I think that’s part of the plan too.
But maybe Germany want their own army strong, because they doubt the military capabilities of the other EU countries.
To be fair that would be quite justified from what we have learned from history.
If an EU army is to be any good, a strong German army in the center of it is very helpful.
In the same way that a strong American Army was the center and commander of NATO forces.

I’m pretty sure It is 200 vessels.

literally the slow death of everything Democrats claim to have been protecting.

They also forgot to protect democracy somewhere along the way. 🙁

Derudover er det vel ikke urimeligt at sige at Wikipedia ikke er en kilde,

Hold nu op! Jeg linkede til nøjagtigt det han bad om, og den originale kilde er i første afsnit. Jeg ved udmærket at Wikipedia ikke er gyldigt i visse sammenhænge. Men her hvor det er en nær realtids debat, kan det udmærket bruges til at henvise til information. Og dokumentationen var på siden.
Prøv lige at læse vores tråd een gang til, han bliver ved med at brokke sig over at jeg ikke har givet link der bekræfter min påstand når jeg rent faktisk har. Derefter at der “mangler” privat korruption? Hvilket ikke giver meget mening. Mens han påstår at hans påstande bare kan stå for sig selv!!!

Jeg synes faktisk det er rimeligt i denne sammenhæng at spørge om han bevidst prøver at være irriterende, ved at påpege en teknikalitet der er uden betydning i sammenhængen.
Jeg fandt det faktisk nærmest provokerende.

No it’s not, the Democrats fucked themselves by not opposing Biden because it’s tradition not to.
As long as Democrats don’t improve their own democratic process, they will keep fucking themselves.
If Harris had been the candidate from the start, she might have had a better chance.
Biden being obliged when he broke his promise to not run again, was absolutely a mistake by the Democratic party.
Biden probably thought he had to save America again, and nobody told him no before it was too late.

I was about to write they need to make an offense first.
But you are right, they already did that, by preventing legal oversight.
That shouldn’t be allowed to pass.

Doesn’t that make it a perfect fit for Trump?

Nej, du gav mig et link til en wikipedia-side.

Sig mig prøver du bevidst at være irriterende? Et link til en Wikipedia side der indeholder den relevante dokumentation med kildeangivelse er et link til dokumentation i en debat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Der står i FØRSTE afsnit:

The index is published annually by the non-governmental organisation Transparency International since 1995.[4]

https://www.transparency.org/en/
En organisation dedikeret til at bekæmpe korruption som har eksisteret i næsten 30 år!

I’m not saying you are wrong in anything you state, and you make good points.
And yes you are probably right that the shortcomings compared to what was promised is the main reason sales didn’t go as expected.
But I think you don’t see it the same way as barneypiccolo you responded to.
Wasn’t the DeLorean design pretty iconic from the beginning? The fact that there are still more than 2/3rds of the cars built on the road today 44 years later does speak volumes to its favor regarding popularity IMO. Those were not cars that were bought, found insufficient and then scrapped. But instead have been maintained despite DeLorean hasn’t been around to supply spare parts.
Also the fact that the car had such a central role in the Movie Back to the Future, because it was simply such a cool car despite it’s flaws, what other car could they have used for similar effect?
Imagine trying to do that with the Cybertruck! The Cinema would most like burst out in laughter from claiming doing anything with a Cybertruck would be to do it in “Style” as Emmet Brown expressed it regarding the DeLrean. It would clearly be seen as a fat joke on how stupid the car is and looks.
So no the car wasn’t popular enough in sales for the number of cars DeLorean built, but it was never an unpopular atrocity like the Cybertruck is.

Edit PS:

they had produced 7,000 units and sold 3,000

That’s not true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean

total production reached an estimated 9,000 units

And allegedly they needed to sell about 2000 cars remaining to continue.

I almost feel sad for IBM, this was supposed to be their thing.

Brexit was bad, but hopefully we can still work closely together. UK is still finding their footing after Brexit.
USA is a different more fundamental break of trust, which I would hate to see repeated with UK.
In most EU countries USA is now more unpopular than China!

UK is on a route where they are balancing EU and USA against each other, while completely forgetting that it was not EU that wanted the break, and EU is still their friend, and USA is not. just look how USA is treating Canada! It’s insane that UK is looking towards USA considering how unfriendly USA has become even to their closest ally!

jeg gerne vil se en kilde.

Jeg angav en rimelig betydelig kilde, som er baseret på løbende internationale undersøgelser.

korruptionen er oftest noget der er defineret som noget der findes mellem det offentlige/styrende organ, og så resten af samfundet.

Ikke nødvendigvis, vores værste korruptionssag i mange år var Britta Nielsen. Den var 100% intern i det offentlige. Og det er ikke en forklaring der på nogen måde godtgør din oprindelige påstand om stor privat korruption, som er en meget besynderlig påstand, du ikke på nogen måde godtgør hvordan skulle fungere, og er imod normale definitioner af hvad korruption er.

Der er ingen der behøver at være korrupte for at overleve. Det er altid for at rage mere til sig/grådighed.

Det er ikke sandt, nogle lande har så lave lønninger i visse typer offentlige stillinger at man ikke kan overleve på dem.
Her er bare et eksempel:
https://www.diis.dk/en/research/the-predicament-of-mozambiques-police-force

Angående nepotisme findes det selvfølgelig også, men du tager fejl når du påstår det er generelt accepteret.
Det blev f.eks. stærkt kritiseret da en kulturminister bad en veninde stå for et kulturproject.
https://avisendanmark.dk/kultur/million-projekt-paa-vestkysten-blev-en-af-danmarks-stoerste-kunstskandaler-nu-er-elle-mie-tilbage-paa-stedet-der-smadrede-hendes-karriere

Hvis du mener at det er nepotisme at Auken familien har haft 3 fremtrædende politikere tager du fejl. De er ikke valgt af familiemedlemmer men af befolkningen. Det er IKKE nepotisme. Hvis du taler om nepotisme i det private, er det irrelevant i forhold til korruption.

Jeg kan dog se, at jeg nok ikke får en reel kilde ud af dig, og derfor vil jeg bare sige tak for snakken. :-)

Besynderligt at du igen slår på det, når du ikke selv viser noget som helst belæg for dine egne påstande. Men i stedet fejer det af vejen som ikke nødvendigt? Hvor jeg har angivet en reel kilde som du så bare fejer af vejen med en meget besynderlig (fejlagtig) begrundelse om det private??

As a European, looking at that map is really really REALLY depressing!!
I’m a bit surprised to see China is more popular than USA in so many European countries including my own.
I don’t think that’s really the case if people thought more about it, it’s the immediate reaction of feeling betrayed by a friend and ally.
But if USA continue their current hostile policies against Europe and the world, and continue on their path towards fascism, of course China can be seen as the lesser evil.
One thing is for sure, the old relationship with USA is ruined, and there is very little chance EU will go back to be as pro American as we used to be.
This is a HUGE loss on both sides, we should have stood together to protect democracy, and to balance out China, that will soon be a global economic force never before seen.
But Instead USA chose to attack every ally they have, and alienate them beyond repair. Hopefully China will be a graceful superpower, when there is nobody to counter them.
USA needs to turn around super fast, and make it clear that the MAGA crowd is out politically for good.
Because democracies like USA and Europe and other allies need to strengthen alliances rather than weakening them. And we need to stand more for the values of democracy instead of breaking them down.
If we don’t, China and BRICS will dictate the terms in the future, and the world will devolve into an authoritarian hell.

WTF? Even our government (Denmark) foreign minister is alarmed by what Israel is doing in Gaza, and he is traditionally very pro Israel!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

According to a United Nations Special Committee,[37] Amnesty International, and other experts and human rights organisations, Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people

This is so widely reported and acknowledged the only way to ignore it is extreme bias or more likely corruption.

It is also absolutely clear that Israel is committing war crimes regularly, there is zero doubt t about it, and the political leadership in Israel is wanted criminals because of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Israeli_leaders

On 21 November 2024, following an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two senior Israeli officials, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the former Minister of Defense of Israel,

Please UK, don’t go as corrupt malignant and stupid on us as USA. 🙏

Okay, jeg havde håbet på andet end din egen personlige erfaring

Erfaring fra medier og andres erfaring PLUS MIN EGEN er da ikke kun min personlige erfaring???
Når jeg så underbygger med et link der viser det samme baseret på undersøgelser, er det da en lidt besynderlig udtalelse!

Man kan altså se, at de kun måler på den “offentlige sektor”,

Med korruption menes der generelt det offentlige:

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korruption

“misbrug af betroet magt for egen vindings skyld” eller “misbrug af offentligt embede til privat vinding”

Bedrageri eller underslæb eller tyveri i det private er IKKE korruption. Så jeg kan ikke rigtigt se din pointe?

at vi i DK har lige så meget korruption som andre lande generelt har. Formen kan være forskellig,

Jamen så ser du på det på en lidt mærkelig måde, for alt kildemateriale der udtaler sig om det siger at Danmark er et af verdens mindst korrupte lande. Og ja formen er til dels forskellig fordi danskere ikke BEHØVER være korrupte for at overleve. Og generelt accepterer danskere ikke korruption. Hvilket der er lande hvor man gør, fordi det er “nødvendigt” for at få tingene til at glide, eller fordi det er meningsløst at anmelde politiet til politiet fordi de alle er korrupte, da det betragtes som en del af lønnen.

74 i forhold til 67 er en forhøjelse på 7 år, det er en 100% kompensering for levetiden siden 70’erne.
https://cepos.dk/artikler/0205-forventet-levetid-vokset-fra-50-ar-i-1900-til-818-ar-i-dag/

Fuldstændig uden hensyn at vi får stadigt bedre hjælpemidler, og mange ældre er bedre selvhjulpne.
Det er en totalt overdrevet undergravning af velfærdssamfundet, samtidig med at vi reelt er blevet rigere, skæres der ned på goderne for almindelige arbejdere og svagt stillede hele vejen rundt.

Det er meget fint med den graf du viser, men reelt skal man jo også have tilsvarende grafer for tidligere generationer. Min far er fra 1937 og hans generation var en af de helt store, men det kan du jo ikke se på den graf. Men jeg vil tro de 40 årige var en ligeså stor indsnævring for 40 år siden, som de 0-10 årige er i dag.

Mange års erfaring, både fra nyheder og egne og andres oplevelser i udlandet.
Hele Afrika er korrupt så du ikke drømmer om det, ligesådan sydamerika og det meste af Asien, og det gamle østeuropa, og mellemøsten.
I de områder er f.eks. politiet ofte åbenlyst korrupte.
Samtidig er der Corruption Perception Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index. Som i høj grad bekræfter det billed man har fra andre kilder. Men med USA og UK som besynderligt nok ikke mener de er så korrupte som det er mit indtryk. UK skulle være gul og USA orange.

IDK how fast they break down, they are supposed to break down faster. But apparently not as fast as to makers claim.

AFAIK the claim was never that bioplastic are “healthy”, the claim is that it breaks down way faster. Preventing a buildup as we have seen with mikroplastic.
Sensationalist headline IMO.

It will be even more embarrassing for Putin, when he probably doesn’t show up to meet Zelenskyy on Thursday, despite it was his own suggestion!