Ideally European countries would ban all US tech companies and actually invest in home grown solutions. Already some good pro open source policies. Just take it a step further and take a stance on digital sovereignty

We should ease tensions and bring back globalism, capitalism efficiency, and drop those lame nationalistic and protectionist policies.

We have nothing to gain, anywhere on the planet, from more and more closure.

It's so sad that we're still stuck globally with so many dictatures and non-representative quasi democracies like presidential and semi presidential republics, all waiting for the right strong man to push it.

America's founders fucked up with their presidential approach of making a single, hard to remove person, hold executive power.

Say what you want, but it hasn't been since Sri Lanka 50 years ago that a parliamentary republic turned authoritarian. Every single others have been presidential and semi presidential ones.

Electing kings seems worse than having ereditary ones, they can even claim popular mandate...