Ukraine could have been rich. Instead corruption ate the nation alive for decades, leaving poverty and an open door for the Kremlin.
Nobody deserves an invasion, and Ukraine is the victim here.
Still, a lesson for every country: corruption destroys dreams.
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Building stuff by day. Explaining math to socialists by night. Only one pays.
AfD pushed quick peace talks and cheap Russian gas, and its poll numbers slid to 26%.
Germans remember what Moscow-friendly politics cost them last time.

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Opening a company takes a day and a form. Closing one takes a year, final filings, tax clearance and an accountant on retainer. The state makes it easy to start paying and very hard to stop.
Communism solved this. It never let you open one ๐
๐ฌ๐ง HMRC now gives wealthy people a personal "Customer Compliance Manager". They want your assets, investments and overseas data "to support you."
Nobody maps your wealth this carefully unless they plan to take a cut.
If you built something in the UK, start packing. โ๏ธ
Business insurance is the only product where the seller asks 40 questions before taking my money and 400 before giving any back.
I'm not buying protection. I'm prepaying for a very expensive argument later.
Kremlin elites keep their kids in London, their cash in Dubai and their villas in Italy. Then they go on state TV to warn that the West is dying.
Strange place to keep your whole family.
Karen Bass is at 72% disapproval, so LA's fix is a Democratic Socialist ๐คก
Raman says she's a capitalist AND a socialist. Pick one, genius. The last city that tried both was called Caracas ๐
Brazil votes today: Lula vs Flรกvio Bolsonaro, and the polls call it a dead heat. Markets give Flรกvio about 82%. Lula's offer is more state, more spending and more of what Venezuela tried first. Good luck, Brazil ๐ง๐ท
Payday at my company goes in order: the tax office, the bank fees, the software, the accountant, the contractors. Then whatever's left goes to the guy who took all the risk. Socialists call that guy the exploiter. ๐
Government healthcare is free. You just pay for it with 14 months on the waiting list, if you're still alive when they call your name.
๐ญ๐บ Yesterday marked 70 years since Hungary tried to vote its way out of communism. The Soviets answered with tanks, and 200,000 Hungarians walked to Austria.
Communism's best argument has always weighed 36 tons.
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Europe's plan to beat Starlink: 400 pages of regulations and zero satellites. Now they need Elon to keep Ukraine online.
Bureaucrats can't launch anything except fines.
Running a small company, I get asked for a discount every week. Nobody asks the bank for a discount on its fees, or the state for a discount on its taxes.
Only the guy who actually built something gets haggled. Price is the last thing in my business I still get to set.
Venezuela sat on more oil than Saudi Arabia, went socialist, and ran out of toilet paper. Takes real genius to go broke sitting on a gold mine.

North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and Belarus all fear the same thing. Not missiles, not sanctions. A $5 VPN ๐


42% of US undergrads now prefer socialism, and half think Cuba and the USSR had a better model. They paid $200K to learn that.
Owe the IRS nothing and forget one form, and the fine is $25,000. Nothing on the market punishes an honest mistake that hard. Only a government can bill you for doing nothing wrong.
Sent $1,000 abroad. Three banks took a bite and it vanished for three days.
When a stranger does that, it's theft. When a bank does it, it's "in transit."