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A good bit of Georgism in turn of the century China. Was Qingdao mentioned in your book? I don’t remember (guess I’ll have to reread)
@MichaelShurkin Gonna do an episode on it? What are the inspirations, goals? Amy big people at the center of it? A country without much of a (recent) strategic culture presents a cool case study for your shtick
Austin is expanding neighborhood commerce through its Strong Local Commerce Initiative, legalizing Accessory Commercial Uses (ACUs) that allow sub-200 sf, customer-facing businesses like coffee stands, artist studios, and cottage food operations right in residential areas.
@ctindale For reference, a 140 shahed strike costs around 5 million USD assuming their reported ~35k average build price is accurate.
Which puts it a million dollars over a single PATRIOT interceptor and equivalent to ~20 SM-2 (again, reported costs).
This isn’t a good situation
@agrippa_dr@Paul_Melman@atlanticesque NYC in the 70s was pretty trashed. The book is subtitled “…and the Fall of New York”. His ideas were taken and applied writ large and more thoroughly. But he’s upstream from the rest
You should check out Disillusioned by Benjamin Herold or really any of Chuck Marohn’s books
@FridefAgrippa@ProudBavaria Point taken on Farage. That Reform, NR, AFD all could be in power together is even more damning of this vision. Poland and the Baltics have to coordinate, UK or no (the JEF is just a framework that already exists). Russia can’t take Ukraine, they couldn’t take on that coalition
@FridefAgrippa@ProudBavaria I’ve said nothing about the US. If you want a fast-moving, defense oriented group of European countries, keep Germany far from it.
Germany without NATO would happily throw Eastern Europe to the wolves. Helmets to Ukraine should never be forgotten. See how the next admins go
@FridefAgrippa@ProudBavaria Do you know what the JEF is? Add Poland. France and Germany are most liable to elect Russian stooges. Two speed Europe is wrecked by AFD or far right France. These countries are the most in line with viewing the threat and its severity