Yeah regulation is important. Previously you mentioned European democracy. Ideally European companies will be accountable to Europeans through a democratic European parliament. Whereas Americans could elect a government (perhaps the current one) who will tell AWS to seize private data of European governments on AWS servers.
I’ve heard good things about Kofola. I’ll try to remember to buy some if I find myself back in central Europe.
Sure, ideally any European tech companies wouldn’t replicate the enshittification of America’s big tech companies. Still, I think it would be good if Europe had larger tech companies, who can provide what Europe’s companies and governments need. At the moment Europe relies on Microsoft Windows, Oracle, AWS, etc. If European companies could serve those needs then those companies would be accountable to European law. It could avoid a situation where Trump decides he wants to spy on European government data stored on AWS servers, for example.
I don’t want monopolies or enshittification. I think it would be good though to have a European tech sector which can meet Europe’s needs, instead of companies and governments in Europe relying on Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc. The (now more unpredictable) US government could compel those companies to give info from European government customers to US authorities, for example. I read a story about this the other day: “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam’s clouds and go EU-native”.
Farage would probably trigger the clause and spend massive sums of taxpayers’ money to cut ties with the EU. Anything to satisfy his 19th century vision of the world.
Yes there are different languages and cultures in Europe; I don’t want to diminish those. Integration between European countries is still possible though. Look at Airbus, which is registered as a “Societas Europaea” (European company), and which has manufacturing facilities in multiple European countries. Airbus is one of the leading global companies in aviation. Maybe one day Europe will have some big tech companies with offices across Europe. Currently there are companies like Spotify and SAP but of course they’re not as big as Google, Microsoft, or Tencent in China, etc.
I guess when people talk about Europe they mainly mean the EU and countries allied with it (UK, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, etc). Russia is Eurasian anyway: some territory traditionally considered to be within the historical borders of Europe, and lots of territory within Asia.
Maybe Europe should have more integration so it can better stand up against the US, China, and Russia, all three of whom would probably love to tear apart Europe for themselves
I was reading an opinion piece about this sort of thing earlier today, “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam’s clouds and go EU-native”. It opens by saying:
I’m an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn’t trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money.
The de facto most important instance is surely Lemmy.world. So I guess Lemmy.ml can be mostly ignored
Many are, unfortunately
Well at least you’re not entering “Yes, do as I say!”
Within his power, he was trying
You have not shown that Zelenskyy was rounding up ethnic Russians to have them murdered, in a similar style to how Nazi Germany murdered Jews and other Holocaust victims. Therefore it makes zero sense to try to describe Ukraine as a Nazi state.
he directly had UKR military increase shelling and murder operations in Donbas. Forcing Russian humanitarian action.
The Donbas is Ukrainian territory and Russia invaded it. Ukraine tried to restore order there, as any country would, if they were being invaded. As for “humanitarian action”, Russia was invading Ukraine and murdering Ukrainians. That’s not humanitarian.
Categorically false. Since beginning, no NATO (or US missile bases), and no nazis.
It’s objectively true that the Kremlin’s aim is to subjugate Ukraine. It is no business of Russia’s whether Ukraine joins NATO or not. It’s also no business of Russia’s whether Ukraine has Nazis in their country, although I would guess the number of actual neo-Nazis in Ukraine is very small.
The most evil and stupid war in history, IMO.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is definitely evil and stupid. So why did the Kremlin launch this invasion? Hubris and imperialistic desires I guess.
Ideology ruling Ukraine, thanks to US/CIA, would murder all Russians if they could.
If you believe this then show that Zelenskyy was having all ethnic Russians in Ukraine rounded up and murdered between his election in 2019 and the increase of the Russian invasion in February 2022. I don’t think you can show that, because I don’t think it was happening.
Completely reasonable red lines, the US insisted wouldn’t matter. There is zero basis to call Ukraine war “Russian imperialism”.
Russia’s demands are the subjugation of Ukraine to Russia, and also the seizure of some of Ukraine’s land to be incorporated into Russia. This is naked imperialism.
when you oppose denazification of Ukraine, you support all US empire rule and lies
As I said before, there are some far-right people in Ukraine, just like there are in Russia, and Germany, and France, etc, but that doesn’t mean Ukraine’s government is a Nazi government. As for the US empire, Trump wants to give less and less support to Ukraine. I think it would make no sense to claim that Ukraine is fighting on behalf of American interests. Ukraine is fighting for the right to keep their land and make their own democratic political decisions without being subjugated by Russia.
I read your post but it’s just not true. Ukraine is clearly NOT a Nazi state. Is Zelenskyy a Nazi? Is he rounding up all the Jews in death camps? Is he rounding up ethnic Russians in death camps? No he isn’t. Why are you defending Russia’s attempted imperial conquest of Ukraine?
You can point to some far-right soldiers in Azov, just like I can point to far-right Russians in the Rusich Group, or far-right Germans in the AfD. None of those countries are Nazi countries though, just because they have some far-right/Nazi people within each country. Do you think Germany’s current government is a Nazi government, just because some neo-Nazis exist in Germany? That logic does not make sense.
US caught on tape installing new government.
Poroshenko was elected by Ukrainians. Then Zelenskyy was elected in 2019.
nazi-lite peace promises from Zelensky
“Nazi-lite” to me would mean some discrimination against Jews, without killing them all in camps, I suppose. What discrimination against Jews did Zelenskyy promise?
15000 dead in Donbass
Wikipedia says that about 6,500 deaths were sustained by Russia’s side during the war in the Donbas between 2014 and 2022. That’s a military conflict though, NOT an ethnic genocide, as Russia claims. The reason the conflict happened is because Russian troops invaded the Donbas and tried to take over the area by force.
Like I said in my previous post: why can’t Russia just leave Ukraine alone? Ukrainians seem to just want to live in peace without Russia trying to kill them or subjugate them.
US congress even voted to stop direct funding of Azov Battalion
Azov has had far-right connections. Russia has their own fighting units with far-right connections, like the Rusich Group. In neither case does that mean the government of either country is a Nazi government.
enthusiastically ran Jewish extermination camps for Germany, but also genocided other ethnic villages in west of Ukraine
WW2 was a long time ago. Germany was a Nazi state at the time, but that doesn’t mean Germany is a Nazi state now.
TLDR: You haven’t provided evidence to show that Ukraine is a Nazi state which was committing “ethnic cleansing” or genocide of ethnic Russians. To me it seems those claims are nonsense. They seem to be complete fabrications, invented by the Kremlin to justify their imperialist invasion of Ukraine.
2014 coup with installed US puppet government
Ukraine’s parliament democratically voted to remove Yanukovych from power. A new presidential election was held, and Poroshenko democratically won.
ethnic cleansing operation against its ethnic Russian minority
Please present evidence for this allegation. Russia claims Ukraine was committing genocide against ethnic Russians, but I’ve never seen any evidence for this claim. The UN’s court said: “the Court is not in possession of evidence substantiating the allegation of the Russian Federation that genocide has been committed on Ukrainian territory”.
Russia pursued for 8 years a peaceful resolution through Minsk accords, which west used only as a delay tactic to arm Ukrainian nazi regime for war on Russia.
Russia for years has tried to subjugate Ukraine. Why can’t Russia just leave Ukraine alone? As for Ukraine being a “nazi regime”, how is that true? Do you have evidence to show that Ukraine is systematically murdering Jews, like the Nazis did? No you don’t. Zelenskyy himself is Jewish. If Ukraine were a Nazi state, they would have put Zelenskyy in a death camp, instead of electing him as president.
Ukraine is a US proxy war on Russia
The US didn’t make Ukraine invade Russia to start the conflict. Instead, Russia (unprovoked) invaded Crimea and the Donbas in 2014.
Tieing your prosperity and happiness to war on Russia
I don’t think Europe at all wants to have a fight with Russia. People just want Russia to stop attacking Ukraine.
The good relations that existed prior to 2022
Russia’s relations with Europe were torn up by Russia, when they invaded Crimea and the Donbas in 2014.
Thoughts on these comments from Labour MPs? Source.
One MP [said] if Burnham “acts like a team player he’d be valuable”. But they cautioned: “If he’s a grandstanding dickhead the melodrama will be a pain in the arse.”
Another MP:
the country would never forgive us for doing exactly what the Tories did in changing leaders
True. They could be fined more for certain practices.