musing and thoughts from an EU citizen looking in from the outside...
To preserve city centers historical, our air clean, our energy green and our pensions high, we are suffocating our economy, taxing our young people and business away, and becoming the most beautiful retirement suburb in the world. Sure, from Tromsø to Lampedusa you'll be overwhelmed with beauty. It might be art, history, culture, architecture, or just natural beauty. But our economy has been…
A protectionist trading stance, disregard and disrespect of military allies, violent suppression of dissidence and a heavy use of propaganda; recent developments all point to a shift from global power basing its strength on exporting culture, products and services, towards an autocratic local power, protecting its local workforce and local production. What are the U.S.A. preparing to defend…
TL;DR: a slice of the people that did not vote Trump hold perhaps more blame for what is going on. The geopolitical situation right now is absurd. The U.S., after being the world police for 75 years, have decided to demand territory from their allies on the pretext that they need such territory for defense, despite the fact that they have free rein to set up whatever bases and equipment they want…