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Lol! Modi is splashing big on Rafael's and Scorpenes, but that still didn't make him any special to Macron.
It's true.
The funniest scene is probably this though, Modi thought he was getting a handshake
Geo-strategy 101. Two-timing between the West and Russia doesn't make you more popular.
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Why are they complaining? Indians want a world where white supremacy reigns over all( they should get not the program that they are sepoys and slaves under this framework; what the hell, did they think they were white? The way Indian twitter white supremacists try to claim they’re “aryan”?!
It's true.
The funniest scene is probably this though, Modi thought he was getting a handshake
1. In most industries I agree, Europe has experienced industrial decline over the last few decades but in certain areas it's defense industrial technology level remains competitive globally. The issue seems to be producing weapon systems economically and in sufficient numbers. Europe is still capable of a certain level of war time production. Even smaller European nations have the ability to produce relatively large numbers of small arms. The degree which they can ramp up is limited by the number of skilled workers and physical capital in manufacturing. It's capabilities will continue to decline as their related civilian sector lags behind. Weapon systems will become increasingly expensive as it's unable to share CAPEX with civilian industry. Europe has largely failed to keep up with US and China when it comes to new technologies but remains strong in traditional weapon systems. It may lag China and US but not compared with vast majority of the world.
2. That's true. In the context of balance of power in the Western Pacific, military might is largely naval. . This is not directly military but the much of the capital investment and skillsets are shared. US navy can potentially for repair and construction of new hulls which they have considered. This would be useful for build up and sustainment before a kinetic war (if it even gets to this point) but as you stated, in a hot war these facilities would be targeted and destroyed. I don't think China would strike first. Nonetheless, the US has access to these nations' defense production base to offset it's own shortcomings, China does not.
In a US Navy briefing, it's mentioned . In a hypothetical conflict in the Western Pacific where both sides suffer heavy losses, it is likely that China is able to reconstitute an even more modern navy within a few years while the US will be crippled for decades with South Korean and Japanese shipyards out of commission for naval defense production. This will cement the loss of hegemony within the region. It's not in the US's favor to fight a conventional war in the Western Pacific with China. Its inability to produce sufficient numbers of large surface combatants is likely why it's turning more to smaller dispersed unmanned systems but China will likely gain a relative advantage in this area as well.
3. You live in Europe so likely know better than me in assessing the risk of successfully creating coalition in Europe against China in a wartime scenario. You assess it as a low probability event but it's a non-zero probably. It's not a factor I'm personally comfortable discounting.
It's not needed that the US creates an anti-China defense coalition to benefit. As long as their defense industry is open to business to the US, it stands to benefit through trading USD for weapons or other military systems. Often times China doesn't have access to this defense industrial base, even during peacetime, less so during war time. It's not that China needs this, but it's still a source of power for the US.
I agree that a more accurate approach may be to use a blend but often laymen wants to see something easier to understand and compare like 'X' vs. 'Y' number without complicated reasonings behind them. A practical problem with using a basket approach is having to constantly debate and change the weights of each component. Even with CPI the weights and components are constantly updated. Maybe we should just compare the actual productive capacity in comparable situations.
AssassinsMace
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Like clockwork whatever is the big conversation in this case artificial intelligence, India has to insert themselves like they were a part of the race all along. They're in good company because now I'll add Europe into that mix. A lot of talk but where is theirs? All they do is act like a gatekeeper. The crossbow came from China but the Vatican prevented it from spreading around their sphere because they knew it could immediately change the power game from how they wanted it. That's what it comes down to where it's all about who has the power and they certainly don't want China to have it hence why the fake civility of how dangerous it is for any one country to monopolize it. Yeah but they were happy believing the propaganda that China way far behind in AI... And then DeepSeek arrives blowing up everything they believed of what was. What more says anything they believe could be, not just partially wrong, but completely wrong.
The Paris AI conference is going on now. The problem with Europeans is they’re all elitists. Seems a lot of denial coming out of there thinking DeepSeek is flash-in-the-pan. Yeah the only time Europe was in the race is when the talk on artificial intelligence started gaining traction. Now they’re along with India just inserting themselves in with conversation and showing nothing for it. DeepSeek just ruined the West’s planned monopoly over AI. They thought they were going hold onto it and leverage it to their advantage. China just gave it away for free something they were plotting to bilk the world for trillions just to use it. You think the rest of the non-Western world would rather pay them than to get for free? The only dummies that will do that are the countries jumping onto a sinking ship just so they can think they went down with the West because in their minds that makes them Western.
DeepSeek isn’t a Sputnik moment. That would suggest the US will be able to have a counter and win. How are they going to win when the Genie has been let out of the bottle? How are they going to fool people into giving them the billions… trillions from it when it’s now available for free? But as usual to save face they think China can't keep up and make it better. Notice they don't even dare discuss after all these other breakthroughs by China, they still want to believe China can't progress in advanced semiconductors. They have to have something to hope for.
The Paris AI conference is going on now. The problem with Europeans is they’re all elitists. Seems a lot of denial coming out of there thinking DeepSeek is flash-in-the-pan. Yeah the only time Europe was in the race is when the talk on artificial intelligence started gaining traction. Now they’re along with India just inserting themselves in with conversation and showing nothing for it. DeepSeek just ruined the West’s planned monopoly over AI. They thought they were going hold onto it and leverage it to their advantage. China just gave it away for free something they were plotting to bilk the world for trillions just to use it. You think the rest of the non-Western world would rather pay them than to get for free? The only dummies that will do that are the countries jumping onto a sinking ship just so they can think they went down with the West because in their minds that makes them Western.
DeepSeek isn’t a Sputnik moment. That would suggest the US will be able to have a counter and win. How are they going to win when the Genie has been let out of the bottle? How are they going to fool people into giving them the billions… trillions from it when it’s now available for free? But as usual to save face they think China can't keep up and make it better. Notice they don't even dare discuss after all these other breakthroughs by China, they still want to believe China can't progress in advanced semiconductors. They have to have something to hope for.
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I did not have any intension of or support to US hegemony. But by living in the US for decades by my own legs, I have benefited enormously from Pax Americana in general and 3 tech bubbles in particular. The American public have been suffering, particularly the bottom 50% of population, primarily due to the "DEI" of its political culture in general and greed of boomers in particular.
Just from a narrow lens of "national interests" on judging USAID, I don't think it has played any significant role in deterioration of political governance at the federal level as well as at the state level. For example, the dire state of Gen Zs (including my own kids) in economic life has nothing to do with things like USAID.
I came to the US for a constitutional democracy with a protestant Christian culture. Today's US is a significantly different country than when I arrived. For many things I could point finger at, stuff like USAID do not even register in top 10.
Welcome to the era of the Elon Musk...Ahem...Trump 2.0 America.
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supercat
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I think those "Chinese dissidents" are funded by the State Department, while "journalists" like the one below are paid by USAID.
So this is what happens when USAID is cut, the China dissidents just say whatever they want now
Isn't sedition a crime in the UK?
In simplistic terms, PPP GDP tells you how many products a country can actually manufacture and how affordable these products are to its people, while nominal GDP tells you how many stuff you can buy from the international markets.
Such narrow-mindedness doesn't bode well for America's AI future.