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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Lol I wish we were a country. Orange man dreaming big ;)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I was going to say this. Trump thinks the EU already is what I wish it will become.

    Maybe his efforts will push us further into that direction though?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    One of the good things to come from this is an end to the hegemony of the US. Now I have to hope the rest of the world will choose to be better as a result of it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Get ready for Chinese hegemony

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    While I'm sure it will at least partially fill the vacuum left by the US, it won't have the "soft power" the US did over the entire Western world.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    If the US keeps trying this trade war trick, and they'll end up realising that China is where stuff is made.

    I'm Norwegian and they seem to have a bunch of soft power here by saying "if you do that, we won't buy your salmon anymore." Time'll show, I guess.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    As a resident of a Continental Country that is not the US, we've pretty much always seen Europe as a single, monolithic thing. It's hard for us to grasp how something like France, which is just slightly bigger than Minas Gerais, 4th largest state of Brazil, is a completely separate thing from the rest.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Honestly, that just seems like ignorance. It's like you don't know that France likes wine and Germany drinks beer. Or that the two were on opposite sides of two world wars.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's like you don't know that Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo were on opposite sides of the Farrapos war or Rio Grande do Sul likes wine and São Paulo drinks more beer.

    Regional cultural differences and history don't come into question when it comes to how one country perceives others in the side of the world, so please, refrain from those simplistic ad-hominem arguments.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    the Farrapos war

    Ah yes, the famous Ragamuffin War in which 3000 people were killed. Seems similar to World War I, in which over 15 million people died, or World War II in which over 70 million people died. In one case Brazil put down a rebellion in their territory. In the other case, nearly the entire world was at war across multiple continents. Yep, sounds pretty similar to me.

    Rio Grande do Sul likes wine and São Paulo drinks more beer.

    Do you mean that Rio Grande do Sul drinks slightly more wine but still prefers beer?

    Please stop pretending that slight regional differences in Brazil compare to centuries of conflict between two of the historical superpowers of Europe.

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