Damn. As a die hard Sync for Reddit fan for years, donated lifetime license and having recently come back to Sync for Lemmy and feeling like it was a long lost friend, really really sad and heartbreaking to hear this.
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I hate to say it, but I don't actually think they would (I might be wrong)... For a country like the UK to jump in, it needs its population to be in support. If it jumps into an armed conflict without the support of its population, it will have its own revolution to deal with.
I think we'll see a similar, albeit more committed version of the type of response Ukraine received... Military equipment aid, sanctions against US, humanitarian aid.
The same goes with NATO Article 5... US makes up the majority of NATO funding contributions, and European countries have to contend with a continuously brazen Putin... With US threatening to pull away from NATO, it would be countries like Poland and Germany that will step up against Russia, so no capacity to support Canada...
I really really really hope I'm wrong.
It fucking sucks all around.
He doesn't care about his American cars.. he just greenlit a $1T Japanese manufacturing partnership, which includes Toyota, while Ford CEO says it blows a hole in US automotive sector...
Finding a non-US version of this was harder than it needed to be.. https://asiatimes.com/2025/02/japan-goes-for-broke-with-1-trillion-trump-bet/
He sabotaged NA automotive, while inviting foreign automotive over.
While I think these companies should definitely be regulated, I'm not sure how feasible or sustainable it is to nationalize them. It might curtail competition from fostering, if people who are responsible for introducing disruptive companies are less incentivized from creating companies.
As much as I'm not a fan and I'm highly critical of Musk, one can't deny the disruptive impact his companies have had on the industries, and him forcing traditional car manufacturers to innovate. If his companies get nationalized, would that discourage others from creating potentially positively disruptive companies that would force existing industries to innovate?
I'm particularly fond of the Gripen. Just an opinion, but personally I hope we get our hands on those. But regardless, even if we get the best available fighter in the world, without the numbers, and the maintenance infrastructure, budget, resource and training to support them, it wouldn't matter anyways