I think what you're confused about is the nature of why you say "in theory we should be more screwed up than other Western countries... but:" Because of WMDs w

I think what you're confused about is the nature of why you say "in theory we should be more screwed up than other Western countries... but:" Because of WMDs we ought never see another war between nuclear/bio states. Ukraine doesn't matter and isn't what the war is about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr... Western europe is probably going to be one of the best places to be. But more importantly, the layoffs aren't obvious. Stripe layoffs is the current one in the HN list. https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons-email-to-stripe-employees https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons... But check out the 7 pages of jobs they are still hiring for: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?skip=600 https://stripe.com/jobs/search?skip=600 Its not layoffs in the economic sense. It's layoffs in the war sense.