Comment by stronglikedan
4 hours ago
> Sadly, the US has done this to ourselves… all this arm twisting and strong-manning is coming home to roost.
No it's not. This is theater to give the impression that they are "getting the orange buffoon". They'll be back in short order, and even if they aren't, it'll just be an insignificant blip on a financial chart somewhere, not even big enough to warrant someone's attention. They did similar things in Trump's first term, and came back groveling.
Maybe, and you might be right. These might be one-off posturing things from the EU.
Sure, a few back office shifts to OpenOffice aren’t a big deal today, but I’m worried about where we are in 10, 20 years. There is no EU tech competition to us today, but who knows… tomorrow is a new day.