Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Efforts

[phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee]

Can we have firearm vending machines, too?

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

The EEC is such an underexplored subject in the Cyberpunk universe. Member states are actually democratic (shocker, I know), votes in the European Council are allocated according to the member states' wealth, a hundred million eddies per seat. Want to be a Merc? The European way is to go to a trade school which churn out licensed special force commandos. ESA literally rules space, even Arasaka has to bend the knee, there. Forget nukes if you try shit the EEC is going to drop a couple of asteroids on your head. Worker's rights? Well yes your implants won't right-out kill you if you quit your job, and the unions are probably just as capitalist as the companies, maybe reverting to a guild system (both are speculation, as said: Underexplored). Overall much more and much smaller companies, the EEC is actively working against Megacorps being a thing, though at least the Asian Megacorps have a solid position on the European market.

In our timeline it's often forgotten how the EU started out as a trade cartel and that this stuff is still very deep in its bones, yet somehow the Cyberpunk timeline also manages to capture the fall of colonialism. The EEC is more than powerful enough to take over lots of stuff without breaking a sweat but I guess the consensus is "why should we take over Night City then we have to rule it".

Regarding foreign policy: Canada indeed is the closest ally. NUSA relations are tense AF because Americans be jealous because NUSA politicians like to distract from their own incompetence and propagandise, USSR solid economical working arrangement (EEC can squeeze more productivity out of Eastern Europe than them and Moscow gets a cut), Asia in general, South America, Africa, generally solid relations but of course competetive, Japan, arch competitor. Also, ex-member of the EEC. Is it even possible to call Japan and Arasaka different entities.

[cheesenoodle@lemmy.world]

Also Trump and his rhetoric is pretty much following the canon of Cyberpunk 2077 to the letter just with a 50 year or so delay.

[cheesenoodle@lemmy.world]

We're about 50 years delayed on the timeline, We're just at the panamanian conflict which is what ultimately sparks the fragmentation of the USA and eventual birth of the NUSA. On the bright side that means we have like 30 years until data crash.

[Guest]

To resist a tyrannical government just like what's happening in the US right?

[phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee]

Foreign invasion.

[Guest]

Not at all. See the second amendment and the declaration of independence

[sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech]

I can't keep the timelines straight, especially when ours seems to be veering straight into 2077

[nfamwap@lemmy.world]

Can UK join the EU. Please.

[cygnus@lemmy.ca]

Btw, did the US buy the plans or strike some kind of deal regarding the Arrow?

The US (and everyone else, really) were already working on similar designs. I'm not an expert but I think they were all shelved; the UK ones certainly were, because they started on their own designs after considering buying the Arrow. The major loss was many Avro staff who went to the US. That's what I was referring to when I said the Americans gutted our program; we never fully recovered from that brain drain. We've maintained a pretty strong aerospace sector (the Canadarm being a famous example) but in the 50s we were world-class.

[allo@sh.itjust.works]

As someone in Washington State, yeah when does Washington Oregon California get to accept the invite to Canada and join in on this. We aren't like the others.

[nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

that's most of the big technology companies, more than half the equity in the stock market i think. it would be interesting for sure.

[birch@sh.itjust.works]

You sit in the corner and think about what you did! If you're ready to be an adult you can sit with the grown ups again.