Targetting commercial offers would not cut it though. They would have to make octoprint, open source firmware etc a crime. A lot of printer run exclusively on non-commercial software and on Chinese control boards, with or without raspberry pi.
If it is so obvious, you could easily show me a source with the number of victims of 3d printed fire weapons, legally owned commercial fire weapons and illegally owned commercial fire weapons, in California or the US as a whole.
Or were you commenting on the suitability of FDM or resin printers for producing critical function parts of fire weapons? Which of the parts one could produce via FDM or resin, that couldn’t be produced with subtractive manufacturing methods? Please elaborate with actual arguments.
Fair, however, the point remains, that the whole 3D printers are dangerous weapon manufacturing sources is BS. 3D printers, at least those affordable to hobbyists are a damn poor choice for creating fire weapons. Yes, you can print some non-critical parts but that’s about it. How many people died due to 3d printed guns in the US and how many to legally/illegally owned?
My bad. That was obly Tiktok in the OS. So it is under Chinese control. Either way Russian propaganda is ever oresent there.
All three of them are controlled by US tech oligarchs that are closely aligned with the US regime which was heavily interfering in favour of Orban as well. As far as I know you were flooded in all three with Fidesz propaganda and disinformation. Never mind that Russian propaganda is strong in all three of those as well and it was doing the same.
I find it entertaining to think that corrupt politicians would be bound to the US. Take the corrupt AfD, its leading candidate for the EU election was corrupted by not one but several foreign powers. By all means, they appear to sell out German interests to pretty much any foreign power that is willing to pay enough.
The European Commission is way less powerful in the EU context than any national government in the national context. It is one of the major players but only one of a handful and cannot do much without the support from other players.
You seem to have a funny definition of “dysfunctional” or confuse the term with “politically shortsighted”. Europe did have a relationship with the US that was beneficial to both sides, that was the basis of it and the reason it worked for so long. This has ended, one could have seen it coming much earlier and indeed France has seen it coming for a long time and is therefore also one of the best prepared member states but even France has been complacent when it comes to modern IT infrastructure. That has little to do with being dysfunctional.
I am wondering if you are really that naive and truly believe that Putin ever intended to see the EU member states as equal partners. His rhetoric have changed indeed his goals not really, at best his means have become increasingly bloody and ruthless. If you can’t see that Russia wants to rebuild its colonial empire in Europe I really can’t help you. And if you can’t see that colonial empires are based on oppression and exploitation I can’t help you either. Maybe read how the old East Block worked economically, communist economy aside it was just the same old story.
You really seem to believe the US to be all powerful apparently. This has little to do with reality and lies at odds with the actual EU legislation which is often at odds with what the US would like. Does the US have influence? Of course it has but it is not nearly as total as you seem to believe and it is rooted in Europe’s dependence. I listed a boat load of initiatives that are being undertaken right now to reduce those dependencies for that very reason. Most of them are something the US opposes to varying degrees (from mildly to hysterically). If your world view held any water, hardly any of those would exist.
European unification happened of course in the context of “PAX America” but it was formed by the interests of many players. The fading away of the Western European Union was certainly a consequence of US opposition for example. That does not change the fact that a unified Europe within the EU is the only realistic chance for European autonomy and shared sovereignty without being vassals of either the US or Russia, which is as I said, the key reason why the US and the Russian regime are firing with all their propaganda might against the EU nowadays and you appear to have completely fallen for it.
It is also politically much more hazardous to be the only one standing against some very strong will of the entire rest of the EU. If there are two in opposition it is already considerably less hazardous. Add to that, that Fico is in a domestically very difficult situation, he can afford taking much less heat than Orban did until his massive electoral defeat. On top of that, Fico is corrupt and bought by Russia but he is more pragmatic than Orban. That also shows his track record. He might make some fuss but is not ready to take all the flak for it by standing his ground indefinitely.
Indeed. I was surprised by that as well and would be curious to know the reason for it. I take it, that his grip of state power was not total enough to just ignore such a devastating election mandate against him. But he conceded already before even much of the votes were even counted. Even in functioning democracies we had for example Schröder who was trying to cling to power like a dictator but was trashed within days for doing so.
I can think of several reasons. Maybe in Orbans morphed reality he was indeed a man of the people and his almost total media domination convinced himself of his own lies. Seeing the election result maybe he was authentically shocked and hit by the reality check. More likely might be that Orban is retreating now without resistance to give the floor to his opponent, knowing that the situation of Hungary is challenging, he might plan to get back to power next elections, after possibly unpopular, necessary, reforms by Tisza. He might be playing the long game. Or maybe he just calls his losses collects the fortune he stole from the Hungarian people (and European citizens at large as well) and prepares his retirement in Russia with all that fortune.
There is no such thing as a dysfunctional EU with a working economy. The economy of the member states rests on the Single Market which rests on a functioning political Union. There goes already one assumption.
To think Russia considers being a “junior partner to the EU” is borderline delusional. Russia needs the EU functionally destroyed, consequences be dammed because it absolutely insists on rebuilding its empire and oppressing as well as exploiting half of Europe in the process in the mid to long term as great power. This is only possible with the EU being functionally destroyed because it needs to divide and rule for that goal to be achievable.
You insisting that the EU is under US control is detached from reality, when the US has not only turned openly hostile towards the EU, and started supporting the very same forces that Russia is supporting which do not aim for an indpendent EU but the opposite, a dysfunctional EU with national capitals being bought by foreign powers. Also there have been numerous major areas of policy making that Washington DC is absolutely furious about. If that is what an institution controlled by the US does, you have a curious definition of “controlled”.
So first you give a non-descriptive response and now you refuse to make your arguments in any way concrete at all. Your choice.
We still don’t know who or what this ominous dark force is (concretely by name) you were referring to the whole time. It can’t be the US, given how it did everything to prevent the fall of the Orban regime.
That is an easy one. Putin would have no problem with a corrupt EU, nor would Trump, yet they absolutely loath the EU. Also on a systematic level your idea is just deeply uninformed. The EU is an extremely multi-centric institution, pretty much the opposite of an authoriatirian state after Gleichschaltung where everything is super centralised and you only have to corrupt very few to get the result you want. That by itself makes corruption extremely expensive and also risky (as there are so many eyes on the process) because you have to corrupt so many different players to get the result you want. Another reason why Trump and Putin try so hysterically to destroy the EU, other than the capability of the EU to create unified action, even if it arises out of such a multicentric machinery.
Maybe that baby is from Lahti?
You are remaing as vague as before, name specific countries, institutions, politicians or other central figures. You don’t if course, because remaining vague us a pillar of disinformation.
Congratulation, your paranoia has lead you to view the EU exactly in the way the US and Russian regime want you to view.
That takes a lot of initiatives and some time but critically it also requires us to stay togetger and strengthen cooperation within the EU. That is also actually exactly why the propaganda you are falling for is trying to destroy this cooperation and the EU.
There is a lot going on and many efforts have accelerated in recent years: rapid transition to renewable energy, Gallileo, Iris2, stronger EU based defense cooperation, contingency trade framework with other global players, Digital Euro and Wero, recent push by France to fully replace Windows, Teams, MS Office in public adminustration (which later on also delivers the blueprint for the private sector to enable transition to sovereign solutions) …
Indeed, I doubt Vance haf a big impact, but the impact he had was certainly harming Orban, which is hilarious.
Who is “us”? Both, Washington DC and Moscow were heavily interfering in the election in favour of Orban. Are you truly pushing the Russian fairy tale of Magyar being a puppet of Brussels or Kiev or whose puppet are you even talking about?
What? Hungary can’t turn its economy on its head overnight? No kidding. Of course economic dependencies can’t change over night. The important thing is that the a correcting course is set. With political will, things can change dramatically in a few years.
Creating unrealistic expectations and then crucify them for not meeting those on the first day, is just a way of being useful idiot for Putin.