They've ganged up on China since 2018. They even tried to use Covid to demonize and alienate China. Trump had just screwed America's allies in 2025. And Scotty boy Bessett wants to use the same ganging-up trick on China again?
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China is one hell of a successful story of molding several ethnic groups into one identity.
Not really "molding," or at least not in the sense that one might use the word to describe Indian attempts to build a cohesive identity.
Most of the "molding" happened ~3000 years ago during the expansion of the Zhou dynasty's feudal system, which brought a large region under the same cultural umbrella. Confucius came along ~500 years later and introduced the basis of a 'formal' system based on that cultural umbrella, which would be built on and go on to become official state philosophy another ~500 years later, which is around the time it really became a formal system that would carry on officially for ~2000 years until quite recently. Notably, it was formalized as the method of selection of government officials about ~500 years in during the Sui dynasty and solidified by the succeeding Tang. Confucianism is no longer official government policy or doctrine in any way, but the impact on Chinese culture is quite profound, considering that it's had two thousand years to marinate.
So it's not really "molding several ethnic groups into one identity," because by any real measurement those "several ethnic groups" are really a single group, have spoken the same language (mutually intelligible since at least the Zhou dynasty), written the same language (mutually legible since at least the Zhou, exactly the same since standardization by Qin ~2200 years ago) and shared the same cultural values (since at least early Zhou ~3000 years ago, greatly strengthened during Han ~200 years ago and by succeeding dynasties).
Of course, there have been small tribes throughout history in the past ~3000 years that assimilate, but that's not "molding."
ASML is lying by omission as usual. If it declines it will only be until the fab shells of the next major Chinese fab expansion cycle come up. This could begin as early as late 2026.
YMTC, CXMT are already amassing the funding for Phase III expansion on their main sites and work seems to have already started in some cases. Same deal for Hua Hong Wuxi Phase III. And it is only a matter of time until SMIC expands its Beijing and Shanghai gigafab sites.
ASML came out of Philips. A former major consumer electronics and lighting firm founded in the Netherlands. NXP and Nexperia also came out of Philips.
It is curious you talk about TSMC because they started out as a licensee of Philips chip technology. It is how they got a relationship with ASML in the first place. Most leading edge semiconductor companies back then in Asia and the US used Japanese equipment.
As for why EUV machines ended up in the Netherlands, it is in part because the US government wanted to sink the Japanese lithography sector. They had no lithography companies of note anymore, lost them all to Japanese competition, so ASML was the next best choice for them.
Note that ASML used to use German excimer laser light sources from Lambda Physik at one point. Then that German company was bought by a US company called Coherent and is now irrelevant in the sector. They now produce mostly medical lasers. I think think they were nerfed by the US on purpose.
ASML's EUV machine was a global effort though. Russians developed the coatings for the mirrors for Zeiss, they were also paid to design the mirror system, and the tin droplet chamber from Cymer was also designed by Russian scientists who now live in the US.
Rute is an idiot. While Russia officially retired nearly all their Cold War era Su-27 and MiG-29 aircraft and put them in mothballs, NATO keeps this shit on the books, but much of it is unusable without major refurbishment. Fourty old airframes with thirty year old upgrades.
Russia's active fighter aviation park is much younger on average than that of NATO.
The tip of the sword is not the MiG-31 but the Su-35. At this point they likely outnumber the MiG-31 in service. The Su-35 has way more endurance, lower RCS, and both aircraft have at this point similar sensor and weapons capabilities.
Sure the MiG-31 is still highly capable with the BM upgrade. But high use of them in combat is killing the lifetime of the Cold War era engines. The last engines were produced in like 1995. Aviadvigatel has been working on restarting D-30F6 engine production, they can already produce the engine core with whole new components I think.
Russia only has to fear one country in NATO and that is the US. The rest is trash.
To get air superiority in the first place NATO would have to concentrate aircraft in Europe. Russia could just bomb the airfields. Especially now they have Iskander-1000 and Oreshnik in production.
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Lmao, theres a reason why indians right now absolutely worships the CIA asset Sarah Paine because she knows how to manipulate indians by stroking their egos and saying extremely fairy tale bullshit. Delusion is not a choice but a way of life.
the legendary japanese figure - Mr tuokuzi fangpi
did this bunch of imperialist stole tons of our land, and now after making an arctic deal with us and claimed to be allies, still uses a map that shows South Tibet as part of endia (while putting aksai chin as disputed status)? bruh the fking audacity just pisses me off seriously
We all know you want to drive a wedge between China and Russia, but have you seen that in the map the Crimea isn't drawn as russian territory?
What would happen if they do or do something similar like the Dutch? Wouldn’t this be like WW3 level collapse of the global economy?
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I'd wager he is part of the deep state. This is how they operate - build rapport with the people using illusions, and once everyone is convinced, go back to usual business. He is like every other previous president - wins elections with promises and once in office, breaks all those promises. Case in point: Epstein files, 9/11 files, JFK files - all the stuff he said he would reveal which actually does expose the deep state - he has silently scrapped all those promises.We could have said the exact same thing about the last 10 presidents of the United States. No reason to pick on Orange Man Superhero.
That is why he is there where he is, they were all like him.
The previous guy, the senile one, assured everybody that all was still alright in Afghanistan, and things were under control. When he said that, we knew that was the end. Three weeks later, after all government resistance dissolved, the United States left.
The only difference with Trump, is he does not support the Deep State. That has spawned some theories about his behaviour in Trump 2.0 where he is not too against the Deep State. Maybe they got to him. LOL.
And is there a deep state deeper than the Israeli lobby? All of US government top-to-bottom are Israel's cucks.