Well, 13h in with now being 5:30 PM in most of Europe and judging by the number of upvotes and downvotes on your post (13 to nil), I would like to think that your expectations on unwillingness to admit to Racism in Europe by lemmie crowd that frequents c/Europe, have not been proven.
I hope so, because in a decade of subscribing to that magazine I've often seen variants of the "worker rights are bad for the Economy" pitch in their articles and they were dead serious about it.
The Economist is a very Neoliberal British magazine (I should know, I had a subscription for almost a decade) and as such they have the vices of both:
- The magical thinking of Neoliberals, were the solution for the social and economic problems caused by deregulation is even more deregulation.
- The almost universal practice amongst the British Press and Political class of claiming everywhere is a shithole compared to Britain, especially Europe (and by that they mean Continental Europe).
So yeah, of course for them America sliding into Fascism isn't the fault of the explosion of inequality and total freezing of Social Mobility there, which was the direct consequence of 4 decades of Neoliberalism and the destruction or defanging of all powers in the land (including Unions and the State) except for the Power Of Money, and of course Europe is "problematic" because they haven't destroyed enough Unions, Worker Rights and other non-Money powers and workers are still entitled to things like a month of vacations, retiring before they're dead and time for activities other than sleeping and working (oh, the horror!).
These guys have basically the ideology of the Democrat Party leadership, but only on Economics and with a British twist, possibly even harder Neoliberal (so, even more Rightwing, though towards Oligarchy rather than Fascism), and they certainly see it as their mission to "make opinion" (not Journalism) so their stories are almost invariably spined in some way to sell their ideology.
If the US loses it's Reserve Currency status because too many international investors are existing it, more printing will directly translate to Inflation.
So whilst technically the US can't go bankrupt, it most certainly can end up with Hyperinflation and all its problems if the printers start going full steam (metaphorically speaking, since nowadays most currency is digital) to stop the bankrupting of the US following Trump/Musk fuckery and foreigners (as well as larger local investors) refuse to buy those new Dollars and actually accelerate their the exiting from positions in USD (and that's not just going to be cash positions but also USD-Denominated assets such as Stocks, Bonds and Treasuries) which seems to have been started happening already judging by news such as this.
USD denominated bonds are by definition 100% exposed to the USD and it has been falling consistently (with but a single dead cat bounce) against other major currencies since Trump took over.
International investors are probably avoiding the Dollar (and hence Dollar-denominated assets) in favor of other currencies.
This would also explain why Gold keeps on beating records almost daily: it's sort of a "traditional" currency hence benefits from outflows from major currencies.
If this turns into the end of the Reserve Currency status for the USD, expect massive problems in the US with Inflation and servicing the massive US National Debt (if Treasury auctions have lower demand, Treasure yields have to go up in order to sell them, which is equivalent to say that interest rates on US Government loans go up).
In my own experience living in several countries in Europe, the more the flag waving the more national delusions of grandeur and xenophobes in a country.
Also, lets not forget that the Far-Right are the ultimate flag shaggers.
The place more obsessed with the flag that I lived in was Britain, and they left the EU on a campaign based in large part (maybe even mostly) on xenophobic arguments along with some serious delusions of grandeur (expecting that, because of how important a country they thought they were, in the Leave negotiations the EU would just give them the same rights as before but without the duties) plus the Press and Politicians over there relentlessly push the "Great Britain is an important country in the World" and "We know best and foreigners can't do things as well as us" spins on international affairs. It's so extreme that to spot the Far-Right from the rest of the flag shaggers you have to look for the ones using the English flag (those would be the far right ones) rather than the British flag (though, granted, the common people tend to have the flag on things more than to wave it)
Meanwhile in the smaller countries I lived in, there is very little flag waving or usage by common people outside the Far-Right and the period of the World/European Cup (in soccer), and the same for Germany even though it's a big country. People don't just plaster the flag on everything and outside the international soccer championships pretty much only official buildings and far right demonstrations involve flag waving, and the Dutch even go further and use orange flags (the Royal family is the "Orange" family) for soccer rather than the national flag.
Back when I lived in Britain and participated in the comments section of The Guardian, I had a local "Feminist" literally tell me that it was more important to flatten the 23% difference in income between the cleaning lady and the night watchman than to flatten the 30,000% difference in income between both of them and the CEO.
That very same crown generally focused on "breaking the glass ceiling" (i.e. get upper middle class and upper class women such as themselves into those 300x minimum wage positions) and I have never once read a concrete suggestion about addressing the gender inequality for the poorer social classes.
That last box of the meme matches exactly my own experience with "Modern Feminists" in Britain.
(Mind you, I lived in other countries and also met older Feminists and they're generally different and their version of Feminism is actually Egalitarian, though I've seen some young women were I live mindlessly ape this Anglo-Saxon neoliberal "Feminism").
You openly stated you have expectations on people based on their ethnicity.
At the very least that's Prejudice.
It doesn't take that many words to spot something when people are open about it. For example you can spot a Nazi from a mere two words, the "Heil" and the "Hitler" (for avoidance of doubt I'm not calling you a Nazi).
The rest of my post is really a more general point about how even supposedly "positive" Prejudices are in various ways negative.
Best to avoid having expectations on people you don't know personally based on their ethnicity, even "positive" ones.
Yeah, well, that's why Prejudice and Racism isn't just presuming bad things about people and acting worse towards them due to their ethnicity, it's also presuming good things about people and acting better towards them due to their ethnicity - in both cases you're presuming some are better than others based on things which bare no relation to the worth and character of an individual such as race, gender, sexual orientation and so on.
Just because somebody is a Jew does not mean they're better or worse than anybody else - it's their actions and what they support that should guide our judgement of an individual, not something they were born with.
Don't take this badly, but all this time you've been Prejudiced (and one might even say a Racist) even though you probably thought that wasn't the case (I suspect you believed it was the contrary, even) because it manifested in you assuming good things about people from specific ethnicities and treating them better than others rather than as negative presumptions and treatment (though by assuming some people are, due to their ethnicity, better than others and treating them accordingly, you are actually negatively discriminating against everybody else), and what you're seeing now, clear as day, is that the bad people within an ethnicity whom you judged better than others purely based on ethnicity, have weaponized that "positive" Racism of yours and of others like you into political and social capital to let them do the same kind of thing as the Nazis did, with impunity and even support from people who if they weren't prejudiced would've judged them more fairly (something which might very well have stopped this Genocide from ever happening).
The best posture, IMHO, is to try and not be prejudicial towards people no matter what their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and so on are, and that includes the kind of prejudice made up of positive presumptions.
If that's your take on my words, you either haven't read my other comments here or you're just another mindless tribalist clapping at anything that aligns with you views without even the slightest bit of analysis and viewing the world as "if you're not with us, you're against us", just like the MAGA crowd does.
The UK is the worst possible country to make such a suggestion because their actual actions in other, similar situations happening right now, are the very opposite of the principles they claim to want to uphold here - the people with fresh children's blood on their hands aren't the ones best suited to convince the World of the need for Justice.
The British politicians are de facto worsening the chances for Justice for Ukrainians (not even just Palestinians, whom they're actually helping murder in large numbers) because the leaders and even the people in most nations in the World do not believe their haughty words demanding "Justice" while their hands are dripping with the blood of innocents, are anything other than a geopolitical powerplay and propaganda: they're making it less likely that the World outside the West gets together with the West to make sure Putin and his cronies get the punishment they deserve.
This New Nuremberg idea would be far more likely to succeed if this suggestion came from a country like Spain or the Republic Of Ireland who have been Fair and Just in the matter of Genocide, and not involve Britain in any way form or shape, than coming from or involving Britain, where the concept of "Justice" is so flexible that the race of the Genociders and their victims means that the "We must have a trial like Nuremberg" (which, by the way, should be done for both cases) is only for some Genocides whilst "We must continue to ship weapons [to the Genociders]" is for other Genociders, depending on the ethnicity of them and their victims.
You are the one supporting the people who for petty political propaganda gains just had to go and parade themselves as the voice of the Justice Of The West whilst their actions say the very opposite, thus damaging things like International Rule Of Law and the West's voice on this by entrenching the idea that the reactions of the West are all hypocrisy (which they're not in many Western countries, but definitely are in Britain).
Only somebody motivated by British Nationalism and/or deeply brainwashed by the Press Environment in Britain (which is as bad as in the US) would think the UK is in any way form or shape a trusted spokesperson for the rest of the World on International Law and Justice Against Genociders, and that their hypocrite proclamations on this would inspire the World to come together for Justice and advance that cause.
Like a run of the mill sociopaths, for petty political point scoring and for the sake of doing a bit of a "we matter in the World" performance for internal consumption, these assholes are damaging the very thing they claim to defend.
If British politicians really wanted this that they're now suggesting to happen, they would've had some backroom discussions with other Western nations and gotten a more trustworthy country (which is not right now actively supporting a different Genocide) to voice this suggestion, only they didn't because this was never about Justice against Genociders or Humanitarianism.
The graph doesn't even make clear if it's using inflation adjusted USD (which is the only fair way to compare trade numbers over a period of decades) or just nominal annualized USD (where 1 USD represents quite a different amount of worth in 1990 than it does in 2025).
That is not a positive indication on the competence of the people doing it, and it seems unlikely that they fucked up something as basic as this whilst at the same time being professional enough to dig up and include information on estimated rerouted trade flows (which would be a lot more work to obtain).
Mind you, inflation adjusted USD wouldn't really change the trend, but it would change the steepness of the growth over the years, plus it's just the proper way to represent such data.
Ah, good old Germany and their good old ways...