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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

From a European perspective, this is very welcome news. It's a pity that it took a Trump for us to even start discussing these things but when there is real sense of urgency, COVID taught us that Europe can move fast.

And I'm not talking about vaccines. In a few months of COVID, digiital services have leaped forward probably 10 years (at least in my country). Suddenly we can have most of our government and public services online, I can check my child school records in an app, my grampa used his digital IDs to change his family doctor from his phone.

None of this is rocket science and mostly it didn't require building new things. But I'm pretty sure none of it was going to be done any time soon.

I hope Europe manages to get out of this more politically united, with a common defense, investment in critical infrastructure and possibly with stronger safeguards to Democracy (and since I'm basically writing my letter to Santa in advance, I'd also really like to have the UK back... )

It's tough, because historically European countries don't really get along well or trust each other much, and centrifugal forces are strong and too easily manipulated. But under direct threat from both sides maybe, just maybe....

[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

Trump is not our elected president. Sincerely the outside world of the U.S.