One representative from a client wanted to be there for every small change we made. The guy slept so little, his cognitive functions stopped working correctly and he started giving nonsense answers. His manager had to put him in a cab and send him home with strict orders to sleep and not come back for 48 hours.
You don’t want a person like that running a country. These are the types that accidentally start a war.
Seems like a good time for the EU to get ready for moving troops to Ukraine and start with “flying sanctions” too.
And every time the politicians start with “the costs to mah economy”. They know every bullet fired means less healthcare and pension they can give to voters and that’s often sensitive thing during elections.
But by now they’re figuring out that acting like total wussies is losing votes too.
In the book it was a huge amount of scope creep, Hammond refusing to pay for it and then acting all entitled.
It also causes resources to go to the eu’s defense instead of Ukraine’s offense so it’s in Putin’s interest to spread the rumors.
Yes, with a short golden age roughly between WWII and the seventies, and going downhill for most people since then.
The system worked like that for a few millennia. We’re just looking at not even a century that’s the exception and assume it’s the new norm. No, it’s just reverting to the old state now that the period of cheap and easy resources is gone.
And nicely signaling USA can’t win any war anymore, or protect any ally. Buggered out of Afghanistan. Walking away from Ukraine. I guess Venezuela isn’t that impressed by that big boat nearby.
And Tesla already walked right into that one. They produced their cars in China, starting up an ecosystem for EV parts, and that gave dozens of new Chinese car manufacturers the means to start up to become cheaper and more innovative. Now Tesla’s sales are dropping and dropping there.
So of course Volkswagen is there to say “we can do that too”.
Translation: we want some dirt cheap foreign H1B worker for this position but can’t legally say so
import tax carbon tax
It’s the perfect excuse after not coming to a shared arrangement.
My cat has an entire garden to run around in. Still comes in and chews on the indoor plants.
Meanwhile an aircraft carrier is in the Caribbean for the war against drugs and/or terror, and there are only crickets.
And if they do sign the deal, it’s probably installing a Russian puppet regime, squeezing every penny by USA and Russia to pay back the war and a new invasion in 10 years.
Tarrif the shit out of USA products and services “as retaliation” for this plan.
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure gives you a much better bargaining position.”
The only thing money buys you is the burning desire for a lot more money.
Putin is really pushing it because Russia is spiraling down in a very tight “and then it got worse” loop that is getting shorter and shorter by the day.
The other half is the one that always vote for right wing parties. He’s their hero.