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the_mammynun

They are a cannabis pure-play. They control 16% of the German import market (this will soon increase significantly), market their own cannabis brands (Queen of Bud, Cabana Co), as well as many of their own accesory brands, and control 12% of cannabis retail in Canada. In addition they own some hemp derived CBD brands in the US and UK and e-commerce platforms.  The only thing High Tide doesn't do is grow cannabis, which is one of the most costly, and least profitable segments of the industry. Cannabis is a commodity and High Tide recognizes this.  Why grow it and carry the high cost and regulatory burden when you can simply buy it in bulk for pennies on the dollar and use your 220 stores to distribute it. Look what's happening in the grocery industry right now. In-house brands are becoming a bigger portion of consumer spend. National retailers have all the power.

ShadowLiberal

I didn't even know that the EU was considering reviving the already proven failure "Google Tax" legislation from over a decade ago. It's called the Google tax because it was about stopping Google News from linking to news articles without paying for the privilege of driving traffic to someone else's website. When I saw this post I thought that it was about the EU's new horrible idea, mandatory online age/ID verification, which is now required in the UK to even do things like listen to music deemed too "unsafe" for children to listen to. Which not only is incredibly burdensome to implement, but creates massive new security risks (as seen by Discord's own data breach that leaked a bunch of people's IDs in the UK).

Q4shm0ney

Starlink banned in UK, easy response

SilverPrivateer

Breaking: If UK proceeds with "X ban", Elon Musk will allow "uncensored Starlink for UK citizens".

wildbill4693

I had to pay a tariff towards importing a piece of ag machinery for my farm only made in the UK. I won't see a dime of that back. To me it's crazy they can just say something is illegal but not force the government to make it right. At the very least I should have that amount credited back to me with my income tax.

coteregipi

Deep Mind is UK dumbo

Deep-Addendum-4613

>Listed in UK, so immune from orange man europoor tech never goes anywhere, you know its bad when a top european tech company is supercell

ParkingtonLane

Thank you! I also think it’s a wholesome tradition - my silent gen grandparents continued it with me and my younger millennial / older Gen Z siblings. Not only was it a nice lesson and a sentimental heirloom from my deceased grandpa, the lesson compounded and I ended up with a finance degree. Based on my research UK and New Zealand are for citizens / residents only, but happy to be corrected if I’m wrong. I’ll check into Australia as well. (Also looked into Nigeria, but hoping for longer timelines than 4 years.) I think you might be right - I Bonds through treasury direct will be the way to go. I’ll have to get the parents to sign up for a minor linked account and provide the child’s social security number (another reason I was hoping for paper bonds). Maybe the gift certificate printed on ultra heavy cardstock?

Radiant_Pillar

As did the UK's, as did Europe's. A lot of this was due to devaluation of the dollar.

Frozen_Shades

Really? gross. Good for the UK.

CoolWerewolf

JUST IN: 🇬🇧 UK considers banning Elon Musk's X, The Telegraph reports. What’s going on in your country Euro poors?

CoolWerewolf

Fuck off UK your country is trying to ban X because they hate free speech.

Fine-Target2563

This is actually pretty wholesome, love that you want to keep the tradition going Have you looked into I Bonds through TreasuryDirect? I know they're electronic only now but you can still print out a nice certificate-looking thing for gifting. Not the same as the old paper bonds but might scratch that nostalgic itch For foreign bonds with paper certificates, that's gonna be tough - most developed countries have gone digital. Maybe look into some UK Premium Bonds or Australian government bonds, though I'm not 100% sure on the US citizen purchase requirements for those

ShadowLiberal

The other problem with Discord which wasn't around when Reddit IPOed is the real ID nonsense with stuff like the UK's Online Safety Act that's spreading to other countries. Basically Discord in the UK has to collect people's Real IDs to let them access a ton of content deemed not safe for kids, but this is 1) very expensive to implement, and 2) adds a lot of risks of data breaches. Discord has already been the victim of a data breach that stole a ton of IDs of Discord Users in the UK (and pictures of those people holding their IDs). And that risk is only going to keep growing for Discord as the UK's nonsense spreads to other countries.

richardbaxter

It's a very small portion of the US housing market (2% - although this is the US so that's a lot). They'll be a grift. With a bit of luck though, that money might find itself into the UK which is no bad thing. We left the EU and now we're skint and foreign investment is slower. Or, Canada? 

imrickjamesbioch

It’s not just selling weapons as nato or specifically the EU has shifted their resources into building their own weapons as the US can’t be trusted any longer with a Russian agent in the white house. Japan (non-nato), UK, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, and other EU nation’s all hold a significant amount of wealth/ investment into the US. You would basically the dollar collapse as about $5 trillion dollars would instantly evaporate from the US economy. The Euro and Brics currency “The Unit” would basically overtake the US dollar as the global currency and maga dipshit will get what they wanted, isolation and global war as the only jobs available will be to fight over minerals for the rich.

Any-Morning4303

Global Military Spending (2024 estimates) • Total world military expenditure: ~$2.7 trillion USD.  🇺🇸 United States • U.S. military budget in 2024: about $997 billion.  • Share of total global spending: ~37 % of all military spending in the world.  • U.S. spending is the largest by far—more than 3 times larger than China’s.  🌐 Rest of World (2024) • China: roughly $314 billion (about 11–12 % of global total).  • Russia: ~$149 billion (about 5–6 %).  • Germany: ~$88.5 billion (~3.3 %).  • India: ~$86.1 billion (~3.2 %).  • Other countries combined: tens of billions each (UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Japan, etc.). Thank god that we’ve finally woken up and have taken military profits seriously.

ThiccDiddler

Part 4 >Again Indians for long time have resisted US being pals with Pakistan. Infact 1971 was both US and UK were willing to send navy to assist Pakistan. The relations plummeted from 1970s through 1990s which included sanctions against India. USA was a formal ally with India's arch-nemesis with treaties like SEATO and to a lesser extent CENTO and wasn't popular in India at all except the pop-culture probably. Things only got better under Bush Jr. and subsequent regimes and were on an all time high only to nosedive now and and will remain so for near foreseeable future. Or who knows they might get better again soon. >Bangladesh and Pakistan had lot of bad blood post 1971.. Now they are as pally as they can get just with a change of regime. India and Bangladesh at government level were very close just 2 years ago and now look ! Ironically it is claimed CIA pushed Sheikh Hasina out of power to control Bangladesh and instead Bangladesh got even more closer to China !! >Point again being "Stances, Alliances, POVs, Animosities -- none of them is permanent" .. Forget being permanent things can change rapidly. Once nations see an achievable goal in their self interest their can a short term alliance. Goal achieved then each his own way ! >Again this is long term future prediction. 2-3 decades . So just wait for things to unfold and we all will see. The US military today is a big differentiator today but may not necessarily so 30 years down the line. Countries will catch up to a great extent and after a certain point the differential would cease to matter ! Yeah except India fully understands why the US sided with Pakistan. And the US is STILL allied with Pakistan even today so it gave up nothing to improve relations with India again. A lot of that is because these "relations" don't actually change the balance of power in the region. And even if the US or China was kicked out of the area completely nothing would change since those counteract each other. That entire area is power wise "stable". And by that i mean it in a very specific sense. Because its obviously not "stable stable" since India and Pakistan are very aggressive to each other. And are probably still the most likely area that could break out into nuclear war. The complete opposite is true with the countries in Asia we have been discussing. Losing the US or switching sides to China is straight up not an option for all the reasons i have already stated. Now please just give up. Your arguments just are not strong enough and too many are based in not being nearly educated enough in geopolitics and power dynamics/ using non existent strawman's to make your prediction make sense. Making an argument because of a potentially technical possibility is worthless.

timeforknowledge

You borrow the money. You only have 3 years and you can't run again as President. So just spend what you like. The US system is government is so bad that you can get away with it. In the UK the prime minister can't even get his policies through parliament the house of lords reject them

Crazy-Buddy-164

WORLDWIDE WOMEN RANKINGS 2026 S: Brazil, Colombia A: Japan, Korea, Italy, Philippines, Thailand B: Ukraine, Russia, entire Arab world, Poland, Scandinavia C: Mexico, China, Africa, France, Spain D: Australia, New Zealand F: USA, Canada, UK Thank you! No appeals at this time.

HelloW0rldBye

UK or EU investors holding or entering US defence, sorry WAR, stocks should be considered treason at this point.

Noble_Bastard

Hypothetically, who you betting on? Denmark, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, California, Minnesota, Oregon, both Washington's, New York, Maine versus Russia, Texas, Florida, Georgia (minus Atlanta), Oklahoma and Arizona?

karhoewun

Unsure why you got downvoted but I agree with everything you said. At least where I was from (UK), many don't even have HYSAs, let alone investment accounts, let alone acess to options for rolling deep OTM puts. I guess for those interested and willing to learn, the options (ha) are there.

Content-Love-4084

So it really depends on the investors in question. A lot are reconsidering already if not they will be along the next 2 years would be my non educated guess. If the admin could keep an open dialogue with the investors we have today (very unlikely) they might be able to hold onto the reigns of capital we have left. The domestic investors will always be the last to go but the big whales will jump ship as soon as things get really sour. Unless they wanna play warlord, which I doubt the richest people alive today want to do in a non puppet way. Some may but pretty doubtful in reality. Foreign investors with strong ties like UK, Japan, etc would be take longer to break, New Investors may appear but the capital will be far less significant than what we have today. Most of Europe will dip I'd say as soon as real public outcry for violence takes place. Their funding or investments would be transformed into new capital for you know what (insert any assumption here) in a pretty high likelihood. I'd put money on other countries having plans for this exact scenario. Allies and true enemies of the country. Investors may be inclined to make new deals instead that more strongly favor them. Prices will probably skyrocket due to first supply issues of other investors leaving the market, second the effects of AI really hit. Third, corporations see a shock in supply, demand, labor and a brain drain. Fourth an actual war with boots on the ground. A few assumptions but these assumptions are quite pattern driven. There is always money to be made in chaos, in fact you can get profits like no other seen in peace. You just have to control the chaos to make the most profit. Honestly the US should have been seen as a high risk on the CRP to begin with if you look at recent US history (60ish years). But you really gotta look at who controls country risk premiums to begin with, that would be your favorite people ever. That's right its big bro black rock and their buddies. So if you write the rules then why would you punish yourself? So in all reality every country is getting an increased CRP within the coming months to years. They are all tied to the US by default because of the way CRP is measured to begin with. If I have educated myself enough on this. ERP or Equity Risk Premiums is probably a better question to ask I believe. I just learned what it was and it seems a little more on the nose of what you are asking. Which leads to RFR's or Risk Free Rates, how is this calculated you may ask? Pretty much US bonds. Which is pretty much hinged on if the US defaults or not if things go upside down for everyone. So BRICS may be the true winners very soon if they play their cards right. Which it seems like they are doing day after day. Can the United States not default? Possibly. I mean we make the rules after all. Do we get sold out or do we wanna stack cash? Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk Feddy bois.

LiberaMeFromHell

I never said anything about the UK and I didn't say every single country outspends us. There are some we spend more than and some we spend less than. On Medicaid and Medicare we spend roughly $5500 per capita. Germany for example spends $8200 per capita. The only thing I said is we are on top in total spending but not government spending. I didn't say we are on the bottom in the latter.

42ATK

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/more-45-spending-growth-will-come-social-security-health-interest You're factually incorrect. The US GOVERNMENT spends more as a % and absolutely than the UK does on Medicare alone, ignoring 'Other Health' - adding that increases it even more. The UK is ~1/5th of the US in population. We spend more than 5x what the UK does, AS A GOVERNMENT. So you're wrong. That's also ignoring private costs.

m0nk_3y_gw

False. NVidia announced that on Monday Tesla was up afterwards / after hours Before market open on Tuesday UK sales numbers came out - Tesla was down and losing ground to China EVs. TSLA tanked. Today: Tesla was down 0.36%, which is nothing.

Terra_Nullius_Crisis

Contract with the UK?

Lime1028

Denmark had nearly as many deaths per capita as the US in Afghanistan. 1. Georgia (the country not the state) - 8.42 deaths per million 2. US - 7.96 3. Denmark - 7.82 4. UK - 7.52

Howarth-85

Kinda feels like a kick in the teeth reading that. I have friends and family that died in Afghanistan and Iraq wars. I'm from the UK. That man needs to get put in a padded cell.

ElmoLovesGrover

I was planning on selling last week, but have held and have averaged down some even. Currently 2,000 at 97 cents, so still plenty underwater. Doubt I will by much more, but am now planning on holding for the longer term. Liquidity/cash is their overwhelming problem. Their drug works -even FDA has clearly stated that more than once. Its already approved in UK and EU and they will be generating revenue from it the second half of the this year. Their drug has completed Phase 2s for two other indications.

VR_Bummser

This! September 11. About 800 non-US Nato soldiers died in Afghanistan. When the US called to arms, EU+UK+Can ran to help without hesitation. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition\_casualties\_in\_Afghanistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan)

VR_Bummser

"NATO wouldn't be there if the US needed them" \-> September 11. About 800 non-US Nato soldiers died in Afghanistan. When the US called to arms, EU+UK ran to help without hesitation. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition\_casualties\_in\_Afghanistan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan)

crockrocket

I'm 31 and American, and I had never heard about the Danish contribution until now. That was all very much glossed over in news coverage when I was a kid. If any coalition nations were mentioned it was the UK or Australia. Just goes to show how little of a shit the powers at the time cared about those sacrificing their lives. I'm sorry it isn't more widely known, and I wish I could say that it wasn't all for nothing.

Right_Mud_6595

Oh, my bad it’s £1 for UK stocks. Its also got a higher MC at £6.6b

ThatFUTGuy

i was worried for the UK in this geopolitics but now i know we are just the US’s biggest aircraft carrier i feel better

ai-moderator

#TLDR --- Ticker: RPI (LSE) Direction: Up Prognosis: Buy Shares (Long) Catalyst: Viral AI "vibe-coding" & Smart Mirrors Immunity: Orange Man Tariffs (UK Listed)

kim82352

.S. officials told Reuters that American forces are seizing the 'Marinera' 'Operation carried out by Coast Guard and US military, 300 miles south of Iceland' - 250km north of UK.

Icy_Jelly_315

Europoor here. I think for the first time ever 🌮 kinda has a point. Look at a globe. Greenland belongs to Denmark as obviously as India belongs to UK. It's already looking for independence. Their asses poor as fuk up there. $100k each, $1bn to Denmark and 3 cheers for self determination

Right_Mud_6595

This is the first UK stock I’ve seen on here in ages!

Inside_Lifeguard7211

Witholding tax from US to U.K. is 15% not 30% once you sing the W8BEN form which you can do through your trading platform. 15% is still more than zero but not as bad as 30%. If you’re after UK high dividends take a look at WINC.

dead_jester

UK has easily accessible vote by mail. As usual the tangerine mushroom 🍄‍🟫 peen is lying. That this works on Americans proves how brainwashed and ignorant and insular the USA is. A fascist police state

Kindly-Artichoke6569

UnitedHealth’s move to shed Optum UK is a calculated de-risking strategy. It mirrors the post-2008 era when conglomerates purged non-core European units to fortify domestic moats. TPG is betting on the long-term necessity of NHS digitisation. Which makes sense. Private equity thrives where public infrastructure lags. It’s a strategic response to mounting regulatory pressure.

TheFulaniChad

Still buying lol , UK mod just passed a massive deal with them

markcrystal00

Didn’t the UK steal or seize their assets back in the days..? Wasn’t some huge amount of Silver or something seized by the government in the UK..?

ThatFUTGuy

I think the US should give the UK the money to buy Greenland (we have an agreement from like pirate times) and then we give it to america and tell denmark to fuk themselves 🤩

ImpressiveNeat9039

Part -2 (Contd.) >Every single one of Chinas neighbors in SE Asia considers it the biggest threat so China has no wiggle room there. While that is true the issue has multiple nuances. First of all there is big Western media propaganda element in terms of overblowing things If there is war between US and China a lot of these nations won't automatically get involved -- rest assured. They will just steer clear and stay neutral. Next as China keeps getting powerful it will exert its power without actually invading or attacking these nations ..So the threats will be lesser and arrangements/deals more.. Much like how USA does in the Americas.. These nations would eventually come to terms with the new arrangement. That is how it normally works and most likely would work in this cases. US and India being friendly isn't a surprise. The US never did anything to India that was all the UK. Again Indians for long time have resisted US being pals with Pakistan. Infact 1971 was both US and UK were willing to send navy to assist Pakistan. The relations plummeted from 1970s through 1990s which included sanctions against India. USA was a formal ally with India's arch-nemesis with treaties like SEATO and to a lesser extent CENTO and wasn't popular in India at all except the pop-culture probably. Things only got better under Bush Jr. and subsequent regimes and were on an all time high only to nosedive now and and will remain so for near foreseeable future. Or they might get better again soon. Bangladesh and Pakistan had lot of bad blood post 1971.. Now they are as pally as they can get just with a change of regime. India and Bangladesh at government level were very close just 2 years ago and now look ! Ironically it is claimed CIA pushed Sheik Hasina out to control Bangladesh and instead Bangladesh got close to China !! Point again being "Stances, Alliances, POVs, Animosities -- none of them is permanent" .. Forget being permanent things can change rapidly. Once nations see an achievable goal in their self interest then can a short term alliance. Goal achieved then each his own way ! Again this is long term thing. 2-3 decades . So just wait for things to unfold and we will see. The US military today is a big differentiator today but may not necessarily so 30 years down the line. Countries will catch up to an great extent and after a certain point the differential would cease to matter !

Crazy-Buddy-164

I mean you’re not wrong. I could get a UK visa but I don’t know if it’s actually that great over there

Bazzer82

Will someone save the UK please? We're too regarded to look after ourselves nowadays. You should see most of these chumps we've got walking around.

Brutos08

Wait I voted by mail in the UK last election WTF didn’t realise it was the USA alone.

archaic_ent

The UK you can too

devils__avacado

Same in the UK. Only fascists want to make voting hard.

m0nk_3y_gw

that, and was announced UK sales are slumping more https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-uk-car-sales-slump-29-december-competition-heats-up-data-shows-2026-01-06/

Legitimate_Ask_349

Dw tho I’m still gonna find out who you are and report your messages to your boss. If you’re in the UK, then to the cops! Hope you had fun being racist! I don’t let racists get away. You messed with the wrong jeet xD

gagagagaNope

The EU annexed Northern Ireland with the complicity of the UK elite. Stranger things have happened.

Legitimate-Source-61

BAE, Babcock, already going up. As we are one of the closest markets to Greenland, UK stocks will probably go up as we would supply that area. Unemotionally, rightly or wrongly its incredibly bullish. IMO.

ThiccDiddler

>No I am not. I am cognizant of that and I am making my predictions keeping that in mind. China has a problem at hand certainly but there are good chances of them overcoming it eventually. The might be able to leverage the authoritarian state along with sufficient coffers. Then again with AI on the horizon you mayn't need too much of young human labor. I mean these are just bad predictions. 10 years is not enough time to pivot their economy away from being a manufacturing economy. And AI isn't replacing human hands in that scenario anytime soon. So they absolutely need young human labor and won't have enough. >But in the same token do you know that the TFR is USA is 1.6 (well below 2.1) and with US turning more and more anti-immigrant ; population replenishment in US via immigration also would be a challenge unless US is really to get browner and more Asian. Or US too could utilize AI and not care about young human labor. Meanwhile China is slowly opening its immigration even if partially. US is turning more anti illegal immigrant. It's still having over a million legal immigrants a year even under Trump. AI will be far more successful in the US economy compared to the Chinese one for the reasons stated above. China is not and probably will never make a real attempt to open up immigration enough. Even the CCP is subject to the will of the people to some extent and the Chinese just don't want immigration from poor countries. >My polarization point was not with made China in mind. The polarization point was made stating it could potentially cause internal implosion within the USA even without China having to do anything. Again India is far more polarized and chugs along just fine. While technically possible this is a bad bet and no country is moving forward thinking this a realistic outcome anytime soon. >Again you are thinking in terms of how things are today. Again since China how it is behaving today it won't behave necessarily so in 2-3 decades from now. I mean who in 1970 even thought US and China will become such big trade partners ? Or Russia or China could be allies. Or India and US will be good terms which they were for a while in most parts of this century. Chinas behavior in a couple decades is irrelevant because all its neighbors have had decades and even centuries of history with China and aren't going to be fooled by a very obvious switch up. People aren't idiots. They know what Chinas wants as an end goal. US and China was a surprise and also wasn't. There was no real bad blood there just an ideology disagreement. Other than that the US helped China vs the Japanese. The US making a policy decision to try and weaken Russia who they thought were a bigger threat isn't that out there. Every single one of Chinas neighbors in SE Asia considers it the biggest threat so China has no wiggle room there. Russia and China weren't a surprise. They really dont have any historical bad blood and outside of Russia considered China an inferior country the most of Europe did to every country outside Europe they generally were on okay terms even before the communists took power. US and India being friendly isn't a surprise. The US never did anything to India that was all the UK.

PutVivid6052

Yep. My mum done the same with Tony Blair in the UK. Turns out being handsome is half the battle!

Ok_Employment_192

Guys remember that the United States states of America without Europe (and perhaps the UK) are nothing. You have no history, no culture, not even your own language. You are a social experiment started by my fellow countryman Christopher Columbus a few centuries ago which didn't up very well. 

JimminoPatatino

Hey, most of Europe opened an hour ago. This is the UK dumping.

kadam_ss

Majority of Uber’s profitable rides come from North America and Western Europe. Even in those places, most profitable rides come from big cities. Like 20 big cities in NA and Europe. It’s like airline business, not app routes are profitable to the same degree. Some aren’t even profitable but you do it to maintain the network. Uber’s most profitable geographies are top 20 cities in North America and may be 10 cities in Western Europe. Waymo expanding to these and taking significant market share is enough to cripple Uber. No amount of rides in Philippines can replace the profitability of losing 30-40% market share in New York, Los angles, London and Toronto. Waymo is expected to expand to 20 cities in North America and UK in 2026. This will start showing up in Uber’s earnings from early 2027. Uber has nothing to offer in a self driving world. Without the need for a driver network, it’s an app that google can create in a matter of weeks.

Alert_Weird6893

“Long-term structural reliability” is doing a lot of work here for something that doesn’t exist yet. AI load growth isn’t theoretical. It is here, it’s happening this decade, not after a 15-year licensing, financing, and construction cycle. Peakers aren’t meant to carry baseload forever; they exist because they actually can be built and dispatched on human timelines. And the idea that SMRs magically avoid history is adorable. The UK tried exactly this after WWI…national priority, state backing, big promises. Result? Decades of delays, cost overruns, underperforming reactors, and a fleet that never scaled the way it was sold. Nuclear timelines didn’t improve then, and they haven’t magically improved now. [Check this or wiki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wrruwzASc) “Planning for the grid we need” is fine. Pretending that it helps AI workloads today or justifies hyping a pre-revenue company is not..PowerPoint is cool software but PowerPoint nuclear energy is not real

launchedsquid

You said that the defence of Greenland, if Denmark can't do it, is the responsibility of the UK because of that treaty, I'm just pointing out that that has already been tested and the UK didn't defend Greenland at that time, the US did. So the treaty has already been broken. I'm also pointing out that treaties aren't written in stone, they're written by people, and we can change them to reflect a changing world. That treaty was written when the UK had a world spanning empire and they were the undisputed global superpower, the UK no longer has the empire and is no longer a global superpower, they just aren't able to do the things they used to be able to do. Expecting them to honour the treaty when they lack the capability to do that is just burying your head in the sand.

launchedsquid

In WW2 it wasn't The UK that defended Greenland but the US, so the UK has already broken that treaty. Doesn't matter anyway, new treaties can be written, they aren't forged in the fires of mount doom. It's not a crime to make an offer to buy Greenland, the US has been offering since the 1800's.

gagagagaNope

The tens of thousands of UK and US troops that served up against the iron curtain somewhat disagree.

52-61-64-75

If the UK let's them stage an invasion of Greenland from England I hope the EU sanctions them to fuck

erebuxy

My money on Iran. Saw news about US military cargo planes arrived in UK.

Dr-Huricane

It is an option, it's just not the best. It's an expensive option that has compromises, degoogling in it's essence tries to reclaim as much control as possible over your digital presence, moving the control from Google's hand to Apple's hand is not the worst move as far as privacy is concerned, but apple is at the end of the day a profit seeking business, one that a country like the UK is capable of strong arming into doing whatever they want within their lands. That is not an issue someone installing an open source custom android rom has to worry about

DigitalSheikh

Idk, Denmark can’t really do anything about this situation on their own. Tbh I’m more curious about whether Germany and France and maybe the UK will strengthen their stance on the issue, because that would have some more weight. Perhaps Denmark should even invite their troops out there… you know, to deal with all those Russian ships that are apparently out there.

nopigscannnotlookup

Time for SHEL to move their company again, this time to the US. Being part of the UK/Euros just simply costs them money and market share. While the west and east carve up the world, the euros will simply be left out in the cold.

RequirementClassic49

Overtook Tik Tok in the UK (source: The Guardian) & Ads is the most profitable business model in the world.

BullishGoblin

Calling people normies while you post on the UK Office subreddit. Where’s the self awareness

LazerBurken

The US (CIA) loves to put loyal dictators in charge (especially in south America), don't you know anything about history? It's easier and more secure to strike deals with a dictator and a regime that will exist for a long time rather than a short term democratic elected government, which policies can change the next election cycle. What the people think is not important as long as the regime can strike down any insurgencies. The US together with the UK stopped Iran and Iraq from becoming democracies in order to control the oil and get as much money out of it as possible. Saddam played ball for a while, until he didn't, and that's when the US invaded. What is happening right now is just what the US always does.

LazyBondar

a) FDA didn't articulate need for a new Trial, but to provide more data b) company as a whole is not dead because they still can heavily capitalize in Europe and UK . I agree that it would sting alot to loose the US market. c) Market seems positive and the share price is rising steadily after rejection drop.

LazyBondar

Forgot to mention in the post - I would not invest if the drug was not already approved at EU & UK .. and you and I know that EU is much more strict with approvals than FDA which makes this a very special case.

SolidImpression7062

We were talking about the economy and maintaining a high level of societal function not specifically adopting western style liberal democracy. Singapore is ahead of all of Europe on that front. But if you did mean specifically political freedom most of the pacific micro nations and several Caribbean countries outrank the US and UK on that front (per freedom house). New Zealand which is quite temperate at least the part people live in is the second freest country in the world.

thetalentedmrbowser

No point in annexing the UK, they’re already sitting in the cuck chair

Fantastic-Ice-1402

I bought NATO ETF https://themesetfs.com/etfs/nato But there’s UK/EU defense companies like BAE Systems, Safran, Rheinmetall, Thales

HOMO_FOMO_69

"no one lifted a finger" tells us all we need to know about this low-effort slop post.... First of all, you have no idea what other countries are doing... Second, no modern government is going to feel compelled to make split second decisions when there is no immediate threat to their own country... Most governments tend to plan before they act. EU, UK, France, Germany - are going to spend several days or weeks deliberating and strategically planning out and likely coordinating their reactions. Germany will ask France, "whose side are y'all going to align with" and then France will go and tell UK that Germany is going to go this way so UK will put out this statement and France will double cross them and actually go the other way after UK makes their statement. Then China will say "We are one China" and Norway will say "that other side is wrong". Finally Australia will chime in and say "that's not a knife, this is a knife" - and who knows what happens then.

Salty-Animator4662

Keep investing in it for the longterm It’s the best thing the UK government has introduced when it comes to saving and investing. All earnings and dividends are tax free except for US stocks where you pay 15% dividend tax.

Independent-Tree-985

You jest, but the UK made that disclosure Saturday morning

Put_Er_There_Sport

My only concern is how the UK, Russia, and China react off this

achim_bn

USA gave permission to China and Russia by violating sovereignty of Venezuela. Nevertheless Maduro was a dictator to his people and this should not be neglected, but by this operational move, China and Russia have got the permission to do what ever they want, in their neighbor countries. NATO with the US is going to be history! Good to have France and UK as nuclear power nations in Europe!

Ok_Revolution_9253

I mean I guess, but again, the second one of the European countries tried to get rid of one of the US bases, the US would go full war mode. I'm not saying it's a good thing hah, it's awful, and I for one want to be friendly and ensure stability in Europe and an everlasting US European friendship. BUT, I'm just being real, there is no situation, outside of a first strike scenario where the UK and French authorities somehow manage to launch all of their Nukes at the US at the same time, in what would have to be one of the most secretive missions ever. It's just not going to happen. I genuinely hope that someday Trump has to face a true prosecution for war crimes.

saccotac

Why not just take Canada, and then liberate the UK

case-o-nuts

Correct; America is British, and should be annexed by the UK, of course.

WeddingNo8531

My ooint was it took a huge Russian effort, plus the US, UK, Canada, France etc from the west to defeat Germany on its own, and it was still close. Therefore Germany had the best army, same as US now.

Icy_Jelly_315

Fun fact. In the 1920s Japan tried to flood the UK with cocaine as a covert warfare sort of deal. Cocaine was from Taiwan, coca trees grow good there

RequirementClassic49

Reddit overtaking TikTok in the UK (source: The Guardian), especially for Gen Z. RDDT going to pump so hard on Monday.

TreGet234

How high are the odds the euro will dump soon? Kinda worried, europe is usually pretty ass for investing. I also don't just wanna fullport poland even though they look to be having explosive growth. Latin america seems screwed with trump being openly hawkish against countries that dance out of line, though if commodities are indeed the next big play it should still be worth investing in. South korea looks incredible by virtue of sk hynix and samsung being like half the msci korea index. China tech may have bottomed out and also looks like a solid entry point. Canada is a wild card with venezuela and the impact on the oil market. UK looks bad if the pound keeps dropping, but much like with the dollar if it rebounds (at least relative to the euro) there is big potential for growth.

Impressive-Name5129

Markets commodities open at 11pm tonight UK time. Its currently 8am UK time. This means markets open in 15hrs for commodities trade

sailortyx56

Central Bank of Venezuela got like 30 tonnes+ of gold sitting in Bank of England's vaults. Those planes (C-17s) are most likely going to take them from UK. It is all part of the 'negotiated exit'.

RiPFrozone

The US and UK frequently travel through the Taiwan straight as a show of force. China strongly objects this, however there isn’t much they can do. China claims it as their waters, both the US and UK see it as open water. An invasion of Taiwan would kick off WW3, there is no question about it. China doesn’t have fighting a long drawn out war against the world in their 100 year plan. The chances of a physical invasion are pretty low. They more likely want to invade socially/politically. However, from what I have seen the Taiwanese people are adamant they are independent.

IntelligenzMachine

A lot of the old boring UK/EU companies steadily print money at cheap valuations. It is basically Warren Buffett territory. HSBC 17 P/E, 50% gain last year, 5% dividend yield, slow and steady Asian expansion.

Crazy_Donkies

Get in,  we're all bombing countries this weekend.  France, UK, Murica, North Korea. 

jaapi

All of America benefits and the petro dollar... As awful as it is, your life as an American will be better because of this (if you are are American or UK, and if EU indifferent) Ie lot of US companies outside of of energy will greatly benefit

Traditional_Ad_2348

It’s def wise to have foreign exposure in this current environment. My favorite UK stock is currently RYCEY. I’m looking more into Brazilian markets and would like more exposure in Germany too. I have a lot of exposure to Canadian markets through OTC stocks. Mostly mining/materials, and quantum computing companies. These stocks were extremely helpful to my overall performance the past year as they were my most reliable gainers. If you want European data center exposure then hop into EDGM.

Happy_Discussion_536

Facts are facts. China, Russia and Iran was building a presence there, growing influence. Western assets were being seized and being pushed out. They're the largest reserve in the world. With the game Maduro was playing it was FAFO and inevitable. Entire free world supports us behind cameras. Venezuelan 2025 Nobel peace prize winner Machado has been begging Trump to remove Maduro. Will our companies get the best deals and first dibs? Obviously but EU, Canada, UK, Japan everyone benefits from this.

SolidImpression7062

Meanwhile the UK “damn pretty impressed” the EU “cool just try not to let it get out of hand” Russia Cuba and WSB “NoOOOOoooo”

CleanMyAxe

Explain how it isn't part of the Qing empire. Please. They suppressed civil unrest, took a direct role in Tibetan affairs to the point they multiple times basically installed the entire government and the Tibetan government accepted Qing authority even in the waning years of the Qing. It seems to me a part of the Qing empire unless you don't accept majority of Europe was Roman, British overseas territories are/were British or even today that places like Puerto Rico a US territory. I don't think giving a place some level of governance makes it not a part of the whole. Or is Wales not in the UK?