If I did not have a family I'd consider
- moving over to my cousin in Canada to make twice as much as I do now
- or to Ukraine to help rebuild and also take advantage of what I see as an almost inevitable economic boom as soon as russia collapses
I belong to subgroup that people like to pick on. I mean I lost two good gigs already thanks to media attacks.
Still no problems with that yet, not for me nor for any of my friends in the same situation.
It certainly helps that we are friendly people who go out of our way to help others so anyone who knows us personally doesn't attack us and it probably also helps that our kids are doing well in school and we do well in the workplace.
But I cannot shake the feeling that I can't be sure if we will continue to be safe. We have many friends, yes, but wave after wave of attacks in media does make me wonder.
As if that’s going to be a good thing for Europe. Or anyone for that matter. Russia accounts for something like one third of global fertiliser production.
And, I mean, I can think of nothing better than a massive power vacuum in a state that has the most nuclear weapons in the world. Wile party, if you can get an invite. I suppose.
Imagine if, like, your opinion was wrong, or, let’s say, there turns out to be unintended consequences to the outcome you desire. Because there always is. The road to hell and all of that.
Then what?
Please specify exactly where this glee is supposed to be apparent.
I was originally only saying that I think there is going to be a big economic upswing in Ukraine when russia collapses.
But since you seem interested:
As for russia, that is just sad. I'm one of those who used to study russian back when the iron curtain fell.
But in the choice between:
- russia inevitably collapsing and utterly destroying other countries along with it
- and russia inevitably collapsing and only for a limited time damaging other countries in the process
I take the last one.
Edit:
As for the nuclear weapons, we can probably make a new Budapest Memorandum and russia can give the nuclear warheads to China as payments.
It worked so well with Ukraine.
Can't see any problems with that /s
I read that as something you’re looking forward to.
Happy to be corrected.
I'd much rather take advantage of Russia stabilizing and becoming a major trade partner to Europe.
That was my original motivation for trying to learn Russian 20-30 years ago.
(Trying to understand where the misunderstanding come from and I am starting to wonder if I misuse the expression "take advantage of". I've always thought there was a difference between "taking advantage of <someone>" which I thought was always bad and "taking advantage of <something>" which I thought could be good or bad depending on the situation.
If I have misunderstood, then apologies for the confusion.
Fun to watch from afar, maybe.
War is good for profit.
There is about zero good future with non collapsed Russia who is in addition supported by USA.
Russia will expand, until it collapses. And there will always be a war where they want to go next.
Ideally they could get a normal government rather than the current murderous dictatorship.
Largest mainstream newspaper in Norway had an article this morning that some of our politicians want to increase our support to many times what it is today.
Four unlikely allies want to increase. The two traditionally largest parties are on the fence and only one large party was clearly against increasing it as far as I saw and remember.
More interestingly a poll there indicated broad support (slightly above 80% at the time I read it) from readers that we should increase our support significantly.
As I mentioned our two largest traditionally parties are on the fence, but I guess they will land were the majority of the voters are.
And to be clear: our current level of support has broad support from every party represented.
The other issue is that if US supports Russia, the Europe has no chance. And Trump will be actively working on destroying Europe too - both economically and politically. Not because of Russia, but because that is wining for him and because he was successful at that his whole life.