Nah, big finance has super overinflated titles since the 08 crisis. Regulators wanted a higher up to aign off on certain stuff so they made everyone a higher up.
I was in IT at Morgan Stanley and MSCI, and it's basically junior to mid level dev is Associate, senior dev to team lead is VP, senior team leads are executive directors, the 5 remaining layers up are all managing directors.
You can be a VP at Morgan Stanley, pull an 80k salary and have no reports.
Markets are centralised enough that adaptability, inventiveness and other things like this don't really matter any more. In a free market, sure. On Wall Street?
If market dynamics mattered at all, Tesla would be bankrupt, and so would be Oracle, Microsoft and many others.
Russia has seemingly broken itself by the war economy drive to the point hey are incapable of stopping the war on any terms, as it would immediately collapse the country.
If Ukraine were to capitulate, another war would immediately start, likely in Moldova, then the Baltics, then...
There is simply no peace until Russia reforms economically, societally and governmentally.
I think the Russians have enough depth near Melitopol that the bridge itself, despite being important is not the absolutely critical supply line it once was.
It is a symbol of Russia's efforts of integrating occupied Crimea though, that makes it a more important target.
are not "the same kind of genocide" perpetrated by the despots he cited
The most egregious acts of genocide Stalin committed were not political killings, but the large scale sacrifice of people on the altar of economic progress. So no, it is exactly the same kind of genocide.
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