@iju @Ruth_Mottram @VoltEuropa the only question is why europeans are so blind that they fall for european propaganda/new branding and the idea of being the "best"; for example, a couple of weeks ago I saw an infrastructure report and, in short, a project (Rail Baltica) has a cost overrun of almost 300% of the initial budget, and it doesn't occur to anyone to investigate that it could simply be corruption/embezzlement, rather than blaming Russia or inflation. it seems like people just can't wrap their heads around the fact that this is possible; meanwhile, if you tell anyone from another country that a state project is in this state (and it's not just one project), they're going to suspect something is wrong at the very least