SearchRecent comments
Democracy LinksMember's Off-site Blogs |
of sciences and wars.....IN ITS 9 DECEMBER ISSUE, SCIENCE (AAAS MAGAZINE) HAD A SERIES OF ARTICLE PRAISING THE RESISTANCE OF UKRAINIAN SCIENCES AGAINST THE RUSSIAN “AGGRESSION” — ESPECIALLY IN KHARKIV. IN UKRAINE, LIKE IN RUSSIA, THERE ARE PEOPLE DEDICATED TO UNPOLITICAL ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCES. THERE ARE SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD PEOPLE. PRESENTLY WE HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE: WERE THE UKRAINIAN AS A WHOLE DEDICATED TO THE ERADICATION OF THE RUSSIAN CULTURE AND THE ELIMINATION OF THE AUTONOMOUS REGIONS? NO. MANY PEOPLE IN UKRAINE ARE (WERE) DECENT PEOPLE. SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO DIED OR SURVIVED RUSSIAN “ACCIDENTAL” BOMBINGS MAY NOT HAVE HATED THE RUSSIANS BEFOREHAND. SIMILARLY, PEOPLE LIVING IN THE DONBASS DID NOT HATE THE UKRAINIANS PER SE, NOR EVEN THOUGHT OF SECESSION, UNTIL THE FATEFUL EVENTS STARTED IN 2004 THAT CULMINATED IN THE 2014 MAIDAN REVOLUTION. THE HATRED BETWEEN THE VARIOUS GROUPS IN UKRAINE WERE MORE OR LESS EXTINGUISHED AFTER WW2, DESPITE SOME PEOPLE HAVING NAZI TENDENCIES AND OTHERS READY TO SUPPORT RUSSIA. BUT THE AMERICAN EMPIRE (THE USA) — HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING RUSSIA (AND CHINA) BY WHATEVER MEANS — REVIVED ALL THESE OLD DISPUTES WHICH RESURFACED LIKE DIRTY FIRY OIL-SLICKS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. THIS IS THE OLD DIVIDE AND CONQUER TECHNIQUE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. EASY. WE KNOW ABOUT THE “ILLEGAL” EXPANSION OF NATO, PUSHED BY VARIOUS US PRESIDENTS, FROM BILL CLINTON TO PRESENTLY JOE BIDEN (EVEN WHEN HE MERELY WAS A PIDDLY VICE-PRESIDENT). WE KNOW OF THE DUPLICITY OF THE FRENCH AND THE GERMAN LEADERS — HOLLANDE AND MERKEL — IN REGARD TO THE MINSK AGREEMENTS, THAT GAVE AUTONOMY TO SOME OF THE UKRAINIAN DONBASS REGIONS. WE KNOW THAT THE KIEV GOVERNMENT — DESPITE BEING LED BY A JEWISH CLOWN — HAS BEEN LEANING TOWARDS FASCISM, NOW IN FULL NAZI SWING. WE KNOW THAT THE KIEV GOVERNMENT WAS PREPARING TO ATTACK THE AUTONOMOUS REGIONS IN EARLY MARCH 2022. WE KNOW THAT THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE MOSTLY POPULATED BY RUSSIANS. WE KNOW THAT THESE REGIONS — FORMERLY RUSSIAN TERRITORIES — WERE “GIVEN” TO UKRAINE AS A POLITICAL COUNTERPOINT TO WESTERN UKRAINE POPULATED BY “RUSSIAN HATING GALICIAN FASCISTS”. SAME WITH CRIMEA. THIS RUSSIAN TERRITORY HAD BEEN ADDED TO UKRAINE IN 1954 FOR BEING “A GOOD COMMUNIST” THOUGH THE DEAL WAS NOT APPROVED BY THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT.
PUTIN SAW THROUGH ALL THIS FOG AND DECIDED FOR A MILITARY INTERVENTION. WE MOSTLY KNOW THE REST:
South of Donetsk, Russian fire against Ukrainian positions near Vladimirovka and Ougledar, as well as against a sabotage and reconnaissance group near Sladkoe, killed more than 50 people. In addition to this, another fifty enemy soldiers were eliminated during the fighting on the axis of Kupyansk.
Weapons destroyed Several howitzers were destroyed at Ukrainian firing positions, including an American-produced M777, a D-20, two 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled guns, as well as two Msta-Bs, two Gvozdikas and a D-30. The majority were targeted in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). An American-made AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar was also destroyed in the DPR, near Konstantinovka, as was the launcher of an Osa air defense system. The Russian DCA shot down two drones in the Donbass and intercepted eight projectiles from the HIMARS (American production) and Ouragan multiple rocket launcher systems. Finally, 103 artillery posts as well as military personnel and equipment were bombed in 123 areas, as well as an ammunition warehouse and a military equipment repair base in the DPR. Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian army has shot down 372 aircraft, 200 helicopters and 2882 drones, and destroyed 401 air defense systems, 7525 tanks and other armored vehicles, 982 multiple rocket launcher vehicles, 3836 pieces of field artillery and mortars, and 8052 other military vehicles.
THIS AMOUNTS TO 21,368 PIECES OF HARDWARE/HEADQUARTERS, WHICH IN TERMS OF PERSONNEL, MEANS THAT THE UKRAINIAN FORCES HAVE LOST MORE THAN 200,000 DEAD SOLDIERS AND POSSIBLY HAVE HAD 300,000 INJURED SOLDIERS, HALF OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO REJOIN “THE FRONT”. FROM A POPULATION OF AROUND 44 MILLION, UKRAINE NOW ONLY HAS ABOUT 20 MILLION LEFT IN WESTERN UKRAINE — LIVING IN THE DARK AND STILL PROUDLY UKRAINIAN, MOSTLY WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THAT THEIR GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN (AND IS) NAZI. THEY HATE THE RUSSIANS FOR WRECKING THEIR LIVES. THEY ALSO DID NOT LIKE THE AUTONOMOUS DONBASS REGION AS THEIR HATRED OF THE RUSSIANS LIVING THERE WAS CULTIVATED BY UKRAINIAN MEDIA — UNDER THE STRONG INFLUENCE OF SOROS AND THE VOICE OF AMERICA. SO BACK TO OUR SCIENCE ARTICLES THAT EXPLAIN HOW SOME DEDICATED GOOD SCIENTISTS ARE MANING THE LEFT-OVER INSTITUTIONS AND UNIVERSITIES IN UKRAINE. NO MENTION IS MADE OF THE UMPTEEN AMERICAN FUNDED (VIA HUNTER BIDEN TORTUOUS FINANCES COMING FROM THE PENTAGON) BIOLABS WHICH VICTORIA NULAND ACKNOWLEDGED EXISTED IN UKRAINE BUT "ONLY DID PEACEFUL WORK". YOU SHOULD SMELL A FEW DEAD RATS LIVING IN NULAND'S HEAD. IN KHARKIV, THE RUSSIANS DESTROYED A FEW SCIENTIFIC INSTALLATIONS AND LEFT SOME ALONE. ONE CAN SUSPECT THAT DESPITE SOME GENUINE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT BEING PERFORMED THERE, SOME DUAL PURPOSE “SECRET” MACHINERY WOULD ALSO HAVE BEEN USED AGAINST THE RUSSIANS. SO, AS THE CAPITULATION OF THE KIEV GOVERNMENT TO THE MODEST (BUT NECESSARY) RUSSIAN DEMANDS WOULD HELP RESTORE “UKRAINE”, WON’T HAPPEN SOON, MORE OF GENUINE UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IS GOING TO BITE THE DUST. UKRAINE IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED. ZELENSKY IS DESTROYING UKRAINE...
… Shulga has no plans to move, not least because it would be impossible to uproot the Neutron Source and other large KIPT facilities. More importantly, such a retreat would undermine the ambitions of Ukrainian science leaders to restore the ouster of Kharkiv, the nation’s hero city and its scientific jewel, Zagorodny says: “That’s how we will honor its courage and heroism.”
WE BELIEVE THAT KHARKIV IS NEXT ON THE LIST AFTER KERSON HAS ONCE MORE FALLEN TO THE RUSSIAN DONBASS TERRITORY. MAKE A DEAL NOW. A PEACE DEAL THAT HAS TO FAVOUR RUSSIA — OTHERWISE THE NEXT COULD BE UGLY. THE NAZIS IN KIEV CANNOT BE LET TO WIN, DESPITE BEING SUPPORTED BY THE WEST.
GUS LEONISKY CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.
|
User login |
war of chips.....
For more than a century the scramble for oil unleashed wars, forced unusual alliances and sparked diplomatic rows.
Now the world's two biggest economies are battling over another precious resource: semiconductors, the chips that literally power our daily life.
These tiny fragments of silicon are at the heart of a $500bn industry that is expected to double by 2030. And whoever controls the supply chains - a tangled network of companies and countries that make the chips - holds the key to being an unrivalled superpower.
China wants the technology to produce chips. That's why the US, a source of much of the tech, is cutting Beijing off.
The two countries are clearly engaged in an arms race in the Asia Pacific, says Chris Miller, author of Chip Wars and associate professor at Tufts University.
But, he adds, there's more to the race: "[It] takes place both in traditional spheres, like numbers of ships, or missiles produced but increasingly, it's taking place in terms of the quality of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that can be employed in military systems."
For now, the US is winning - but the chip war it has declared on China is reshaping the global economy.
The chip-makersThe manufacture of semiconductors is complex, specialist and deeply integrated.
An iPhone has chips that are designed in the US, manufactured in Taiwan, Japan or South Korea, then assembled in China. India, which is investing more in the industry, could play a bigger role in the future.
Semiconductors were invented in the US, but over time East Asia emerged as a manufacturing hub, largely because of government incentives, including subsidies.
This allowed Washington to develop business ties and strategic alliances in a region vulnerable to Russian influence during the Cold War. It's just as useful now, in the face of Beijing's growing influence in the Asia Pacific.
The race is on to make the best and most efficient chips at scale - and the smaller, the better. The challenge: how many transistors - tiny electrical switches that can turn a current on or off - can you fit onto the smallest bit of a silicon wafer?
"It's what the semiconductor industry calls Moore's law, essentially doubling the transistor density over time, and that's a hard goal to achieve," said Jue Wang, a partner at Silicon Valley at Bain & Company.
"It's what enables our phones to get faster, our digital photo archive to get bigger, our smart home devices to get smarter over time and our social media content to get richer."
READ MORE:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-64143602
SEE ALSO:
India has stepped up its buying of Russian crude oil in January from already record levels of the previous month. And, astonishingly, the United States has emerged as the biggest buyer for the refined products, despite Washington’s entreaties to the rest of the world not to buy Russian fuel.
India’s purchases of Russian crude oil have shot up to 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd) in January which is a steep rise from 1.2 million bpd in December 2022– which was even then record-level buying.
READ MORE:
https://www.telegraphindia.com/business/indias-breaking-all-records-for-buying-russian-oil-but-who-is-the-surprise-buyer/cid/1910044?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
SEE ALSO:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64206950
FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....