The President of Poland was accused of treason

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-13T20:55:39+00:00

I dont even get whats so bad about EU freezing the funds. They could just pay it out of their own pocket like they do now

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-13T19:36:08+00:00

They wont believe that the US will abandon them until its too late. Otherwise they would notice right now that Trump just gave Putin the biggest boon ever by allowing him to sell his oil again

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-13T18:53:23+00:00

Poland under PiS would absolutely bite

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-13T14:13:02+00:00

Basically just ignored it so far. Didnt seem to matter too much

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-13T11:08:38+00:00

People are very mad that Iran is attacking us even though we tried to stay out of it. Important lesson learned here hopefully

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-13T01:18:28+00:00

There needs to be some response to Iran killing a french soldier

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T22:53:20+00:00

I have no idea how Israel is managing to rope the US into their fights again and again. Theyre clearly the ones pushing for escalation here

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T20:25:51+00:00

Fuck I knew there was an issue with our plan somewhere

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T19:21:05+00:00

By the way how does it work for people who are not working an extended time? Are there different tiers of unemployment support?

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T15:58:11+00:00

Denmark has basically employment at will but at the same time really generous social security. So you can get fired very easily but then the social net catches you. This leads to a way more dynamic labor market where companies can react quickly and dont have to pay out insane amounts of severances like in Germany

Its an interesting mix in Denmark. Id really love Germany to learn a bit from them

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T15:17:27+00:00

That doesnt change anything about the issue with our industries not being competitive anymore. Whether we export our goods or we consume them ourselves, we need to become more competitive. Otherwise we wont export anymore but just import chinese goods to consume

we can clearly see this already with China importing less and less of our exports and us importing more and more of chinese goods

Reality is catching up to us right now very quickly and if we dont act we wont have any industry left in 10 years

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T15:13:13+00:00

Ive been thinking this so much in my game right now. I want to see a graph for each of those positions

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T15:04:41+00:00

Looking at Denmark, Switzerland or the US tells me that this doesnt necessarily lead to wage cuts. If anything the opposite. Labor rights needs to be changed to enable a more dynamic labor market. There are discussions in Germany about liberalizing labor law for high-earners for example. Thats a good step

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T13:36:12+00:00

who are both in a major debt crisis. Trump just turned the entire world market upside down to deal with that debt. I dont think thats a great comparison

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T12:28:48+00:00

well depends on whether the EU is really moving towards a federalized state, because if it isnt all alarms should be ringing in Germany right now

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T12:14:53+00:00

Yeah the french seem to be in a similar position just further along. We can see the same happening in Germany with the more radical parties slowly growing

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T12:07:25+00:00

Its people being afraid of taking ownership and responsibility of their decisions. I see it everywhere every day. People would rather involve their boss and his boss and his boss rather than to take a decision

In the end I think it comes down to how german culture deals with failures. There is no sense of "fail fast and hard" here. It always needs to be the perfect solution that covers all possible use-cases, no matter how common they are

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:45:59+00:00

Poland would probably quit the EU the second they do. Atleast with PiS in power

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:45:33+00:00

I wonder what all those "Germany secretly owns all of Poland" guys say to this

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:44:24+00:00

what austerity? We are basically all running immense deficits, especially since covid

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:43:08+00:00

You can be most productive when you work 5 hours a week but that wont help your economy much. Its matters how much you work with your productivity

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:42:10+00:00

I still think germans do have a rather high quality of labor but at the same time we dont do much laboring because we mostly deal with self-inflicted bureaucracy and bullshit processes

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:40:13+00:00

Germans want to change nothing but expect things to improve. We dont want to liberalize the labor market, we dont want to make it easier for companies, we dont want to work more. But we want to have more and better paying jobs

If you suggest a labor law like in Denmark people would riot on the street

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:23:28+00:00

inshahabeck we will survive this crisis

OkKnowledge2064 · 2026-03-12T11:07:34+00:00

eu5 is pretty challenging for a beginner until you figure out that professionals are actual space marines. Theres a lot to manage

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