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Trade; real cost and import restrictions

Europe management is failing in a lot of areas in my view. And one of them is the real cost of Europe's laws. Trade for example. For open and honest trade, a level playing field and real humanity cost are fundamental and rarely taken into account because politics is too much a tug of war over personal or group interests. Today, the issue is what to do with the changed car manufacturing landscape. EV's changed the whole landscape. Investments from the resent passed are getting lost fast, and new investments are needed. In the same time, the demographic developments change the investment landscape. And in Europe again the tribes are starting a tug of war. Germany and Spain are the biggest car producers and want their business interest protected. But what is the real cost for humanity? We (humanity wide) should establish trade rules that ensure the lowest cost possible long term. I would like to introduce the full life cycle real cost model [FuLiCyReCoMo] for that. A kind of kick ...

The worn out world order

Context Humanity is an ever-changing organism. Modern society is railed by rules, standards, and laws. In recent history, several attempts have been made to unify humanity and have common laws. Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 for example. And the League of Nations . And finally the United Nations . Parallel to the good intentions, group powers and armament developed. And this painted an evolving picture for the reality of all good intentions embedded in the UN and such. Causing these intentions becoming obsolete time and time again. And thus also the UN. Russia goes its own way. Islamic extremists like Iran go their own way. All undermining the so-called global rule based society.  The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a whole new power and armament reality. As happened in the past, all kind of new technology pops up that did not exist when the last time armament was tested in real battle. And again, painting a complete new power picture. Russia and China appear not to be t...