CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Random #Mastodon (presumably #glitchSoc) bug I just noticed: Items 10 and 11 above display as items 0 and 1.

Essential and urgent steps for nuclear-armed (so Trump won't start a war against them) economic powerhouse countries in response to the blockade of #Cuba:

1. Get the largest cargo aircraft available.
2. Legislate, register, and mark them as official aircraft of their heads of state and government.
3. Rapidly convert a minimal section just aft of the cockpit of each aircraft into an office for the respective government leader.
4. Fill the remainder of the aircraft to capacity with distributed #renewableEnergy generation and storage hardware, #EV chargers, EV batteries and motors, and EV retrofit conversion tools (prioritizing vehicles for essential services, such as those for sanitation and emergency response).
5. Fuel the aircraft for a round trip with the first leg laden to capacity.
6. Have the respective top government leader and their staff assemble in the office on the aircraft.
7. Publicly declare that any attack on the aircraft would be an act of war against the country.
8. Fly through international airspace directly to Cuba for a diplomatic summit: timing all the aircraft to arrive within an hour.
9. Unload all the hardware.
10. Return to the home country.
11. If the blockade has not been lifted and Cuba's need for oil has not been displaced, go to step 4.

Countries which could and should do this: #China, #India, #France, and the #UK. Other countries could donate supplies, as a block, including #Canada and most of the #EU. If they act in concert, and pre-commit to respond to any reprisal as a block, they can ensure Trump would #TACO on any attempt to stop them.

This would be the first step towards ending the "Donroe" doctrine.

#ukpol #frpol

@falcennial One reason, besides the mismatched incentives others have pointed out, is even simpler: In a sufficiently large corporation, the decision making is too many degrees removed from the customer.

It’s similar to the poor decision making of retail executives who’ve never done their own shopping.

@mattsheffield As with everything else from their ilk, the accusation of others being NPCs was also a confessions.