Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail in historic ruling

Sharpen the edge of your shovel, it's a war crime but so is war itself and they can never tell for sure.

 

That is due to the COVID, and will go once it does. It is not a structural problem.

 

The COVID alone isn't a problem, but the context itself is dramatic : highly in debt states and student, a slow down of growth for a few decades in an economy that's based on that. The covid tend to not be problematic for healthy people but deadly to sick people, here is the problem western economies are sick since at least the crisis of 2008. When we look at what fuel the economy, carbon energy, they're more and more expansive and I don't have to explain why they create other issues.
Biden choose inflation to solve the issue, that might be a good for people heavily in debt, but we're not even sure that the wage would go up with the inflation meaning one thing : mass impoverishement.
So no, there is plenty of deeply structural issues that will be very, very violent.

And to all of that we could add : maybe the COVID isn't an isolated thing, but in a more and more connected world, massive pandemic would be likely a more regular issue. We shouldn't treat that as an isolated incident.

 

You are surely correct when you say that "western economies are sick since at least the crisis of 2008"!
Tu as tout à fait raison!

And since 2008, all of us have seen that your economy in the EU and our economy here in the States is completely dominated and ruled by CENTRAL BANKS! You have the European Central Bank, and we have a thing called 'The Federal Reserve System'.

The banks didn't create the virus (we hope), but the banks continue their complete stranglehold on our economies, "printing" more and more imaginary money, while we run our national debt up to the stratosphere!

Only two nations of major-stature on Earth do not allow central banks to do this -- Russia, and China! They tell the bankers "how it's going to be" -- not the other way around....

 

the ECB has to print money for socialism

 

And, we're 'printing money' for NEO-socialism here in the States.

How long can this go on...? Maybe forever....