Thank god everybody over 18 has developed those skills…

3.5% is roughly what is needed to bring a military like the Bundeswehr to a level to fight a large scale war within a few years. Most of Europe is in a similar situation to Germany here.

The 1.5% are just a way to appease Trump. It is easy to pick some budget items, which would have been paid anyway, and call them defence spending. In the case of Germany it is actually even better, as Germany has recently changed its consitutional debt brake to include defence spending. So this basically opens up the debt brake to pretty much any sort of infrastructure spending…

3.5% of it are for military spending as currently measured by NATO(right now Germany is at 2% of GDP). The other 1.5% are meant for defence infrastructure, resilience and civil prepardness. You could make a good case of say wind trubines being defence related, as they make German infrastructure more resilient to events similar to Russia turning of gas supply to Germany.

GDP per capita of Russia is at about the global one. So there are a lot of alternatives for potential migrants. The biggest source for Russia is Central Asia and we are seeing a shift away from going to Russia in that region. For example the Uzbeks work with South Korea on 100k migrant visas.

Another huge part is that Russia is targeting migrant workers on a massive scale right now.

Ach kein Problem, wir bauen uns ein Alphaville.

Russia has billions in frozen assets and they sell oil at a discount. Putin has the money for massive infrastructure spending to grow the economy, if he wanted to.

Exactly. Even in the best case there are sanctions against them. Worsed case something like Syria, Sudan or Yemen is going on and they commit war crimes.

If sanctions against Israel for violating human rights is “doing the right thing”, then it would imply sanctions against other countries for violating human rights as well. Basically that would mean some form of sanctions against the entire Middle East. Certainly that does not mean good relations with those countries.

“Doing the right thing” basically means pissing of all Arab countries as well. They are all authoritarian regimes right now. So any principled stance against them would mean being hated by the entire Middle East.

The strategy if a rules based international order is dead already. Not due to the EU, but the US was the center point of that and they just broke the system. There will also always be flaws in the EU, which will be pointed out by Russian propaganda. There is plenty of racism in the EU and it is not going away. There places like New Caledonia, which are in a very complex limbo of colonialism with France, which half the population loves and the other half hates. Easy to turn that into propaganda.

The right to protest has not been destroyed by foreign policy either, but by big fossil fuel. The first massive crack downs were not on anti Israel protests, but on climate protests.

EDIT: Just to be clear, it should be done to do the right thing, but not because it would actually help the EU. It just is not going to.

Lindt mittlerweile auch…

2012 hat sich Kraft Foods in Mondelez umbennant und die Kraft Foods Group abgespalten.

2012 hat sich die Kraft Foods Group abgespalten.

Israel obviously…

Es geht darum, dass man den Amis jetzt drei Luftabwehrsystem vom Typ Patriot samt Raketen abkauft um sie der Ukraine zu geben. Es gibt mit SAMP/T eine europäische Alternative, aber die Produktion geht schon an die Ukraine und die Franzosen und Italiener brauchen auch selber welche. Praktisch können nur die Amis soetwas relativ leicht abgeben und die Ukraine braucht es heute. Sprich man kauft es den Amis jetzt ab und gibt es der Ukraine.

Langfristig ist es halt billiger das die Ukrainer die Russen schlagen. Da sind die Patritots leider notwendig.

The admin seems to have an account https://social.bund.de/@itteam

Weil es mal Vermögenssteuern gab.

Handwerkausbildung und BWL dazu und den dicken Reibach mit eigenem Betrieb machen

Wenn du Handwerksmeister wirst lernst du auch BWL um einen kleinen Handwerksbetrieb zu führen. Wobei man gerade beim Bau auch im Betrieb sehr aufpassen sollte, wie man ordentlich schwarz Arbeitet.

Russia is trying to restore the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan is a key country for that. Especially since it has a massive Russian population similar to Ukraine.

Kazakhstan…