Opportunityfrog

Vilken är den värsta skatten? Jag röstar för arvsskatten (som vänstern nu vill återinföra). Bara för att någon dör, skapas inga nya värden, ingen ny skatteförmåga. Att staten likt en asätare ska ta egendom från en död människas kvarlåtenskap äcklar mig. Låt oss få dö utan skatt!

STUBB: We are not going to return to normal relations with Russia. We all fully understand that. Look, Finland became a member of NATO because Russia attacked Ukraine. So there’s no going back to normal.

Pentagon Staff Left in the Dark as Hegseth Pulls the Plug on Poland Deployment Pete Hegseth cancelled 4,000 troops to Poland last week. Nobody at the Pentagon knew it was coming. No explanation has been offered. At this point, the absence of an explanation is itself the explanation. The most expensive rounding error in history The cost of rotating a few thousand soldiers through Poland for nine months is, in Pentagon terms, statistical noise. It disappears into the budget without a trace. European nations buy American weapons because they trust America as a partner. That is the entire business model. Not specs. Not price. Partnership. The moment that trust breaks, the contracts go elsewhere. Not some of them. All of them. Forever. Europe just opened its wallet. America just lost the contract. For years, the United States pressured European allies to spend more on defense. For years, European governments resisted, citing budget constraints and the comfortable assumption that America would always be there. Washington complained. Brussels shrugged. The two percent target became a running joke. Then Trump told Europe he could not be trusted. And Europe believed him. The result is the largest sustained defense spending surge on the continent since the Cold War. This is not an opinion. It is the official assessment of NATO headquarters itself. Member states are no longer nudging toward two percent. They are legislating emergency procurement packages, fast-tracking capability programs, and signing multi-decade platform commitments at a pace that would have been politically unthinkable three years ago. Several trillion dollars in contracts over the next fifty years. Fighter jets, air defense systems, armored platforms, missile defense networks, logistics infrastructure, sustainment agreements that generate revenue long after the hardware is delivered. The European defense market is not opening. It has already opened. The money is real, the budgets are passed, and the contracts are being written right now. The question, the only question that matters to Lockheed, Raytheon, and every other prime contractor, is who fills them. And the answer, increasingly, is not American companies. The buyers in Warsaw, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Berlin are now deliberately designing their procurement strategies around one central requirement: do not depend on Washington. European defense industrial initiatives that were fringe proposals two years ago are now funded national priorities. The Franco-German platform investments are not speculative anymore. They are in production. America spent eighty years building the access that makes this market captive. Trump has spent just over a year handing it to Europe's own industry, one snub at a time. Where are the thousand CEOs? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics. These are not timid companies. They have spent decades shaping American foreign policy more effectively than any diplomatic corps ever managed. Their lobbyists have direct lines to every committee chairman on Capitol Hill. And right now they are watching in complete silence as the president saws off the branch the entire industry sits on. The short-term calculus of that silence is understandable. Iran has accelerated domestic procurement. Quarterly numbers look fine. Nobody wants to be the CEO who publicly challenges a president with a well-documented appetite for revenge. But an F-35 sale is not a quarterly transaction. It is a fifty-year revenue commitment. A European nation that anchors its next-generation defense around a domestic platform in the next five years is not a customer you win back with a better offer. Ever. These decisions, once made, are permanent on any timescale that matters to anyone currently alive. Every strategy team in every glass tower in Arlington knows exactly what is happening to their order books for the 2040s and 2050s. And they are saying nothing. History will find this astonishing. An administration is converting the world's most powerful arms exporter into a supplier its own allies no longer trust, and the thousand most powerful industrial voices in America have chosen silence. The only president who benefits from this is in Moscow No sitting American president has done this kind of structural damage to the US defense industry's global position since John F. Kennedy. Trump is dismantling the same architecture. Not out of principle. Not out of strategy. Apparently out of irritation at European press conferences. The difference is that Kennedy was trying to reduce American military overreach. What is happening now serves no coherent American interest whatsoever. Every troop withdrawal, every cancelled rotation, every deployment weaponized as political punishment lands in Moscow as a strategic gift requiring no effort and no cost on Russia's part. Putin has spent twenty years trying to fracture NATO and reduce American influence on his western border. He has failed repeatedly. He is now watching an American president do the job for him, apparently for free. A senior NATO source offered reassurance that Canada and Germany are increasing their eastern flank presence. It was the kind of statement you make when the alternative is saying what you actually think.

How can the US have such an idiot as president. Every word he says is not only a lie but just absurd.

Professorn: Om kärnkraften inte avvecklats av S och MP så hade elpriserna varit halverade.

Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

Zelenskyy signed a decree to allow the parade in Moscow to be held

FEDOROV: We had meeting with SAAB today. We believe Gripen jets can change situation in Ukraine’s skies. This is one of the best aircraft in the world, and we're working to acquire them. In few months, there will be good news for Sweden and Ukraine, and bad news for Russians.

The absolute brilliance of russian logic: "We reserve the right to murder your civilians daily, but pretty please don't fly drones near our parade on May 9th, it’s our special day! We will get back to murdering you right after.'' You honestly have to admire the fucking audacity

@atrupar 🤡

Mike Waltz: "President Trump won't always be around to cut all of these peace deals. You need the UN with some leadership. We won't always have President Trump, a president for peace, leading the charge."

@ernkrans Energipolitiken havererade då ni höjde effektskatten på kärnkraft 2015. Sedan höjde ni den ytterligare 2016. Det var alltså ni, S ihop med MP som stängde ner väl fungerande kärnkraft.

Only truly dumb people speak like this.

@ernkrans @AsaWestlund Det var kanske inte så smart av er att stänga ner kärnkraften, utan att ha en annan plan.

@VolatilOMX @BicepsTradern Slott?

@BicepsTradern Gård på landet är optimalt, särskilt om de har andra barn att kunna leka med. I andra hand villa, tredje radhus, fjärde lgh med uteplats, femte lgh med balkong.

Ni med barn, vad skulle ni säga är "optimal" boendeform för barnen? Gärna i villa åldrar om ni har flera idéer. Alltså, lägenhet med innegård, radhus med någon sorts innegård, egen stor tomt etc Själv har jag typ townhouse med stor gemensam innegård, ok för lite större barn

S misslyckas med sitt styre i Stockholm ”Att ta tillbaka kontrollen” har varit en totalt misslyckad strategi. Istället för att ta ansvar för vad de faktiskt gjort, försöker de nu skylla ifrån sig. expressen.se/ledare/ledare-…

ISK ska beskattas kraftigt, en ny värnskatt ska införas och likaså en bolåneskatt. Med precision ger man sig på klassresenärer. Riktigt rika har kapitalet i aktiebolag, gör kapitalvinster snarare än har höga arbetsinkomster och behöver inga bolån.

Listen to what this American says about what a US trade deal really means for our food and health.

@AmericaPartyX Bullshit. America has become a shithole

Granskningen av mediemakten har under lång tid varit skamligt eftersatt med tanke på hur mycket medier påverkar människors världsbild och värderingar. Och jag tänker inte be om ursäkt för att vi ställer oss lite utanför journalistbubblan och gör den typen av journalistik eftersom få andra seriösa medier gör det.

Trump no longer tries to hide that he stands for Putin against the West.