Gripen mediocre?

Do you have facts to back that up?

Sounds awfully familiar… Time for some glasnost and perestroika?

This is just one of many signs of the Russian economy booming!

It’s not just about if Russia can manage without Europe/USA, it’s about Europe managing without Russia.

So ok, China and India actively supports and essentially bankrolls Russias colonization strategy and this might show as growth. So in short, it’s possible for Putin to rearrange his business, sell oil below market price, and show growth, but in the long run its not a viable solution to run a country on.

Add to this the cost of war and loss of manpower. 3-400 000 might seem like a small amount of people when Russia has a population of 147 000 000. But it’s not. It’s Russia slowly slowly depleating their civilian workforce in a situation where Russia has a declining birth rate with 2023 being the lowest since 2014.

So if shit was going so great, Russian salaries would have skyrocketed and Russia would have their top model tanks on the battlefield but none of that is happening. Instead we see a lot of weird shit from the former Soviet Union on the battlefield. Add to this that back in October there were a lot of press about Russians having less money for necessities than anytime in the last 5 years.

So while Putin has seen no change in quality of life, rest assured that the average Russian has less money to spend on necessities.

Remember: Putin and his friends has been peddling the “everything is A-okay”-bullshit for over a year now but it’s just propaganda. Even though there might be periods where Russian economy looks like it’s going great it’s just not true for the long perspective.

When you get chemo it kills both ordinary cells and cancer cells. However, the body is normally capable of producing more cells than a tumor which means that with enough time more tumor than body will disappear.

While we hurt, Russia hurts more and that’s a good thing.

The system in question is called Primula and it is know to be a Swiss cheese.

No one that knows anything about IT and security is surprised.

Russia doesn’t want peace. Russia wants Ukraine.

As a Swede I just wish Ulf sent a sms to Jens:

Ok guys, we tried our best but we didn’t succeed. We refuse to let our security be a pawn in some silly game.

Ps. Joe, your kids are misbehaving. Our offer to help you guys still stands. Call us when they start to behave.

…and then just stopped answering calls from Jens, Erdogan and Orban for a week or two…

That’s not how you gain more power…

Do you agree with the following statement? Hamas targeted and attaacked “non combatants” on the 7th of October?

This is a simple yes / no question about whether you agree with the above statement.

Edit: One day later and still no reply. Normal thinking people are able to conclude that one bad thing doesn’t automatically cancel out another bad thing. Whether Israel/IDF do bad things or not has nothing to do with the fact that Hamas attacked and executed civilians and non combatants on the 7th October.

Not being able to admit that “your team” isn’t perfect just makes you look like a fanatic.

So the whole thing about colonization is actually not a biggie for India after all?

I’ve written this in other threads so it will just be a repetition for a lot of you who are following how the story unfolds.

Here in Sweden we don’t have any laws defining “minimum wage” and some laws regulating things like minimum amount of vacation days can be “replaced” in an agreement.

Now, the idea is that the parties of the labour market, employers and employees should deal with these issues because politicians should stay the f*** away from things they know nothing about. The agreement is normally renegotiated by the employer organisations (yes, the employers are also organized here) and employee organisations (unions) every 2-3 years. While signing an collective agreement is not mandatory it is still expected. It’s the norm.

In my experience employers refuse to agree on collective minimums is because they want to be able to do whatever they want with their employees.