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“This is also why I think that without fossil companies the world will become much safer. Right now most wars are fought for oil to enrich corporate donors, disguised as wars for “democracy”.”

Unfortunately there will always be the next big thing after gold, diamants, oil, transportation….just another dependency….at the moment believe the biggest world dependency is probably not only oil but manufacturing as a big part of world manufacturing is concentrated in a small minority of states (PRC, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodja, India) concentrated geographically wise….

Regarding politics… i just see it as politicians looking only at their bellybuttons…from left to right wing…. there is unfortunately very few people with power with a real sense of besy for the community (society).

Just my 2 cents

I get your point, but big isn’t necessarily bad, it is a bias, an understandable bias since the few big countries we have on our planet or not necessarily good, I also criticise US about several things, believe me, but I still prefer being somehow influenced by the American democracy over the Chinese dictatorship (another example of “bad” big country).

To me, the Chinese dictatorship (not the country per se) is the evil materialized.

Still, in order to switch the world to an electrical mobility I am being realistic and accept making business with the devil.

That’s realpolitik. That’s being realistic, we need the Chinese for this transition, for now.

What about Canada? Big country but not so bad. Europe can be the first “good” big “country”. You shouldn’t be so pessimistic nor fatalistic. So? Have I succeed in making you having some doubts about the cons of being “devided”?

Devided we are more easily ruled by other big nations.

Also, as a proletarian (I’m centrist but I know my background), I hated for so long our dependence from oil, I hated OPEC that harmed us western working poors so much, for transportation, for goods (when the price of oil rises so does the goods transported).

That’s the kind of independence I’m happy to talk about, energetic independence.

That’s why I also have a lot of faith in renewable energies, we have plenty of sun in southern Europe to power the whole continent!

No more oil dependence and blackmail by the oil countries.

But again, we need more cooperation, more union, nor less, of course the quality and the terms of the union do matter a lot.

Apes, together, strong ; )

Maybe I am naive, or just egoistic because I don’t really care about US foreign policy towards countries outside Europe.

Or maybe I’m just OK with what US is doing.

Apart from Italian and english I’m also fluent in spanish, I have dear friends from Venezuela that escaped and now live here in Italy. You can guess what I think about Maduro, Latin American populist socialism and so on.

Maybe we’re both naive ; )

To resume my political thinking :

Free market with a good welfare system to protect workers from the problems caused by (unavoidable) automation. I’ve red Rifkin long ago, so I’m also a big fan of the universal basic income.

Latin American socialist populists just keep nationalizing everything (I don’t even want to mention fake elections, total rape of democracy, political killings and so on), destroying the economy. I am for capitalism and competition, with some limitations.

But I already imagine that you would say that I am wrong and those are wonderful democracies (Venezuela, Bolivia and so on).

And the arguments that you would write are arguments that I’ve already read, and read and read, again and again.

So that’s no point me trying to convince you, neither you explaining to me why I am wrong, because I’m not, and nothing will make me change opinion, luckily.

I value my time, and also yours, don’t waste it to persuade me into views I’m strongly against since so long ; )

Let’s just agree that we desagree.

We both care a lot about the transition to electric mobility though, even though for different reasons.

As for me, it is more about saving the planet, breathing better air and stop oil dependence.

Those are my motives.

To you, is more a political motivation, and I guess that you also care about the environment of course.

At the end of the journey our motivation doesn’t really matter, the important thing is the goal.

Allow me to apologize to have dragged you into this conversation, I was impulsive, I can’t hold expressing my opinion, too often.

But I’m not a fool and I can recognise when I cannot convince my interlocutor.

Looking forward to the next post, as always.