And the surprise wears off after the first or second one.

Red and Blue Army!

Unfortunately, lack of long-term vision/planning is a result of democracies 4 or 5 year election cycle.

I recall doing a small project as part of a Degree course in 1990 on UK energy supply and how it should develop. The UK, at that time, was capable of supplying up to 30% of its electrical supply through the use of (off-shore) wind farms. Solar power was more variable and lacked consistency. The best projected plan was to see more efficient electrical products utilised to reduce demand, with a gradual change to an increased renewable supply facilitated by the use of nuclear power stations.
So students could see this coming 30 years ago. The human race lost its foresight for the sake of short-term gains.

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (08 Mar 2022 7.17pm)

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

HS2 !

People always make more than others though. It's how the whole world has worked since beans were the currency. We all want more and that's natural. Ironically London and other cities cycle lanes and systems are infastructure that will last. A proper PITA but fits the descriptor

Much of the 'act with one voice' actions from western corporations have punished the Russian people....They aren't really punishing the Russian government. We can laugh at p***.ub banning Russians from access...some might even say it's indirectly helping them but when organisations refuse their services and products from the ordinary Russians they are effectively declaring a kind of war on them......Because those mainly affected are them not their government.

I've pointed out previously that a corporate world that doesn't differ in actions from government is no different to a communist/fascist one....as in a communist state the corporations are nationalised and become government bodies and in a fascist state corporations still exist but are not allowed to politically differ from the state.

People need to remember that Russia isn't a democracy, its media is completely controlled and protest and resistance is presecuted. Yes, I can point out how the west is in many ways similar and progressing much along the same lines, but it's a question of scale and severity that differs.

When corporations are effectively punishing the Russian people over their state's actions.....when in reality they are powerless all this achieves is to convince them that we are their enemy and hate them. It just repeats the same message they receive from their government. It's counter productive in every way.

What gets me is that any layman can work this out yet these actions are supposedly undertaken and decided upon by the most successful people in society.

Here is a link to commentary on this....it comes at it from the gaming corporate world but it also overlaps in general on this.

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Edited by Stirlingsays (09 Mar 2022 7.04am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)