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It would not be the full story, is it though? Shared, broad prosperity is not equal to "GDP per capita". We may have the first cues, like why would a third of the population feel unhappy and restless? Why folks across the planet pick loudmouth lying populists if the system was working so great for them? There has to be the reason(s), right? except we're trying our best to shake it off till it's staring us right in the face and completely blocks the way. It's been this way like always. So what have we learned.

Apologies, I have to park this somewhere. If you do an extensive investigation, the origin of Covid-19 pandemic is yet unknown with any confidence, and several hypotheses exist including lab leak origin. This doesn't seem to be the case with at least one non-profit organization, IPAC Canada with a gazzilion of dedicated members that is boldly stating: "Like SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, the newly detected coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) has a zoonotic source, however..." source. Question: are we (some of us) finally so advanced to have discovered something important that the rest of the world doesn't know yet? Or because just about anything can be said here (as observed over several years)? Which one, who would happen to know? Also, just in case, did it receive any major government funding recently?

Hitler was a lawless brutal thug with a bunch of thugs around him, and a country that bought into thuggish ideas out of fear and complacency. The same pattern is emerging again, if under different names, but no essential differences. Never say never again.

Taking right off the news, how many poor folk lost so much (some, all what they had) with the collapse of some crypto house. Earlier, same story with Theranos. Important here that these aren't just your ordinary folk, from the street. They were supposed to know; have experience; check the information; think; and think again. Doesn't work this way. The return is too high. The distance between the desirable and imagined, and the reality on the other side, grows and beats all questions and doubts. Exponentially? Now, let's consider an average individual in a popular democracy these days. If the times are rolling good, Joe is happy, buys stuff for the cave, goes on annual vacation maybe even twice. In the elections, his first and main priority would be for the things to keep rolling. That is, don't change anything, don't fix it even if a change anticipating problems or laying foundations for future is really needed. And then, there are times of uncertainty. Brexit. One in three in Europe votes against the establishment. The old prosperity model seems to be stalling and nobody knows what the new one will be, or if. How would we vote? Would we think, talk and discuss necessary, possibly difficult solutions? Or go with the Theranos and Sam something strategy, push for where it looks more like what you want, and who cares if and how realistic. Vote for me and all your problems are solved. I'm telling you. Just believe. The news spreads at the lightspeed. Yes, there's new hope: just push the button, here. Is it the final, ultimate answer?

Exactly proving the point. There's are better, "right" hitlers. Just not everybody can see it.

The heartwarming partnership tale ended when they agreed to sign other people to a slavery by a brutal dictator. There were no reasons, moral or otherwise to do that. That was the red moral line but we seem like never be able to see those and barge right through. This is not to blame something that happened almost a century back. But we could have learned, and remembered. No, we're making the same mistakes all over.

Sure. Between what Putin and Hitler have done, there's no difference. Actually Hitler at least tried to pretend that he was attacked, and was honest to actually declare a war. You want to normalize a brutal dictator thug who is worse than Hitler. So what would it make you?

It was said that folks like you normalize Hitler and his like. That changes nothing. There's no equivalence and it doesn't excuse brutal and unprovoked crimes of the thugs.

It is important and in fact, the only possible outcome for the sane world that a brutal, unlawful aggression is defeated and its masterminds and perpetrators are brought to justice. It cannot happen any other way, in the normal, sane world.

No, one cannot agree with the Hitler's representatives. They are away and beyond the normal people's plane of discussion, agreements and disagreements. You will see. The condition is clear: those who can think and act should stay their course and make the necessary, the only possible in the sane world outcome happen. Just like the last time.

It'll work, as long as normal people stay their course and don't listen and give in to squeaks and ramblings. Just as it worked last time. Tongues and throats don't usually make positive things happen.

OK, we're in different universes of the meaning of "normal". In yours, Putin, Stalin and Hitler are normal, all. I don't think there's any common ground here. Not even a clue what it could be.

Not "Ukrainians": the normal world. One has to be triple: blind; deaf; and dumb to not see it. Obviously.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet commander plus over 30 top naval officers in the most recent strike. To be continued, of course.

One can observe the process in real-time.

And if Stalin, Putin any other murderous, brutal tyrant dictator, of the bunch? Western "pragmatism" may be creating future problems faster than fixing the immediate ones.

That's right. Because food distribution is monopolized. Bigger stores get a more generous wholesale discount and can squeeze smaller one on prices, and economies of scale. Small stores cannot get great local deals because there's no independent distribution. Top harvest season you can get locally produced food dirty cheap; in Ontario, the price barely budges. The middlemen squeeze both the producers (farmers) and the retailers. The end result being, consumer pays the price of the distributor.

Stalin's gulags were probably more massive than Nazi's. He eliminated his countrymen and of those he occupied in countless droves. A true irony (and travesty) of history is that one of the thugs ended up on the winning side. And we're still trying to sort out the consequences.

You couldn't care between a free market and an oligopoly controlled one? OK. You should know the consequences too. Another reader of minds. I couldn't give a f-k about successes of mass producers of suck-bread and such prepackaged ersatz substitutes of normal food because I have choice and freedom. Fortunately there are still places in this world where I can go to a local market and find top quality local fresh food at a ridiculous (compared to those successes) price. Have fun in your bright future. It's coming.

Then (if you are saying that you mean) you have to be opposing Putin's aggression, that is causing all of the death and destruction? And then, you will have to admit that the only way to stop it (death and destruction) is to defeat Russia's aggression, simply because he did not and wouldn't stop it any other way. You are opposing Putin's aggression: check? You agree that the normal and sane world has to defeat Putin: check?

And the profit margin, that the boardroom sets? And the CEO's etc pay? And the buddy-buddy oligopoly weekly golf chat, nothing specific though? Very clear who hasn't a clue of the real life here.

To the people they enslaved Stalin's communist were just as brutal as Nazis (or worse?). And that's not just Ukraine, most of Eastern Europe learned it on their own skin. That's just too bad being caught between two such hellish evils. When you tried something like that, you could judge them.

Clearly you haven't seen a what a real market is like for a long time (or like, ever?). Where each trader sets their price based on a million of different sometimes local and independent reasons and the price is determined by the willingness of the buyers to pay, not by a meeting in a boardroom or political head's inspirational chat. Good luck sailing to the bright future.

He doesn't need to say anything. He is a walking and talking example of it ? ... enough to show up and the point is painfully clear.

That's just a bad, bad thinking. No ruler, not checked and challenged by the society and opponents could and would stay sane. The evidence is just too common in the history, but it's simple, really: if we can fix you, make you better for your own sake, why wouldn't we? Yes, we can! No, just bad idea. The need is for more discussion, more dialogue between the parties and interests, more openness, more questioning more competition and renewal, not less. Not zero, definitely. A bad idea.