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Russia needs to be able to produce enough weapons to wage war. That is also true for any potential war against EU members, such as the Baltic states or Poland.

Also Russia and Ukraine can both be defeated in the same peace deal. Just look at the British Empire and WW2. The UK one, but it lost its Empire.

It means that the finance minister is handing out money to investors. If a bond issue is that oversubscribed the risk/reward is wrong. I this case the rate is too high. Inflation is at about 2% in the Eurozone and Estonia has very little debt, due to having a debt cut due to its independence

Always those Americans! I want to export European weirdos to Russia too...

18% intrest rate.

We will know in a few decades, but when you have a Ukrainian special forces soldiers investigated and the rest of the crew is Ukrainian it stinks pretty badly.

Blowing up Nordstream after Russia already shut it down for quite some time was also pretty dumb. Especially while still allowing gas flow through Ukraine itself.

Anything making cars more expensive is a good thing.

I hear you're a racist now, Father.

E12 starts at 4.170,32 € gross and up to rises 6.516,74 € depending on experience. That is gross. That is for a job, which is low stress and you can not be fired unless you pretty much commit a crime on the workplace.

It is a failure of the EU, that there are companies with market caps over EUR 100billion. That company size means it has a monopoly or a near monopoly. That is why the US has so many of those types of companies. All of them are in either a monopoly or at least only have one or two competitors. The situation in China is similar, but you need to add massive government support.

There are a lot of different options to escalate, without starting a full scale war. Giving Ukraine certain weapons is an option. Long range missiles and warships come to mind. Latvia could for example produce long range drones for Ukraine.

Latvia is not even close to Ukraine.