our lunch money. EU politicians should start taking realpolitik lessons, the rest of the world is playing with us.