Wealth is based on knowledge

Today wealth is based on knowledge and synergies.

Today you cannot conquer knowledge through war.

For all top market-valuated companies their wealth originates from the knowledge of the engineers and technicians.

Recently I have been challenged to rate Russia as a country using the same techniques and algorithms of Graypes GmbH that we use to rate businesses.

This challenge is so primitive that does not require any sophisticated methodology. Russia is doomed if does not invest in the knowledge of its people and global synergies.

WWII is the pinnacle of insanity, since the German leadership, aiming for a powerful Germany, orchestrated a global massacre, while a few decades after their defeat, being the losers of the war but investing in people and technology, became a leading economy in the EU.

Israel is the absolute model of a society investing in knowledge and excelling. Surrounded for decades by hostile neighbors, had no other choice to build a startupnation based on the strong foundations of its human capital and strategic alliances.

Yesterday, March 28th, 2022, while some tyrannic monarchs decide to invade foreign land, wise leaders decide to unite their people. Israel and four Arab states (Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, and UAE) announced a permanent regional forum, vastly changing the Middle East landscape.

The gathering of the five Foreign Ministers together with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, took place at Sde Boker. It is a kibbutz in the Negev desert of southern Israel, best known as the retirement home of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion!