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  • They never intended to follow through, or do it so anyone can easily defect the agreement.

    The US has real power. Economically and military power. There is a reason they published their plans to invade the Hague should any American be convicted at the ICC. Some similar arrangement would be found with this.

    You have to think as cynically as possible, the people in power will too. Then think of something that all sides avoid that thing or you will be thrown under the bus by however holds power.


  • From a game-theory standpoint (which markets are an instance of such a game) he is not even incorrect. If we tax someone at 15%, while the US doesn’t they will take their business there (if possible). This is not a normative statement, this sucks and will lead to the world’s destruction (literally wiht global warming, and the same for arms races and war). But is is correct.

    Here is my (semi) hot take: To really change anything in the world you cannot be game-theoretically naive. We cannot just by cynnical like the market-liberals, because they are willing to sacrifice the planet and humans for their goals.

    We need to be post-cynical. Recognising that just claiming the morally right thing will never get us the power to change anything and just striving for the power to change will make us just as evil as them. If we want to change things for the better we have to hold them both in mind.




  • Alternativ, wenn man den Geschack nicht so geil findet (wie ich), auch andere Hülsenfrüchte.

    Getrocknet kriegt man die meist Spottbillig, die meisten erfordern dann zwar einlegen und/oder kochen, aber das sind unbeausichtigte Aufgaben. Sind getrocknet quasi ewig haltbar und brauchen wenig Platz weil sie eher nährstoffdicht sind.

    Meine Favoriten sind Kichererbsen, weiße Bohnen und Käferbohnen.




  • To add: The way the current “aid” for Ukraine is structured the ugly truth is: no matter which side wins the war - they will break apart and sell Ukraine in chunks.

    Russia is obvious to most, but the western aid is not free of charge either (as is projected so often). They will take their aid agencies and carve up the most important industries Ukraine has: Agriculture, some mining and High-purity neon gas for chip producion. The golden straight jacket. Is it better than getting conquered by Russia: YES. We are not the saintly helpers our leaders would want us to think we are.

    The US and the EU WILL be recuperating their costs from the ukrainian people. There will be an economic plundering akin to Greece - even if they win.




  • A think tank paid for by rich countries, banks and big corporations says that we have no other choice than to spend absurd amounts of money to defeat our rival.

    If this was the first time this happened in history I could forgive that you fall for this propaganda. But there is a 70 year history of this happening to the US and its allies.

    They are gonna cut social spending, they will shove money to their international friends via the IMF and “development” agencies and you are gonna applaud them for it.

    If they were serious about this, if these were the “european values” everyone talks about, we would prevent the arms manufacturers from war profiteering and deliver the equipment to Ukraine directly. It is not the concept of arms delivery that I criticize - it is the concrete implementation. They take on huge debts for something that can be done much cheaper.