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Trump will buckle under pressure from Europe, says German economy minister

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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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Time to put pressure on his oligarchs, Block X.
- tax the hell out of them, then block.
  same with meta, amazon, google, apple, etc
  
  Careful now, your Lemmy instance may run on AWS. (Haven't checked at all — 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.)
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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...

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

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