‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’

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  • If Russia takes it all it will be a boon to everyone. Even Ukrainians themselves. Russians will just have to pay the price of dealing with all the radicals-shit and pay for reconstruction. I have no doubt that if rump-Ukraine still stands after war, EU will leave it and it’s people to rot as thanks for dying to hurt Russia. Everyone is increasingly unwilling to pay for Ukraine’s war anymore. It’s more than likely that nobody will pay Ukraine anything after the war and since much of the loans were guaranteed on existing Ukrainian assets and land and resources in Donbass they will have nothing, less than nothing. but it’s not just about the money. Ukraine has no people, economy, infrastructure or political stability left and it will likely be landlocked.

    Ukraine left alone will be known as lawless hub of terrorism and weapons- and human trafficking for decades to come. Like Libya, but in Europe.




  • So if Russia doesn’t and will not ever accept nato troops or Nato in Ukraine, that only leaves the option of ending Ukraine. Since the war can’t go on forever nor does Russia think they can just give up, because that would leave Nato closer to it’s borders than it was before.

    I not for a second believe that western leaders are so stupid and actually blinded by “”“principles”“” that they don’t understand this. They still just seek unconditional Russian capitulation (and regime change) or just keeping the war going as long as possible.





  • The biggest reasons I see is that Europe is still a collection nation states whit each having it’s own language, culture, laws and needs, EU hasn’t removed those (yet, god forbid). There really is no single market for many services like there is in the US, in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country even with the EU, since EU usually regulates retroactively not so much proactively.

    The second is that there is nothing like the US federal government or military that could fund and/or bootstrap tech companies with contracts. Like google, SpaceX and Microsoft have both benefited massively from taking lucrative contracts from military government and US intelligence agencies in the past. Those allowed them to grow and consolidate first cover the US and then springboard themselves global.