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  • You’re approaching this from a “who do I like” angle.

    Another approach is the “what’s being traded angle”. Right now EU imports mostly LNG from the US (“The EU had trade deficits in energy (€70 billion) and raw materials (€6 billion) and other goods (€2 billion).” (1). Norway is already exporting at max, EU does not want to exploit natural gas resources domestically, so that leaves only the golf states.

    Export is mostly divided between vehicles, chemicals, machinery (“In 2023, the EU had trade surpluses in machinery & vehicles (€102 billion), chemicals (€58 billion), other manufactured goods (€55 billion)”).

    So markets that can afford luxury german cars, canada, china, australia. But they’d have to compete with chinese cars. Basic chemicals are easier to sell elsewhere.












  • There’s a figure of speech in Dutch: “Iedereen bevoegd, niemand verantwoordelijk”. Roughly translates to: “everyone has authority, then no one is responsible”.

    It happens at every large organization, especially governments.

    Buzzy bees inventing buzzy work, titles, task forces, drama, etc. When all goes well they applaud themselves. When things go south, they delay, point at each other, which is very effective.

    It demotivates the people that actually do stuff. Untill they stop caring. Then things break down over a couple years time.

    It’ll take a crisis larger than this to cull and change. Pointing fingers will work once more.