Germany also isn't happy with the US for threatening sanctions over their pipeline deal with Russia, then backing down, then doing some sanctions after all in a symbolic-but-annoying way. It shows petulance rather than strength.
And Germany and France are the core of the EU.
"Mr. Macron and ministers in his government in recent months have been fighting illiberal and divisive philosophies they say emanate from American universities." wsj.com/articles/emman…
Europe is gradually breaking away from US influence. France pulled ambassadors, and Germany went its own way on Nord Stream 2, as has Visegrad on immigration.
Delayed reassertion of sovereignty? Angela Nagle of Ireland made similar points last year. unherd.com/2020/07/will-i…
Btw, it's certainly true that France shares a great deal of blame for wokeness[1]; Foucault alone is arguably the Marx of the movement.
But the industrialized US version does scale up the original French "innovation" into something far worse.
[1] archive.is/7otcM
"Emmanuel Macron denounced the importation of US...wokeness as a threat to the French way of life, while pragmatists on the Continent are pushing to strengthen economic relations with Russia and China—virtually ignoring the administration’s efforts" archive.is/XxApz
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Imagine an NBA game where players imagine they're playing for the same team, but only see their own points. That's how ideological movements work on social media today: only individual profiles, no team dashboards.
DAOs change this. Number go up means movement goes up.
DAOs are also a potential resolution to the long-running argument over whether corporations only have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders — or if they should be run by the "community", which in practice usually means the state.
A third way between (a) a small group of possibly societally-disaligned shareholders and (b) de facto nationalization by a dirigiste state is (c) many DAO coinholders with governance rights related to their skin-in-the-game.
Meanwhile, Iran has just been admitted as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a sort of China-centric version of NATO and the EU. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_…
"The SCO is probably the biggest international organization that you’ve never heard of, and that’s likely because the West is being expressly excluded. However, the SCO is increasingly influential and is set to only become more well-known in the West." speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2017/09/03/the…
The oddest thing about SCO is the membership list, as many others have observed. India is in there, alongside Pakistan, in a "security" alliance, and admitted on the same day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_…
- India and Japan from the Quad excluded
- Canada and New Zealand from Five Eyes not included
- France snubbed by Australia
- NATO not in the picture
- UK not what it once was in Asia
- Yet joint address by US, UK, AU heads of state?
Helpful feedback on the $100k prize for a decentralized inflation dashboard at 1729.com/inflation. His points are: (a) too much reliance on scraping, (b) no business model, & (c) too labor-intensive to replicate.
I disagree that these are show-stoppers, but go read first:
As I acknowledged at the time, I am by no means an expert on military hardware. But it strained credulity to imagine that billions of dollars of equipment captured without warning wouldn't give intelligence on US capabilities.