https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165517

https://www.who.int/news/item/22-08-2025-famine-confirmed-fo...

https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/disasters-and-emergencie...

He already moved to Texas because of taxes - I think this is as good as it gets for him. If US Federal Government taxes his wealth (not something remotely possible) he will still stay in Texas.

pg is way too smart to believe even half of this nonsense. I guess he thinks future UK politicians (the audience of his speech) are that stupid.

Or maybe that speech was just to vehicle to make himself heard spewing this nonsense. Heard by whom?

Very disappointing indeed.

My comment about very few things being made in Romania was a clarification re: EU neo-colonialism.

I can’t tell if you are sincere or a shill. But maybe that is a sign you are a master shill.

Here is something you did not bring up: nobody is forcing Romanians to buy EU goods. Romanians also buy a lot of Chinese and Korean goods. EU companies who make money off Romanian consumers compete with Chinese companies.

The fact that there are very few things made in Romania is not due to EU neo-colonialism- is it due to Romanians. There are one or two bright spots in Romania (Dacia, UIPath) but when the best educated young Romanians still cannot wait to leave the country you will not see local champions. And this is 37 years after the fall of Communism.

maybe you are a Romanian living in Romania. Maybe you will be able to convince Romanians to separate from EU and NATO. If that happens, I can’t wait to see the sequel.

Romanian telecom: post communist crash Romanian telecommunications were a disaster. For example two different phone numbers shared the same line (a.k.a. Cuplajul). In late 90s some western telecom companies started investing in Romanian cellular networks- they built all the tower and network infrastructure. I do not understand what you mean when you say the west stole telecoms from Romanian - the west actually built it.

Energy, oil and gas- the heydays of Romanian oil producing days were during the WWII when Romania supplied a lot of the oil used by the Germans. After that Russians took whatever was left over because of war reparations. Since I can remember Romania did not produce oil - it was dependent on Russian imports during communism for example. So there was no oil and gas for the West to steal either.

Re: NATO - in the 90s and early 2000sn Romania wanted to join NATO because that particular generation remembered the Russian all too well. The priceRomania paid was enforcing the embargo on the Serbs during the Kosovo and Bosnian wars.

Re: F16 - romanians are flying some hand me downs from Holland which were purchased at the dizzying price of 1 euro.

I am sorry, but you sound like a Romanian nationalist, one who unfortunately is convincing enough do that the current generation does not know how much better their lives are because of EU and NATO. But who knows, maybe they will get a chance to find out…

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Since 2000 organic food went from niche to mainstream.

[edit to add this: I am talking from experience, it seems you are talking from hearsay]

Here is a list of aggressive incentives that will never happen in the US: 1. Fully paid daycare for every week with more than 30 hours worked by any parent

2. Fully paid healthcare until 18 years old

3. Fully paid after elementary school care for every week with more than 30 hours worked by any parent.