• Spaniard@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Other countries like that and Europe deals with are: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia and of course, China.

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      [Some*] Europeans just can’t get over their Arab and Muslim-hate despite neither Qatar nor Saudi Arabia posing any threat to Europe and actually being good trading partners. No tariffs, no restrictions, no unfair competition. They adopt many European standards and are a huge market for European goods and services. Yet still the hate is constantly being peddled.

      * hopefully a minority but the hate seems to be universal regardless of the political leaning.

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      17 hours ago

      The digital dependence on the US is much like the energy dependence on Russia.

      Europe is ditching Russian energy. They may ditch US tech.

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        17 hours ago

        I don’t know about the whole Europe but Spain is buying more energy from Russia than before the war and sanctions.

        Don’t get me wrong, I hope that would be the case but Europe is also Corporativist.

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          14 minutes ago

          Is it more? I know Spain is still buying some LNG from Russia, but i would have thought the amount went down, not up.

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            The European Union regulates the market so much it’s hard to call it capitalism, the biggest european companies are basically EU projects like Airbus (every government funds it) or too big too fail like Siemens and/or they would use: “strategic industry” and be done with it.

            Edit oh and I almost forgot it, or they are like Inditex, basically not European it’s just an European getting rich while exploiting poor people all around the world, but I think this is actually capitalism and that guy isn’t exactly appreciated by ruling dictator, I mean party, in Spain.