the 10-year old investment is now beginning to become operational.

I wonder, though: can the US deactivate European owned, or Canadian owned, military equipment, remotely?

Firefox’s translation of 1 paragraph is this gem…

But for now, Washington’s intentions are fucked in fog: what level of taxation, what country, what timetable, and what trading margins? The US administration itself does not seem to have finalised its grandiose project. The good news is that the focal length tightens. The bad thing is that Europe remains a target of choice.

Dear G-D that is brilliant, that 1st sentence…

from what I’ve read, https://www.deepl.com/ is the proper translation to get…

when one’s “intentions are fucked in fog” … rotflmao

English is definitely improved by such contributions!

_ /\ _

Understand that Trump & others like him, are committed to presiding over the destruction of the world not surviving it.

They’re looking quite-successful, once their true-goal is understood…

I’ve read that the insurance people are far more accurate than “general sentiment” for measuring incoming disasters…

This is what policy should be anchoring-on, not ideological feelings…

_ /\ _

I just glanced-at https://graymirror.substack.com/p/its-easy-from-here & his intellectual-dishonesty is rank.

Is the “power” of a person who “controls” their body through endlessly taking drugs, according to their current-whim,

… somehow “the same” as the power of a ninja/yogi, who trains endlessly in self-management & self-conquering??

1 is ignoring-the-costs ( the drugs-user ) & the other is working-within-own-means ( which is what “yoga”, aka the verb “to yoke”, or “to harness” means ).

The same is true of governments.

Some are irresponsible, others responsible: it’s a spectrum, Duh…

& the far-upright has never been explored, by the politically-motivated.

Too bad the next-generation has only this disinformation, MSM’s normalizing-of-this, & anti-ideology-ideologies to grow in…

that’s going to cost LOTS of lives, throughout this century’s unfolding…

_ /\ _

1st article I tried on there was https://graymirror.substack.com/p/chevron-and-the-professional-republicans

The fundamental-error that that perspective is making, is that you CAN’T run a continent-sized-tiny-human-population ( ancient Africa ) the same way you run a 400,000,000-people, multiplied-through-technology, half-continent, like the US of A:

The no-regulations you can have on the whole-Africa-inhabited-by-few, doesn’t correctly map onto 1,000x the population, in less space, with 10,000x or 100,000x the resource-consumption, through technology.

When one’s ideology is dependent on ignoring that … then … it is impossible to respect the “integrity” ( with the falsifying-quotes on that word ) of what you’re pushing.

THE DENSER THE POPULATION, & THE GREATER THE RESOURCE-CONSUMPTION OF IT, THE TIGHTER THE REGULATION HAS TO BE, TO MAKE IT SUSTAINABLE

Think of a vehicle engine:

• consumer vehicle, it never is run to its limit, so it can be neglected, & it’ll still work for a reasonable-lifespan.

vs

• race-vehicle: it is ALWAYS run at it’s limit, & ANY neglect quickly becomes fatal.

See?

The low-population-density of ancient Africa didn’t need tight-regulation to be keeping it alive!

However, nowadays humankind’s tech-multiplied costing-of-the-world-ecology is sooo-great that if we won’t tightly-regulate our process, then we’re reducing the number-of-generations who are allowed to live on this world, with our shortsightedness.

Sloppiness is literally slaughtering our own future-generations.

He’s ignoring that, as most right-wingers do.

Notice, though, as the commuter-vs-race-engine example shows: if you want performance … then you want your “ship” to be the tightest-run ship in the race so that ALL of its effort goes into productivity:

leave the sloppy-unregulated “competitors” in the dust, behind you, when you reach the finish-line.

This identifies that proper regulation increases the value of an economy, not reduces it.

( Brexit might be an object-lesson demonstrating this principle )

_ /\ _