Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

with all the upheavel caused in the US re people at the top/ very senior staff, etc, etc let go and others staying on in their positions but with an uncertain future- not knowing what Musk might do next - is there a possibility that that ‘ skill set would be interested in moving to England/Ireland /Europe ?

We done fairly well out of the Trump circus the first time around

Todays Irish times been discussing it (not gonna link cause paywall)

“Trump and Musk’s war on science presents a startling opportunity for Ireland

Fintan O’Toole: Trump is complaining that we pick America’s pocket. Fair enough – we should instead pick America’s brains”

aside; I was told to prepare for interviews as team size doubling in size with hiring not in US but Ireland and Europe in my US MNC employer

I suspect companies will make alot of noises about investment in US while stealthily doing opposite

The penny is starting to drop with likes of JPM saying US is now considered hostile to business, which is insane

Pretty much

Currently it looks like the US will be allowing Hitler to keep most of what he's invaded, getting the invaded countries to pay the US back for it's support, then giving Hitler every concession he wants and doing business deals with him + forming a new relationship with him.

I'm 100% for Ukraine getting a break after 11 years of war - but yeah even the wildest predictions of how much Trump would bend and fawn to Putin hasn't come close to the reality of it.

I'd be amazed if the so called peace deal was anything other than Russia keeping the lands they took

Virtually a given at this stage IMO. Zelensky barely even bothering to push back…

This is a critically important thing to be aware of. It's one thing for the average joe in America to get the their taxes raised and get screwed out of some money, Trump was always going to do that, but now he's going to start impacting bigger players.

The likes of the tech bros are going to start realizing soon (minus Musk who seems to have gone completely in on supplying the US everything) that he's screwing them as well as the little guys. If other countries find the US hard to deal with, they will pull away. It's no surprise companies will want to appear more European with the recent surge they've had in the markets.

Well maybe they think that Trump is on a mission from God, but he's leading them straight to hell..The internet is full of American's saying that , "Sure he was saying all these thing's, but we never thought thats what he actually meant..or it wouldn't affect them". By the time the mid-terms come round, no one can say that they didn't know what Trump is doing.

I'm not sure he'll be alive in 5yrs. He's pissing off an awful lot of people and it only takes one in a country full of guns to tip over the edge. Probably a betrayed MAGA head.

Unacceptable? Everything russia has done to Ukraine could be considered unacceptable

Do you seriously think that the country that quite happily stomachs the killing of school children year-in-year-out (for the sake of the right to bear arms) would be the least bit bothered by the deaths of a few foreigners?

Agent Kraznov, I presume.

It's absolutely true.

Now we see the panic on a continent that has been reckless with it's own defence and has no serious arguments to make.

I'm happy to see defence budgets will increase significantly in the coming years and America will no longer be taken advantage of.

This is in Europe's interests. America has bigger fish to fry in the Asia Pacific.

It doesn't mean America will abandon Europe. It means protection will be more fairly balanced in the future.

Like the other poster said, it is MAGA and how they do things.

American foreign policy has been the same for decades. Through Republican and Democrat presidents. Now the world has only had months (or weeks) to adjust to dramatically different and unpredictable policy.

And often only days or hours to react to a sudden shift.

Dictators were bad, now they are good. Allies are now enemies. Or not. Depends which day it is. Canada/Greenland/Panama are places to be annexed.

And the hastily arranged script is "well they should have been prepared"

For what exactly, the whims of a populist?

It can take years to facilitate national change and adjust, did previous US presidents take that into account? Of course.

Does Trump? No.

Maybe he'll leave NATO tomorrow, maybe he'll stay in 4 years. No one knows. But we can't magically alter to entire structure of NATO overnight to cater to his whims of someone who might say yes or might say no at a moments notice.

Europe does need to improve it's defense, it needs to do many things - but it also now has the added challenge of trying to handle a highly erratic circus of a schizophrenic WH that not even it's supporters can predict.

Dictator for a day doesn’t need checks and balances

Unrelated Germans think Ukraine now has artillery parity with Russia

1:1.6 ratio but Ukrainian hits much more precise

There seems to be a good few republicans, some noted on this thread already, vocally opposing any alliance shift that favours Russia.