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In real China winners get picked by networks of ccp members, to profit from them.
You might more accurately call it an incentive for success of enterprises, so that the networks can get their spoils.
It's not the state driving it. It's the party networks.
And it's not pretty. They can expropriate via cancelled licenses if you don't play along. Etc..
Free market Capitalism is dead in the USA, winners are getting picked. Coal over solar. Who knows, perhaps it's right, but I suspect not.
Houses and stocks got cheaper per ounce of gold last 20 years. But in terms of dollars they got way more expensive... inflation has been robbing us for more than 2 decades.
It sort of implies it will be quikcly under active investigation by hostile actors, and then get's raised to an urgent threat?
They can have their day in an impartial court of law. If they're right they will prevail.
I think the party in the USA has ended. And I'm definitely not investing there again until there is some clarity about the next regime.
By anyone. The world over.
If you're seriously saying this isn't war, bombing Iran, you're just engaging in willfull self deception at this point.
The reality is that the EU has had plans for strategic autonomy in case of necessity, for a longer time. But hasn't enacted them because the US was a trusted partner. And this has been the balance of things since the 2nd world war, so roughly 85 years.
The reality now is upside down: In most of the EU the US now has a reputation on par with Russia and China, and the theme is to enact strategic autonomy as soon as possible.
This is a tipping point, because up until now the US enjoyed the position of uncontested dominance, backed by a multiplier equal it's economic weight and global influence etc.. This is no longer self-evident, because of reasons, but at the end of the day this is due to decisions Americans made and which their children will also have to live with.
I genuinely wonder if this isn't the decade in which the US shot itself in the head and crippled itself for the next 85 years. For basically no reason, other than self-interested and self-enriching politics.
It's literally incredible how much hard work and effort was thrown out in the span of two years, which took hundreds of years to accumulate. And I don't think the second time roud will be any easier or quicker.
Hence highlighting the completely schizofrenic bind this position entails.
Because no one would consider a nuke anything other than a war, and the same applies to these planes dropping these bombs.
Isn't an act of congress required for this, in the US?
It's not what the EU wants at all. That assumption is the root of your arguments, but it is wrong.
The EU wasn't created to shaft America or anyone else.
In fact, the reason so many US services and companies were doing business in the EU was because the USA had a stellar reputation as an ally and as a society.
But at this point, after the ICJ, Greenland annexation, weapon kill switches, White house office ambushes, hostile tarrifs, and all the other drama and threats and coercion, arrests of EU citizens etc.. it's a theme that the EU no longer can trust nor rely on the US. The US only cares for itself, not any friends and allies.
Put simply: The USA wouldn't host it's federal websites on Alibaba Cloud. And the US isn't a trusted reliable friend and ally anymore, as regrettable as that is, it means a pivot away from relying on anything US is necessary. And common sense. To anyone not drinking the cool aid. ;)
The IT of the ICJ on MS 365 got shut off... After a truth social post.
EU law means nothing when the employees are on the next plain to Washington. And when the funding and expertise and infrastructure is tightly controlled by USA entities, who'm react severely to the posts of the commander in Chief. (As would I)
If you were expecting European attendance, that would explain why it's different from the past.
It's the same in science circles, tourism and even business travel.
I'm not sure how you can even qualify an idea or religion as violent or anti-violent, other than by the behavior of it's adherents.
It's clear to me there are violent fanatics in all reglions, I can't believe I have to make THAT argument here.
The only thing you can do is convince people, I think. Most folks are trying to stay in their bubble.