Human rights are human rights no matter where you live. Ergo they need to be defended no matter where. Otherwise they’d be civil rights or “every person’s rights who happens to be in the right place.”

We are already under attack. Economically, ideologically and electronically. It’s time to defend ourselves.

I am jobless due to health issues. I’m in the system for six years now. My current administrator wants to see me every three months. I can tell you stories, too, especially about getting hopes up and broken promises by the fading government.

Absolutely not. I’m not Norwegian, I’m German talking about german politicians.

I know some politicians who’d argue such prison conditions incentivized poor people to become criminals instead of seeking a job.

My miss was somewhat intentional, as I felt you both had some validity to your arguments, and I had wanted to acknowledge you both without looking like I was here to take one side or another, more to try to touch on the similarities you both had to your positions.

Then your comment was just bad at conveying that. Maybe next time try and point out what arguments you find valid and why.

I’d rather the US improve Chinese relations

I don’t want any democracy under the rule of law legitimize authoritarian and injust regimes by trading them. I don’t want to see metaphorical walls either, I’m German and we do have a history with walls (metaphorical and literal ones) after all. But I want to see governments being consequential in fighting for democracy and justice globally. We attempted ”Let’s just trade and exchange knowledge and they’ll see how much better our system is“ twice before with both Russia and China. How did it work out so far?

I’m sure at least to an extent, you’d like your country to be able to count on the US more than you can right now.

No. I don’t want to depend on anyone anymore. I want equal partnerships instead of this weird corporate colonialism.

If we succeed in securing domestic production for our respective countries, I still feel we’re losing something important,

And what would that be? What exactly would we lose?

I know some are tired of hearing opinions from Americans even if we don’t support what our pending government wants to do,

I don’t care where you’re from. Neither do I care about labels. I care about arguments, positions, ideas and proposals. Specific, tangible things that can be discussed.

First of all, your comment displays an admirable ideal. Yes, knowledge should benefit all of humankind, and I too yearn the day this ideal will be true. However, exchanging knowledge and technology with everybody right now would be just as naive. China is not our friend, not even just another country. It is a systematic enemy and an oppressive, authoritarian regime and exchanging knowledge and technology, even trading with it enriches China, enables its methods and sends a message of tolerance towards authoritarianism that should not be sent. Everyone engaging with China in such fashion makes themselves accomplice.

Secondly, you completely missed the topic. I am not talking about exchanging knowledge, I am saying we shouldn’t rely on untrustworthy partners. Trump is a senile, unstable and unpredictable corporate boss, not a politician. And his United States completely under control of his Republican Party is cannot be trusted. Hence, Europe needs to bit their shit together and become the geopolitical power it needs to and can be, or it will go down and be a mere pawn to China.

Okay, you say anything that promotes securing domestic industries is protectionism. Fine.

But then you say protectionism is bad across the board but don’t give any reason.

At least you need to give some arguments why protectionism that is constituted of securing critical infrastructure, providing safe® access to technology, developing independent, decentralised and open technology, etc would be worse than keeping sucking on the tits of US megacorps.

Why is the dependence on US tech corps different than the dependence on russian gas in the past (which I hope we can agree was bad)?

I remembered it wrong. She herself asked for being let go, officially because the constant discussions about her person made it impossible for her to do her job (her statement).

It was more about the then minister of defence, that’s why she was gone.

that a conviction will create fascist narrative

The other way round. Fascists create their own narratives no matter what we do. For example, at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, the german AfD were among the first to cry for curfews, lockdown and mask mandates. Just to cry ”dictatorship“ when said measures where implemented.
When you don’t ban fascists from elections they say: ”Look, we can’t be that bad otherwise we were banned,“ but when there’s discussion about banning a fascist party they cry about being oppressed.
If you want to act without fascists creating a narrative of oppression, you won’t be able to act at all.

A government funded, unionwide research agency does sound like a good idea to me. But DARPA is a military r&d agency and I’d rather see an agency focused on benefitting civilian life, preserving nature, sustainability and such.
EU would clearly benefit from concentrating each nations military industries into unionwide companies and projects, too, though, but idk, I feel like we as a society could benefit from a strong, well funded civilian research effort.
I don’t know if there is such already out there, all I ever hear about is either underfunded or financed by private profit-oriented companies.