Yes that’s my guess as well: the prospect of stealing even a fraction of the business that Amazon does would probably make the whole thing worth it, and to that end, the main thing eBay brings to the table is the kind of pre-established brand recognition that money can’t buy.
Speaking to delegates at the summit during the trip, Carney also emphasized why Canada is so focused on Europe.
“As the rules-based order … is rebuilt, it will be rebuilt in Europe,” Carney said.
I suppose that makes sense. In business, when trying to compete with a well-established monopoly, one of the most crucial things to consider is brand recognition, and the EU is, at this point, the global entity with the most “brand recognition”, out of all the countries/organizations that still believe in the concept of the rules-based order.
You say you still care for me
But your heart and soul needs to be free
And now that you've got your freedom
You wanna still hold on to me
You don't want me for yourself
So let me find somebody else
Set me free, why don'tcha babe
Get out my life, why don'tcha babe
'Cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hangin' on
TBH I would have thought that Nigeria was relatively wealthy as African nations go, and that the net flow of migrants would be inward rather than outward. Can anyone tell me how wrong I am?
So the upshot of this article seems to be that Kenyan communities, hundreds of them, each have their own local gang/militia which is sponsored by one politician or another, with the politician using the gang as an enforcement arm, attacking rival politicians, attacking adverse protests, etc. The problem is so ingrained that one academic describes it as “Kenyan culture”. The government and police make strong statements to the effect of “we’re cracking down on them, we’ve investigated them, we’ve got the names of the sponsors, and the problem will be solved soon”, but there are no actual actions visibly taking place to effect said crackdown. In fact, police seem to turn a blind eye towards or even perhaps collaborate with the gangs, with gang violence taking place regardless of police presence.
I didn’t know acquittals could be appealed.
True but if it’s THAT obvious then there’s no need to say it, either. Every European soundbyte that urges Ukraine to accept territorial losses undermines its negotiating position with Russia in any peace talks. You don’t offer final concessions as an initial position. The optimal negotiating position for Ukraine is for Russia to be hearing “we’re behind Ukraine 100%; don’t give those Russian bastards a thing” from Ukraine’s allies. It doesn’t need to be the truth. Russia doesn’t even need to believe that we mean it. But Russia seeing its negotiating counterparties bravely hiding weakness is better than Russia seeing its negotiating counterparties so close to the brink that they’re not even capable of putting on a brave face anymore.
Russia isn’t publicly, officially acknowledging any painful realities on its side, even though we know the challenges it’s refusing to acknowledge, so we shouldn’t be the first to blink either. This isn’t a negotiation between friends.
Politicians don’t need to idly shoot the breeze on foreign policy just to please voters. There are some subjects where sharing idle opinions off the cuff is counterproductive. To quote The Godfather: “never tell anybody outside the family what you’re thinking again”.
In this context, “lost” means they died, not just wounded. The wounded add another million to the casualty total for Russia.