How To Destroy An Alliance
When you do not update your strategy as the world changes around you.
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Pretending To Be Rich
Pretending to be rich was historically important. And it seem to be important still. Just recently I have seen a study showing, that about 40 percent of people in the US making more than 500k a year are living paycheck… Read More »Pretending To Be Rich
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
Various ways to look at power. “vassals are also not vassals to a title but to a person; a duke with two ducal titles who is deprived of one loses no vassals because they do not belong to the title,… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
Diseases helped colonized Americas but saved Africa in a way. “Rates of disease mortality among European soldiers stationed at the relatively less malarial port-and-fort posts they maintained (which we’ve discussed in this series) in the period period to the Scramble… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
Power rules them all. “What is at work here is not the Congresses themselves and certainly not law (indeed, the individual Congresses could be startlingly inconsistent), but rather balance of power politics. The pressures of anarchy aren’t restrained, but instead… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
AI taking jobs
Is it working or just lowering wages artificially?
Cost/Benefit
Everything has costs and potential benefits (or harm). Giving a one hour talk to a company of 200 can cost you 30k just in terms of salaries. There is hidden costs in terms of work not being done. And the… Read More »Cost/Benefit
Can the Bundeswehr fight?
Lets hope so. The Economist (EU) Sat, Apr 25, 2026 Can the Bundeswehr fight?https://pressreader.com/article/281612426992083
Killing Pax Americana
Shooting the world in the leg.