Ukrainian War Developments

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AssassinsMace

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I'm watching the news on how the US is romanticizing themselves on what they're doing against Russia and romanticizing the Ukrainian fighters. Yeah that's because the West failed to live up to their promises when Ukraine gave up their nukes vowing to protect the country. Yeah Ukrainian fighters keep fighting because the West isn't sending in troops to protect Ukraine. Remember how the US encouraged Syrian rebels to keep fighting and that resulted in the creation of ISIS because the West didn't live up to their promises? If Putin is successful, it only seals the West's decline. And of course they'll find a way to blame it on China for not getting involved in the Western led messes of the world. Why don't they think about how Putin might have been encouraged more because the West was targeting China. What China has done again...? The West is talking about cutting off SWIFT from the Russians... Remember they wanted to cut-off China from SWIFT just for being a competitor to the US and the West in economics and technology. Their actions against China has only made the future of the US and the West worse. And they only touched the surface. The stuff they threaten to do more will really make the West hurt hence why they haven't touched it.
 
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Story of what happened at Antonov Airport. VDV landed, exchanged fire with the defenders and drove them away. Runway was slightly damaged in the process, VDV proceeded to begin repairs and setting up a parameter.

Ukrainians organised counter attack with National Guard but the counterattack did not go well initially. Ukrainians then started shelling the airfield to suppress and support their counterattack, runway was heavily damaged in the process and IL-76 from Russia carrying heavier equipment for VDV had to rediected to land in Belarus. Those VDV elements then joined up with the ground forces in Belarus and drove across the border towards Antonov Airport. That's why we saw that one video today where among the armour colume from the north we saw VDV specific vehicles like BMD.

Meanwhile VDV at the airport continued to battle the National Guard throughout with the airfield exchanging hands multiple times, hence why from time to time Ukraine would claim they control the airport and have driven the VDV into the woods. This attracted so much attention of all the forces around Kiev that no one noticed the armour column approaching from the north until they were nearly upon them. The armour and heavier elements of VDV were then able to join up with VDV at the airport and hold it for good which was what allowed that 200 helicopter airlift to the airport today.

If true this one will be a story for the ages and studied as textbook case for decades to come.
 
j17wang

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High-end semiconductor is the chokepoint though... US can source pencils from anywhere, heck they can even conscript Canada and Mexico to be their cheap labor slaves... but China creating a complete high end semiconductor supply chain (including the tools and the tooling for the tools and the software design etc etc) is 10x to 100x as hard as say the US find an alternative source for rare earths or coercing an ally/vassal for raw materials or just straight out pirating shipments of medicine/PPE etc and putting those 11 carriers to good use on the high seas....

My point is semiconductor is the hard stuff, everything else that China can take away from US is much easier for US to replace or even go without than say China suddenly losing access to chips and chip making machines/materials... Yes China is catching up fast, but currently US has the advantage of having their entire tech stack, platforms and standards integrated into the global world economy and they have proven they are not shy to abuse their position to make sure China never overtakes or even so much as become peer competitor...

Chips are at the heart of the modern world and economy. Its not just about smartphones and gpus and computers, no chips no car, no airplane, no train, no nothing... its completely and categorically different than sourcing raw materials, we aren't talking about a different color of paint or a new country to get steel from etc... even raw earth is just a commodity. But high end IC is different. Its the one thing that is hardest to make/replace and even if China had a chip clone it would take as much effort for the global supply chain to have to redesign to accommodate Chinese chips than it would be for US to bully everyone to isolate China from the market/game/supplychain etc in a grand experiment of build back better / great reset

Plus I don't recall computer companies ever stopping shipment to Russia back in 2008/2014... its why I think this move is US hinting to China about the things to come if it doesn't capitulate and backstab Russia etc
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You didn't read what I said. Of course the US can build pencils, and masks, but they can't build them overnight. Is the US going to ration disposable masks until the machines that build the machines that build the machines starting making the masks? The US isn't going to send its 11 carriers pirating on the high seas, since there will be no trade anywhere if things get kinetic.

You are correct chips are at the heart of the modern word. However 7nm and lower is used on smart phones, not 5G, not satellites, not tanks, not missiles. Plus, if the US wants to cut china off, China will just make all US patents null and void, and the US can also forget about collecting stupid license fees for EDA and whatever part of the chip stacks it contains.

So yes, sure, the US can decide to try a global blockade of China's semi conductor stack. I am sure that is all the redditors wet dreams. If its so potent, why hasn't the US done it yet?
 
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