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E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X

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139 points dotcoma | 9 comments | 06 Apr 25 17:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source | bottom
1. Schnitz ◴[06 Apr 25 18:47 UTC] No.43603884[source]▶
Targeting Elon’s companies is a very smart play in this trade war. It has little to no economic impact in the EU but at the same time has a big impact on him, it might drive a wedge between him and Trump and it also pushes him into an obvious conflict of interest. The US started treating everyone else like an adversary, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the favor is being returned.
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2. buyucu ◴[06 Apr 25 18:53 UTC] No.43603931[source]▶
100% tariff on all Teslas, regardless of which factory they come from.

A total ban on all advertising on Twitter.

This should get the orange man's attention.

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3. akmarinov ◴[06 Apr 25 19:44 UTC] No.43604326[source]▶
Can’t tariff Germany’s factory- how would you even go about legislating that?

The way to go about it so to start mandating that all cars have rain sensors, or dashboard instruments or HUD, or radar if they do TACC or parking sensors - things that most other cars have, but would be a pain for Tesla to add back in for just one region

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4. josteink ◴[06 Apr 25 20:00 UTC] No.43604463[source]▶
> Targeting Elon’s companies is a very smart play in this trade war. It has little to no economic impact in the EU but at the same time has a big impact on him

US senators are threatening to withdraw the US from NATO if the EU pushes through with this obvious lawfare.

https://x.com/ianjaeger29/status/1908113116774244838?s=46

Nicely done, Ursula. You’ll get the war you crave so badly.

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5. archagon ◴[06 Apr 25 20:23 UTC] No.43604662[source]▶
The US is already de facto withdrawn from NATO. Is there any faith that they would step up if Europe gets attacked?
6. rsynnott ◴[06 Apr 25 20:56 UTC] No.43604900[source]▶
The thing is, though, minihands’ approach to NATO is such that, a few months in, Poland is talking to France about hosting nuclear warheads. Like “oh, we might withdraw from NATO” is not quite the threat it might have been a few years ago; it’s already somewhat questionable what use NATO is anymore.
7. buyucu ◴[06 Apr 25 21:41 UTC] No.43605195{3}[source]▶
You can target specific companies with sanctions, like they have done with Russian oligarchs.
8. garfield_light ◴[06 Apr 25 22:48 UTC] No.43605642[source]▶
"Don't touch our oligarch."

If the US withdraws from NATO for this, Article 5 was never gonna be respected.

9. owebmaster ◴[07 Apr 25 13:03 UTC] No.43610828[source]▶
If the US withdraw from NATO, that organization will have a new use that is to prevent a hostile annexation of Greenland and Canada.