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Nobody in Europe has spent the past week looking at their stock portfolio, wondering if they could still afford to send their kids to university.

The recent TV show Adolescence is a good watch related to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence_(TV_series)

Reports about heavy drinkers are masking the core issue, there is simply no safe dose of alcohol drinking, the science is pretty solid now. One of the lastest official announcements picking up the scienctic consensus: https://www.sciencealert.com/there-is-no-safe-level-of-alcohol-consumption-us-surgeon-general-warns.

Only if they come from Wink, Winkler County, Texas. Otherwise they are just sparkling eyelead carrier and receiver.

I wonder what will happen to the collaboration between American GE and French Safran that makes the CFM under Trump.

French multinational Safran is still making engines for airliners (with GE), Rafale fighters and Ariane rockets (with Airbus).

It's sarcastically cringe for fun.

I guess this means your parents are from China too? If yes, then they grew up in a country were demonstrating against the government gets you rolled over by tanks. They have been taught that politics is not something for the people, the party takes care of it for them and they should just focus on being good hard working citizens. So, I would think their behavior is a mix of fearing for your life, which they value way more than politics, and an ingrained lack of faith in the people being able to change politics.
Consider this bias and make your personal choice, especially if you're legally an adult.

Agreed, especially if you're writing to someone who's not completely fluent in the language. Also use short sentences and common vocabulary.

It's easier to delete an account than avoiding conscription and bombs. The mental health impact of social network is bad, but not comparable to world war times.

Yeah, EU will get a boost from it too.

China is clearly going to win this part, they are not adding tariffs on the rest of the world like Trump is doing, they will win market shares because of this. Trump's policies are actually speeding up the rise of China as the first power on many points: international free trade, renewable energies and brain drain, for example.