The fall of Europe

In 2008, the EU’s economy was 10% larger than that of the U.S.

Now? The U.S. is 50% larger than the EU!

Europe has been Japanified.

This is the price of being a vassal of the US, which has stymied Europe in many ways:

• The real estate bubble and subprime mortgage crisis from Wall Street, which pulled Europe into the scam. Europe never recovered from the Great Financial Crisis of 2008.
• Technology: The US made sure that Europe never developed alternatives to the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon – e-commerce and cloud computing, Apple etc.
• Europe has also fallen behind in startups, AI, green energy, quantum computing and virtually every critical thing.
• The number of European companies in the global Fortune 500 list has dropped dramatically as well
• The US bombed countries and forced Europe to accept millions of refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia etc.
• Proxy war with Russia has also forced Europe to become dependent on the US for energy. The deindustrialization of EU continues.

The biggest culprits are the ruling class of EU and individual European countries. Incredible traitors who are destroying their own people.

And the average European citizen is so clueless and brainwashed that this collective suicide is just unbelievable.

Vir: S.L. Kanthan, twitter

V bistvu sta dve najbolj plauzibilni razlagi. Prva je komercialni razlog: glede na to, da je tviter naročnikom začasno omogočil 10-krat večjo količino branja kot nenaročnikom, je možno, da je s to potezo lastnik tviterja Elon Musk želel spodbuditi čim več uporabnikov k temu, da postanejo naročniki (za 8 $ ali € na mesec).

Druga plauzibilna razlaga pa je tista, ki večini smrdi po teoriji zarote: nenadoma se je pojavila množica novih računov, vodenih prek algoritmov umetne inteligence, ki so masovno pobirali podatke iz tviterja. Zakaj? Z namenom detektiranja trendov v konverzacijah in kasnejše manipulacije teh trendov (spodbujanja ali zaviranja trendov). Z algoritmi umetne inteligence se seveda da lepo avtomatizirati manipulacije in cenzoriranje. Kot pravi Mike Benz: če je FBI uspelo vdreti v sistem in cenzurirati 22 tvitov, lahko umetna inteligenca to naredi z 22 milijoni tvitov. To je lahko razlog, da je Musk število branj še bolj omejil za nove, nepreverjene račune. In zato se je ChatGPT pritožil, da nima dostopa do tviterja in zato ne more izvršiti ukaza.

Katera razlaga se vam zdi bolj verjetna?

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Še lani je bil to samo film na Neflixu, ta teden pa realnost v Franciji:

Pred skoraj letom dni je Netflix izdal prvi napovednik za film Athena o prihodnji državljanski vojni, ki se začne, ko afriški in arabski priseljenci začnejo nemire, potem ko je alžirski mladenič ustreljen s strani policije. Ko fikcija prehiteva realnost.

It is American diplomacy that is driving Eurasia and the Global South out of the U.S. orbit. America’s hubristic drive for unipolar world dominance could only have been dismantled so rapidly from within. The Biden-Blinken-Nuland administration has done what neither Vladimir Putin nor Chinese President Xi could have hoped to achieve in so short a period. Neither was prepared to throw down the gauntlet and create an alternative to the U.S.-centered world order. But U.S. sanctions against Russia, Iran, Venezuela and China have had the effect of protective tariff barriers to force self-sufficiency in what EU diplomat Josep Borrell calls the world “jungle” outside of the US/NATO “garden.”

Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time. But these victories and wealth led to arrogance and hubris. Croesus turned his eyes eastward, ambitious to conquer Persia, ruled by Cyrus the Great.

Having endowed the region’s cosmopolitan Temple of Delphi with substantial silver and gold, Croesus asked its Oracle whether he would be successful in the conquest that he had planned. The Pythia priestess answered: “If you go to war against Persia, you will destroy a great empire.”

Croesus therefore set out to attack Persia c. 547 BC. Marching eastward, he attacked Persia’s vassal-state Phrygia. Cyrus mounted a Special Military Operation to drive Croesus back, defeating Croesus’s army, capturing him and taking the opportunity to seize Lydia’s gold to introduce his own Persian gold coinage. So Croesus did indeed destroy a great empire, but it was his own.

Fast-forward to today’s drive by the Biden administration to extend American military power against Russia and, behind it, China. The president asked for advice from today’s analogue to antiquity’s Delphi oracle: the CIA and its allied think tanks. Instead of warning against hubris, they encouraged the neocon dream that attacking Russia and China would consolidate U.S. control of the world economy, achieving the End of History.

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