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[โ€“] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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I give you defense protection

In return, you give me your lives to American pickup trucks.

This is going to be unpopular opinion, but the EU caving in so quickly to one-sided trade deal, is in return for American protection and arms contracts. With Cheetos in chief in charge, this is the Munich Agreement of our time to bide time, while European arms production gears up. Let's face it, the EU is too weak and reliant to achieve strategic autonomy at the moment, if ever. Several EU members don't even want to increase military spending, because they very well know that this will take away precious funding away from coveted welfare investment, and that will be unpopular for electorates.

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[โ€“] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Well, people first need to want to buy these things. When they realize they are unable to park those things properly, due to our infrasturcture not being made for them, they will return them back.

[โ€“] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

hopefully also when people treat them and their stupid big vehicles appropriately like shit

Unfortunately, no, you give people too much credit. It's a status symbol to assholes, and assholes beget assholes. People need to treat them like Teslas were during the DOGE debacle.

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I cannot think of anything else the EU could have done to damage it's own brand image as this has. It's clear the EU has it's own oligarch problem.

[โ€“] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

The real money is gonna be made from exporting truck nuts.

[โ€“] crozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

RAM < Dodge < Stellantis NV

Itโ€™s not even a US company lobbying for this.

[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 21 minutes ago

So as I understand this - which seems to be totally at odds with everyone else commenting - this will actually make it harder for people to drive these things on the road in the EU. Currently you can import those things without them being subject to EU categorisation and safety requirements if it's a one off (to quote Not Stanley, "I ain't no serial killer! I killed a bunch of people but they were all one-offs!") but now these will be categorised and controlled the same as EU vehicles instead, and subject to the same standards for safety, emissions, licensing etc. It's worth keeping in mind that even in the US these aren't categorised as cars, so why would they be in the EU? So someone with a car license (normally limited to 3.5T GLW) couldn't drive one, even if they pinky-swore that they wouldn't fully load it as is the case at the moment.

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