yeah the empire's finally showing the seams to its vassals lol... merz just mad that uncle sam ain't giving him the usual "special partnership" discount anymore. deep down everyone knows trustless money and comms solve this clown show better than any politician pinky promise

Possible. My base case is “whatever the EU wants is probably wrong”. (see state sponsored censorship, insane immigration, overturning local elections, etc…). I’m open to EU is dumb, and we disagree with other dumb ideas. I’m a lot more skeptical of “EU is smart/right.”