Jungle Fever

Yeah, Freddie boy, unless they fail to destroy the nuclear program and in the process, show every country out there that international law is toilet paper and the only protection from an attack is having nukes. Ukraine and North Korea are good examples.
That'll help make the world safer.

These people did Britain two favours.
1. They've shone a light on shoddy base security, which needs upgrading ASAP.
2. They've reminded the UK that aiding genocide by providing arms and services to the IDF makes it actively complicit under international law.
What's it gonna be, money or morals?

"Outside the demented rantings of antisemites there is no evidence of the specific crime of genocide"

So everyone who's got issues w/ the mass extermination in Gaza by bombing, burning, starving, shooting, all captured on camera is a demented antisemite?

Delusional or liar, you've got no humanity.

It's not cheap oil vs ukrainian lives, as too many people seem to think. It's the specter of massive price increases and inflation driven by energy prices driving a surge of support for the far right across EU.
That being said, i hope this is just postponement, and not cancellation of the price cap.

Illegal? Sure. Unprovoked? Not by a long shot.

And this is coming from someone who wants to see the israeli leadership, the inhuman criminal genocidal murderers who are drowning Gaza in blood rot in a jail for eternity.

I don't think fast track membership alignes with UKR interests either. I watched my country (RO) being transformed by the reforms needed for membership, and UKR should do the same. Access to EU market, free travel, aid, whatever they need, but membership only after full and comprehensive reforms.

Young Trumpadawan, learn to speak you must before talk you should.

Also, dumbass you are if whining will work you think.

Just your friendly neighborhood Romanian.

If you look at the history (including demographic) of Budjak/Bugeac, it was always an ethnic mosaic. Romanians and Moldovans, Ukrainians, Russians and Lipovans, Bulgarians, Gagauz, Tatars, Bessarabia Germans, Jews. By law it's UA territory, and once UA and MD are in the EU all this won't matter.

Haven't been proud of my country for a while. Today that changed.

Truck = forward march of history
Cardboard Kremlin = Russian system
Person = Putin and his supporters
Festive decoration = Ukraine
Red star = Russian imperialism

Sometimes the universe is damn good at providing you with perfect metaphors.

No, it's you who's misinterpreting it. Free choice means free choice. If I want to be employed or employ someone, who are you to just take that right from me? It's my right and my choice, not yours or anybody else's.

The co-op model outperforms private enterprise in some cases, in others it falls far behind. Just take the global semiconductor supply chain for manufacturing of chips - design in the US, machines made in the Netherlands, manufacturing in Taiwan, and try to reproduce it as a co-op. No way in hell.

"In the future" - yeah, sure, once someone invents a replicator, capitalism and all current economic doctrine will become obsolete overnight. Until then though, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the right to work as well as the right to choose the form of work.

Let me translate that for you:
"I had no idea because i'm too stupid and lazy to read the daily intelligence briefing so I'm gonna say something to make the question go away then forget completely about it"

What a waste of air this idiot is.

If you're forcing workers to join a co-op, you're the one violating their rights as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Note the part about "free choice of employment". The minute you force everyone into joining a coop, you take that away.

That's not a priest, that's a ninja with mental issues after joining a death cult.

No it's not. If you force people into cooperatives, you are taking away their choice and economic freedoms to do as they wish, including working for an employer.
A minimum wage doesn't affect an employee's rights in any way, a co-op mandate does.

As long as they can't choose to be employed and they have to choose to work for a co-op, that violates their right to work where and how they please.
If you want co-ops to succeed, you can't force them down people's throats, membership in one should be strictly voluntary.

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This makes about as much sense as the US and Canada discussing pipelines in the US without the US being part.

What are they gonna do, force us to buy russian gas?

Just because the law unjustly favors employers in a certain jurisdiction doesn't mean that there should be a universal right to workplace democracy in privately owned companies.
Rather, the law should balance between employer/employee rights, allow strong unions and break up monopolies, for starters

2/2 Also, workplace democracy mandated as an universal human right would conflict with the rights to property and economic freedom
Art. 7 - Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
Art. 8 - Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment [...]

1/2 Well, I don't regard them as inalienable ("not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied"). The UDHR and ECHR specify what the inalienable rights are as recognized by all and they don't include workplace democracy.

I think you need to read what I said again. I never said those were actual cooperatives in the modern sense of the word, yet if you come here and ask people about the word "cooperativă", the old communist coops is what they will point to. I GET what you're saying, the people mostly wouldn't.

In theory it's exploitative. In practice, if a region with strong protection refuses to outsource to a poorer nation but a competitor with no qualms doesn't, in most cases they'll take the offer. See the Africa-China economic relationship.

No, I claimed it had COOPERATIVES. Big difference. It had a planned economy with people in rural areas forced into coops after their property was confiscated (land, animals) and given to the coops, which soured an entire generation on the concept.
It never had a cooperative economy.

We don't need to. Instead of 25% tariffs on cars, we can estimate how much that costs the EU and then levy the same amount on other goods or services. Microsoft stuff, Xboxes, Dell, Google and FB ads, Boeing, Converse, Nike, Levis, Apple, Starbucks, Ford, Whirlpool, CK, Duracell...

25%

I'd argue that's a secondary priority, given that basic human rights are under attack everywhere. Let's have functioning democracies and widespread respect for human rights first and then argue on what further rights should be gained.

...or because they don't take it. In my country, an entire generation grew up wary of cooperatives because of our past (forced collectivization and property confiscation in favor of cooperatives). Above all, people need to have a choice, and some of them will prefer employment. That's ok.