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Thursday, May 7, 2026

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Thursday, May 7, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/thursday-may-7-2026/

Thursday, May 7, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/thursday-may-7-2026/

Thursday, May 7, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/thursday-may-7-2026/

Europe’s Anti-Civilizational Drive: Why And How

Silly anti-civilizational propaganda claims that tariffs and blockade could persuade a death cult like the Shia to suddenly turn reasonable and friendly to democracy. Seducing the Shia was tried for 47 years, and by the best and brightest, and it did not work: there were bombs in Paris (the French president then prevented the media from saying the bombing plots originated in Iran), hundreds of French and US troops were killed in mass bombings (1983), etc. Iran financed massively terrrorist groups in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, etc. And harbors Al Qaeda…

The Shia’s obsession is to surprise the West with nuclear 9/11s, and, after nuclear bombings some cities in the West, they would be elated to die as martyrs: the religion the Shia believe in, a hard core variant of Islam, tells them that killing all the Jews and dying as martyrs fighting for their God are the highest calling.

Bombing the Shia into the Stone Age is entirely feasible, safe and effective to prevent them from committing mass murder with nuclear weapons.

Aerial bombing was even done to Nazi Germany, and destroyed it as a functioning country… Although at the time, bombs were extremely inaccurate.

With the Shia, there is no alternative. The aim is not to destroy the missiles outright because they are the pretext for extending the bombing campaign until the true objectives are achieved.

The real aim of the bombing campaign is to destroy the Shia Defense Industrial Base. And if that is not enough to persuade them, then the DIL, Dual Industrial Base (not just the defense factories and steel mills, but also the power infrastructure).

This is also a warning to Chinese dictator Xi to stop his aggression in the South China Sea and threats against Taiwan. 

The sweet and soft method was tried by Obama with the Shia. Obama even gave them 50 billion dollars. It did not work. The Shia went on with a massive, state of the art, nuclear war preparation program.

The Shia even developed some weapons no other power has. And those weapons work: consider the destruction of that AWACS E3 plane on a distant taxiway (localized by Putin’s forces), or the double tap (second projectile in the hole made by the first) at the US embassy in Riyadh.

As with Shia ally Putin, only ultimate strength works.. This is more of a world war than anything else.

European leadership, which was pro-Putin for 23 years, is now showing its true color: betraying the civilizational heritage so that the greedsters presently in power can stay so indefinitely.

So far, in the last three decades, European leadership has betrayed Europe. Now European leadership insists on betraying the USA. It will not have any luck, because that would require too much of an assault against rationality. But the plutocratic propagandists are trying.

In the latest news from France the anti-civilizational government is putting professional anthropologists, philosophers (Michel Onfray), C News (French most watched media), and Charles Darwin on trial (for saying man was a great ape), while loudly propagandizing for… Islam (a reference to interior minister Nunez declarations in April 2026 which were as explicit as possible).

One may wonder how come the European leadership became so keen on devolution. The answer is simple: Europe was defeated in the Second World War, by the USA and its proxy, the USSR (to whom half of Europe was given at Yalta before going to make a deal with the Saudis at the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt).

A defeatist mentality was installed in Europe to make this submission easier and more permanent (The Absurd, so-called “Existentialism”, Pedocriminality, so-called French Theory). European plutocracy thrived under the US Plutocratic Deep State.

Then came Putin, who extracted wealth from Russia, sending it to European plutocratic oligarchic colleagues, and providing energy (energy procurement was outlawed or discouraged in Europe, to accelerate deindustrialization). 

An anecdotal demonstration of this: even after Putin started to invade Ukraine in 2014, France sent crucial military equipment for the Russian air force, missile and aircraft (while Trump was sending Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine…)

The European elite has been used to living with Putin, welcoming his money, oil and gas, and hiding it in plain sight. Now they have a problem, because Ukraine, flush initially with US weapons (initially sent by Trump I), resisted Putin. The treacherous European leadership has now to do as if they resisted Putin: appearances are everything.

Meanwhile the European left realized that more and more of the electorate had enough with their masquerade (superficial socialism over-taxing the middle class while profiting the hyper wealthy). So they made an alliance with (pseudo-) Greens and Islamists. And here we are.

Deindustrialization is nothing new: the Roman Republic died that way. Right, it was mostly agriculture, but there was great replacement of Roman independent little farmers, the backbone of Rome, by giant agribusinesses manned by armies of slaves (one latifundia could have ten thousand slaves). That broke the back of the Roman middle class, which was the spine of the Republic. It was also a conspiracy and a plot, because, starting with Tiberius Gracchus, the full theory of what was going on was exposed. And there was deliberate will, on the part of the self-described “Optimates” (they were “optimal”) to destroy the middle class and the Centuriate Assembly (Rome’s direct democracy voting assembly). Actually the rage of the Senate against Caesar was caused by him overriding the Senate (where the Optimates ruled) to go directly to the Assembly when he was Consul in 59 BCE, and do what the Gracchi and their thousands of followers, over generations, could not do: redistribution of land.

Rome died of the deindustrialization. First the army got professional, then took power after horrendous civil wars. Then the decimated population got replaced by more placid middle easterners. In the end much of everything Roman collapsed and the Barbarians took over (fortunately the Franks had been prepared as a second foundation of Rome; yes they were armed farmers, like the original Rome, and they had learned to speak Latin).

The plutocrats though were happy: many of them stayed in power for centuries, even millennia. In the present Europe, many families in power have been that way for centuries. Paradoxically that system installed in its latest version by the USA after 1945, has now turned against the US, which needs an ally and discovers that Europe has LOST AGENCY.

Stay tuned, this is only beginning…

Patrice Ayme

Europe’s Anti-Civilizational Drive: Why And How

Silly anti-civilizational propaganda claims that tariffs and blockade could persuade a death cult like the Shia to suddenly turn reasonable and friendly to democracy. Seducing the Shia was tried for 47 years, and by the best and brightest, and it did not work: there were bombs in Paris (the French president then prevented the media from saying the bombing plots originated in Iran), hundreds of French and US troops were killed in mass bombings (1983), etc. Iran financed massively terrrorist groups in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, etc. And harbors Al Qaeda…

The Shia’s obsession is to surprise the West with nuclear 9/11s, and, after nuclear bombings some cities in the West, they would be elated to die as martyrs: the religion the Shia believe in, a hard core variant of Islam, tells them that killing all the Jews and dying as martyrs fighting for their God are the highest calling.

Bombing the Shia into the Stone Age is entirely feasible, safe and effective to prevent them from committing mass murder with nuclear weapons.

Aerial bombing was even done to Nazi Germany, and destroyed it as a functioning country… Although at the time, bombs were extremely inaccurate.

With the Shia, there is no alternative. The aim is not to destroy the missiles outright because they are the pretext for extending the bombing campaign until the true objectives are achieved.

The real aim of the bombing campaign is to destroy the Shia Defense Industrial Base. And if that is not enough to persuade them, then the DIL, Dual Industrial Base (not just the defense factories and steel mills, but also the power infrastructure).

This is also a warning to Chinese dictator Xi to stop his aggression in the South China Sea and threats against Taiwan. 

The sweet and soft method was tried by Obama with the Shia. Obama even gave them 50 billion dollars. It did not work. The Shia went on with a massive, state of the art, nuclear war preparation program.

The Shia even developed some weapons no other power has. And those weapons work: consider the destruction of that AWACS E3 plane on a distant taxiway (localized by Putin’s forces), or the double tap (second projectile in the hole made by the first) at the US embassy in Riyadh.

As with Shia ally Putin, only ultimate strength works.. This is more of a world war than anything else.

European leadership, which was pro-Putin for 23 years, is now showing its true color: betraying the civilizational heritage so that the greedsters presently in power can stay so indefinitely.

So far, in the last three decades, European leadership has betrayed Europe. Now European leadership insists on betraying the USA. It will not have any luck, because that would require too much of an assault against rationality. But the plutocratic propagandists are trying.

In the latest news from France the anti-civilizational government is putting professional anthropologists, philosophers (Michel Onfray), C News (French most watched media), and Charles Darwin on trial (for saying man was a great ape), while loudly propagandizing for… Islam (a reference to interior minister Nunez declarations in April 2026 which were as explicit as possible).

One may wonder how come the European leadership became so keen on devolution. The answer is simple: Europe was defeated in the Second World War, by the USA and its proxy, the USSR (to whom half of Europe was given at Yalta before going to make a deal with the Saudis at the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt).

A defeatist mentality was installed in Europe to make this submission easier and more permanent (The Absurd, so-called “Existentialism”, Pedocriminality, so-called French Theory). European plutocracy thrived under the US Plutocratic Deep State.

Then came Putin, who extracted wealth from Russia, sending it to European plutocratic oligarchic colleagues, and providing energy (energy procurement was outlawed or discouraged in Europe, to accelerate deindustrialization). 

An anecdotal demonstration of this: even after Putin started to invade Ukraine in 2014, France sent crucial military equipment for the Russian air force, missile and aircraft (while Trump was sending Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine…)

The European elite has been used to living with Putin, welcoming his money, oil and gas, and hiding it in plain sight. Now they have a problem, because Ukraine, flush initially with US weapons (initially sent by Trump I), resisted Putin. The treacherous European leadership has now to do as if they resisted Putin: appearances are everything.

Meanwhile the European left realized that more and more of the electorate had enough with their masquerade (superficial socialism over-taxing the middle class while profiting the hyper wealthy). So they made an alliance with (pseudo-) Greens and Islamists. And here we are.

Deindustrialization is nothing new: the Roman Republic died that way. Right, it was mostly agriculture, but there was great replacement of Roman independent little farmers, the backbone of Rome, by giant agribusinesses manned by armies of slaves (one latifundia could have ten thousand slaves). That broke the back of the Roman middle class, which was the spine of the Republic. It was also a conspiracy and a plot, because, starting with Tiberius Gracchus, the full theory of what was going on was exposed. And there was deliberate will, on the part of the self-described “Optimates” (they were “optimal”) to destroy the middle class and the Centuriate Assembly (Rome’s direct democracy voting assembly). Actually the rage of the Senate against Caesar was caused by him overriding the Senate (where the Optimates ruled) to go directly to the Assembly when he was Consul in 59 BCE, and do what the Gracchi and their thousands of followers, over generations, could not do: redistribution of land.

Rome died of the deindustrialization. First the army got professional, then took power after horrendous civil wars. Then the decimated population got replaced by more placid middle easterners. In the end much of everything Roman collapsed and the Barbarians took over (fortunately the Franks had been prepared as a second foundation of Rome; yes they were armed farmers, like the original Rome, and they had learned to speak Latin).

The plutocrats though were happy: many of them stayed in power for centuries, even millennia. In the present Europe, many families in power have been that way for centuries. Paradoxically that system installed in its latest version by the USA after 1945, has now turned against the US, which needs an ally and discovers that Europe has LOST AGENCY.

Stay tuned, this is only beginning…

Patrice Ayme

Europe’s Anti-Civilizational Drive: Why And How

Silly anti-civilizational propaganda claims that tariffs and blockade could persuade a death cult like the Shia to suddenly turn reasonable and friendly to democracy. Seducing the Shia was tried for 47 years, and by the best and brightest, and it did not work: there were bombs in Paris (the French president then prevented the media from saying the bombing plots originated in Iran), hundreds of French and US troops were killed in mass bombings (1983), etc. Iran financed massively terrrorist groups in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, etc. And harbors Al Qaeda…

The Shia’s obsession is to surprise the West with nuclear 9/11s, and, after nuclear bombings some cities in the West, they would be elated to die as martyrs: the religion the Shia believe in, a hard core variant of Islam, tells them that killing all the Jews and dying as martyrs fighting for their God are the highest calling.

Bombing the Shia into the Stone Age is entirely feasible, safe and effective to prevent them from committing mass murder with nuclear weapons.

Aerial bombing was even done to Nazi Germany, and destroyed it as a functioning country… Although at the time, bombs were extremely inaccurate.

With the Shia, there is no alternative. The aim is not to destroy the missiles outright because they are the pretext for extending the bombing campaign until the true objectives are achieved.

The real aim of the bombing campaign is to destroy the Shia Defense Industrial Base. And if that is not enough to persuade them, then the DIL, Dual Industrial Base (not just the defense factories and steel mills, but also the power infrastructure).

This is also a warning to Chinese dictator Xi to stop his aggression in the South China Sea and threats against Taiwan. 

The sweet and soft method was tried by Obama with the Shia. Obama even gave them 50 billion dollars. It did not work. The Shia went on with a massive, state of the art, nuclear war preparation program.

The Shia even developed some weapons no other power has. And those weapons work: consider the destruction of that AWACS E3 plane on a distant taxiway (localized by Putin’s forces), or the double tap (second projectile in the hole made by the first) at the US embassy in Riyadh.

As with Shia ally Putin, only ultimate strength works.. This is more of a world war than anything else.

European leadership, which was pro-Putin for 23 years, is now showing its true color: betraying the civilizational heritage so that the greedsters presently in power can stay so indefinitely.

So far, in the last three decades, European leadership has betrayed Europe. Now European leadership insists on betraying the USA. It will not have any luck, because that would require too much of an assault against rationality. But the plutocratic propagandists are trying.

In the latest news from France the anti-civilizational government is putting professional anthropologists, philosophers (Michel Onfray), C News (French most watched media), and Charles Darwin on trial (for saying man was a great ape), while loudly propagandizing for… Islam (a reference to interior minister Nunez declarations in April 2026 which were as explicit as possible).

One may wonder how come the European leadership became so keen on devolution. The answer is simple: Europe was defeated in the Second World War, by the USA and its proxy, the USSR (to whom half of Europe was given at Yalta before going to make a deal with the Saudis at the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt).

A defeatist mentality was installed in Europe to make this submission easier and more permanent (The Absurd, so-called “Existentialism”, Pedocriminality, so-called French Theory). European plutocracy thrived under the US Plutocratic Deep State.

Then came Putin, who extracted wealth from Russia, sending it to European plutocratic oligarchic colleagues, and providing energy (energy procurement was outlawed or discouraged in Europe, to accelerate deindustrialization). 

An anecdotal demonstration of this: even after Putin started to invade Ukraine in 2014, France sent crucial military equipment for the Russian air force, missile and aircraft (while Trump was sending Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine…)

The European elite has been used to living with Putin, welcoming his money, oil and gas, and hiding it in plain sight. Now they have a problem, because Ukraine, flush initially with US weapons (initially sent by Trump I), resisted Putin. The treacherous European leadership has now to do as if they resisted Putin: appearances are everything.

Meanwhile the European left realized that more and more of the electorate had enough with their masquerade (superficial socialism over-taxing the middle class while profiting the hyper wealthy). So they made an alliance with (pseudo-) Greens and Islamists. And here we are.

Deindustrialization is nothing new: the Roman Republic died that way. Right, it was mostly agriculture, but there was great replacement of Roman independent little farmers, the backbone of Rome, by giant agribusinesses manned by armies of slaves (one latifundia could have ten thousand slaves). That broke the back of the Roman middle class, which was the spine of the Republic. It was also a conspiracy and a plot, because, starting with Tiberius Gracchus, the full theory of what was going on was exposed. And there was deliberate will, on the part of the self-described “Optimates” (they were “optimal”) to destroy the middle class and the Centuriate Assembly (Rome’s direct democracy voting assembly). Actually the rage of the Senate against Caesar was caused by him overriding the Senate (where the Optimates ruled) to go directly to the Assembly when he was Consul in 59 BCE, and do what the Gracchi and their thousands of followers, over generations, could not do: redistribution of land.

Rome died of the deindustrialization. First the army got professional, then took power after horrendous civil wars. Then the decimated population got replaced by more placid middle easterners. In the end much of everything Roman collapsed and the Barbarians took over (fortunately the Franks had been prepared as a second foundation of Rome; yes they were armed farmers, like the original Rome, and they had learned to speak Latin).

The plutocrats though were happy: many of them stayed in power for centuries, even millennia. In the present Europe, many families in power have been that way for centuries. Paradoxically that system installed in its latest version by the USA after 1945, has now turned against the US, which needs an ally and discovers that Europe has LOST AGENCY.

Stay tuned, this is only beginning…

Patrice Ayme

Europe’s Anti-Civilizational Drive: Why And How

Silly anti-civilizational propaganda claims that tariffs and blockade could persuade a death cult like the Shia to suddenly turn reasonable and friendly to democracy. Seducing the Shia was tried for 47 years, and by the best and brightest, and it did not work: there were bombs in Paris (the French president then prevented the media from saying the bombing plots originated in Iran), hundreds of French and US troops were killed in mass bombings (1983), etc. Iran financed massively terrrorist groups in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, etc. And harbors Al Qaeda…

The Shia’s obsession is to surprise the West with nuclear 9/11s, and, after nuclear bombings some cities in the West, they would be elated to die as martyrs: the religion the Shia believe in, a hard core variant of Islam, tells them that killing all the Jews and dying as martyrs fighting for their God are the highest calling.

Bombing the Shia into the Stone Age is entirely feasible, safe and effective to prevent them from committing mass murder with nuclear weapons.

Aerial bombing was even done to Nazi Germany, and destroyed it as a functioning country… Although at the time, bombs were extremely inaccurate.

With the Shia, there is no alternative. The aim is not to destroy the missiles outright because they are the pretext for extending the bombing campaign until the true objectives are achieved.

The real aim of the bombing campaign is to destroy the Shia Defense Industrial Base. And if that is not enough to persuade them, then the DIL, Dual Industrial Base (not just the defense factories and steel mills, but also the power infrastructure).

This is also a warning to Chinese dictator Xi to stop his aggression in the South China Sea and threats against Taiwan. 

The sweet and soft method was tried by Obama with the Shia. Obama even gave them 50 billion dollars. It did not work. The Shia went on with a massive, state of the art, nuclear war preparation program.

The Shia even developed some weapons no other power has. And those weapons work: consider the destruction of that AWACS E3 plane on a distant taxiway (localized by Putin’s forces), or the double tap (second projectile in the hole made by the first) at the US embassy in Riyadh.

As with Shia ally Putin, only ultimate strength works.. This is more of a world war than anything else.

European leadership, which was pro-Putin for 23 years, is now showing its true color: betraying the civilizational heritage so that the greedsters presently in power can stay so indefinitely.

So far, in the last three decades, European leadership has betrayed Europe. Now European leadership insists on betraying the USA. It will not have any luck, because that would require too much of an assault against rationality. But the plutocratic propagandists are trying.

In the latest news from France the anti-civilizational government is putting professional anthropologists, philosophers (Michel Onfray), C News (French most watched media), and Charles Darwin on trial (for saying man was a great ape), while loudly propagandizing for… Islam (a reference to interior minister Nunez declarations in April 2026 which were as explicit as possible).

One may wonder how come the European leadership became so keen on devolution. The answer is simple: Europe was defeated in the Second World War, by the USA and its proxy, the USSR (to whom half of Europe was given at Yalta before going to make a deal with the Saudis at the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt).

A defeatist mentality was installed in Europe to make this submission easier and more permanent (The Absurd, so-called “Existentialism”, Pedocriminality, so-called French Theory). European plutocracy thrived under the US Plutocratic Deep State.

Then came Putin, who extracted wealth from Russia, sending it to European plutocratic oligarchic colleagues, and providing energy (energy procurement was outlawed or discouraged in Europe, to accelerate deindustrialization). 

An anecdotal demonstration of this: even after Putin started to invade Ukraine in 2014, France sent crucial military equipment for the Russian air force, missile and aircraft (while Trump was sending Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine…)

The European elite has been used to living with Putin, welcoming his money, oil and gas, and hiding it in plain sight. Now they have a problem, because Ukraine, flush initially with US weapons (initially sent by Trump I), resisted Putin. The treacherous European leadership has now to do as if they resisted Putin: appearances are everything.

Meanwhile the European left realized that more and more of the electorate had enough with their masquerade (superficial socialism over-taxing the middle class while profiting the hyper wealthy). So they made an alliance with (pseudo-) Greens and Islamists. And here we are.

Deindustrialization is nothing new: the Roman Republic died that way. Right, it was mostly agriculture, but there was great replacement of Roman independent little farmers, the backbone of Rome, by giant agribusinesses manned by armies of slaves (one latifundia could have ten thousand slaves). That broke the back of the Roman middle class, which was the spine of the Republic. It was also a conspiracy and a plot, because, starting with Tiberius Gracchus, the full theory of what was going on was exposed. And there was deliberate will, on the part of the self-described “Optimates” (they were “optimal”) to destroy the middle class and the Centuriate Assembly (Rome’s direct democracy voting assembly). Actually the rage of the Senate against Caesar was caused by him overriding the Senate (where the Optimates ruled) to go directly to the Assembly when he was Consul in 59 BCE, and do what the Gracchi and their thousands of followers, over generations, could not do: redistribution of land.

Rome died of the deindustrialization. First the army got professional, then took power after horrendous civil wars. Then the decimated population got replaced by more placid middle easterners. In the end much of everything Roman collapsed and the Barbarians took over (fortunately the Franks had been prepared as a second foundation of Rome; yes they were armed farmers, like the original Rome, and they had learned to speak Latin).

The plutocrats though were happy: many of them stayed in power for centuries, even millennia. In the present Europe, many families in power have been that way for centuries. Paradoxically that system installed in its latest version by the USA after 1945, has now turned against the US, which needs an ally and discovers that Europe has LOST AGENCY.

Stay tuned, this is only beginning…

Patrice Ayme

The number of advertised positions in Germany's industrial sector has seen a significant decrease for the second consecutive year. According to an evaluation by... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40633 | #news #amid #deindustrialization #hiring #industry

The number of advertised positions in Germany's industrial sector has seen a significant decrease for the second consecutive year. According to an evaluation by... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40633 | #news #amid #deindustrialization #hiring #industry

The number of advertised positions in Germany's industrial sector has seen a significant decrease for the second consecutive year. According to an evaluation by... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40633 | #news #amid #deindustrialization #hiring #industry

The number of advertised positions in Germany's industrial sector has seen a significant decrease for the second consecutive year. According to an evaluation by... https://news.osna.fm/?p=40633 | #news #amid #deindustrialization #hiring #industry

German industry is experiencing a deep structural break, but experts say this does not amount to deindustrialisation. Three studies from the Ifo Institute, the... https://news.osna.fm/?p=39967 | #news #deindustrialization #find #signs #studies

German industry is experiencing a deep structural break, but experts say this does not amount to deindustrialisation. Three studies from the Ifo Institute, the... https://news.osna.fm/?p=39967 | #news #deindustrialization #find #signs #studies

German industry is experiencing a deep structural break, but experts say this does not amount to deindustrialisation. Three studies from the Ifo Institute, the... https://news.osna.fm/?p=39967 | #news #deindustrialization #find #signs #studies

German industry is experiencing a deep structural break, but experts say this does not amount to deindustrialisation. Three studies from the Ifo Institute, the... https://news.osna.fm/?p=39967 | #news #deindustrialization #find #signs #studies

"I begin with the view that, and I put it very crudely, in Britain we have to learn to grow our own green beans. In Britain, we expect to have fresh green beans on our tables every day of the year, and we expect to draw down Kenya’s water table and exploit its cheap labor so that we can have green beans every day of the year. That has to end. We’ve got to learn to grow our own green beans. We can’t prey upon the assets of others for our own economic well-being.

At the same time, I want to be very clear, I am not a nationalist. I believe it must be possible for a government to respond to its electorate and act in their interests. For me, that’s democracy. At the same time, I don’t believe we can achieve that degree of autonomy without internationalism. We can only do it by actually cooperating. I’m arguing that there must be a much greater emphasis on environmental self-sufficiency. However, that is not nationalism, that is internationalism in my view. That is saying that we want to cooperate with our friends and partners across the world. We don’t want to exploit and extract assets from them. It’s as simple as that.

What always strikes me about the great financial crisis of 2007–9 was that the Left didn’t know it was coming (...) People talked about globalization as if it was a given. And then when it blew up, there was no plan B. We didn’t even know it could happen. We were as stupid as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan. The Left was as stupid as Greenspan, who said he didn’t believe it could happen.

Meanwhile, Wall Street couldn’t believe its luck because it then consolidated itself and became stronger than it had ever been. Before the financial crisis, it could go bust. Since the financial crisis, no Wall Street bank can go bust anymore."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/global-financial-system-deindustrialization-climate/

#Deindustrialization #Financialization #ClimateChange #Globalization #Debt #Capitalism

"I begin with the view that, and I put it very crudely, in Britain we have to learn to grow our own green beans. In Britain, we expect to have fresh green beans on our tables every day of the year, and we expect to draw down Kenya’s water table and exploit its cheap labor so that we can have green beans every day of the year. That has to end. We’ve got to learn to grow our own green beans. We can’t prey upon the assets of others for our own economic well-being.

At the same time, I want to be very clear, I am not a nationalist. I believe it must be possible for a government to respond to its electorate and act in their interests. For me, that’s democracy. At the same time, I don’t believe we can achieve that degree of autonomy without internationalism. We can only do it by actually cooperating. I’m arguing that there must be a much greater emphasis on environmental self-sufficiency. However, that is not nationalism, that is internationalism in my view. That is saying that we want to cooperate with our friends and partners across the world. We don’t want to exploit and extract assets from them. It’s as simple as that.

What always strikes me about the great financial crisis of 2007–9 was that the Left didn’t know it was coming (...) People talked about globalization as if it was a given. And then when it blew up, there was no plan B. We didn’t even know it could happen. We were as stupid as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan. The Left was as stupid as Greenspan, who said he didn’t believe it could happen.

Meanwhile, Wall Street couldn’t believe its luck because it then consolidated itself and became stronger than it had ever been. Before the financial crisis, it could go bust. Since the financial crisis, no Wall Street bank can go bust anymore."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/global-financial-system-deindustrialization-climate/

#Deindustrialization #Financialization #ClimateChange #Globalization #Debt #Capitalism

"I begin with the view that, and I put it very crudely, in Britain we have to learn to grow our own green beans. In Britain, we expect to have fresh green beans on our tables every day of the year, and we expect to draw down Kenya’s water table and exploit its cheap labor so that we can have green beans every day of the year. That has to end. We’ve got to learn to grow our own green beans. We can’t prey upon the assets of others for our own economic well-being.

At the same time, I want to be very clear, I am not a nationalist. I believe it must be possible for a government to respond to its electorate and act in their interests. For me, that’s democracy. At the same time, I don’t believe we can achieve that degree of autonomy without internationalism. We can only do it by actually cooperating. I’m arguing that there must be a much greater emphasis on environmental self-sufficiency. However, that is not nationalism, that is internationalism in my view. That is saying that we want to cooperate with our friends and partners across the world. We don’t want to exploit and extract assets from them. It’s as simple as that.

What always strikes me about the great financial crisis of 2007–9 was that the Left didn’t know it was coming (...) People talked about globalization as if it was a given. And then when it blew up, there was no plan B. We didn’t even know it could happen. We were as stupid as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan. The Left was as stupid as Greenspan, who said he didn’t believe it could happen.

Meanwhile, Wall Street couldn’t believe its luck because it then consolidated itself and became stronger than it had ever been. Before the financial crisis, it could go bust. Since the financial crisis, no Wall Street bank can go bust anymore."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/global-financial-system-deindustrialization-climate/

#Deindustrialization #Financialization #ClimateChange #Globalization #Debt #Capitalism

"I begin with the view that, and I put it very crudely, in Britain we have to learn to grow our own green beans. In Britain, we expect to have fresh green beans on our tables every day of the year, and we expect to draw down Kenya’s water table and exploit its cheap labor so that we can have green beans every day of the year. That has to end. We’ve got to learn to grow our own green beans. We can’t prey upon the assets of others for our own economic well-being.

At the same time, I want to be very clear, I am not a nationalist. I believe it must be possible for a government to respond to its electorate and act in their interests. For me, that’s democracy. At the same time, I don’t believe we can achieve that degree of autonomy without internationalism. We can only do it by actually cooperating. I’m arguing that there must be a much greater emphasis on environmental self-sufficiency. However, that is not nationalism, that is internationalism in my view. That is saying that we want to cooperate with our friends and partners across the world. We don’t want to exploit and extract assets from them. It’s as simple as that.

What always strikes me about the great financial crisis of 2007–9 was that the Left didn’t know it was coming (...) People talked about globalization as if it was a given. And then when it blew up, there was no plan B. We didn’t even know it could happen. We were as stupid as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan. The Left was as stupid as Greenspan, who said he didn’t believe it could happen.

Meanwhile, Wall Street couldn’t believe its luck because it then consolidated itself and became stronger than it had ever been. Before the financial crisis, it could go bust. Since the financial crisis, no Wall Street bank can go bust anymore."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/global-financial-system-deindustrialization-climate/

#Deindustrialization #Financialization #ClimateChange #Globalization #Debt #Capitalism

"I begin with the view that, and I put it very crudely, in Britain we have to learn to grow our own green beans. In Britain, we expect to have fresh green beans on our tables every day of the year, and we expect to draw down Kenya’s water table and exploit its cheap labor so that we can have green beans every day of the year. That has to end. We’ve got to learn to grow our own green beans. We can’t prey upon the assets of others for our own economic well-being.

At the same time, I want to be very clear, I am not a nationalist. I believe it must be possible for a government to respond to its electorate and act in their interests. For me, that’s democracy. At the same time, I don’t believe we can achieve that degree of autonomy without internationalism. We can only do it by actually cooperating. I’m arguing that there must be a much greater emphasis on environmental self-sufficiency. However, that is not nationalism, that is internationalism in my view. That is saying that we want to cooperate with our friends and partners across the world. We don’t want to exploit and extract assets from them. It’s as simple as that.

What always strikes me about the great financial crisis of 2007–9 was that the Left didn’t know it was coming (...) People talked about globalization as if it was a given. And then when it blew up, there was no plan B. We didn’t even know it could happen. We were as stupid as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan. The Left was as stupid as Greenspan, who said he didn’t believe it could happen.

Meanwhile, Wall Street couldn’t believe its luck because it then consolidated itself and became stronger than it had ever been. Before the financial crisis, it could go bust. Since the financial crisis, no Wall Street bank can go bust anymore."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/global-financial-system-deindustrialization-climate/

#Deindustrialization #Financialization #ClimateChange #Globalization #Debt #Capitalism

"A cursory glance at the economic and social development of service-oriented economies dampens any such optimism. There is a reason why manufacturing jobs occupy such a central place in contemporary populist rhetoric. As a rule, they generate significantly higher value added per employee and per hour than jobs in the service sector. In countries such as Germany and the UK, this difference is typically 15 to 40 percent. In addition, around 70 percent of all private investment in research and development in Germany comes from the production sector. An economy that allows an uncontrolled decline in its industrial production willingly accepts a future of stagnating productivity growth and declining real wage growth. This would be no different in Germany.

Britain is the prime example of a country that, despite a large service sector with highly productive services (such as IT, consulting, and finance), is trapped in a vicious cycle of low investment, productivity, and real wage growth as well as high inequality. This reflects that the so-called “productive” services are accompanied by high exploitative rents (from capital income) that inhibit economic activity in other areas while driving up asset prices.

The UK economy is paradigmatic of the “dual” or permanently “K-shaped” type of economy, in which income gains benefit the top 20 to 30 percent (but especially the top 10 percent) while the rest stagnate or shrink in the face of rising living costs. While Germany has not been exempt from these trends (inequality has been increasing and wealth disparities are anomalously high), a UK-ification of its economy would worsen them.

The relative indifference to deindustrialization from the liberal center can hardly be justified."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/germany-deindustrialization-trade-green-elite

#Germany #Deindustrialization #Manufacturing #Economy #EU

"A cursory glance at the economic and social development of service-oriented economies dampens any such optimism. There is a reason why manufacturing jobs occupy such a central place in contemporary populist rhetoric. As a rule, they generate significantly higher value added per employee and per hour than jobs in the service sector. In countries such as Germany and the UK, this difference is typically 15 to 40 percent. In addition, around 70 percent of all private investment in research and development in Germany comes from the production sector. An economy that allows an uncontrolled decline in its industrial production willingly accepts a future of stagnating productivity growth and declining real wage growth. This would be no different in Germany.

Britain is the prime example of a country that, despite a large service sector with highly productive services (such as IT, consulting, and finance), is trapped in a vicious cycle of low investment, productivity, and real wage growth as well as high inequality. This reflects that the so-called “productive” services are accompanied by high exploitative rents (from capital income) that inhibit economic activity in other areas while driving up asset prices.

The UK economy is paradigmatic of the “dual” or permanently “K-shaped” type of economy, in which income gains benefit the top 20 to 30 percent (but especially the top 10 percent) while the rest stagnate or shrink in the face of rising living costs. While Germany has not been exempt from these trends (inequality has been increasing and wealth disparities are anomalously high), a UK-ification of its economy would worsen them.

The relative indifference to deindustrialization from the liberal center can hardly be justified."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/germany-deindustrialization-trade-green-elite

#Germany #Deindustrialization #Manufacturing #Economy #EU

"A cursory glance at the economic and social development of service-oriented economies dampens any such optimism. There is a reason why manufacturing jobs occupy such a central place in contemporary populist rhetoric. As a rule, they generate significantly higher value added per employee and per hour than jobs in the service sector. In countries such as Germany and the UK, this difference is typically 15 to 40 percent. In addition, around 70 percent of all private investment in research and development in Germany comes from the production sector. An economy that allows an uncontrolled decline in its industrial production willingly accepts a future of stagnating productivity growth and declining real wage growth. This would be no different in Germany.

Britain is the prime example of a country that, despite a large service sector with highly productive services (such as IT, consulting, and finance), is trapped in a vicious cycle of low investment, productivity, and real wage growth as well as high inequality. This reflects that the so-called “productive” services are accompanied by high exploitative rents (from capital income) that inhibit economic activity in other areas while driving up asset prices.

The UK economy is paradigmatic of the “dual” or permanently “K-shaped” type of economy, in which income gains benefit the top 20 to 30 percent (but especially the top 10 percent) while the rest stagnate or shrink in the face of rising living costs. While Germany has not been exempt from these trends (inequality has been increasing and wealth disparities are anomalously high), a UK-ification of its economy would worsen them.

The relative indifference to deindustrialization from the liberal center can hardly be justified."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/germany-deindustrialization-trade-green-elite

#Germany #Deindustrialization #Manufacturing #Economy #EU

"A cursory glance at the economic and social development of service-oriented economies dampens any such optimism. There is a reason why manufacturing jobs occupy such a central place in contemporary populist rhetoric. As a rule, they generate significantly higher value added per employee and per hour than jobs in the service sector. In countries such as Germany and the UK, this difference is typically 15 to 40 percent. In addition, around 70 percent of all private investment in research and development in Germany comes from the production sector. An economy that allows an uncontrolled decline in its industrial production willingly accepts a future of stagnating productivity growth and declining real wage growth. This would be no different in Germany.

Britain is the prime example of a country that, despite a large service sector with highly productive services (such as IT, consulting, and finance), is trapped in a vicious cycle of low investment, productivity, and real wage growth as well as high inequality. This reflects that the so-called “productive” services are accompanied by high exploitative rents (from capital income) that inhibit economic activity in other areas while driving up asset prices.

The UK economy is paradigmatic of the “dual” or permanently “K-shaped” type of economy, in which income gains benefit the top 20 to 30 percent (but especially the top 10 percent) while the rest stagnate or shrink in the face of rising living costs. While Germany has not been exempt from these trends (inequality has been increasing and wealth disparities are anomalously high), a UK-ification of its economy would worsen them.

The relative indifference to deindustrialization from the liberal center can hardly be justified."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/germany-deindustrialization-trade-green-elite

#Germany #Deindustrialization #Manufacturing #Economy #EU

"A cursory glance at the economic and social development of service-oriented economies dampens any such optimism. There is a reason why manufacturing jobs occupy such a central place in contemporary populist rhetoric. As a rule, they generate significantly higher value added per employee and per hour than jobs in the service sector. In countries such as Germany and the UK, this difference is typically 15 to 40 percent. In addition, around 70 percent of all private investment in research and development in Germany comes from the production sector. An economy that allows an uncontrolled decline in its industrial production willingly accepts a future of stagnating productivity growth and declining real wage growth. This would be no different in Germany.

Britain is the prime example of a country that, despite a large service sector with highly productive services (such as IT, consulting, and finance), is trapped in a vicious cycle of low investment, productivity, and real wage growth as well as high inequality. This reflects that the so-called “productive” services are accompanied by high exploitative rents (from capital income) that inhibit economic activity in other areas while driving up asset prices.

The UK economy is paradigmatic of the “dual” or permanently “K-shaped” type of economy, in which income gains benefit the top 20 to 30 percent (but especially the top 10 percent) while the rest stagnate or shrink in the face of rising living costs. While Germany has not been exempt from these trends (inequality has been increasing and wealth disparities are anomalously high), a UK-ification of its economy would worsen them.

The relative indifference to deindustrialization from the liberal center can hardly be justified."

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/germany-deindustrialization-trade-green-elite

#Germany #Deindustrialization #Manufacturing #Economy #EU

German economy… Aren't we creating #entropy this way, stifling innovation… and ultimately accelerating the very #deindustrialization we're trying to prevent? #CombustionEngineSurvey 🖖

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xe4noh3c7z2qdg4knd2pkgkf/post/3me6lobomps2b

https://www.europesays.com/uk/531985/ EU Climate Ambitions Face Mounting Political Opposition #ClimateAmbition #COP30 #deindustrialization #EconomicImpact #ElectricityCosts #EnergyPolicy #EU #EUEnergyTransition #Europe #European #EuropeanPolitics #NetZeroTargets #RenewableEnergy

Compare German new passenger car sales by type: Monthly 🟫 #groko #deindustrialization #destabilization

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xlope3oo4etb3hq5l3adqznx/post/3m26uvhaqas2i

The image is a monochrome collage where people appear to walk through large vertical gaps in a textured concrete wall. The figures are semi-transparent, blending with the rough surface, as if merging with their surroundings.

https://johnunwinphotography.blog/2025/09/13/artistic-reflections-on-anonymity-and-urban-life/

#Art #Photography #Urban #Anonymity #Deindustrialization #Collage #Charcoal #Shadows

The image is a monochrome collage where people appear to walk through large vertical gaps in a textured concrete wall. The figures are semi-transparent, blending with the rough surface, as if merging with their surroundings.

https://johnunwinphotography.blog/2025/09/13/artistic-reflections-on-anonymity-and-urban-life/

#Art #Photography #Urban #Anonymity #Deindustrialization #Collage #Charcoal #Shadows

The image is a monochrome collage where people appear to walk through large vertical gaps in a textured concrete wall. The figures are semi-transparent, blending with the rough surface, as if merging with their surroundings.

https://johnunwinphotography.blog/2025/09/13/artistic-reflections-on-anonymity-and-urban-life/

#Art #Photography #Urban #Anonymity #Deindustrialization #Collage #Charcoal #Shadows

The image is a monochrome collage where people appear to walk through large vertical gaps in a textured concrete wall. The figures are semi-transparent, blending with the rough surface, as if merging with their surroundings.

https://johnunwinphotography.blog/2025/09/13/artistic-reflections-on-anonymity-and-urban-life/

#Art #Photography #Urban #Anonymity #Deindustrialization #Collage #Charcoal #Shadows

The image is a monochrome collage where people appear to walk through large vertical gaps in a textured concrete wall. The figures are semi-transparent, blending with the rough surface, as if merging with their surroundings.

https://johnunwinphotography.blog/2025/09/13/artistic-reflections-on-anonymity-and-urban-life/

#Art #Photography #Urban #Anonymity #Deindustrialization #Collage #Charcoal #Shadows

Tariffs and Energy Costs Could Spark an Economic Crisis for Germany https://www.byteseu.com/1290810/ #CorporateLeadership #deindustrialization #EnergyPrices #EUUSTradeDeal #GermanIndustry #Germany #GermanyRecession #GreenDeal #insolvencies #mittelstand #tariffs

Tariffs and Energy Costs Could Spark an Economic Crisis for Germany

The asymmetrical trade agreement between the EU and the US will further worsen Germany’s recession. Yet neither politicians…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #Business #CA #Canada #corporateleadership #deindustrialization #energyprices #EU–UStradedeal #Germanindustry #Germanyrecession #GreenDeal #insolvencies #Mittelstand #Tariffs
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/72895/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/347289/ Tariffs and Energy Costs Could Spark an Economic Crisis for Germany #CorporateLeadership #deindustrialization #EnergyPrices #EU #EUUSTradeDeal #Europe #GermanIndustry #Germany #GermanyRecession #GreenDeal #insolvencies #Mittelstand #Tariffs

"Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other countries is part of his justification for this tax shift as offering a nationalistic benefit for the United States.

His cover story, and perhaps even his belief, is that tariffs by themselves can revive American industry. But he has no plans to deal with the problems that caused America’s deindustrialization in the first place. There is no recognition of what made the original U.S. industrial program and that of most other nations so successful.

That program was based on public infrastructure, rising private industrial investment and wages protected by tariffs, and strong government regulation. Trump’s slash and burn policy is the reverse – to downsize government, weaken public regulation and sell off public infrastructure to help pay for his income tax cuts on his Donor Class.

This is just the neoliberal program under another guise. Trump misrepresents it as supportive of industry, not its antithesis. His move is not an industrial plan at all, but a power play to extract economic concessions from other countries while slashing income taxes on the wealthy. The immediate result will be wide-spread layoffs, business closures and consumer price inflation."

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/

#USA #Trump #Tariffs #TradeWar #Deindustrialization #PoliticalEconomy #Protectionism

"Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other countries is part of his justification for this tax shift as offering a nationalistic benefit for the United States.

His cover story, and perhaps even his belief, is that tariffs by themselves can revive American industry. But he has no plans to deal with the problems that caused America’s deindustrialization in the first place. There is no recognition of what made the original U.S. industrial program and that of most other nations so successful.

That program was based on public infrastructure, rising private industrial investment and wages protected by tariffs, and strong government regulation. Trump’s slash and burn policy is the reverse – to downsize government, weaken public regulation and sell off public infrastructure to help pay for his income tax cuts on his Donor Class.

This is just the neoliberal program under another guise. Trump misrepresents it as supportive of industry, not its antithesis. His move is not an industrial plan at all, but a power play to extract economic concessions from other countries while slashing income taxes on the wealthy. The immediate result will be wide-spread layoffs, business closures and consumer price inflation."

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/

#USA #Trump #Tariffs #TradeWar #Deindustrialization #PoliticalEconomy #Protectionism

"Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other countries is part of his justification for this tax shift as offering a nationalistic benefit for the United States.

His cover story, and perhaps even his belief, is that tariffs by themselves can revive American industry. But he has no plans to deal with the problems that caused America’s deindustrialization in the first place. There is no recognition of what made the original U.S. industrial program and that of most other nations so successful.

That program was based on public infrastructure, rising private industrial investment and wages protected by tariffs, and strong government regulation. Trump’s slash and burn policy is the reverse – to downsize government, weaken public regulation and sell off public infrastructure to help pay for his income tax cuts on his Donor Class.

This is just the neoliberal program under another guise. Trump misrepresents it as supportive of industry, not its antithesis. His move is not an industrial plan at all, but a power play to extract economic concessions from other countries while slashing income taxes on the wealthy. The immediate result will be wide-spread layoffs, business closures and consumer price inflation."

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/

#USA #Trump #Tariffs #TradeWar #Deindustrialization #PoliticalEconomy #Protectionism

"Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other countries is part of his justification for this tax shift as offering a nationalistic benefit for the United States.

His cover story, and perhaps even his belief, is that tariffs by themselves can revive American industry. But he has no plans to deal with the problems that caused America’s deindustrialization in the first place. There is no recognition of what made the original U.S. industrial program and that of most other nations so successful.

That program was based on public infrastructure, rising private industrial investment and wages protected by tariffs, and strong government regulation. Trump’s slash and burn policy is the reverse – to downsize government, weaken public regulation and sell off public infrastructure to help pay for his income tax cuts on his Donor Class.

This is just the neoliberal program under another guise. Trump misrepresents it as supportive of industry, not its antithesis. His move is not an industrial plan at all, but a power play to extract economic concessions from other countries while slashing income taxes on the wealthy. The immediate result will be wide-spread layoffs, business closures and consumer price inflation."

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/

#USA #Trump #Tariffs #TradeWar #Deindustrialization #PoliticalEconomy #Protectionism

"Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other countries is part of his justification for this tax shift as offering a nationalistic benefit for the United States.

His cover story, and perhaps even his belief, is that tariffs by themselves can revive American industry. But he has no plans to deal with the problems that caused America’s deindustrialization in the first place. There is no recognition of what made the original U.S. industrial program and that of most other nations so successful.

That program was based on public infrastructure, rising private industrial investment and wages protected by tariffs, and strong government regulation. Trump’s slash and burn policy is the reverse – to downsize government, weaken public regulation and sell off public infrastructure to help pay for his income tax cuts on his Donor Class.

This is just the neoliberal program under another guise. Trump misrepresents it as supportive of industry, not its antithesis. His move is not an industrial plan at all, but a power play to extract economic concessions from other countries while slashing income taxes on the wealthy. The immediate result will be wide-spread layoffs, business closures and consumer price inflation."

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/

#USA #Trump #Tariffs #TradeWar #Deindustrialization #PoliticalEconomy #Protectionism

🇩🇪 GERMANY
🔴 US Tariffs May Accelerate German Deindustrialization

🔸 German industrial output is 16% below 2017; energy-intensive sectors down 18% since 2021.
🔸 Trump imposed 20% tariffs on German goods; firms may shift production to US.
🔸 Auto production shrank 43% since 2018; R&D jobs now dominate.
🔸 Experts warn: once production leaves, research may follow.

#Germany #Trump #Tariffs #Industry #Deindustrialization #Auto #Energy #Economy

🇩🇪 GERMANY
🔴 US Tariffs May Accelerate German Deindustrialization

🔸 German industrial output is 16% below 2017; energy-intensive sectors down 18% since 2021.
🔸 Trump imposed 20% tariffs on German goods; firms may shift production to US.
🔸 Auto production shrank 43% since 2018; R&D jobs now dominate.
🔸 Experts warn: once production leaves, research may follow.

#Germany #Trump #Tariffs #Industry #Deindustrialization #Auto #Energy #Economy

🇩🇪 GERMANY
🔴 US Tariffs May Accelerate German Deindustrialization

🔸 German industrial output is 16% below 2017; energy-intensive sectors down 18% since 2021.
🔸 Trump imposed 20% tariffs on German goods; firms may shift production to US.
🔸 Auto production shrank 43% since 2018; R&D jobs now dominate.
🔸 Experts warn: once production leaves, research may follow.

#Germany #Trump #Tariffs #Industry #Deindustrialization #Auto #Energy #Economy

And it [Ukraine’s economic potential ] was significant, including a powerful infrastructure, a gas transportation system, advanced shipbuilding, aircraft construction, rocket production, instrumentation, and world-class scientific, design, and engineering schools. Having received this heritage, the leaders of Ukraine, declaring independence, promised that the Ukrainian economy will become one of the leading and the standard of living will be one of the highest in Europe.

Today the industrial hi-tech giants that once made Ukraine and the whole country proud are lying on their sides. Over the past 10 years, the output of mechanical engineering has fallen by 42 percent. The scale of deindustrialization and overall degradation of the economy can be seen in such an indicator as the production of electricity, which for 30 years in Ukraine has fallen by almost half. Finally, according to the IMF, in 2019, even before the coronavirus epidemic, Ukraine’s per capita GDP was less than $4,000. This is below the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Moldova and unrecognized Kosovo. Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe.
#lang_en

А он [экономический потенциал] у Украины был значительным, включал мощную инфраструктуру, газотранспортную систему, передовые отрасли судостроения, авиастроения, ракетостроения, приборостроения, научные, конструкторские, инженерные школы мирового уровня. Получив такое наследие, лидеры Украины, объявляя о независимости, обещали, что украинская экономика станет одной из ведущих, а уровень жизни людей одним из самых высоких в Европе.

Сегодня промышленные высокотехнологичные гиганты, которыми некогда гордились и Украина, и вся страна, лежат на боку. За последние 10 лет выпуск продукции машиностроения упал на 42 процента. Масштаб деиндустриализации и в целом деградации экономики виден по такому показателю, как выработка электроэнергии, которая за 30 лет на Украине сократилась практически вдвое. И наконец, по данным МВФ, в 2019 году, ещё до эпидемии коронавируса, уровень подушевого ВВП Украины составил меньше 4 тысяч долларов. Это ниже Республики Албании, Республики Молдовы и непризнанного Косова. Украина сейчас – беднейшая страна Европы.
#lang_ru

Ukraine is rapidly going downhill and the collapse of its shipbuilding industry is the best proof of it. The country, which received a fantastic inheritance from the USSR, managed to squander it in just three decades. The people making decisions have spit on the great past, in which aircraft carriers were built, and now Turkey will build warships for them.

Украина стремительно катится вниз и крах ее судостроительной отрасли — лучшее тому доказательство. Страна, получившая от СССР просто фантастическое наследство, умудрилась растранжирить его за какие-то три десятка лет. Люди, принимающие решения, плюнули на великое прошлое, в котором строились авианосцы, и теперь боевые корабли для них будет строить Турция.

How Europe crashed its car industry
Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

"The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-crashed-its-cars/
#cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

How Europe crashed its car industry
Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

"The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-crashed-its-cars/
#cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

How Europe crashed its car industry
Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

"The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-crashed-its-cars/
#cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy

How Europe crashed its car industry
Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand

"The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-crashed-its-cars/
#cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy