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manqiangrexue
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Because Americans go to Mexico to spend money on a cheap place and Mexicans come to work in the US for cheap labor. Both support Mexico having a low quality of life compared to America.
Mexico does not have the largest tourism in the world. There is no perhaps.
Because it doesn't happen.
That's nobody's definition of competent.
All the more reason the hard power of cash draws them here.
Whether it is legitimate construction or menial labor, they came to America to get paid more than they would at home.
Those 2 are unrelated.
It's because Canada and America have more similar developed economies while Mexico is a complement being a developing country selling to developed countries. But demographics is hard power too.
It's called CHEAP vacation spot with nice weather and beaches.
This is true; America is getting more f-ed up, so moving to Mexico to retire is a good cheap option to stretch your money.
Mexican population growing means more production, more things to sell and American higher GDP per capita means they can afford cheap Mexican exports. It's all right there.
No, because the US has built walls and armed guards to keep Mexicans out.
Read it. It's stupid and wrong as always.
Actually, most of them just do hard labor because you need education to get a comfortable office job.
Yeah, Koreans/Japanese want comfortable 9-5 jobs that pay high and then buy big houses in America, which Japan and Korea don't offer.
Ok, "if"... the future is off topic and it takes a lot mre than software developers to make a developed country.
Figure 3? It shows migrant caravans consisting of 600K Mexicans and 1M others.
Furthermore, there's this right from the horse's mouth of why they want to come to America. It's all the reasons I outlined, none of your imaginary reasons:
Survey: “Why did you leave your home?”
- economic reasons 62%
- fear of violence 25%
- to escape illegal activity 4%
- lack of education 2%
He's South-African. He doesn't care what he does to Silicon Valley.
You have said more stupid things here in the last 5 days than any other member in the 10 years I was here. Elon Musk was, at one point, the world's richest man and he's self-made based on technology. You can see how funny it is to me that you think he's stupid, right?
You can say it again and again but I always prove you wrong.
What power did it get them? What, other than money from the event, did Qatar gain with this "soft power?" Nothing. Whatever they could do before they can still do now, and whatever they couldn't before, they still can't now. "Soft power" is useless.
Irrelevent
That has nothing to do with soft power but the hard financial power to afford the planes they want.
I'm clueless because your answer is nonsense. I asked what Qatar can do that Kuwait cannot. Your answer is that people travel to the Middle-East and they have European footballers. LOLOL It's nonsense.
They didn't feel that way in WWII. Then they got beaten into a pacifist by hard power.
That's why they couldn't refuse Nordstream and the US had to order a terrorist strike on it to get Germans off? And Germany, of course, wanted to destroy its own industry so it can just buy things from Asia without the ability to make anything, right? You spin so hard you should start a powerdrill company, put Black and Decker out of business LOL
So either I have to provide hard evidence that the CIA rigged German politics or we should just accept your random imagination that German soft power is controlling the West??? Sorry, evidence and logic don't work like that.
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Supply and demand; if they got a better offer, they're most likely gone.
I'm mostly talking about engineers who work for their own country because they want to support their own people. This is a natural instinct, not soft power.
Ideology itself is soft power and it's easy; anybody can come up with an agreeable ideology. But the ability to project that ideology, to show the world its results and why it should be followed, is completely dependent on hard power. That's what sets apart fringe ideologies and the ones that dominate the world. It's all hard power.
"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Prolonged battle, even if it finally exhausts the enemy, is not a smart way to fight. A war of attrition is simply expensive and its costs will be felt long after the fighting has finished."
- Sun Tzu
This is stupid and nonsense.
I admire very much your patience to engage in a debate with someone incapable of any coherent let alone cogent replies. The person or bot you're arguing with is not worth your valuable time and effort since the person is incapable of being informed and or even to adjust his thinking based on actual factual data. He's an ideologue. A zealot.
I stumbled by chance on the creators of this wonderful piece by scolling through the reactions on that hate spewing shit.
the EU is buying at market price, not at a premium, for its part, Russia is selling below market price under agreements and swaps... On the other hand, I am not mentioning that Russia is "losing", I am simply saying that these actions they are unsustainable for a country like Russia that depends exclusively on oil, and its current situation... interesting that he used the word "losing" when his spiel before the paragraph said that Russia is not having problems and on the contrary has sold its production at "best prices"
querida, no asumas que tus sueños húmedos serán una realidad, deja de especular y deja de asumir que la noticia de los cierres de vidrio, es la regla en toda Europa, tu análisis falla a la realidad... si, Rusia tomó decisiones que tomó Europa fue tomado por sorpresa, pero no lo suficiente como para caer en el chantaje planeado por el Kremlin, y hoy, la economía rusa está mucho, mucho peor que la europea, y se ha deteriorado más que la europea desde su infame invasión, y es no es una opinion, es lo que esta pasando
It is normal, Russia is one of the largest gas producers, while Europe one of the non-producers that consumes the most, normally buys to consume and stores strategic reserves... Russia must place its production so as not to exhaust its stores, but rather Well, you can burn it, which is what you were doing at some point, but it's not the healthiest thing for the industry and the economy, but if that's comfortable for you, fine!
Russia... the Russian narrative wreaks havoc on some, but we are talking about events of a short time ago, it is not something that happened 100 years ago
not even Russia has directly blamed Europe for the explosion, I guess your evidence is, your intuition, or am I wrong?
PiSigma
"the engineer"
IVF is for people who can't conceive naturally. The baby still grows in the women and they still get the belly and stretch marks.
The poor man of Europe, the sick man Europe... but don't let it distract from what's important... sending more DU rounds to Ukraine.
Brexit has weakened the UK economy and driven the nation into a “sort of geriatric decline,” British financier and chairman of the private equity firm Terra Firma told Bloomberg on Friday.
Since the UK left the European Union, it has been competing on the world stage, but the country’s current laws are not suitable for the new environment, billionaire Guy Hands suggested in the outlet’s weekly ‘In The City’ podcast.
Unless change happens, the UK risks becoming poorer compared to other European countries.
“I look at the UK and see that, in 2030, Poland will be wealthier than we are,” he said. “In 2040, we will be the poor man in Europe.”
According to Hands, the UK should not have left the EU, as the country needs rule of law and consistency, but not a single politician is talking about going back. He lamented that Brexit has essentially thrown the country back 50 years, to the 1970’s, a decade that is widely remembered as a time of crisis, with skyrocketing inflation, high unemployment, strikes and power cuts.
The enormous amount of political change that has happened in the UK over the past seven years has left investors concerned, and the public lacking confidence, the billionaire believes.
Now that the UK is out of the EU, the British government could take a radical approach and change some of its laws, Hands said, citing the country’s “extraordinarily complex” labor laws that are “a nightmare” compared to other European countries. The UK also needs some “boring bookkeeping,” and the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems to be good at it, according to Hands.
The financier noted that the British government has succeeded in repairing some of the damage caused by Liz Truss, whose economic policies were “absolutely disastrous” and would have led to the country needing a bailout. Truss’s argument, however, that the UK needed to become much more productive to be more competitive was “100% right”.
UK in ‘geriatric decline’ – financier
Guy Hands says Britain will soon be poorer than PolandBrexit has weakened the UK economy and driven the nation into a “sort of geriatric decline,” British financier and chairman of the private equity firm Terra Firma told Bloomberg on Friday.
Since the UK left the European Union, it has been competing on the world stage, but the country’s current laws are not suitable for the new environment, billionaire Guy Hands suggested in the outlet’s weekly ‘In The City’ podcast.
Unless change happens, the UK risks becoming poorer compared to other European countries.
“I look at the UK and see that, in 2030, Poland will be wealthier than we are,” he said. “In 2040, we will be the poor man in Europe.”
According to Hands, the UK should not have left the EU, as the country needs rule of law and consistency, but not a single politician is talking about going back. He lamented that Brexit has essentially thrown the country back 50 years, to the 1970’s, a decade that is widely remembered as a time of crisis, with skyrocketing inflation, high unemployment, strikes and power cuts.
The enormous amount of political change that has happened in the UK over the past seven years has left investors concerned, and the public lacking confidence, the billionaire believes.
Now that the UK is out of the EU, the British government could take a radical approach and change some of its laws, Hands said, citing the country’s “extraordinarily complex” labor laws that are “a nightmare” compared to other European countries. The UK also needs some “boring bookkeeping,” and the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems to be good at it, according to Hands.
The financier noted that the British government has succeeded in repairing some of the damage caused by Liz Truss, whose economic policies were “absolutely disastrous” and would have led to the country needing a bailout. Truss’s argument, however, that the UK needed to become much more productive to be more competitive was “100% right”.
China to boycott G20 meeting hosted by India in Kashmir
Kashmiri activists have been subjected to mass killings, forced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to suppression of freedom of speech and bans on religious gatherings. Over 355 people were recorded killed in 2021. Over 41,000 have died since 2009.“China is firmly opposed to holding any kind of in disputed territory, and will not attend such meetings,” Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday.
The meeting will be the first significant international event in Kashmir since New Delhi stripped the Muslim-majority region of semi-autonomy in 2019.
On Friday, India said peace and tranquillity on its border are essential for normal ties with China.
Scrutiny has been beefed up in Kashmir in the wake of the event, with commandos patrolling the streets. Police have increased security even further, placing a massive security cordon around the meeting site.
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