Ok, not football at all, but it matters, eventually.

[WTF11]

Russia is a paper tiger. When you have to enlist criminals, cubans, north koreans as well as pull world war II era tanks out of mothballs to fight a former satelite that was largely demilitarized you aren't in any shape to take on any of the NATO countries, with or without the US.

we have given a minimum of $106,000,000,000 aid to the Ukraine. Most of it without any conditions.

I note you don't argue with my view of Ukraine's fate?

As to who Russia can and can't "take, are you "comfortable" with the notion that Putin might try his arm, just to see what Trump and or NATO does? I'd prefer not to find out (prevention is better than cure, Chamberlain (and eventially everyone else), found that out post "peace in our time" statement)

[Monaco_Totty]

I"m too old to be running around acting like a keyboard warrior! I know better.

It will be interesting to see how some of the election outcomes worldwide play out. It will be kind of like a real world economics case study in some cases. Argentina's last election is having major impact on their economy and eventually will likely affect the global economy. They have the potential to be a world power economically.

The UK has gone the other route. They have elected a more government control, free spending government so they could be considered going the opposite direction. China is throwing money around like a drunken sailor trying to re*****ize their economy. The US has 287K of debt per citizen and spends 20k more per citizen than they bring in tax wise. It's a ticking time bomb for many of the world's largest economies and it's not likely to end well for those countries and the world overall.

The outliers such as Venezuela and Brazil are blessed with Natural resources that should put them in the top tier of the worlds economies an they are train wrecks. Some analysis's of Venezuela puts them as the the world richest country natural resource wise per capita and they are one of the poorest countries, per capita, in the world.

Keyboard warriors ?
Global internet, its language preferences & education of its importance in some of the countries economies you named.

Most commonly used online language is
English among global internet users & is the most common corporate language used by many multinational companies, including Airbus, Microsoft & Samsung who have mandated English as the "common-corporate" language, even though Mandarin is spoken by over 1.2 billion people worldwide, including across China & South Asia markets.

In most countries, English is still the primary foreign language taught in schools & my Mum finds work in interesting business translating of it's use here, there & everywhere.

Other languages that are important for her business include French which is the the official language of more than 29 countries, which provides decent translation work revenues for her in in African countries of Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Mozambique, Tanzania & Democratic Republic of Congo, i'm told.

Spanish, which is spoken by around 534 million people worldwide, including over 40 million in the USA, is also heavily used during business communications today & provides a steady stream for translation work currently for many too globally.

Balance all that by looking at recently released stats fom UK's Ministry of Justice data that show 57% of adult prisoners have literacy levels below those expected of an 11 year old.

On the other hand UK Cyber crime stats show there was 7.78 million Cyber attacks on UK businesses so far in 2024 & more than 4000,000 cases of confirmed fraud via computer misuse were recorded, with 50% of UK businesses thus far experiencing such crimes regularly.

There are few skills which have a bigger impact on a persons life than being able to read, for sure.

But wow, look at what such a skill can be morphed into within today's global markets from the perspective of both sides of the law via the net - let alone the developing global language of computer data-code programmers working on different sides of the law.
Frightening incomes of profits for some via crime & huge losses for sure for victims.

The world is seeing a general increase in 'cybercrime-language' with current estimates that cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 !

[WTF11]

Keyboard warriors ?
Global internet, its language preferences & education of its importance in some of the countries economies you named.

Most commonly used online language is
English among global internet users & is the most common corporate language used by many multinational companies, including Airbus, Microsoft & Samsung who have mandated English as the "common-corporate" language, even though Mandarin is spoken by over 1.2 billion people worldwide, including across China & South Asia markets.

In most countries, English is still the primary foreign language taught in schools & my Mum finds work in interesting business translating of it's use here, there & everywhere.

Other languages that are important for her business include French which is the the official language of more than 29 countries, which provides decent translation work revenues for her in in African countries of Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Mozambique, Tanzania & Democratic Republic of Congo, i'm told.

Spanish, which is spoken by around 534 million people worldwide, including over 40 million in the USA, is also heavily used during business communications today & provides a steady stream for translation work currently for many too globally.

Balance all that by looking at recently released stats fom UK's Ministry of Justice data that show 57% of adult prisoners have literacy levels below those expected of an 11 year old.

On the other hand UK Cyber crime stats show there was 7.78 million Cyber attacks on UK businesses so far in 2024 & more than 4000,000 cases of confirmed fraud via computer misuse were recorded, with 50% of UK businesses thus far experiencing such crimes regularly.

There are few skills which have a bigger impact on a persons life than being able to read, for sure.

But wow, look at what such a skill can be morphed into within today's global markets from the perspective of both sides of the law via the net - let alone the developing global language of computer data-code programmers working on different sides of the law.
Frightening incomes of profits for some via crime & huge losses for sure for victims.

The world is seeing a general increase in 'cybercrime-language' with current estimates that cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 !

Sorry, but what do the last couple of posts have in any context to the debate regarding the 47th President of the USA?

[Monaco_Totty]

Sorry, but what do the last couple of posts have in any context to the debate regarding the 47th President of the USA?

Tad touchy tonight or an attempt to provoke ?

I was replying to Spaldy & not extemporaneously, to give someone intetested the information to understand something regarding the global economy competition facing his country, the USA & the effects of external cyber security to global economies & its effects on populace including America & little old UK.

Of course i could have included the rise of African influence with regard to Trumps trading plans or the fact African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic & security ties with Russia, leading Western countries to denounce what they see as Moscow’s destabilizing influence too.

But i shall refrain from comment on how Russia "actually" thinks now on the USA under Trump, despite the fact a family member with boots on the ground is living in Moscow working for French media tv there currently & who has access to news conferences including Putins comments uttered today & the Trump effect on Russian people as to the perceived effect read by some outside of that country.

Anyway, your greater knowledge no doubt would denounce all that as not being acceptable & unworthy for Spaldys attention & indeed for your own grey matter.

To coin your favoured phrase when trying to belittle me, "you let yourself down there".
So i'll throw said phrase back on you & take my unwanted recently sharpened quill elsewhere.
Good evening.

[WTF11]

Tad touchy tonight or an attempt to provoke ?

I was replying to Spaldy & not extemporaneously, to give someone intetested the information to understand something regarding the global economy competition facing his country, the USA & the effects of external cyber security to global economies & its effects on populace including America & little old UK.

Of course i could have included the rise of African influence with regard to Trumps trading plans or the fact African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic & security ties with Russia, leading Western countries to denounce what they see as Moscow’s destabilizing influence too.

But i shall refrain from comment on how Russia "actually" thinks now on the USA under Trump, despite the fact a family member with boots on the ground is living in Moscow working for French media tv there currently & who has access to news conferences including Putins comments uttered today & the Trump effect on Russian people as to the perceived effect read by some outside of that country.

Anyway, your greater knowledge no doubt would denounce all that as not being acceptable & unworthy for Spaldys attention & indeed for your own grey matter.

To coin your favoured phrase when trying to belittle me, "you let yourself down there".
So i'll throw said phrase back on you & take my unwanted recently sharpened quill elsewhere.
Good evening.

Ok first. When have I EVER suggested that you have "let yourself down " on any subject, any time, ever? If you can't (And I suspect you won't), then i expect.an apology.

Secondly. Just what have any of my responses to your increasingly "diverse" comments here to do with cyber security, or.the impact of imteractioms with Russia and African destabilization?

You been taking stuff Sweetcheeks?

[WTF11]

Tad touchy tonight or an attempt to provoke ?

I was replying to Spaldy & not extemporaneously, to give someone intetested the information to understand something regarding the global economy competition facing his country, the USA & the effects of external cyber security to global economies & its effects on populace including America & little old UK.

Of course i could have included the rise of African influence with regard to Trumps trading plans or the fact African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic & security ties with Russia, leading Western countries to denounce what they see as Moscow’s destabilizing influence too.

But i shall refrain from comment on how Russia "actually" thinks now on the USA under Trump, despite the fact a family member with boots on the ground is living in Moscow working for French media tv there currently & who has access to news conferences including Putins comments uttered today & the Trump effect on Russian people as to the perceived effect read by some outside of that country.

Anyway, your greater knowledge no doubt would denounce all that as not being acceptable & unworthy for Spaldys attention & indeed for your own grey matter.

To coin your favoured phrase when trying to belittle me, "you let yourself down there".
So i'll throw said phrase back on you & take my unwanted recently sharpened quill elsewhere.
Good evening.

And the fact.you have a family member working in Moscow is supposed to engender sympathy, understanding, empathy even? Go to the Ukraine fromtline where doctors, teachers, streetsweepers, nurses and so many other "normal" people have been drawn into conflict not of their making but who felt compelled to resist. THEN get alll pilosophical.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Careful, if you bash those keys any harder you may do yourself an injury.

MT sure the rest of us understood what you were trying to say.

[MrsORichSenior_]

Careful, if you bash those keys any harder you may do yourself an injury.

MT sure the rest of us understood what you were trying to say.

American & UK politics have not been great since the 1970s...... maybe down to the philosophy of Thatcher & Reagan that they left.

Thatcher's policies were associated with substantial increases in socioeconomic and health inequalities....... these issues were actively marginalized and ignored by her governments.

If you graph productivity growth in the USA and increased income for workers in the USA for a 100 years....... then the two lines in the graph grow together up until about 1980 when Reagan was elected and thereafter productivity continues to rise but worker wages stil stay pretty flat.

The Ronald Reagan method of shrinking the government was to pay private companies more than it cost the government to do many of the things federal government used to do.... ....... this resulted in lots of talent leaving the federal government and going to those companies.......... because private companies are not actually known for honest business practices the federal government wasted lots of money for cr@p........ leading to an additional cost of hiring federal workers who were experts in the field to oversee the projects and call out companies for being dishonest........ nothing changed really since regarding.........

Possibly an outsiders view from me that anyone is welcome to correct........ as I have an open mind regarding global politics due to clients who engage me...... but in all honesty there are to many clowns in governments today offering nothing conceptually new apart from pseudo personalities.

Football & Politics not a great mix on footie forums....... as Dutch Police will testify today after violence against fans in Amsterdam...... nuff said !

MOT

[spaldy]

The Nazi Germany prior to WW2 was one of the best fighting machines ever assembled. Modern state of the are weaponry including the worlds best Air Force,Navy and weaponry. Brilliant commanders, well trained and motivated fighting troops. Russia has none of that. Frankly, China doesn't either but they steal technology better than any country in the world so they likley will have a technical equivalancy.

MT, your post caused me some contemplation last night. An an old yank I'm still kind of hard wired to the fact that great weaponry wins you a war. After reading your post and thinking a bit I realized full blast the next way isn't likely to be won by the best plane, ships or weaponry. They will still be critical in tactical battle plans but the real winner is likley to be someone that can shut the power grid down, disable cars and any equipment that runs with computer chips, and eliminate all of the digital currency. All of this from afar with no shots actually being fired. I knew this but never really processed the full extent of it. It's also really scary the rush to AI and robot fighting equipment.

[ozleeds]

The Nazi Germany prior to WW2 was one of the best fighting machines ever assembled. Modern state of the are weaponry including the worlds best Air Force,Navy and weaponry. Brilliant commanders, well trained and motivated fighting troops. Russia has none of that. Frankly, China doesn't either but they steal technology better than any country in the world so they likley will have a technical equivalancy.

MT, your post caused me some contemplation last night. An an old yank I'm still kind of hard wired to the fact that great weaponry wins you a war. After reading your post and thinking a bit I realized full blast the next way isn't likely to be won by the best plane, ships or weaponry. They will still be critical in tactical battle plans but the real winner is likley to be someone that can shut the power grid down, disable cars and any equipment that runs with computer chips, and eliminate all of the digital currency. All of this from afar with no shots actually being fired. I knew this but never really processed the full extent of it. It's also really scary the rush to AI and robot fighting equipment.

Correct Spaldy on tech. there is a lot of ways to win wars than fighting. Take India with making 90% of the worlds medicine as they like China copied other countries intentioned and how do they get away with it who knows. They can temper the medicine and kill millions. People are waking up to China but only a handful are stopping them eg Taiwan. People were laughing when they tried to take over the world with Haiwe tech till they were caught as they thought it was a hox. On the other side we won't need wars to destroy ourselves as you say technology will kill us as it already is with exploding cars, house's on fire due to scooters and well batteries everywhere the whole world will blow up as one blows and the rest go up at the same time.