Vitoria Nuland in a senate committee has admitted that Ukraine has biological labs that she is worried that "research materials" may fall into Russian hands.
Just because the Russian scumbag government tell lies, I wouldn't forget the US record on honesty either. The fact they are denying so much worries me.
I've never own an apple playstation or an Xbox. These are just pointless entertainment gadgets. I'd be more worried about the price of servers and switches, actual hardware used for work.
Russia and Ukraine are critical sources of neon gas and palladium that are used to produce semiconductor chips.
The U.S. neon supply, which is used for lithography processes for chip production, comes almost entirely from Ukraine and Russia.
Russia produces neon, a gas that’s a byproduct of steel manufacturing, which is then purified by a Ukrainian company. The price of neon shot up 600% the last time Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.
Putin is KGB old guard. And the rainmakers in the Kremlin are pretty much all old guard KGB as well. Like latter day Soviet Union, these men are old now. The country is run by mendacious old spooks.
With the FSB leak (confirmed as genuine by Bellingcat) there's enough evidence that the new generation of FSB / SVR / GRU men may well have decided their time is up, and are waiting to Brutus Putin and circle.
The Russian military must be bricking it - even the conventional soldiers. They know they are sitting ducks in their vehicles, not up against poor Ukraine, but NATO backed Ukraine with lots of goodies at their disposal. Put yourself inside the shoes of a Russian soldier sitting in a tank... Damn, it's not a comfortable feeling.
Agreed. US is increasing its capacity though with a big plant in Arizona (announced 2020, IIRC), which will help.
Labor shortages are delaying construction however:
Most Russian propaganda being pumped over the Russian airwaves about the US using biolabs in Ukraine to kill Russians
Russian propagandist gives his opinion of progress
TSMC's largest customer is Apple, the world's most valuable company. If China invades Taiwan there will essentially be no more Apple products for years, which is how long it would take Samsung to build more fabs. The processors for Xbox series and Sony PS5 consoles are made by TSMC.
It is probably not possible to over exagerate the seriousness of the negative implications for the west of China invading Taiwan.
Apparently Ukraine is a major source of gases used in the manufacture of processors and world chip manufacture is likely to suffer.
And the ruins in Kharkiv will be because "terrorist Nazi brigades" were occupying civilian houses, leaving the Russian defensive forces no option but to fight back.
I picked a hell of a week to quit smoking.
Sorry you take it that way. Sincerely, all my arguments are arguments for and from humility and against absolutism. As I see it, absolutism breeds bigotry and prejudice. Moral high horses create and perpetuate conflict. Russia's invasion is a prime example of where being on a moral high horse and full of attendent hubris and hate can lead.
We (Ireland) need to avoid getting up on a high horse ourselves as we respond to Russia's actions. So we don't need to demonize all Russians or become so bigoted and dehumanized and animalistic that we celebrate Russian deaths or so childish that we rename the road the embassy is on. Putin is temporary but Russia will be around a while yet (probably), just as Orange Man Bad was temporary but the USA will be around a while yet (more than likely, and I would add, hopefully).
@MeepMeep2021 A Bobby Sands Burger Bar is like a joke....
I hear he was buried in England. In Nuneaton.
Eh, Putin is the 'FSB/KGB'.
Ah they're probably busy ...
Meanwhile this is what the Russian Embassy in the UK is actively pushing on Twitter. Time twitter brought down the hammer on that type of shite Imho
Chelsea fans wont be happy today, any chance they could protest in Moscow and bring the government there down?
Russia 1 TV is showing videos of Kharkiv in ruins, saying "this is what the west media hysteria is saying is happening in Kiev", then they show the live Youtube stream of Kiev centre, but glossing over the fact the Kharkiv is actually in ruins ...
This is the type of gaslighting the state are pumping out
haven't seen @BurgerFace @MFPM @BluePlanet in a while...love to hear their take
The FSB/KGB are almost certainly looking at ways to deal with madman Putin. Russia is going backwards at a rate of knots that would leave anyone dizzy. Putin is a classic example of a person who has spent their life in a supervised/organised environment. Putin is so cut off from the world I doubt he has any information on things beyond what his handlers give him. Eventually, those types lose all sense of reality and go loco.
Well thanks for the USELESS input but rerp - didn't say it was. Its has the same name as the guy who wrote 1984 and in reality suits better than any alternative I've seen put forward. Unless you don't like that?
Sanctions against Roman Abramovich, more like Tories smoke and mirrors.
This decades comical Ali.
Comical Sergei.
A great tool in this war is social media jokes. The rest of the world needs to laugh at Russia, humiliate everything they supposedly stand for.
How do I see it working out? I would see a Russian warship going into the area of the Black Sea where the flight path between Europe and Dubai/Abu Dhabi is, launching a Buk and shooting down an Airbus A380. Then the warship would sail away and despite it being categorically certain it was Russia that did it, Russia would laugh and claim it was the Ukrainians or the Americans that did it, it would claim both of them did it. And that's it.
Gave me goosebumps. No way will Russia win this war up against that.
Two words - Domestic Consumption
Can you actually read or just pontificate from self declared moral high horse?
Can you translate/simplify your post please….?
The KGB assessment that Putin is a person who does drastic things with no sense of risk proven to be spot on all these years later.
Was the risk worth the reward in this case definitely not.
Wibbs can talk for himself.. (AT LENGTH :D ) but first the military conditions for talks have to be created. This means continuing support for Ukraine from other countries. BUT, Second, all conflicts end with meetings and diplomacy. (Surrender optional.)
And TBH, I am glad there are people like Wibbs around in Ireland. They are more the upholders of Irish traditions of civility and neutrality and diplomacy (towards others NOT towards each other obviously :D ) than nasty old men that want to see the world burn.
I just cant work out where their heads are at. They know that the world knows that it’s all lies. They know that it makes them look like complete idiots. What do they gain from spewing sh1te?
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