Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by myko on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:54AM
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The UK famously left the EU (likely due to the same external pressure that delivered trump to the US)
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Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by danw1979 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:55AM
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We’re still a European country.
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by whynotmaybe on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:07AM
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On which criteria? Since Margaret Thatcher said she wanted her money back, and even more since Brexit, UK is geographically in Europe, just like Switzerland or Ukraine, but definitely hasn't the "European Mindset", UK is its own thing as they've always wanted to be.
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by graemep on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:26AM
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What is the "European mindset"? that of Norway, Ireland, Greece, Poland.....?
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by whynotmaybe on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:32AM
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The one that created the European Union
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by graemep on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:51PM
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The European Union is not Europe.
If you look at my list you see it includes both EU and non-Eu countries. IMO the non-EU country's mindset is more like that of its nearest neighbours who are in the EU. Ireland is far more like the UK than it is like any of the EU countries mentioned.
I would be interested to hear a definition of that "mindset" that includes all EU countries that excludes the UK, Norway. Switzerland, Iceland etc.
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by GCUMstlyHarmls on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:01AM
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Yes but there is an English breakfast and a Continental breakfast.
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:15AM
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Wholly owned by offshore billionaires.
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American T...
by dastardly45 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:32AM
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External pressure in the form of disinformation disseminated by American propaganda platforms utilising Cambridge Analytica style techniques