• starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    It’s not “the Macron way”. Other European governments have been doing the same. Hell, Germany killed BioNtec, and the UK killed the department that developed the first Covid vaccine…

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      10 hours ago

      They’re all worried they have to pay for their own militaries now and moving the budget around to reflect that. Germany doesn’t believe Western Europe is safe from Russia. Not being able to subsidize nearly your entire military because the US has “got you covered” is a big budget issue

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        7 hours ago

        Nope. Lindner was cutting scientific budgets long before agent orange took power, and so was Wilders. And the EU.

        Because they’re anti-science right wing bastards (or, in the case of the EU, have way too many right wing bastards in parliament).