IMO the obvious course is:
Leading to your bosses ideally addressing this with his boss and if that doesn’t help then your bosses should bring in HR.
I can already see the (state) sponsored Tik Toks.
since Trump is a Russian stooge who was put in office by Putin to deliver the victory
I am unsure. Logic tells me Trump has had enough opportunities to completely shit on Ukraine and has not taken them. His position is IMHO unclear.
strong demand for oil and gas benefits Russia proportionately far more than it does the US…
I disagree. Income for gas exports has not risen LINK whereas US exports continue to do so LINK
And “competitor” in what, exactly?
Geopolitical influence overall (e.g. in the Middle East, Asia, Central Europe)
“Left the US” could also have been written as “Returned to his country of birth”, but that doesn’t play to the fake arms race vibes.
I have said it before and I will say it again.
It is not in the interest of the US that this war finishes. A stalemate guarantees continued weapons sales much longer that peace.
Currently the US is getting
You hit the nail on the head:
Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”. If that’s what being Anti AI is…to that I say Amen.
Most cases in consumer ai, it’s data harvesting gone haywire and it’s not being implemented to benefit society.
From what I see, very few people are stupid enough to blanket hate it, but it is overhyped and being used maliciously.
I love scam posts. They just make me all warm and fuzzy inside!
And not because of the clearly scammy nature of it all, but mostly because it means that there are sufficient users of Lemmy to make it worthwhile to try and scam 🥰
So, thank you Matrecovery and RaymondBucks079, for letting us all know that the lemmy is infact well and truly alive.
My very lay-person understanding is that generally there is a level of shit each country accepts, e.g. election meddling, hacking or taking of political prisoners as it is part of the “standard affairs” - and will respond to non-forcefully. (Please don’t see me as advocating or trying to downplay these activities, they are abhorrent).
In order to respond with force or war, a lot of prep needs to go in to make sure that the action will be supported by enough allies to both achieve the goal/s and deal with any possible fallout from retaliation.
I believe the EU and its allies sees that a war response to Russian meddling may bring in China more actively into the picture and the US may not come to back them up (unless China decide to re-take Taiwan). OR they see the long-term economic damage to Russia as significant enough to achieve long term regional impact.
Therefore, the EU may not be confident of opening up conflict unless forced to.
IMO Russia’s actions in the EU are a clear test of the EU’s boundaries and willingness to retaliate.