Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/03/25/europe-3-energy-shocks-in-4-years-what-to-do-next/
Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/03/25/europe-3-energy-shocks-in-4-years-what-to-do-next/
I see two options for EU: either stop being hostile and make partners, or revert to primitive communism.
EU isn’t the one being hostile, tho?
Not hostile to russia but hostile to Iran
Fair enough. I think more EU countries should take the Spain route of Iran relations.
Well, hostile not in a directly violent way, but they act stupid, arrogant, and aggressive.
Do you have a favourite country that doesn’t act like that?
This guy might just speak French. When he says “EU” he actually means “États-Unis”
Nope, I do not have a favorite country at all. Unfortunately, we live in a world where might makes right. The problem with the EU is that it lacks the any strength to play this game but tries hard.
Yup, because we have corrupted governments, who decide to make deals with Russia, who dont see russian propaganda, who buys 3x more expensive military equipment from usa (Poland)…
Can you maybe name some Russian propaganda examples that haven’t turned out to be true yet?
And others
1, 3, 4 sound like Poland-only nonsense from the “Fakt”
You watched way too much Russian propaganda. What are you even doing here? You are supposed to watch Russian TV
Go suck Putin’s cock, ruski
Communism has never solved any problems though, only made everything worse.
The same could be said of capitalism. The reality is that both systems, in a purist sense, are ridiculously naive. Lots of problems have been solved through decommodification and common ownership of public goods, just like lots of problems get solved by markets. The trick is knowing how and when to use each.
You’re not wrong but that’s a big old whataboutism IMO. Or switching goalpoasts (I’m not here defending capitalism) or similar.
Common ownership of goods, like we have in europe (schools, hospitals, roads, and so on) are not inherent to communism and are very good IMO.
Communal ownership isn’t related to communism? Interesting take.
So france is communist now? What a take.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was saying. /s
Your ancestors would strongly disagree with this opinion.
Calling that communism really doesn’t work. Family groups of a few dozen people sharing things doesn’t just scale up to modern societies.
Communalism was succesful in history and scalable
What examples of post Industrial Revolution communism are you thinking of?
I specifically say post Industrial Revolution because the societal changes brought about at that time and since pretty much invalidates earlier examples. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no way that the global society is going to go back to being mostly agrarian.
The ottoman communal system worked post the industrial revolution. The system collapsed not because the system was flawed but because the Ottoman was over militarizing . I do not advocate for a complete communism system either but rather an hybrid
Communism probably could actually be done today properly. The problem with the Soviet Union was that the logistics technology just wasn’t where it needed to be. It wasn’t practical with the tech a hundred years ago to gather and compute all the data needed to manage production chains. Now? Private megacompanies have already built the infrastructure of state communism. It’s called Walmart. They do the exact kind of demand projections and intricate logistics planning that the Soviet planners tried and failed to do. The Waltons just have much better computers.
You could establish state communism in the US just by nationalizing Amazon and Walmart. Instead of paying money, everyone gets a certain number of credits to spend at Amazon or Walmart each year. Then we use all our computerized supply chain systems to direct those funds to actual production.
The problem with communism was that it was tried a century too early.
Sure, you can lean on more universal tropes like, “if everyone is paid the same, no one has an incentive to work.” But those same failures of incentives exist in capitalist economies. Very few workers receive any benefit from being more productive at work. They’re paid hourly or salary. At best they get a nominal bonus at the end of the year that is meant as more of a symbolic than actual reward. Modern capitalism also doesn’t incentivize workers to work hard. It incentivizes them to work just hard enough to not get fired.
It’s called primitive communism. But you can call it primal society.
It’s so primitive you can call it whatever. Just as you call it primitive communism, someone could probably argue it is primitive feudalism, capitalism, anarchy, or whatever else.
I’m not sure what a modern day picture of russia has to do with our ancestors.
If anything, this is closer to anarchy. Certainly not communism. But it’s neither.