Pff somebody's billionaire forgot to shut down the opinion column.
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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Chaired by a Baron, the Lord Paul Deighton, who also chairs the Heathrow airport and was involved in banking and the conservative governments of UK, handling part of the covid crisis for Boris, and being involved with the Pandora papers scandal.
The rest of the board has their own stories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Deighton,_Baron_Deighton
I’m guessing people in US allies countries like the UK, even billionaires, realize how bad Trump will be for foreign relations. So while Musk and Besos will suck his dick because all of their shit is in the US, these guys aren’t so eager to play ball.
Primarily because all the billionaires outside of the US understand that the US leaving NATO (which imo will absolutely happen if Trump managed to gain a hold on power) would basically put them in existential danger from Russian expansionism, and potentially a full blown nuclear exchange + WW3 - because without us backstopping Europe, the Russians very well may be able to straight up saturation-strike most major European military bases, and just steamroll shit.
Don’t get me wrong - Russia is doing embarrassingly poorly against Ukraine, all things considered. But if the US becomes isolationist, Russia and China will likely take that to mean that it’s open season, and there really aren’t that many world powers outside of India that could credibly stand up to a full on combined onslaught from those two.
So not somebody’s billionaire but somebody’s group of billionaires.
Not the greatest background but certainly unsurprising for The Economist. Oh well, an endorsement is an endorsement.
