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If you click the countries tab, you’ll find a table with countries, and the number of cases as a respondent state vs cases that corporations in their state have taken out against foreign states.

If you put it in excel, and sort by largest number of cases as a claimant state, you’ll find that the US, the Netherlands, and the UK as the biggest exploiting countries. (Which actually explains how the Netherlands got so rich, their tendency for nationalism, and why the bourge was pushing so hard for brexit)

Sort by most cases as a dependent state and you’ll find that Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and Egypt as the countries that are the most exploited.

Some countries like Spain and Russia are both exploiting and exploited. China has surprisingly few cases despite the breadth of its operations.

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I thought the bourgeoisie wanted Brexit so they could ditch European Union labor (& consumer & environmental) protections domestically. What do they get in these terms, a greater ability to wage lawfare on European states?

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

If the European bourgeoisie want to dismantle their own bourgeois union of states, whatever you do don’t get in their way 😂

[–] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I got the feeling that it was EU import restrictions that they mainly didn’t like.

There was a lot of difficulty getting goods into the EU from Britain after brexit, so those restrictions may have applied to imports into Britain prior to brexit. Looking at the data, there has been a spike in imports after Brexit despite covid and lockdowns. (Fig 1.1)

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UKICE-Supply-Chains-Report_Final.pdf