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by Juliate 481 days ago
> And why doesn't U.S. attack other NATO members now?

They are. Commercially first. Through technology second (the dependance of the world upon US software and hardware technology is the perfect kill switch - and the scale and pace at which we are going to need to get out of it is immense now that it is intimately tied to our professional and personal lives... but we have no choice).

And they might go further if those firsts are not enough.
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imcritic3 481 days ago
Sounds like fair play to me. Where's the border between oligarchs attacking other countries and economical concurrence between different countries?
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Juliate 481 days ago
It is not a matter of concurrence. The European market is going to be a closed, dead market to US technology.

We in Europe would never have invested so massively to rely on USSR or post-2008 Russia software/hardware tech, for obvious reasons

But we did on USA tech, for obvious reasons too (common history and values, democracies, multiple war allies, cooperation, and... US used to be the beacon of progress and freedom), that have all been brutally thrown out.

So why would we now?

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