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Meanwhile in the real world we have seen a noticeable drop in how many US products Europeans are buying.
is this real world in the room with us? how is that helping in the least degree to produce any meaningful change? you are going to get fucked and experience what the third world has been living for decades. and you deserve it.
Sales of American products have fallen in Europe. That is real change. Or did you expect we would cause the US to collapse into anarchy because of it?
To be fair, sales of all products have fallen in Europe as the result of European economies collapsing. And the specific reason for American products selling worse could simply be a result of American products are becoming more expensive in relative terms for the Europeans. with the moralizing being the justification rather than the core reason. Maybe if you want some real change you might want to figure out how to get out from under US occupation first. Don't see Europeans rushing to dismantle all those American bases.
The point is that random products selling less doesn't challenge power at all, even with the rise of anti-US sentiment your governments keep bending the knee and the US keeps feeding its army.
Do they? The UK has generally been saying what Trump wants to hear where possible and then acting in our own best interests instead. IIRC the trade deal for US meat doesn't change our food standards so we can export ours and the US can't send much of theirs back because it's ~~low grade trash~~ below our standards.
you are blind brother and you're happy about it