What consequences are expected for the European Union after Apple was ordered to pay a fine of 13 billion?

2024-09-27 10:46:23

No one will want to open a large business in the EU

The EU has no advantages over Asian countries. The 50% tax is too high, for example, in Singapore it is 0%. Russia's military conflict with Ukraine also makes it difficult to do business, as sanctions hit the EU itself, raising prices for all energy resources, which directly affects the prices of goods and services.

The essence of the claim is that all EU countries must take the same taxes at 50%, and if a country is an EU member, it cannot make tax preferences on its own. Most likely, countries will soon begin to leave the EU, as the United Kingdom did.

Apple must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes

Did the British change India's caste system?

2023-10-10 11:57:38

Yes, the social categories of religion and caste, as they are perceived in modern India, developed during the British colonial rule, at a time when information was scarce and the colonizer's power over information was absolute.

This was originally done in the early 19th century by elevating selected and convenient Brahmin-Sanskrit texts such as Manusmriti to canonical status; the alleged caste origin in the Rig Veda (the oldest religious text) was most likely added retroactively after it was translated into English decades later. These categories were institutionalized in the mid- to late 19th century through the census. These were acts of convenience and simplification. The colonialists established an acceptable list of local religions in India - Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism - and their boundaries and laws by reading what they claimed were the definitive texts of India.

Officially, castes are prohibited by law in India, but changing the caste division of Indian society, which has been cultivated in the minds of Indians for centuries, is not so easy.

Point of view: how the British changed India's caste system

What will happen if Russia wins the war?

2023-01-11 06:00:50

There will be a truce for a few years, and then the war will start again

A peace treaty will be signed with Ukraine with the renunciation of territories and other negative consequences for Ukraine. Ukraine will unite with Poland and the war will break out according to a new one, because Poland did not sign any treaties. The territory of Ukraine will be restored at the expense of frozen Russian assets. NATO will increase its reliance on U.S. support, as will the concerned, threatened Eastern European countries that find themselves frontline states along an expanded and uncertain line of contact with Russia, including Belarus and Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine.

Sanctions will not be lifted

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Is a nuclear escalation of the conflict and a third world war possible because of Russia and Ukraine in 2024-2025?

2024-10-15 11:14:58

No

Tactical nuclear weapons are used in places where troops are concentrated. Russia can bomb Ukrainian troops and cities without nuclear weapons. If they are going to bomb Ukrainian cities with nuclear weapons, they take responsibility for the deaths of civilians and the consequences of the use of TNW. Therefore, nuclear weapons will be used as the last resort, in the event of a stalemate. But if Ukraine starts bombing Belarus, this will actually untie Russia's hands in the use of TNWs.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine declared war on each other. Shouts about the use of nuclear weapons are just political games, like shouts about the beginning of World War III. This is a reason to end the conflict and sit down at the negotiating table, if they continue to act in the same direction as now, the war could escalate into a confrontation with Europe with the use of TNWs.

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