“The plains of Ukraine are very flat, and when you shoot, the only thing stopping the bullets are other human bodies. Young, beautiful people are dying.” That was the strange response that the president of Banco Santander, Ana Botín, received when she took advantage of the intervention of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, to ask him about his plans to deregulate the US economy. Before, the two congratulated each other at one of the main economic events on the planet.
“Congratulations on a historic victory“, Botín began her intervention during her question to the American president. The banker has highlighted that Santander is a “great investor” in the country, where it has millions of clients, 12,000 workers and where it has recently launched Openbank. “We are delighted with your focus on deregulation and reducing bureaucracy“, the board told him, before asking him what his priorities are in this area and how quickly they are going to happen.
At the beginning of his speech, Trump also praised Botín and Santander. “I know your bank very well and you have done a fantastic job. Congratulations“, he said. And then, the president began to get lost in the hills of Donetsk.
Trump’s response to the question has begun with climate change denialism: “The money was being spent on absurd things. [La ley de energía renovable de Joe Biden] It is a disgrace, how it has been perpetrated. It has been conceived by people who are worse than the average student, and have never taken a course on climate. Do you remember that the world was going to end in 12 years? It hasn’t happened,” he said, mocking people concerned about climate change.
Next, Trump said that “we are going to demand respect from the rest of the countries. Canada. It can always become a state of the United States, so we would not have a deficit with them. Canada has been very difficult to deal with in these years, no “We need them to make our cars, and we have a huge deficit.” For him, “sWe only want other nations to treat us well. Stupidity has allowed other countries to take advantage of the US. We cannot allow this to happen. We want to destroy our debt. Many good things are going to happen, for us and for whoever deals with us, allies and more.”
And finally, he said that “I want to see Putin, and end the war, and this is not because of economic issues: it is because of the fact that millions of lives are being wasted, young and pretty people, they are being shot on the battlefield. The Ukrainian plains are very flat terrain, and The only thing there to stop the bullets are other human bodies. I’ve seen photos of that carnage. I’m not talking about the economy or natural resources: I’m only talking about young people who are being killed in this war, and that’s not including the people who are being killed in their homes, in buildings. We should put an end to that.” Of course, about deregulation, not a word.
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