Why does it work? People who like people should have a much richer social network that should have a much bigger draw. They should be able to tell society what to do. Of course propaganda prevents that, but why does it work? An ad shouldn’t cancel the opinion of somebody whom I trust.
From where does the government get the people who make the right decisions? The USSR had spent all their resources on weapons and didn’t develop consumer products enough. They had industrial policy in its purest form.
Now apply that to politics.
People should ask why it makes them uncomfortable.
What is weird?
If the EU hasn’t taken action by now to innovate, how can we trust it to make the right decisions in the future?
Among them, he said, is Europe’s deep aversion to industrial policy,
Has he forgotten France?
It was a prediction for Brexit that France and others will use the shift in power and turn the EU from market driven to policy driven. This looks to me like propaganda to make it acceptable.
Half a year ago, people already warned about data security issues with the US and the EU didn’t care. Can those people successfully decide where we should put our resources to outcompete China and America?
Just name three, please.
It’s strange that people who like people haven’t managed to rally people behind making a society for the people.
it would take a major EU reform to work
That’s why this is bait. They need a central government for it which would turn the EU into another US. We don’t have a fundamentally different population that would resist propaganda and vote for useful politicians. That centralized EU government would be corrupted by the billionaires like they have corrupted the US. The EU would fight for their benefit and all democratic structures will be undermined to secure the influence for the billionaires. The national competition keeps the EU as honest as possible under current conditions.
The US was a union of independent states. The centralization of more and more power is what turned the united states into the United States.
It doesn’t work for the West because it relies on hiding behind CDNs like Cloudflare. If the West prohibits VPNs the governments in the West will cooperate with them.
Russia could also catch them by tracking known VPN users. The unpopular CDN urls to which they connect are very likely the VPNs. They can block those connections and observe the reaction. Russia could also just buy the VPN service and know the target servers. Like adblockers for youtube, they accept escapes for the technological advanced to prevent them from taking other actions.