Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune
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Oil above $100. Gas prices up 70%. Every crisis has a different trigger—and the same vulnerability. Europe must become the world's first Electro-Continent.
  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Frienemies…like if you teleported directly from Europe into any given US street nobody would say “hey, that guy is an enemy”. We in the US have a problem, an idiot is driving.

    I have to come clean. I am also an idiot. But I am working thru my problems. The idiots driving our country may, hopefully be replaced. One day. Hopefully while I’m still alive and not 89 years old.

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
      18·
      15 days ago

      like if you teleported directly from Europe into any given US street nobody would say “hey, that guy is an enemy”. We in the US have a problem, an idiot is driving.

      I think that what you find will actually happen is that they will get held at gunpoint by ICE, be unable to show identification, get beaten up for talking back, and get thrown in a concentration camp for a couple months, where if they can’t prove European citizenship in time they get deported to a death camp in El Salvador.

      Though to be fair, that’s if they hit the bad luck of being stopped by cops for engaging in the suspicious activity of walking, or ringing the doorbell of a Republican, or ringing the doorbell of someone who calls the cops when someone is at the door with an implausible story asking to use their phone.

      Basically they would have to rely on the kindness of strangers to avoid the militarised police and to get in contact with their country’s embassy for extraction. The only benefit over Iran or Russia is that they might speak the language.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          15 days ago

          Ok, I would like to buy a million barrels of crude oil, can you set that up for me without involving “the king and his followers?”

          • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            Nope. Again, please point your pointy bits to the real perps, not the American people who like me are happy to help others.

            • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              14 days ago

              This post is about “not buying oil from your enemies” and you’re like, “But I’m not your enemy! Also, I don’t have any oil!”

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      17·
      15 days ago

      I don’t really understand your point. Which nationalities / races would be identified as an enemy if teleported into a US street ?

      As individuals, Americans might be nice well meaning people just trying to get along.

      As a nation, the USA is a hostile trading partner, an inept negotiator, and a heavy handed aggressor.

      As an individual you don’t need to apologise, but as a nation it’s not enough to say “the driver is an ass”.

      • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        15 days ago

        As a nation we are basically hostages. There’s nothing in our legal power to do that can bring back our troops or deploy them. We don’t vote to deploy troops or start wars. Its the idiot king that the electoral college picked who is doing all that. I’m just saying the rest of us are powerless but welcome people from anywhere if it was up to us. Ofcourse there are exception to this as there would be in any nation. But that’s Normal. You wouldn’t want a sudden invasion. But you’d be okay with tourism. Tourism can get out of hand too but you know, you go to a mall and you year people talking a different language, that’s okay by me.