alt Hacker News> such as making life difficult getting Schengen visas for all those US citizens you constantly read about on the CNN website who are flocking to Europe
Trashing your own tourism sector is a very European defense mechanism.
The truth is there is one and only one way Europe can try reclaiming sovereignty, and it’s the one that’s most painful—rebuilding its own military.
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embedding-shape • today at 3:25 PM
> Trashing your own tourism sector is a very European defense mechanism.
Yeah, virtually unheard of in a certain North American country, where every tourist with a certain skin color never been very worried about being extra-judicially sent to an internment camp.
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> Trashing your own tourism sector is a very European defense mechanism.
Please re-read my post .... in particular the first two words "IN THEORY".
As far as I am aware, the option I mentioned has never, ever been mooted as a possibility. It was something I invented as a random example of a non-sanction possibility.
> rebuilding its own military
Aah yes, because a strong military has been so awesome for the US in the US–Iran war where IIRC the Iranians managed to destroy lots of very expensive US military radars[1] and other expensive assets[2][3] in the region despite your president having claimed to have "destroyed 100% of Iran's military capability".
But let's not get in to politics....
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/05/middleeast/radar-bases-us... [2] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/30/middleeast/us-air-force-a... [3] https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-b...