If Boeing was a southern european country ...
Then would haven´t gotten the 707 off the ground, let alone any other airplane.
But you´re right, one wonders, 346 killed, nobody (to my knowledge) in custody, after the VW diesel scandal broke in the US (an ESTIMATED 59 premature deaths acc. to a study), the gloves were off immediately.
But then, the Max killed mostly non-US folks...