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U.S. President Donald Trump will buckle under pressure from Germany and Europe in an escalating trade war, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Thursday.

"That is what I see, that Donald Trump buckles under pressure, corrects his announcements under pressure, but the logical consequence is that he must also feel the pressure, and this pressure must now be exerted from Germany, from Europe," Habeck said in a news conference.

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[โ€“] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Time to put pressure on his oligarchs, Block X.

[โ€“] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

tax the hell out of them, then block.
same with meta, amazon, google, apple, etc

[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago

Careful now, your Lemmy instance may run on AWS. (Haven't checked at all โ€” but what I am trying to say is that a lot of people blinded themselves with half-baked ideas about TCO and stumbled right into American cloud services.)

[โ€“] BigShammy80@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You will never get Amazon or Apple blocked in Germany. X or Meta sure... but Germans are way too lazy to not use Amazon and Apple fanboys would go crazy if they couldn't buy the stuff in Germany.

[โ€“] Melchior@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

tThe current ranking is:

Rank Shop Turn over
1 amazon.de 14.660,1
2 otto.de 4.200,0
3 zalando.de 2.510,4
4 mediamarkt.de 1.753,1
5 ikea.com 1.392,0
6 apple.com 1.174,3
7 hm.com 833,1
8 lidl.de 796,4
9 aboutyou.de 777,8
10 shop-apotheke.com 767,1

So there are clearly a lot of fairly succesful alternatives to Amazon.

[โ€“] abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

That's a neat list. I want show off the Netherlands. Top 5 is pure Dutch(ish)

Positie Naam Herkomst Branche Omzet in euro

  1. Bol.com Duitsland E-Commerce 3,3 miljard euro
  2. Coolblue Nederland E-Commerce 1,4 miljard euro
  3. Albert Heijn Nederland Supermarkt 1,2 miljard euro
  4. Zalando Duitsland Mode 835 miljoen euro
  5. Wehkamp Nederland E-Commerce 766 miljoen euro
  6. Amazon Verenigde Staten E-Commerce 530 miljoen euro
  7. Jumbo Nederland Supermarkt 503 miljoen euro
  8. Picnic Nederland Supermarkt 420 miljoen euro
  9. De Bijenkorf Nederland Warenhuizen 380 miljoen euro
  10. HelloFresh Duitsland Levensmiddelen 350 miljoen euro
[โ€“] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

From that list I see amazon as the least problematic though. Still problematic of course, but compared to the likes of Meta, Google or X they at least don't have influence on the information you get. They "just" dominate shoppng and hosting

[โ€“] BigShammy80@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago

Yes, but the owners of these companies, all billionaires, influence society and the markets for their own benefit, and the lives of the American people are getting worse every year...

Surely the EU can find enough evidence to arrest and detain numerous oligarchs?

[โ€“] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

No one can put more pressure on him than his handler, Putan. He has a hold over the orange turd, be it black mail or just fucking cash, and will push until the plan is carried out, crippling the US so he can expand his power and influence.

[โ€“] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 hours ago

I wish Habeck would have become chanclor ;-;