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Ockham’s razor. The question was about those billionaires accepting Trump’s policy
No, it wasn’t. It was about you preferring a theory in which trade with China happened because there’s a clandestine, coordinated elite in the US and not because there was simply money to be made. According to Ockham’s razor, this is highly unlikely.
Which leverage do we have over countries when we are in competition with the US?
Access to 500m people and the second biggest market on the world.
Are you willing to go nuclear? Otherwise there won’t be the power to run the data centers.
What do you mean go? Europe already has a lot of nuclear energy production. Germany can stay non-nuclear if their people wish so and they find another way to produce enough energy independently.
Europe not strong enough to do it alone.
They don’t need to do it alone. Just not rely on China, the US and Russia.
It becomes my idea when I tell you that a decoupled EU is not sustainable.
If it’s your opinion that a decoupled EU is not sustainable, fine. I don’t agree, I don’t see arguments for it.
But for that it is essential that the US is not our only supplier.
No-one says it should.
Try to understand why decoupling from China is dangerous.
It is not. It is a way for us to weaken one of our biggest rivals. It is in our interest. Sure, it will need us to start acting as dominantly as the US and China are currently doing and change our approach to things, but that’s fine with me and frankly our only hope. They want to divide the world in two parts, I say we should get our own part.
it must be logical to realize that the citizens of the EU are not enough to maintain all technologies on their own
That’s wrong. These technologies go where money is and if we should actually decide to have them here and spend accordingly, they’ll come here, too. So far, we haven’t. That doesn’t mean we can’t.
No, it wasn’t. It was about you preferring a theory in which trade with China happened because there’s a clandestine, coordinated elite in the US and not because there was simply money to be made. According to Ockham’s razor, this is highly unlikely.
Access to 500m people and the second biggest market on the world.
What do you mean go? Europe already has a lot of nuclear energy production. Germany can stay non-nuclear if their people wish so and they find another way to produce enough energy independently.
They don’t need to do it alone. Just not rely on China, the US and Russia.
If it’s your opinion that a decoupled EU is not sustainable, fine. I don’t agree, I don’t see arguments for it.
No-one says it should.
It is not. It is a way for us to weaken one of our biggest rivals. It is in our interest. Sure, it will need us to start acting as dominantly as the US and China are currently doing and change our approach to things, but that’s fine with me and frankly our only hope. They want to divide the world in two parts, I say we should get our own part.
That’s wrong. These technologies go where money is and if we should actually decide to have them here and spend accordingly, they’ll come here, too. So far, we haven’t. That doesn’t mean we can’t.