I can’t believe it wasn’t like that since the beginning.
How is it not one of the many distracting things they would ban immediately?

Yes the Soviets mostly traded with their sphere and they are/were probably the most autarkic state in the world but even at the height of the cold war, they kept trading with the US for example.
Business over politics.
The situation in Europe could get as bad as in the US and worse.
Plenty of countries where it’s difficult to keep the extreme right out of power.
I don’t see how it can be stopped.
The ‘sanctions’ that massively backfired are destroying our economy. We know what that led to in the 30’s.
And the insane governments and their media are determined to send the kids off to the eastern front again sice they have their scapegoat.
Could be that soon you may consider yourself in the better position where Europe is getting destroyed in full on war while you are far away.
Anyway, I wish us both good luck fir the bleak future.

The USSR was not thoroughly embedded in the world economies.
Completely wrong.
Also we’re talking about Russia, not the USSR.
And they certainly did make radical changes almost overnight when forced.
My point is we need to untangle.
We are not ‘unscathed’ as it is now, on the contrary, we are suffering bcs of them.
The sooner we dump them the better.

It can happen pretty fast, look what Russia did with those sactions.
The EU, their neighbour, simply got replaced.
We can certainly do the same with the US.

Ah yes, every garbage YT ‘news’ that fits my Sinophobic narrative is true.
When is China’s economy going to crash? Any day now I hear.

that doesn’t apply.
It’s better to distance ourselves from them before we get caught in their dumpster fire and also get burned.

The EU is not as detached from global economics as you seem to believe it is

I never said that, but it needs to be done.
We need to cut ties before they drag us down further.
Our economy is already going to shit with the high energy prices caused by them blowing up Nordstream.
And that was under Genocide Joe.
I would rather have an incompetent moron in charge of the country seeing us as vasals since forever.
And if it’s up to them they will gladly see us all at war again like WW2.
Their competition destroying themselves while they benefit and sell arms.

Fuck that whole country

I hope our EU government get some sense and stop acting like the vasals they are.
This could be the push we need.
The US never were our friends and this ‘alliance’ is nothing more than being in their sphere of influence and serving their interests. Bcs they are losing power in the world they are now canibalising their own side.
Who said ‘there will be no more Nordstream’?
And then in a pure act of terror blew it up forcing us to buy 8x more expensive US fracking gas.
Not one peep from our sell-out leaders.
We needed to drop this horrible country long time ago, regardless of Trump.

Sure, believe some China bad YT channel.

If they slap an Apple logo on it the gullible sheep would buy it anyway.

As a European I fully support comrade Trump in his successful endeavor of destroying the imperialist and fascist US state.

Chinese phones are vastly superior to this ridiculous brand.

My point is: not for them

So a choice between money and ethics.
There is never any question which one companies choose.
Certainly not the one with a carreer in scumbaggery.

Yes I would be criticising them, and in the 3rd person at that, if I were American myself.
You’re certainly one of the smartest anglos

Oh you’re from the country that’s clearly in the same boat.
Or the bigger boat since you plundered a lot more.

We didn’t export criminals.
And besides the point, it’s about admitting it happened.
Which is very difficult for Americans looking at the angry reactions.

The point is that you admit your wrongs.
As they clearly can’t and get very defensive, as hypocrites do.

Exactly, Bytedance is a lot more than TikTok and even then, the US users are neglectable.
They’ll probably ban it in the end.
Can’t have information not controled by the regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3QDPRWPUg