re: How many of you will be upset if/when Ukraine thwarts Russia?

quote:

---

And why doesnt Ukraine leaders want peace

---

They want peace. The question is the cost.

quote:

---

You need to step away from TD.

---

I do, but this thread is about this specific board

quote:

---

zelenskyy does.

---

Do you ever stop lying?

quote:

---

The topic of that thread was the term "globalism."

The only real association with Trump is b/c he coined it

---

Meh, that's only off by 35 years. Close though.

quote:

---

Harvard Business Review

The Globalization of Markets
by Theodore Levitt
May 1983

Many companies have become disillusioned with sales in the international marketplace as old markets become saturated and new ones must be found. How can they customize products for the demands of new markets? Which items will consumers want? With wily international competitors breathing down their necks, many organizations think that the game just isn’t worth the effort.

In this powerful essay, the author asserts that well-managed companies have moved from emphasis on customizing items to offering globally standardized products that are advanced, functional, reliable—and low priced. Multinational companies that concentrated on idiosyncratic consumer preferences have become befuddled and unable to take in the forest because of the trees. Only global companies will achieve long-term success by concentrating on what everyone wants rather than worrying about the details of what everyone thinks they might like.
...

Given what is everywhere the purpose of commerce, the global company will shape the vectors of technology and globalization into its great strategic fecundity. It will systematically push these vectors toward their own convergence, offering everyone simultaneously high-quality, more or less standardized products at optimally low prices, thereby achieving for itself vastly expanded markets and profits. Companies that do not adapt to the new global realities will become victims of those that do.

LINK

---

quote:

---

Potentially. They never define it (which was the point of my other big thread on Ukraine, along with probably a dozen other threads trying to get one definition).

---

My opinion and my opinion only is that when they talk about Globalism they are talking about a new world order, one world government and no nationalism. A group of elitist would control everything. And I may be simplifying things, but that’s my impression.

quote:

---

My opinion and my opinion only is that when they talk about Globalism they are talking about a new world order, one world government and no nationalism.

---

The George H W Bush brainchild.

quote:

---

Tell me why the US needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars

---

We don’t 40 Billion seems to be sufficient.

quote:

---

What is the benefit that US citizens get from this

---

Back in the day our president was part of an agreement along with Russia and the UK to disarm the Ukraine of nuclear weapons.
The idea was the US and the world would be safer if the Ukes gave up their nukes. The deal was Ukraine gives up the nukes then the triumvirate would protect their sovereignty.

We got a safer world, the Ukraine got our assurances that we would help them. Now if we say screw it, deal is over we lose credibility. Who would trust us?

Also our screwing Ukraine would entice Russia and other nations watching us to possibly do more bad stuff. Would China go after Taiwan? Japan? Would NK go off on SK? Would Russia lean on the Baltic States? Finland? I don’t know.

Now Putin has increased the price of poker. We are no longer in a 5/10 game. The blinds have gone way up. 1000/500 with a 100 dollar ante. Putin has put himself in a bad spot. He misread the situation. His stiff bet on the flop was called. Ukrsine edused him on the turn and now he’s pot committed knowing his Jacks are beat. The question is now will he see he is drawing dead of change the rules and ask for new cards.

quote:

---

if an enemy took the Permian basin and the Mississippi from BR to gulf would you choose surrender for peace?

---

Texas has been under an invasion since Biden took office. We aren’t even fighting. We are actually helping them.

quote:

---

Are they taking control of all of our national resources?

Think you may have missed the point dude

---

When China, Russia, NoKo, and a nuclear Iran form a military alliance, and when Mexico asks to join them, we can start a semblance of a conversation about this.

The oddball analogy CelticDog draws presumes a weaker country occupying resources of a powerful one. That wouldn't happen here, and it wouldn't happen in Russia.