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  • , but that’s not the ways USA cares about countering China

    What is the way?

    That [US hegemony] doesn’t exist

    I am not sure if Europe is independent. If we were independent we wouldn’t stay silent about Cuba.

    India is big, but are they on the same technological level?

    Trading energy in euroes

    The US is just stopping the dollar dominance. Europe would have the same problem: everything is produced elsewhere so we are forced to develop the most advanced weapons without practical skills and a reliable supply.

    Africa would buy a mix of food and industrial equipment in Europe

    Building our future on exploiting Africa again is possible but not reliable. China could and will make the better offers. Same for them buying Arabian energy.

    An idealists statement, but it’s not how the world spins around

    Which shows that we only support countries for materialistic reasons. We continue to be the colonial powers. That costs us credibility. Why should countries prefer us over China?




  • But it’s a democracy

    That’s a nice benefit but we can’t use the Indian trade agreement as an example of European independence if it serves the US strategy.

    defending multilateralism and the rules-based international order.

    As opposed to the multipolar order. This is not opposing the US. France, and thus the EU, were not so long ago excluded from a nuclear submarine deal. I doubt that Australia switched to relying on the EU.

    we should cleverly flood the Arabic peninsula with euroes through energy trade. To make Saudi Arabia assert its soft power in Africa and weaken the US in the process.

    I don’t think Saudi Arabia can be bought like that. Saudi Arabia was made by the US. Also, how would the EU benefit? Saudi Arabia most likely has their own goals.

    There’s no way we can break a US blockade on Cuba,

    True, but we could try to deliver and more prominently rub it in that the US are violating international law.

    Cuba is too insignificant to cause a greater international reaction

    That’s when international law matters. If we don’t defend it or at least try, we signal that it is only there to suppress the ambitions of small countries.