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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I'm sorry - I don't have the time to provide links to the bleedin' obvious.
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Given that we have a nutter to deal with in the USA, and looking forward to post-Trump days, we should be doing everything to avoid being foul-mouthed by the current administration.
I buy what Chris said that for each piece of concession we make, Trump would demand more. But that can be diplomatically handled so that Trump's disappointment can be expressed in a way that lets us off the hook. At least we should try.
The objective must be to expand and develop our technology industries and avoid totally missing the AI boat. We shouldn't tie ourselves into the EU's AI straitjacket.
Domestic policy must change so that government spending focuses on economic expansion. Businesses are closing because the cost of operating them are too high and thus unempolyment is rising. Business taxes must be lowered - they are a stealth tax that enable the government to claim that they haven't increased the main personal taxes.
Once wealth is created, tax receipts rise and we can rebuild our welfare architecture.
Something like that - but don't piss off the USA who will be our largest customer. The EU will just try to stiff us - they're only interested on what we can pay in - and you know that.
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The problem is he is so capricious that we are neither on nor off the hook regardless what we do. He really is that unstable. We could be his best pal right now and he’d love it, but we’d be bad allies again next week. And then we’d have two aircraft carriers he definitely doesn’t need whilst he’s also cross we won’t send ships to get shot at in Hormuz. He is not a rational actor, and it is a waste of time trying to formulate plans for dealing with him rationally.