tapas73

Internet randos, executives. Next in line should be fellow programmers "Why the f should I tell you my reasons, if you are competent programmer you should allready know everything".

I assume your comment is accidentally on a wrong thread.

bad examples

but if production and rental businesses get separated, we are back to square one.

I wonder how much of this consistency is for the sake of feeling in control. (i.e. I hypothesise, that it is only about emotions of the boss)

Some proof would be nice.

Wikipedia mentions that it is contested if it is intentional or not.

Personaly for me, intentionality doesn't seem far fetched, given gulags, forced relocations to siberia without supplies and liberal presentation of history/facts (ussr guides said that kaliningrad is russian from olden times).

see also: Belarus (russia stopped quite pro russian, but democratic opposition)

problem is - its either nato or russian puppet (e.g. russia would force ukraine to invade moldova)

germany is big AND wealthy buyer. Not eveybody can buy so much at current price.

also storage of natural gas is problematic.

But now, it is much closer to home.

Europe sees a lot of parallels with what happend right before ww2 (germany taking a bite here and there; testing responses; extending influence and gathering resources)

couple of months of sanctions. Not sure how many russians will want to endure. Of course putin will try to turn it into some patriotic narative, but truth will spread. Holding ukrain will not be simple. People there have tasted freedom. It will not be so easy to feed government news to them.

idea was that if europe trades with russia, russia can be influenced to act in a civil manner. (at least partially)

there is also fact that german ex cancelor (schroeder) is at russian gas and oil companies now (i.e. russia made good friends to make right decisions)

If world is global, which it is, gas can be bought from some where else.

maybe waze also uses openStreetMap?

"static vs dynamic" and "strong vs weak" are orthogonal coordinates.

you can sell basic version. Leaving premium to your self.