OK, the content of the article isn’t news to me, but I’ll let it rest, so that you can rest. Sleep well.

the hybrid war is in full swing.

The hybrid war has been going on for decades, where Russia has undermined EU/NATO/USA.

but it wasn’t Russia but the US who was planning to invade.

Yes I think that is a HUGE part of it, European politicians just don’t say it directly, because they don’t want to anger Trump more than necessary, but everybody knows we can’t trust USA anymore. Russia succeeded probably more than Putin ever dreamt of with USA, and Brexit was also in part his doing. Russian ties to Boris Johnson and Farage are well documented.
And obviously Hungarian and Slovakian governments are also heavily compromised by Russia.
But USA must stand as his greatest achievement, but I suspect Putin didn’t foresee the Europeans so determination to built a better defense for ourselves.

OK, I’ve just seen that criticism a lot. But it’s not all well and good if you are a European car maker, because as I mentioned, there is steep competition from China, and tariffs in USA.
So what I stated was that all things considered, they’ve done about as well as could be expected, and also as I mentioned, we will very likely see a couple of makers that simply can’t manage this increased competition and hostile markets in China and USA.

The subsidies they do in China and USA are illegal in EU.
I agree on the subscription nonsense, but that VW group had to cut workers is a result of steep competition from China, and tariffs and other anti competitive messures in USA.
You simply can’t claim they dropped the ball, when they managed 50% market share for EV in EU, and managed to still turn a profit.
It’s not like everything stayed the same, and they lost money from making shitty products that customers don’t want.
I don’t really see anything in what you write, that validates saying they dropped the ball.
Being able to resist being squeezed from outside seems to me to be the opposite of dropping the ball.
No doubt almost all global car manufacturers will lose some market share to China, I don’t see any way around that. It seems many here on Lemmy, think that we should be able to stave off China completely, which is obviously completely unrealistic.

But I agree on subscription, and really hope the subscription model fails badly.
Intel tried something similar with their CPU business, and that failed completely.
For me it would be a major reason to hack my car. And get ALL the subscriptions for free.

At least it’s not Murdoch or Ellison.

refusals of vitamin K shots nearly doubled

TIL:
https://www.chop.edu/pediatric-health-chat/vitamin-k-newborn-baby

One shot of vitamin K given to a baby after delivery can prevent devastating bleeding and strokes.

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/vitamin-k-shot.html

Until they (babies) start eating solid food at about 6 months of age, babies don’t have enough naturally produced vitamin K.

Seems like something you would want to give your child.

I’m not surprised that European brands have dropped the ball,

How exactly do you figure European car makers dropped the ball?
IMO European car makers didn’t drop the ball. VW, Mercedes, BMW and Renault are doing pretty well considering the circumstances.
You can’t have a major new industrial power house like China enter the industry without it causing disruption, China is 10 times bigger a manufacturer than Japan was back in the day.
And China has been supporting their EV and battery makers as strategic industries.

If you compare European car industry to Japanese and Korean battery industry, China has taken just as much market share from them.

Then theres Toyota. I guess they wasted all their money with hydrogen and only focused on hybrids.

Yes, when you compare with Japanese manufacturers like Toyota and Honda, Europe has been stellar, even Stelantis is ahead of them on EV. The Stelantis problems date a bit further back, and is not so much about dropping the ball on EV, but alienating their customers with declining value of their products for higher profits.

It’s easy to say the big European manufacturers dropped the ball when looking at Tesla that got enormous government support, from the tax credit system that funneled enormous amounts of cash into Tesla, and in direct support from many states in building the Tesla charging network. Obviously the other American makers scrambled to make electric cars too, so they didn’t have to pay their entire quota to Tesla. And obviously the Chinese EV and battery industry have been directly state subsidized.

European manufacturers have not received comparable government subsidies, when an electric car sold in EU has subsidies, it’s the same subsidy for American made and Chinese made cars. But where Chinese cars have a 13% import tax, to compensate for the subsidies in China.

Edit PS:
UK carmakers didn’t manage to compete in the increased competition when Japan arrived on the market. The problems in the UK car industry date back to early 70’s. So now there are no UK owned big carmakers left. They are all subsidies of manufacturers from other countries, mostly Germany, but also India and China.

China is doing to the global car market today, what Japan did in the 70’s.
Japanese cars had huge gains from having better fuel economy than other brands.
Today China is gaining from having a wide variety of cheap Electric cars, and being the global leader on batteries.
Ironically Japanese brands are now the ones that are most behind on electric cars.
I am pretty sure that within a few years a couple of well known western brands will disappear. Most likely shrinkage of Stelantis and maybe Nissan will be first to go as I see it. But in China the competition is also so tough, that we may se a couple of Chinese brands disappear too.

It is probably not much fun to be a car manufacturer today, the market is in turmoil requiring about twice the models having both ICE and EV, this is increasing costs both of development and smaller production lines, and at the same time the competition is tougher than ever, making it harder than ever to make profitable models.

This situation will take at least a decade to settle.

IDK, maybe they were being too polite all this time?
/blaming the victim. 😜

Sadly. 😬
I wish it wasn’t so.

True, but by that logic, it would make Canada 98% more shit.

Edit:
OP post is apparently fake.

---- original post ----
Don’t forget Canada, Trump threatened to make Canada 51st state of USA.
He has also threatened both Mexico with replacing their leader, like he did with Venezuela, and finally he has threatened Columbia.

So to sum it up: Canada, Greenland/Denmark, Mexico, Venezuela, Iran, Columbia, Cuba, have all been threatened, and 2 of them have been attacked with what is a factual declaration of war.
Apart from that he has completely failed to support NATO and democratic allies against the Russian invasion of a European democracy Ukraine, that should have been a NATO member, but never was to appease Russia. And Ukraine gave up nukes on the promise of protection.
AAAND!! USA is waging a senseless trade war against the whole world including allies.

Still Americans are effectively doing nothing, zilch, zero, Nada. They are just letting him continue in his megalomaniac malignant narcissistic activities, destroying USA and undermining allies and democracy around the world.

USA is no longer a country to be trusted by anybody, not because of Trump, but because of the population majority, and because the institutions don’t work to uphold democratic and humanitarian principles.

So the problem is on all 4 levels of American society, the population, the institutions, congress, and the administration.
How can we ever trust USA again?

---- end of original post ----

What an absolute insane and deranged post!
So he begs for help because it’s important to USA, and then at the same time, all the times NATO helped USA suddenly count for nothing!
Piss off USA and the American people, you are responsible for this shit stain being president of USA, and entering an illegal and incredibly stupid war.
I used to be an absolute fan of USA since the 70’s, this cooled with Bush, and with Trump i loathe USA and everything it stands for.
Come get Greenland and see what that does to being allies with European countries!
Taking Greenland will result in all out economic war from Europe against USA, the EU economic retaliation is already decided, and is waiting in the drawer to be used. We will both be hurt, but USA will lose their position as a global leader instantly, biggest military or not. And the new global leader will be China. But maybe that’s what he wants?
Again fuck Americans for electing that piece of shit, just because he is a white male, and ran against a black woman.
The stupidity of USA is too much, and I’ve been boycotting everything American since Trump was elected, with only one exception Steam because their support of Linux helps me be less dependent on other more dangerous American companies.

Edit:
The OP post may be a fake.
I’m not using Truth social, so I can’t say.

You clearly don’t understand what whataboutism is.
Whataboutism would be if I claimed it was OK for China to spy because USA does it too.

That is not at all my argument.

Yes Huawei is partially state owned, which is very common in China. How does that prove anything?
The bad reputation on this is LITERALLY based on US propaganda. Including the situation in this piece that state “strong backing from Washington”.

Why the fuck does Washington care which G5 vendor we use?
The US government has been actively spying on European politicians and has been caught on multiple occasions, like this one:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spied-merkel-other-top-european-officials-through-danish-2021-05-30/

Obviously there were also other things revealed by Snowden.

This is not whataboutism, when I’m pointing out that USA has an active interest in being able to continue to spy on Europe. My guess is the Huawei equipment makes it harder. Which is probably why USA propagandize against it.
But apparently people are morons here and don’t know what’s really going on. Because they can’t remember things that happened 10 or 20 years ago. Or they choose to ignore it, which is actually worse.
Obama admitted publicly that USA was spying on “non Americans”, stating it was ONLY!!! non Americans, making it legal in his opinion, and that was part of what he considered a good balance of US intelligence!!
USA has zero respect for human rights of non Americans, and zero respect for the law outside USA. This is very clearly also evidenced in how ICE is behaving inside USA.

There is no evidence that China is spying through Huawei G5 equipment, and I bet you can’t find any real evidence even if you try. Only American propaganda and false claims.
There is however evidence that Chinese Android phones have done it (telemetry), but that is no different from what Google, Apple, Facebook etc. are doing. And these situation has been limited to few brands, and were poorly hidden, so obviously not part of a state intelligence program.
But for some reason if a Chinese company is caught doing what everybody else is doing, it is immediately blown out of proportions and made into a scandal.

You people are naive, USA is not our friend anymore, they are not participating in this to help us. Huawei offered full transparency, which I bet the competition doesn’t.

I had to use support for a product I bought recently (NRGi/Zaptec EV charger), 3 times I had to call them, and every time I got through within 2 minutes! And my issues were quickly fixed.

tougher measures against Huawei — with strong backing from Washington.

AFAIK there has never been shown any evidence of Chinese spying in 5G hardware. On the other hand there has been a lot of propaganda and hetz from US authorizes against Huawei. Almost as if they were mad to lose a backdoor of their own.
Huawei has jumped through hoops to disprove that it should be the case that their hardware is compromised, including opening the technology so it can be reviewed by authorities in Europe.

On the other hand we know for a FACT that the US government is spying on us, that has been proven on a number of occasions.

banning China’s Huawei from 5G procurement and have told EU officials that large-scale bans are an “act of self-harm”

Question is what will happen long term, will we see European competitors like Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens make a comeback, and actually become competitive again? If not there is no sense to this, if all it does is make us dependent on American equipment.

their “new” production is a lot of hull modernisations

Yeah their new tanks should be pretty awful, and the armor not very good.
IDK why, but a lot of high level politicians such as state leaders, warn that Russia might be planning to attack EU/NATO.
I don’t really understand why that should be the case, because I think we will be way superior if they do. Especially since we are learning from Ukraine, plus we have our own technologies that are better than what Russia has.

The Russian economy is also collapsing now, so the idea that Russia should be able to wage a perpetual war is false IMO.

Isn’t it about time the next generation begins to take responsibility.

We’ve had presidents like this before.”

On that they are seriously mistaken, of course there have been bad presidents like Bush, but Trump is a whole new class of bad.
I hope they are right, and that all this can be solved by a simple election, but I’m not betting on it.