Protecting their citizens
The US has and will come to your defense, but we can’t defend you all from self-inflicted wealth-destroying policies.
While threatening tariffs and a hostile takeover of Greenland?
2. Trump has bad policies yes, although I hadn’t heard anything about an actual military takeover of Greenland.
3. It’s not as if EU doesn’t have tariffs on the Us already, for instance you all are very protective of the auto industry as well as your domestic farmers, just to name a few. I think tariffs are bad policy on both sides of the atlantic
Don't forget to register for LA's olympic games you might win the mental gymnastic gold
we are literally not even on the same continent. france and many others can’t be bothered to spend hardly anything, yet somehow we are terrible allies
> france and many others can’t be bothered to spend hardly anything
Hardly anything besides propping up 70% of the EU
https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/18794.jpeg
Also even if you sent 100% of the money collected through tariffs back to the EU through Ukraine, what's the point we're back to square one with extra steps in the middle... The US are serving their own interests, it's totally fine, you don't have to pretend they're sacrificing themselves for the greater good of humanity.
*Fabulously wealthy people do exist here, you know.
Meanwhile in the US
- mortgage are above 7%, twice as high as in Europe
- min wage is bellow the Polish min wage, half the German min wage
- life expectancy is going down, 4 years under the EU 27 average, 6 years less than France
- wealth and income inequalities are worse than pretty much any EU country: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/economic-inequality-gini-...
- parental leaves, paid vacations, unions, &c. are either optional or frowned upon
- pensioner poverty is 2x+ more than in the EU: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/12/02/which-...
2. Yes true, the minimum wage in Poland is 13 cents higher than the US. Fewer than 1% of US income earners are paid the federal minimum wage. In Poland, ~15% of income earners are paid the minimum wage.
3. Yes our life expectancy is bad - although better when you do demographic control, we have a problem with obesity and easy access to guns causing suicide.
4-6. sorry but relative wealth measures are not effective for deciding how affluent a society is. our ‘pensioners’ in poverty are only in poverty relative to the very high median earnings in the US. They could take their money to the EU and spend better than many of those other retirees.
We need a better metric that captures welfare and general life satisfaction. That's the only metric that matters in my world view.
Fun fact, before the law, in many places in Europe it was encouraged to separate them before putting them in the trash bin.