aleq @ aleq @lemmy.world

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What are people's opinion on this, good or bad? I have a somewhat favorable view of IBM in open source, but not sure where I got it (so it might be misplaced).

Meanwhile US is busy slamming tariffs on their allies.

Always thought this makes a lot of sense. An attack on one EU country is a severe disruption on all other. Before Sweden and Finland joined NATO, would the EU have been able to continue business as usual without joining in? That said I know a lot of people oppose it because they see it as one step closer to becoming a federation and getting rid of the nation states.

The distinction being that they will not be stationed in areas with active combat, but rather as a militarized police? Sounds like the distinction is quite subtle in reality and might be (willingly or not) misinterpreted, no?

and stands ready to contribute troops if necessary.

Won't this trigger a Russia-NATO war?

Makes sense the option would be appealing for some. Some people in predominantly russian areas who want russian victory, and some people who don't care about said areas and just don't want to die.

Careful Australia, or Trumpatron will slap you with coal tariffs.

This is quite unrelated to Trump though I think? China has been offering these kinds of deals for a very long time. Relations with Sweden were severely soured a while back in part due to denial of some railway infrastructure deal (was denied due to national security reasons IIRC).

A person I know who grew up in China (now living in Europe) described US under this new administration as "China with guns".

Something like this is why I put an if in "if the US ever has another election".

Obviously this is not something you can base a deal on, but I think a lot of the stupid shit Trump is doing will be undone if the US ever has another election. So in four years, the deal will be overturned or renegotiated. Maybe it can even be declared void?

They will just have another catch phrase.

"Free world" was just the American motto, it doesn't actually mean anything. Leadership will be one of US, Russia or China. Russia seems unlikely and US displays of power don't seem to be working - my bet is on China.

IMO, there's much bigger reasons to be worried about RedNote than security or even privacy.

What are those reasons?

People can weasel themselves around terms like "fascist" quite easily, because there are multiple definitions, many are very diffuse and there's a lot of disagreement around it - but ethnic cleansing to my understanding is quite simple and this is it. Can any serious political commentator pretend it's not? For example the forced removal of Poles from west Poland (annexed by USSR) after WW2 for example was not a slaughter, but is considered an act of ethnic cleansing.

As an onlooker from Europe eagerly awaiting the fall of the US, this is disappointing. :( But congrats to the people of these three countries I guess.

At least US is still shooting itself in the foot with the China tariffs.

Is this some special rule? Looks like check mate to me?

I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords, though dealing with censorship in all their web services is gonna be a bit annoying.

I'm not in a position to make these decisions on behalf of all companies, schools and government agencies that use their services in my country.

Yes we do. We're now in a situation where schools, companies and government agencies are using Google or Microsoft to host their entire organization, and Amazon to host their services. What happens when Trump decides to introduce digital tariffs on these products? Or declare war on Denmark?