[adventured]

That's not the way to go about it at all.

The EU loves to ransom US tech companies for budget money. It's very clear that this is an opportunity for the US to similarly damage a big EU company by threatening its patents in the US, or otherwise hitting Novo for tens of billions of dollars in ransom money. The US market is by a huge margin the most important drug market in the world, and especially for Novo.

Find an abusive excuse to invalidate their patents if all else fails. Let Europe learn a valuable lesson in trade wars.

[balthigor]

At this point in time, you are in no position to be teaching any lessons to the rest of the world, other than cautionary tales of wasted potential and the self-inflicted wounds of a belligerent populace.