Re:PPCC: Pisitófilos Creditófagos. Invierno 2025

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Se entiende el punto de los drones como arma de guerra de bajo coste.

Pero tampoco es que los regalen. Solo en esa partida de la foto hay como medio millón de dólares, sin contar las comisiones que, como se puede imaginar en esta guerra, pueden duplicar o triplicar el precio.

En cuanto a los satélites, lo digo por experiencia, la media que estos aparatos usan para operar son unos 15, con un mínimo de 5 o 6 para que el bicho no se te desmadre.

Cuantos más satélites conectan mayor precisión de vuelo. Y lo cierto es que esos drones, que supuestamente son los mismos que cualquiera puede comprar, no utilizan satélites especiales, usan los “normales” de la red GPS:

La red GPS (Global Positioning System), es un sistema de navegación por satélite operado por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos.

La red GPS consta de 31 satélites operativos (a partir de 2023), distribuidos en órbitas alrededor de la Tierra para garantizar que al menos 4 satélites sean visibles desde cualquier punto del planeta en todo momento. Estos satélites están organizados en 6 planos orbitales, con 4 o 5 satélites en cada plano, a una altitud de aproximadamente 20,200 km.

Además de los 31 satélites operativos, suele haber algunos satélites de reserva o en mantenimiento para garantizar la continuidad del servicio.

[Benzino Napaloni]

, con un dron chino de 300 euros ya vale.

Esto no es verdad.

, con un dron chino de 300 euros ya vale.

Esto no es verdad.

Cierto, es un dron chino de 300 euros, con una carga hueca excedente de los antiguos arsenales soviéticos y conectado a través de redes vía satélite cuyos lanzamientos cuestan 67 millones de euros cada satelite...

En los vídeos que he visto en X (que serán verdad o no) son drones chinos con cargas (como dice sargento, de esas que hay repartidas por Ucrania y que se consiguen más fácilmente que una Coca-Cola) y un Ucraniano con un mando a distancia.

Para mí esta guerra ha demostrado que los tanques como los conocemos se han quedado obsoletos en un campo de batalla abierto. Bastante inútiles en guerra contra contra un enemigo simétrico, y casi diría que ni siquiera contra un enemigo asimétrico.

Incluso contando conque hace falta un satélite de 70 millones de euros para manejarlo, por el coste de 7 Leopard 2E tienes para el satélite y muchos miles de drones.

Igual que en la Segunda Guerra Mundial se quedó obsoleto el acorazado cuando se hizo popular el portaaviones. La idea es casi la misma, de qué te sirve tener cañones gordos si el portaaviones te huele a kilómetros y te puede mandar impunemente bombarderos en picado.

Casualidad o no, en la flota de Pearl Harbor que masacraron los japoneses no había un solo portaaviones. Todos estaban fuera de maniobras.

Y si nos remontamos más atrás, hubo un momento en que se pidió a la Iglesia prohibir la ballesta porque un tipo con pocas horas de entrenamiento se podía cargar de un flechazo a otro que había dedicado toda su vida al combate.

Nihil novum sub sole .

[asustadísimos]

[Hoy por hoy, el principal enemigo del dólar es el euro. La consecuencia geopolítica es que EE. UU. desprecia y detesta a la UE. Por el desprecio a la UE se sabe cuánto proanglo se es. ¡Cuidado con hablar mal de la 'burocracia' europea! Solo en la Comunidad de Madrid, sin Ayuntamientos, hay más del doble de funcionarios que en la UE.]


[El euromaidán no es dolarmaidán. Ucrania solo sirve a EE. UU. si lastra al euro. No si expande la aduana común.]


[Musk, el jean-baptiste-colbert de la reinona sol, hace mal llevándose a sus hijitos a despachar con Trump. Es un goebbels del 'management' en el búnker de Trump.]


[Las condiciones de Rusia al 'ceasefire' trumpista debieran incluir el embargo de armas anglo a Ucrania y la devolución de los 'activos rusos congelados' por 'Londres'.]

[berberecho]

Los proanglo hablan mal de Europa.
Pero hablar mal de europa, no te convierte en proanglo.

Seamos críticos: la panda al mando de nuestra supranación no ha estado precisamente brillante. Es algo bastante claro. Deberían haber desamparado al anglo el mes de febrero del 2022. Y el colmo es lo del nordstream.

Que sí, también entiendo que es fácil de decir y no tanto de hacer.

[berberecho]

Se habla de... ¿800.000 millones de euros para un "rearme" europeo?

¿alguno de los presentes se ha preguntado cuánto de esa cantidad va para ladrilleros?

De esos 800 M€, ¿Cuánto va a sueldos?
De lo que va a sueldo, ¿Cuánto va al casero?
No echéis cuentas, que os dan ganas de tiraros por la ventana.

En occidente (y Europa) hay una losa descomunal con las casitas. Ya lo apuntaba un compañero por detrás, sin mencionar el banano. Se gasta mucho dinero, pero no se ven resultados a la altura.

Por esa razón me hace gracia cuando se trata de comparar militarmente a través del PIB o del gasto en defensa (previa transformación a dólares  ) a países occidentales, con su losa descomunal, con, por ejemplo China. Claro, a la gente le venden que va a ser un paseo. Supongo que ha sido así toda la historia. No se puede comparar el gasto en armas entre países completamente distintos, puesto que en unos se va en lo que no son armas, y en otros, no tanto.

Europa tal vez tenga futuro como dice Asustadísimos. Ojalá. Pero primero, hay que librarse de la LOSA. Si no lo hacemos, poco futuro veo yo en nada.

[Raf909]

Se habla de... ¿800.000 millones de euros para un "rearme" europeo?

¿alguno de los presentes se ha preguntado cuánto de esa cantidad va para ladrilleros?

De esos 800 M€, ¿Cuánto va a sueldos?
De lo que va a sueldo, ¿Cuánto va al casero?
No echéis cuentas, que os dan ganas de tiraros por la ventana.

En occidente (y Europa) hay una losa descomunal con las casitas. Ya lo apuntaba un compañero por detrás, sin mencionar el banano. Se gasta mucho dinero, pero no se ven resultados a la altura.

Por esa razón me hace gracia cuando se trata de comparar militarmente a través del PIB o del gasto en defensa (previa transformación a dólares  ) a países occidentales, con su losa descomunal, con, por ejemplo China. Claro, a la gente le venden que va a ser un paseo. Supongo que ha sido así toda la historia. No se puede comparar el gasto en armas entre países completamente distintos, puesto que en unos se va en lo que no son armas, y en otros, no tanto.

Europa tal vez tenga futuro como dice Asustadísimos. Ojalá. Pero primero, hay que librarse de la LOSA. Si no lo hacemos, poco futuro veo yo en nada.

Ojalá saliera nuestro presidente del gobierno (cualquiera, el Sanchez, el marihuano rajoy, zapatero, ansar, felipe... no es cuestión de signo político) en prime time a decir esto:

- Señores, deberíamos gastarnos x miles de millones de euros en armamento... pero como somos una sociedad de rentistas, nos tenemos que gastar 8xno_se_cuantos_miles de millones... y para ello habrá que quitar pensiones, no se cuantas cosas de la sanidad...
... a no ser que se rebaje la vivienda.

[asustadísimos]

[En las guerras en las que está en juego tu vida, tienes que elegir bando. Si no, serás enemigo de los dos.]

[asustadísimos]

[Lo primero que hay que hacer es destruir la apariencia contable-pública de que el gasto en defensa solo es el presupuesto del ministerio del ramo. Para empezar, hay que incluir el gasto en Sanidad y Pensiones de los militares.]

[asustadísimos]

[La UE es, hasta ahora, una unión aduanera y monetaria. También es una unión estadística. Ya sin la remora anglo, va siendo hora de completar otras uniones y plantearse nuevas, p. e., la de defensa.

A los compañeros del Banco España: ¡queremos unión bancaria! Queremos un par de bancos comerciales privados paneuropeos superestablecidos.

Muy bien podrían ser los que ya lo están, pero engordados con media docenilla de bancos de los demás países de la Unión:
• BNP Paribas
• Deutsche Bank.

Podrían llamarse:
• BPB (Banque de Paris et de Berlin), con sede en París
• DFB  (Deutsche und Französische Bank), con sede en Berlín

Se me ocurre que Bankinter debiera ir al BPB y Sabadell al DFB. Me consta que algo parecido a esto ya se os ha ocurrido a alguno.

El Santander no tendría más remedio que desangloidentificarse y absorber a un portugués, un italiano y un griego. Si viviera D. Emilio, se llamaría Banco Santander. Pero se llamará:
• SUMP (Banco Santander UniCredit Millennium Piraeus), con sede, ¡atención!, en Barcelona, lejos de Cibeles y del Palazzo Koch, y también entre Lisboa y Atenas.]

[Derby]

https://www.ft.com/content/6d938875-d9c8-47b1-9116-eef577d2cb98

Elon Musk’s cuts fail to stop US federal spending hitting new record

Government spending rose to $603bn in February despite hyperactive efficiency drive, data shows

[Derby]

No parecen muy convencidos...más bien callan más que hablan.

https://www.ft.com/content/6edbca60-25e4-4c4b-bb53-8715fa2decd0

Blackstone and Goldman Sachs CEOs see upsides to Donald Trump’s policies

Comments from Wall Street bosses come as president’s import tariffs fuel US recession fears


Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, President Donald Trump, and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon © FT Montage/Bloomberg

Two of Wall Street’s most prominent executives have said there are upsides to Donald Trump’s policies, even as the US president presses ahead with protectionist measures including import tariffs that have fuelled fears of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy.

Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of Blackstone, told reporters in India on Wednesday that the tariffs would, “at the end of the day”, lead to a significant increase in manufacturing activity in the US.

“Given the size of the US, that tends to be a good thing for the world,” said Schwarzman, a prominent Trump donor.

“If we’re growing faster we can consume more things. So, you know, that’s one scenario . . . there are other scenarios, because it’s just way too early to play this out.”

Meanwhile David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said the business community “understands what the president is trying to do with tariffs”, though he pleaded for more “certainty” on the Trump administration’s policy agenda.

Trump’s 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports came into effect on Wednesday, triggering countermeasures from the EU, which the bloc said would affect up to €26bn of American goods. Canada has also announced 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on about C$30bn of US-made goods.

The “business community is always going to want lower tariffs, everywhere in the world”, said Solomon.

But he welcomed Trump’s wider agenda and his openness to dealing with executives, telling Fox News that he liked the way “the president is engaged with the business community”. “That’s a different experience than what we’ve had over the course of the last four years,” Solomon said.

“CEOs are excited about some of the tailwinds, like the move to lower regulation,” he said, adding that red tape had been a “significant headwind to growth and investment”.

Solomon said he expected the number of initial public offerings, which had been “muted” over the past couple of years, to increase in 2025.

The Goldman chief was part of a group of business leaders who met Trump at an event held on Tuesday evening by the Business Roundtable, an association of 200 CEOs of large American companies.

Many of the attendees have seen the market capitalisation of their companies slump in recent days amid fears of recession and a widening trade war.

Trump told the gathering that tariffs would boost domestic jobs and industrial production in the US. “The biggest win is if [businesses] move into our country and produce jobs,” he said. “That’s a bigger win than the tariffs themselves.”

As well as resuscitating US manufacturing, Trump’s aggressive moves on trade are designed to reduce the country’s trade deficit, and force Mexico and Canada to stem the flow of irregular migrants and fentanyl across America’s southern and northern borders.

But the deepening frictions between the US and some of its closest allies are causing jitters throughout the business community.

In addition to retaliatory tariffs by the EU and Canada, there is concern about the possibility that Trump will follow through on his threat to impose so-called reciprocal tariffs on all trading partners from April 2, to punish them for taxes, levies, regulations and subsidies that Washington considers unfair.

[Derby]

https://www.ft.com/content/6d7c6915-4ceb-43fc-9896-590036b12a87

US inflation fell more than expected to 2.8% in February

Figure bolsters case for Fed to cut interest rates amid signs of slowing economic growth

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https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/trump-warns-eu-on-retaliatory-tariffs-says-irish-tax-policies-lured-us-firms-3924588

Trump warns EU on retaliatory tariffs, says Irish tax policies lured US firms


Trump warns EU on retaliatory tariffs, says Irish tax policies lured US firms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to respond to the European Union’s threat to impose counter tariffs on 26 billion euros ($28 billion) worth of U.S. goods from next month after Trump implemented blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

"Of course I will respond," Trump told reporters at the start of a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office. He said Ireland, a member of the European Union, was among countries taking advantage of the United States.

Trump said Ireland had used its tax policies to lure away pharmaceutical and other companies from the United States, but U.S. reciprocal tariffs would help rebuild U.S. manufacturing.

"There’s a massive deficit that we have with Ireland and with other countries," he said, saying he blamed U.S. leadership for allowing U.S. pharmaceutical companies and others to move to Ireland due to its tax policies.

"I have great respect for Ireland ... but the United States shouldn’t have let it happen," he said.

Trump’s increased tariffs on all U.S. steel and aluminum imports took effect on Wednesday, ratcheting up a global trade war and drawing swift retaliation from Canada and Europe.

Trump’s action to bulk up protections for American steel and aluminum producers restores effective tariffs of 25% on all imports of the metals and extends the duties to hundreds of downstream products.

Canada, the biggest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the United States, announced 25% retaliatory tariffs on those metals along with computers, sports equipment and other products worth C$29.8 billion in total. Canada’s central bank also cut interest rates to prepare the country’s economy for the damage.

The European Commission said it would impose counter tariffs on up to 26 billion euros ($28 billion) worth of U.S. goods next month.

[Derby]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/its-not-that-trump-doesnt-care-about-markets-he-just-cares-about-tariffs-more-122514444.html

It's not that Trump doesn't care about markets. He just cares about tariffs more.

Investors are trying to make sense of President Trump's willingness to shrug off market losses in recent days.

A review of the president's commentary suggests perhaps a simple answer: He just cares more about tariffs during his second go-around in the White House so far.

"Markets are going to go up, and they're going to go down, but you know what: We have to rebuild our country," he said Tuesday afternoon in a trade-focused refrain that the president has sharpened in recent days even as market pressure has mounted.(...)

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https://www.fastcompany.com/91296464/colleges-universities-under-attack-by-trump-administration-education-department-budget-cuts-harvard-freezes-hiring

Universities are under attack by Trump: Harvard hiring freeze, Department of Education layoffs are just the latest

Beyond the administration’s budget cuts, Trump has been threatening colleges that don’t adhere to his anti-woke political agenda.


[Source Photo: Nick Amoscato/Flickr]

The Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Department of Education in the name of government efficiency is wreaking havoc on universities across America. Its latest move to cut over 1,300 employees for the agency, or half its workforce, is just the tip of the iceberg. Trump’s endgame is to dismantle the department altogether, which is something only Congress can do. But that doesn’t seem to be stopping him.

Trump has attacked the department, calling it a “big con job,” and along with new Education Secretary Linda McMahon, has a two-pronged attack: loot the Department of Education’s $268 billion budget, by slashing budgets and firing staff, likely to free up money Trump desperately needs for his big tax cuts; and end ‘wokeness’ in education (more about that below).

Universities forced to freeze hiring and rescind offers

As a result of the administration’s budget cuts and other attacks, many universities have instituted hiring freezes and reduced graduate programs, and are even rescinding admission offers to grad students.

Universities depend on the Department of Education’s federal funding for financial aid, federal student loans, Pell Grants, and other research dollars. The cuts could chip away at American students’ already hampered ability to afford and attend college. In all, it’s a big chaotic mess.

Harvard University, the University of Washington, and the University of Pittsburgh are the latest to announce hiring freezes, joining a number of other institutions including: North Carolina State University, Columbia University’s medical school, the University of Notre Dame, Emory University, Cornell University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of California, San Diego, per NPR. And universities including Northwestern, Emory, and the University of Pennsylvania have gone one step further, also instituting budget cuts, expenditure freezes, and capital spending reviews.

But the hiring freeze at Harvard, which has the largest endowment in the world, is particularly worrisome, underscoring just how concerned even the most well-funded universities now are about their financial futures.

Trump’s anti-woke political agenda for colleges

Gutting the Education Department is also part of the political agenda Trump ran on for president. He wants to end what he has ranted against as “left-wing indoctrination” and instead push his vision of education, which includes banning education on gender identity and structural racism, abolishing diversity and inclusion, and keeping transgender athletes out of girls’ sports. Or, in his own words, he wants to slash budgets at “any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content.”

Despite Trump’s huffing and puffing, the department has no power over what’s taught in schools. “It is not the business of the federal government to be involved in curriculum or personnel hiring,” Kenneth Wong, a professor of education policy at Brown University told NPR.

However, Trump’s moves attempt to use federal money as leverage over universities, which he likely sees as hotbeds of dissent, critical of his agenda and other conservative ideas.

The most recent example of what many have argued is the Trump administration trying to silence dissent is the arrest and detention of Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A Palestinian student, he was the lead negotiator for pro-Palestine protesters who built an encampment on campus. Although Khalil has a green card, he was sent to a detention facility in Louisiana without notice to his attorney or family.

“We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained, alleging Khalil was a Hamas supporter, which Khalil’s lawyer said was “false and preposterous.”