Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Costa Rica as the Singapore of Central America

 The construction of the TSMC Arizona plant is a major step forward for the US semiconductor industry demanding STEM educated engineering talent that lifts our economy.  But it also requires a Singapore that organized Southeast Asia to build and assemble ancillary tech products to sell their chips to.

Costa Rica has the potential to become the "Singapore of Central America". Singapore is a small country that has transformed itself into a major global hub for business and technology. Costa Rica could follow a similar path, by leveraging its advantages to attract investment from the tech industry.

If Costa Rica is able to become a major hub for the tech industry then it would create jobs, boost economic growth, and attract foreign investment to itself and neighboring countries that would raise the standard of living in the region and be a solution to the migrant crisis.



Friday, August 25, 2023

If Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful leader of Chechnya were taken out by a rival tribal faction then Putin would lose control of the Russian Federation

 Wagner Groups' Prigozhin asassination by Putin is par for the course but what about an assassination of Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful leader of Chechnya, not by Putin but by a rival Chechnyan tribal faction protesting their people being sent to Ukraine as cannon fodder. It would deal a major blow to Vladimir Putin's control over the Russian Federation in suppressing dissent and the recruitment of fresh soldiers. And it would damage Putin’s control of other Federation Leaders who would see from Chechnya's example that blind obedience to him may not be a sure path to one’s self preservation. It would cause a dissolution of the Russian Federation and a target of opportunity for Xi Jinping sensing #PutinIsALoser that there are easy pickings for him to enlarge China’s hegemony.