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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen outlined the EU’s vision as a global economic leader during the World Economic Forum, contrasting Trump’s "America First" policies.

She highlighted Europe’s advantages, including its large single market, social infrastructure, and commitment to the Paris climate accord, while emphasizing new alliances with Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Avoiding direct criticism of Trump, von der Leyen underscored the EU’s stability and rules-based approach.

Her speech signaled a pivot away from U.S.-centric relations and a focus on global trade diversification.

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[–] don@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish about half of us weren’t smoothbrain fuckwits.

[–] mycelium_underground@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The US is not statistically very different from the rest of the world.

The oligarchs want us divided. And have been working on it for decades. Blame them, not your neighbor, even if your neighbor is a smooth brain fuckwit.

[–] don@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

I’m fully aware of the oligarchs, and blame them for being oligarchs. And by the same fucking token, I blame my smoothbrain neighbors for being smoothbrains. The latter doesn’t get a pass if they enthusiastically vote in favor of the oligarchs. Both get their respective blame.

[–] FatCrab@lemmy.one 4 points 1 day ago

Blame them both for different but still similarly terrible things. Fucking morons don't escape culpability because they refuse to acknowledge how fucking dumb they are.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Some parts of the culture are smoothbrained. Diversity is things like 'black white latino asian' whereas in more wrinklybrained cultures it's more like 'somali finnish trini chilean thai'. Economics is freedom vs communism instead of reality etc. And geography, well, good luck.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Two thirds, you mean.

You gotta count the authoritarian followers and the ones top stupid to vote at all.