Thread regarding Boeing Co. layoffs

Both Russia and Boeing have a lot in common.
Both are pariahs on the global stage.

I predict there will either be a revolution in Russia (like the failed 2000 Boeing engineering strike) or there will be a continuing trajectory to non-relevancy (similar to Boeing). Lots of disenfranchised and unmotivated people in Russia (and Boeing) who were badly mistreated to the benefit of the corrupt leadership. It's impossible to have and sustain a long-term successful country (or company) with this arrangement.

I agree with much of this. We just need to be careful when we say Russia. The Russian people or the Chinese people are not the problem here. Like Boeing, it is just the corrupt, greedy, self-entitled leadership exercising their warped mindset that is the problem. It would be nice to see the Russian military return to Russia and save their Russian people.

Titanic is good analogy. The Boeing corporate arrogance and ineptness, the endless losing sport team like statements and the non-existent progress on all their failed projects makes for a quite compelling case. Just seems like a last ditch play to talk up their faltering stock price to better fund their executives for the eventual bankruptcy phase. Lots of executives big bonuses last week too. Kinda hard to understand why given their current dismal state and their increasingly downward trajectory.

The US government Boeing corporate welfare program did as much to help Russia as anything. So did the now 25 year old Boeing Moscow design center. The latest Boeing PR band hype is increased 737max rate. Does anyone actually still dance to their music anymore?

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1fwVK95G

For sure. Sad state of affairs.

Yeah, COMAC sold another 600 airplanes last month. Their backlog is now over 50% of Boeing's backlog and COMAC won't even have their first airplane certified until end of year. C919 is lower performance than A320 and 737 but at 30% or less cost it is apparently starting to sell very well.

Boeing has had a short-sighted perspective and an only promote my kids leadership policy for many years. Them chickens are now coming home roost.

I never understood the favorite trade status China enjoyed. Just allowed them to embrace an industrial revolution and now they’re more powerful then ever.

Trading with them as a communist country was a mistake. Their human rights record has not improved at all with the addition of capitalism. They are threatening Taiwan.

I don’t think opening trade with communist countries has a positive effect. How do you give China favorite trade status while I’m posting all these sanctions on Russia. You’re putting Russia in a corner where they have nothing to lose with these sanctions. Europe has under funded their defense for decades and no position to deal with Russian aggression. After 20 years enough can I stand the US is tired of war has no stomach for it. Which Putin knew and that’s the reason he invaded.

What’s extremely troubling is to have a design center in Moscow training engineers how to design aircraft who then turn around will work for Russia and their defense industry most likely now. Extremely shortsighted.

A more effective way to damage Russia is to install a puppet government
In Ukraine headed up by a comedian with no grasp of the key geographic
strategic importance of the only warm water port available to Russia.
This “Keystone” Region provides for freedom of navigation for commerce
And military access to the world oceans.
This “Keystone” Region is of National Interest to Russia and its Security

A comedian with no grasp of this fact is cajoled and inveigled
into believing that turning Ukraine into a Spicket called NATO
would be in everyone’s best interest because it would pay, So Well.

War is what was, always going to happen in such an event
And was spelled out in agreements at the end of WW||

Turns out, this was the best way to damage Russia.