Shein is not fast fashion. It’s ultra fast fashion. With clothing of completely disposable quality that often can’t even survive being washed. It’s the exact opposite of what we need going forward.

Denmark says no, the politicians in Greenland say no. What is Trump going to do? Invoke article 5 on himself?

Cool, what you’re doing over there?

You’re not making a lot of sense. So I see no point in talking any further.

after some years plenty believed it had to do with WMD’s

No, it was very clear it was to get Iraq out of Kuwait after it invaded. Iraq wanted to gain more regional dominance and add Kuwait’s oil reserves to it’s own economy after the costly Iran-Iraq war.

you Canadians

Also not Canadian, the world is a big place

They want to catch Kingcrabs in Alaska?

I think you need to brush up on your history. And who is “you”? I’m not even American my friend.

Sure, but poverty is a lack of money. The inability to sustain oneself healthily. Once you have “sufficient” money, having even more won’t make you happier.

Hasn’t won any wars with unlimited objectives. Where there is no clear end goal, because regime change and installing a friendly government isn’t really clear and actionable.

The first Gulf War had limited objectives, was a massive success and took only 6 months.

Meh, recently a korean team was in the news for curing cancer. Reality is of course that they simulated a single protein in a precursor pathway… etc… which could possibly contribute into a future concept for a treatment against certain types of cancer.

Sounds like enough material for a 3 hour youtube documentary

Car companies are short-sighted in general. During COVID they had cancelled their semiconductor orders. And when during the end of 2020 the factories were telling them to place their orders. They didn’t. Soon after all capacity was sold out for years and the industry had an enormous self-inflicted shortage of electronics.

“customs duties on electronic transmissions”

Is this really a thing? How would you ever enforce something like that?

Poland gave us Chopin, Marie Curie, kerosene, vodka and the Witcher 3/Cyberpunk 2077.

Anything server or database related is already on Linux. Managed by professionals. The problem are the desktops. Those still run windows, it’s a walled garden. Government windows licenses are dirt-cheap. support is ubiquitous and almost everyone knows how to work with windows. The cost of switching is just too high.

The added benefit is no reliance on foreign tech companies who will kow-tow to autocratic governments. Also since we can afford to develop open source software, it will also benefit poorer and developing countries. Which is a goal on it’s own, but will also put the the EU in a good light elsewhere.

While technically correct. I don’t think the existence of Hans Island, an uninhabited speck between Greenland and Canada really counts as a land border between the EU and Canada. Any trade would happen by ship or plane directly between the continents. Not a border corssing on Hans Island.

Although, if EU rules require some kind of land border… Hans Island might be important after all.

The EU is not a geographical union despite it’s name. Even then, Canada and Europe share a common border; the Atlantic Ocean. Also it’s part of the Commonwealth, Has a strong economy, social politics, The Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian tradition. And they speak the two most common European languages. Canada makes more sense than Türkiye if you disregard distance.

Didn’t even know that. Makes the recent news how his secret trip to Israeli-occupied territories got leaked all the more revealing of his true allegiances.

If history had taken a different turn here or there. It could have easily been French or German or Dutch. In “our timeline” it happened to be the British Empire.