Recent content by contricusc

The people of Crimea voted to join Russia for higher pensions. I wonder if they regret their decision now…

What you’re mentioning has nothing to do with helping Ukraine and with a lack of money. It’s all related to bad strategic decisions. Energy crisis? That’s self inflicted. Germany shutting down nuclear energy, lack of investment in North Sea oil because of an obsession with CO2 emissions and eco...

The US has historically invested the most in developing weapons, in both terms of money and human capital (engineers, IT specialists, etc). The results speak for themselves. They lead in civilian technology as well, because what was initially developed for military purposes often ended up...

The cost of energy is important only for industries with high energy intensity like chemicals, cement production or fertilizers. For most manufacturing, it is not a decisive input cost. Europe’s manufacturing suffers far more because of regulation, high wages and labor unions.

That’s the best part. He is trapped and his decisions are distorted by the sunken cost fallacy. He will ruin Russia just because he already sacrificed a lot, for nothing. If Putin were a smart man, he would negotiate a peace now, giving back the stolen lands to Ukraine, and putting an end to...

Europe’s problems are not because of a lack of money. Europe is wealthy. It has plenty of money to fix its problems. What it lacks is the will to do it, and a coherent strategy. Europe doesn’t have to choose between supporting Ukraine and fixing its problems. It can easily do both. If Europe...

It’s the other way around. If there were people like me in high positions in Europe, we would see high economic growth, low regulations and booming investments in Europe, while Russia would have been defeated by now. But unfortunately Europe is led by weak socialists who only care about...

And do you think Ukraine cares, after all that happened? Ukraine wants the territory back. Those who were pro-Ukraine fled to the rest of Ukraine when Russia took over. If Ukraine can take back the land, the pro-Russian population will have to flee to Russia. It’s the same thing. Once Ukraine...

No deal should be made that sacrifices land. Russia is losing the war, and for Europe it costs almost nothing to keep going. It can actually be seen as beneficial, because it is used as a testing ground for European made weapons. The European MIC needs to be ramped up, so that Europe can...

NATO air defense systems in Romania are useless, because the local politicians are afraid of their own shadow and will nevere give approval to fire at Russian assets. In the current incident, Romania sent F16 jets to intercept the drone, they locked it but didn’t fire at it. Then, they lost...

Translation: We are losing the war. Trump, please help us put an end to it while keeping the land we had already stolen. If the war continues like that, we will have no oil refining capability left, and our oil and gas exports would collapse. Trump, Help!

It’s incredible how many soldiers are packed together in the open like that. If they were doing something like that in Ukraine, they would all be dead. The first drone would have disabled the helicopeter, and there would be many drones to hunt the soldiers one by one after that. It’s obvious...

This seems to be only Russian propaganda. Both the UK and Romanian authorities denied the Russian report. What is known is that the drone crushed inside Romanian theritory, but it was most likely shot down by Ukrainians. Anyway, the British pilots had clearence to shoot if they deemed...

NATO is already dead. As long as the US is inside, the credibility is zero. When one of the biggest threats to NATO members is a NATO member itself, what does it say about the alliance? Europe needs to do its own NATO, to defend against the US. This is where future threats will come from.

While it may sound far fatched now, I think that if Europe doesn’t gets its act together when it comes to defense, and if Trump’s regime manages to remain in power in the US, things could get ugly in the Atlantic. I think Trumpists could set their eyes on European islands in the Atlantic. They...