It doesn't work like that though. They're capitalist countries who function on the same logic as capitalist countries everywhere else.
Tell them to slash welfare to fund imperalist wars and they'll preach about international solidarity and the rules-based order while gleefully taking their citizens money. Tell them to just tank their economies and ruin their capitalist class and that speech switches to the importance of nationalism and self-sufficiency in a heartbeat.
If that's their plan, they're definitely not going about it the right way. For most European countries, the chances that they'd be willing to let vital industries be sold to the US has changed from at least some possibility to actually impossible under Trump. He's practically forced everyone to become more protectionist.
It's not that the initial owners are supposed to hold their coins because they're honorable or anything like that, it's that their accounts get restricted so they can't sell usually for at least a year or two, which was what was supposed to happen with the hawk tuah coins too. These types of rug pulls are seen as scams because you secretly give away or sell coins pre-launch which does not have those restrictions while regular buyers are kept ignorant. It's probably illegal, but because crypto is a scammers parardise it happens constantly.
Nah, it was definitely a rug pull. it didn't just randomly tank, insiders got a bunch of tokens either cheap or for free then were allowed to immediately dump when normal people could start buying, it was obviously intended to make insiders tons of money.
I also don't think crypto bros are the primary targets of celebrity and influencer crypto scams. Instead they're banking on that person's fanbase not knowing enough about crypto to see it's a scam. What personal role hawk tuah girl played i have no clue, but she has at least some responsibility for promoting it and putting her name on it.
Even trying to see things from a lib perspective the data harvesting argument makes no sense to me. If you're worried about your data ending up in the hands of someone who could use it against you, a social media app from a somewhat hostile foreign country is way safer than local social media that sells all it's data to the state that actually has power over you.
This is just not true at all though. Biden and Obama were both much better at getting Europe to do what they wanted than Trump during his first term. When has Trump being some geo-political mastermind able to bully other countries into submission been anything but a conservative fantasy? He is not even going to get Canada to play ball, let alone all of Europe.
To say that they don't have the ability to resist just giving away their industries is bizzare. You would have to give them genuinely zero other options to survive first, and while Europe is stagnant like most first-world economies, it's still an obscenely wealthy and un-proportionally influential region of the world. It's facing slow economic decline, but it's not in any danger of collapsing anytime soon. To say otherwise just feels like wishful thinking.
Europe is going to decline, that's basically certain, and their relationship with the US souring is going to be a part of that. But it will be slow, as more and more thirld-word countries rise out of poverty and are able to push Europe out of its unique position on the global stage. It's not going to be because they give away all their shit to the US because they couldn't resist Trump's secret genius.