It's Like We're Our Own Nation Or Something

‘The EU Disapproves’: Brussels Angry Trump Acted on Coronavirus Without Their Permission

First off, we don't need your permission to do things.

Actually, that's the whole thing.

I'm kind of happy to watch the nation-state model, a proven model, return.

I am not surprised that they think we need their permission, we've been conceding to their demands for a long time.

PS:

This sort of thing is also a point of friction here in Florida when people from up north retire here.  They firmly believe that the laws they grew up with are still in effect here.

It's doubly bad when we get people from other nations retiring here, or snow-birding.  Canadians, in particular, don't seem to grasp that the US doesn't have the same laws and that each state has far more latitude in making law than their provinces.