one of the smartest people I know (academically, socially and career-wise) has an uncanny ability to hyper focus on what needs to be done while ignoring unimportant details. I once asked him who the governor of California was and he had no idea.
I manage 4 employees who work at least fifty percent from home. I rarely have to even check in on them. How do I know they are working?
BECAUSE THE WORK GETS DONE.
Micromanaging is a disease of the ego.
people think if you live in a based trad non-western country it's like most people live by goats and campfires, but actually it's normie peasants worshiping peak tacky crap like this
Ukraine is the largest proxy force the United States ever fielded because it was the first time a sponsor treated an entire European nation’s demographic core as a renewable munition.
Earlier proxies were peripheral.
They were usually made of tribal fighters, exiles, small client armies.
Their deaths registered as footnotes.
Ukraine offered a different category of resource tens of millions of educated, industrial-age Europeans whose systematic expenditure could be filmed, moralised, and converted into both Russian attrition and Western political capital at the same time.
The project succeeded by aligning three interests:
- Washington needed a high-intensity sink for Russian power without committing its own forces.
- European elites needed a morality play that justified permanent confrontation.
- Ukrainian political class discovered that national martyrdom could be leveraged into power, money, and historical myth.
The result was an attrition engine that ran on the irreversible depletion of one society’s future.
No previous proxy delivered kinetic effect, narrative dominance, and alliance discipline on this scale.
The true measure of its size is not the tonnage of weapons delivered, but the volume of a European generation that was spent while the sponsors remained untouched and applauded.
For all the "Muh Lend-lease" they never say a single thing about the fact the British received THREE TIMES the amount of lend lease.
Weird that... wonder why...