Buy European

I love to see people working together towards a goal like this. But I'm also kind of worried.

There are things that stop war, like military alliances or a strength disparity but a lot of the peace dividend is that by being economically conjoined makes war a lot less likely.

Now the US is threatening allies with any leverage they have from tariffs to pulling troops to just stopping aid - removing economic codependency might just be playing into Putin's hands. He'd love to see the US become isolated and gradually turn on everyone, and without any trade that becomes easier.

Obviously it's slightly longer term, and I'm not saying codependency is good but war would be worse, and this shit show has only just begun.

But Canadian as well, it might help save us from the beast below.

Unrelated but routine reminder that Substack is profiting from nazi content and is funded by A16Z: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/

The idea that consumer boycott is going to impede that unfolding political apocalypse of a regime is wishful thinking. However, even if somehow the US might return any soon to half-normal (any reasonable person should doubt it at this point), that half-normal should imply severe punishments for the complicity of big American corporations with DT's regime, such as breaking these corporations apart. That alone should tell you EU can't depend anymore on US big tech anymore.