Markets are centralised enough that adaptability, inventiveness and other things like this don’t really matter any more. In a free market, sure. On Wall Street?
If market dynamics mattered at all, Tesla would be bankrupt, and so would be Oracle, Microsoft and many others.
Russia has seemingly broken itself by the war economy drive to the point hey are incapable of stopping the war on any terms, as it would immediately collapse the country.
If Ukraine were to capitulate, another war would immediately start, likely in Moldova, then the Baltics, then…
There is simply no peace until Russia reforms economically, societally and governmentally.
I think the Russians have enough depth near Melitopol that the bridge itself, despite being important is not the absolutely critical supply line it once was.
It is a symbol of Russia’s efforts of integrating occupied Crimea though, that makes it a more important target.
It wasn’t “revealed”, it was always known in the sense that both USAID and the CIA are part of US foreign policy.
This is like saying “Walmart is an arm of the IRS” because they collect sales taxes.
are not “the same kind of genocide” perpetrated by the despots he cited
The most egregious acts of genocide Stalin committed were not political killings, but the large scale sacrifice of people on the altar of economic progress. So no, it is exactly the same kind of genocide.
Not defending OP, but it really feels like most US mainstream news is also complicit at this point, they just play different roles.
Underwater shockwaves are no joke. The bridge is still standing though, wonder how long.
I wonder if that works if there aren’t any “next guys” in the plan.
Let people be, I don’t like the phenomenon of influencers either, but on the one hand if they can grift advertising money from megacorps, good for them, and if you don’t consume toxic social media, you won’t ever meet them.
I for one, haven’t seen an influencer post in my life.
I guess “computer janitor” = moderator, and the person above you does not like world mods.
On that we agree. It’s more that capitalists are traitors to society.
It’s not like Putin is fighting against capitalism, him being one of the biggest capitalists of the world.
Nothing changed in Poland, the last president was a dirtbag too.
Slovakia is what it is, but Fico can usually be reasoned with.
Hungary is going to oust its government in less than a year.
Thoughts and prayers
The EMN project promotes a group of U.S. military veterans as experts and pundits willing to talk about the war in Ukraine. Some of them have been echoing Kremlin propaganda lines by claiming that U.S. military support for Ukraine is extending and intensifying the fighting, and suggesting that NATO expansion was one of the causes of the war. “We gave Putin just cause,” the director of EMN, Dennis Fritz, told The Daily Beast in an interview.
This is not “anti-war” this is a “why are you hitting yourself” way of looking at things. Ukraine is a sovereign country that can make its own decisions. Supporting their fight against the invasion is not warmongering, it’s the opposite. After all, it is just the latest in Putin’s long list of wars, and if it does not stop at Ukraine, he will start more wars.
Oh they’ll force you to use it. It will be shoved into every service you use, also ones you need to use. You will not be able to do your work, access government services, or live your life without going through them.
Late stage capitalism has killed the free market a while ago.
Even Europe had important discoveries and inventions through that time, like the windmill.
The whole Dark Ages schtick was made up by Enlightenment people to make them feel better about themselves.
Is this a mock fight then?
Did Trump and Musk actually do anything against each other or is it just a headline each time either of them manages to string together a sentence longer than three words?
Nothing in the constitution against it /s
Where are TSA unions located on the scale of worker’s unions to police unions?