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Macron: EU has only 2 or 3 years to stave off total US, China dominance (www.politico.eu)
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[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

...and those 2 or 3 years were 35 years ago

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

More like 75 years ago.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly, there's zero chance EU could compete with China or the US at this point. Energy costs alone make that a non starter.

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be fair, some of them do have a huge supply of lignite (/s except those who are already feverishly mining it)

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

clean energy German style

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Ligmite balls