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Project Power

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I think “Project-Power” from this newsletter by Adam Tooze is going to be a useful concept going forward:

A project in this sense is the historically specific, intentional mobilization of multiple resources around a significant objective on whose success and failure important things depend.

I’m struck mostly by how bad the German government is at this. Every part of the country seems to be fully paralysed.

Alper Cugun
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Trying for years to explain to people that Germany has almost zero project power and is incapable of any progress and then suddenly a movement springs up that agrees entirely with that assessment.

The thing that Bert is not getting here is that Gaia-X is meant to be a distraction and not much else (that “else” would be politically far too risky to act upon). That’s the way these kind of things work. Meanwhile Europe will remain without its own cloud.