(@PoliGSim) I'm proud the announce a historic deal with India for us to work together on anti stealth radar and to supply them multiple types of airframe and swap over to American equipment for the near future. Alongside this they are joining the fight in Afghanistan with 40k 1/2
(@PoliGSim) The DoD is announcing a partnership with Anthropic and Palantir and designating them as National Security Critical Technology Company alongside looking at them as potential investments for loans and grants under the Defense Production Act
Today I met with Mark Lashier, CEO of Phillips 66.
I am pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement in principle to move forward with the Phillips 66 as the preferred partner for the Oil Refinery Project in Cushing.
Details will be announced as they are finalized
@punished_casa It also only punishes industries that already follow the laws and not the informal economy/companies that dont follow labor laws anyways
Duchess of Marlborough asked Czar Nicholas II why Russia wasn't a democracy. His reply:
There is nothing I would like better, but Russia is not ready for democratic government. We are two hundred years behind Europe in the development of our national political institutions. Russia is still more Asiatic than European and must therefore be governed by an autocratic government.
He went on to explain his absolute power, his daily separate audiences with ministers (no cabinet), and his fears about Russia’s vast, ignorant, superstitious, and fatalistic population.
Source: The Glitter and the Gold (a 1953 memoir)