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Financial Times drops the bars
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Defend the continent from who? The teetering regime that has spent the past 5 years drawing the poorest country on the continent to a stalemate?
And the same regime definetly has the power to rule territory in which it’s despised by the majority of the population. /s
War is very expensive though. It makes sense to spend fraction of that on a deterrent and that’s one thing EU does really well is to hedge all investments for overall stability. This is more of the same.
Interestingly it’s always the welfare state that has to be sacrificed, that is too expensive etc. The foundation of our democracy IMO.
But at least the americans think about us and want to help us! /s
Defend the continent from people whose countries are becoming unlivable, and from missing out on all the resources we might want to procure.
I’m afraid we’ve really entered into a new era of increasing aggression and warfare.
Well, kinda, yeah. The only reason that has been a stalemate is that Europe mustered a bunch of support for Ukraine, at great expense. They’ve needed to gather and regather the will to spend money on this throughout, if you’ve been paying attention you’ve seen it.
Now I totally object to someone saying they need to dismantle their social programs to dump all that money into warfare, but neither should we say there is no threat at all.
What exactly will happen if there are suddenly “separatists” in Narva?
There’s 2.200 soldiers in Tapa which I assume would be deployed immediately.
There’s a total of 27.000 soldiers deployed as part of the Enhanced Forward Presence NATO deference. So they need a little more than just “separatists”
So let’s kill what makes our countries worth to live in.
Fuck you, bootlicker!
I’m an American. Y’all Europeans don’t believe the horse shit they got most of my countrymen to accept.
Also, that Janan Ganesh guy looks like a putz.
The people are what makes the continent.
If you stop defending the people, what are you defending?
Wealth. The wealth of companies and individuals that have no loyalty except to themselves.
What about taxing wealth, while reducing mass taxes like the VAT to finally get people to spend again? Increasing peoples salaries would also help, and capping rent to what it costs to ensure upkeep and needed new construction - i think that would easly do the trick to fill the states coffers and get the economy out of this slump instead of filling the bank accounts of shameless, greedy people. Those will find other ways to enrich themselves, maybe through the defense industry.
And take money away from the hard working Epstein Class!?
Because these locusts leave and take everything that is taxable with them.
And i doubt a one time moving Tax is a good deterrent.
The only Thing the state could do is seizing the means of Produktion before Hand, but we can barely Imagine a wealth Tax. State capitalism is was of the Charts for Most peoples Imagination.
They can’t take real estate with them, and there’s no reason why a foreign owner of real estate can’t be taxed more than a local owner. Dividends of stocks in local businesses can still be taxed, as can transfers of ownership of those stocks on the local stock exchange. They’re also dependent on the state they left for any governments bonds they own as well as for enforcing any loans local legal persons owe them.
They can sell all those things, of course, but that just means other people have to start paying more taxes.
So we have to make sure that most of the world implements these taxes. Tax havens should be ostracized. In this specific case, there’s no need for a communist revolution, just political will to change something, diplomacy and unwillingness to budge towards countries who don’t want to play fair.
So we have to make sure that most of the world implements these taxes
Arent we already trying?
Tax havens should be ostracized.
Why should they care? They have more Money now. Of course not as much as they could have, but more than they Had previously.
In this specific case, there’s no need for a communist revolution, just political will to change something, diplomacy and unwillingness to budge towards countries who don’t want to play fair.
The people everywhere already try the diplomatic way, but breaking political will with capitalist media is part of the counter Offensive of the Bourgeoisie against the reformist struggle.
The need to Organize is equally important in reformist battles as in revolutionary Battles. Furthermore, the dependancy of the plan on global scale action means organization of scale unheard of in human History.
I remember years ago reading an article complaining that Germans are too frugal and their frugality will negatively impact the economy because of lack of consumption. And I thought to myself: “Hang on. I thought they tell us to spend only on what we need?” And if we do spend as they have wanted, the elites will say this is why we can’t afford a house because we spent it all on avocado toasts.
This is the hypocrisy, gas lighting and double standards of capitalism. They tell us such and such is good, and when we do exactly what they tell us, and it has had negative consequences, they say it’s our fault. It reminds me of one of the episodes in the first season of Squid Game, in which the players were winning but the games master broke the rules to handicap the players.
Wish this wasn’t evergreen.
Because austerity measures worked so well after the housing bubble burst. 🙄
No, that’s like dad straight up saying “I know you need new clothes for winter, but I don’t like you and I do like drinking, so I’m going to spend our money at the bar instead.”
Saying we don’t have the money to feed the poor is at least having some shame about it.
Europe drops the welfare state for fucking what? To spend money in weapons from usa? The same weapons that usa can disable remotely while they treat to invade iceland?
Nice…
My favourite right-wing trope is that the US can’t have socialised healthcare because they spend so much on defending Europeans so that they can.
Also the same weapons the USA wastes on a completely useless war.
«Opinion» pieces are a way for news media to cover their asses.
Financial Times has been maskless for a long time.
It’s sort of there thing. FT is where the business people go to talk about business. The NYT is where they go to scream “Ah! Socialism! China! Migrant Caravans! AI Gap!” at the rubes.
It’s the highest priced subscription of any paper by far. That alone should tell you something.
Only desperate people, right-wing gun nuts and neo-nazis join the army voluntarily, so that sounds about right.
No way to make more rich people richer than to sacrifice the underclasses benefits.
It’s so unjust that I don’t have everything!!
Just stop subsidizing the rich, problem solved.
Janan Ganesh wants to suck billionaire dick and lick their boots
Yeah.
Ganesh co-authored Compassionate Conservatism (2006) with Jesse Norman, which received the T. E. Utley Memorial Prize for young journalists.
Norman and Ganesh argue that Britain faces the two great problems of trust and security in the 21st century, and only a compassionate conservatism as expressed by Conservative prime minister David Cameron can provide the understanding of what British society is and could be that is necessary to solve them.
“Compassionate Conservatism”, well there’s an oxymoron for you. And “as expressed by David Cameron” of all people. This guy really does not care about being credible, does he?
