One one side we have Putin who poisoned people/opposition in/on eu Land, took Crimea, plays games with France in Africa, plays other games in Africa, threatens with nuclear and apparently is so easy to manipulate through the USA to be were it currently is.
Vs.
The theory that the us secret gov (doing all of this while Obama, trump and Biden have been in power) is playing the half long game with Putin to let him do all of this by 'himself'.
I'm somehow not convinced.
And yes USA is probably pretty happy about the current situation but I don't think this is all because of USA and not Putin's little dick.
My team has 7 people and my company has 100.000 employees.
My budget as that single team is not 'just getting the company credit card out and paying 5k / year for some services I wanna use'.
I'm pretty sure this type of practice is just stupid and we do see how much easier it is to just be allowed to click a VM on was, gcp and co in comparison to all of these 'contactnus for pricing shit'.
I know still so many companies who never had a chance to hire successful the last few years.
Also we are 1 billion people more than in 2008.
Alone the growth should make this already not similar as 2008.