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Thanks, I needed that
This article is coming from Ukrainians who I wish hope and strength for and I understand why their outlook is gloomy.
But with the US heading towards a civil war or IDK what the fuck with random domestic troop deployments, OpenAI being a financial black hole of epic proportions that threatens imploding the NYSE, Russia fucking its economy up beyond recognition so much that the gas station of the world became a petrol importer, and China trying to figure out what to do with its insane overcapacity, the EU is a wild card with economic and political safety belts that make its problems manageable.
It has the potential to become a decisive power that could basically inherit the US alliance system, as deals with the Commonwealth, but even Brazil and Mexico have been newly started up as a Trump reaction. The economy is not exciting or booming but is mostly steady with some problems, at least compared to the rest of the world. It's not perfect, but it's the best we have. Even with Chat Control, can you imagine the powers that be thinking up some bullshit like this, and people being able to fight it as much as here in the US or China? We can beat Chat Control, the US can't beat the NSA dragnets, and China is China.
The big thing limiting the EU is division, member states going their own way. So the powers that be keep pumping out articles trying to deepen that division. Together, we can stay stable, maybe even assume a lot of shit the US is shedding now. Like the reserve currency, or at least we can decide how we want to live. They don't want it. They are not winning though.