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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by SiempreViernes on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:52AM (#26593533)
> EU happily bombed seasteading projects

How the EU member states act towards parties outside the EU seems a bit beside the main point: that the EU itself actually is about international rules and not a cover for violent actions between the various member states.

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Re:Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a coun... by sudosysgen on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:53PM (#26594285)
The EU isn't about international rules - members of the EU don't care at all about international rules. It's simply a covenant between countries that can be willingly entered and left.

The "rules based international order", on the other hand, is not voluntary. If the US decides that you are in breach, then it will be rectified with hard power. It's simply an abstraction for hegemony, and you don't get a choice to parcipate or not, the choice is made for you by the hegemon (which also happens to be its enforcer).

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