Just weeks ago someone told me that they had transferred their retirement account into gold. I thought that was quite a bit doomsday-prepper-esque. Now here, just weeks later, I'm thinking it may be a good idea myself...
Being a public European defence company has never been better I bet. It's hard not to see all these moved as intentionally trying to make things worse, but why? And why is there no whistleblowers leaking the "why"? They can't possibly think these things will improve the situations, right?
and why would that be a good ending? Or are you saying that such an event would collapse the superpower, in which case, it's good (but for everyone else other than that superpower)?
Massively screwing up the economy would be unpopular enough that he would lose support, even from other republicans, and we might be able to stop the slide into authoritarianism.
It's still not quite the prerogative state that Putin's kleptocracy or Hitler's Germany were, where the Dear Leader enjoys jurisdiction over jurisdiction with just enough vestiges of the rule of law left in place for the capitalist economy to function, but it's sure moving in that direction.
It reads to me more as ‘tepid’. He’s obviously trying to be as apolitical as possible, but I don’t think that’s going to help.
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