No. However if the Communist Party comes in power in Russia, I don't think the CPC will be displeased.
Its all up to the Russian Elites and the Russian people to decide on what to do after Putin
Ukrainian War Developments
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Its all up to the Russian Elites and the Russian people to decide on what to do after Putin
just Ukraine alone is $170b import/Export market. if Sofware developers flee to west it will increase cost of making software for western EU firms. it will impact so many things even in Kazakhstan.
it will be a different world. only nation that has resilience and character will sustain it.
Western financial hegemony. Keep your central bank reserves in dollars, yen or euro's at your own risk. This includes the usage of financial infrastructure as swift by the world which is also controlled by the G7 alliance.
Agreed. Several prominent Chinese diplomats have put forward positions sympathetic to Russia on social media.
Are Anglos forgetting the relentless anti-propaganda China has been having to put up with for the last 2 years? It was a month ago they were talking about the "genocide olympic games". If Russia falls, China is next. Why on earth would the CPC throw you a bone?
Exactly. In the years since the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. Russian media have been constantly boasting about measures to deal with the famous TB-2 Bayraktars. They have said that they have: Pantsirs, Anti-drone radars, Tunguskas, and AAM-armed Orion drones. They have demonstrated these things in their testing range. Well, where are they now?
How did Russia destroyed those Ukrainian air bases? I think they did a terrible job. Instead of just popping some buildings. They should have been scattering cluster munitions onto the runways. That's what NATO would have done. They should have put those airbases out of commission for weeks, not just 3 days.
When Russia intervened in Syria, they flooded the social media and news channels with countless UAV videos showing the targeting and destruction of enemy forces. Now, in the most important war that Russia is fighting in 20 years, we have seen nothing of such sort. Everything we see from the Russian side are either announcements, or videos taken on the ground by journalists or spectators. Its like as if Russia is trying to lose the information war. This better be worth the price the Russians are paying with blood for each emboldened Ukrainian killing more Russians.
To be fair, the Russians have achieve near air superiority, albeit a porous one. Ukrainian helicopters and jets have largely been silenced. We don't hear about them anymore. But the Bayraktars are still out there, scouting and killing Russian troops. Why haven't the Russians seriously dealt with them? They have claimed to have the solutions. Its quite baffling.
I have observed countries who have used Russian military equipment and doctrine in conflicts. All of them have major issues with regards to air combat. Syria vs Israel, Armenia vs Azerbaijan, and India vs Pakistan. Fortunately China have been observant and have been adopting NATO war fighting concepts. For example, a greater emphasis on BVR combat than WVR combat for newer PLAAF aircrafts.
Ukraine probably might have a few dozen Bayraktars at the start of this war. With a number of them being destroyed on the ground and in the air, it is likely that their stocks would be dwindling soon. Russia destroying fuel and ammunition depots should accelerate their exit from this war. Its only a matter of time before the Bayraktars too would be silenced.
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I think that in the end it's simply cost vs benefit for China. They would never support regime change in small nations as the benefit is not there. If a BLM revolution is taking over US China would definitely support it.
Where in the TASS article did it say that "Putin himself is disappointed"?
I used google translation, here is the part that mentioned Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 announced a special military operation in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the Republics of Donbass for help. He stressed that Moscow's plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories, the goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. As stated in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian military does not strike at cities, but disables only military infrastructure, so nothing threatens the civilian population.
The TASS article also said as part of the head line:
The official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that "the losses of the Russian Armed Forces are many times less than the number of nationalists killed."
How could that be disappointing?
BTW, are you from CNN? That you are used to expect people don't cross check what you say?
I am guessing the Russian military is not releasing videos. Seeing they want to recruit and retain most of the Ukrainian army and are trying to sell themselves as slavic brothers, showing videos of the Russians killing Ukrainians is not conducive to their goals. I think they have a shitload of heavy artillery as a backup plan. If their gradual approach does not work in certain areas they will resort to pummeling.
Ukraine confiscated 3.5 billion Chinese investment in Motor Sich due to the pressure of the US. Ukraine has no plan to payback that money. Did Ukrainians care about Chinese feeling in this issue? Ukraine should thank god that China isn't Russia or the US or you would have seemed either dead bodies or extra-judicial arrests of Ukrainians.
As for Ukrainian women, it has been for years that many group of businessmen tried to con mainland Chinese to come to Ukraine and marry Ukrainian women. This isn't just China but the US and many other Western countries also have a network of such mail bride. Some of them are real but many more are just con artist looking for money. Not sure what the big deal about such things.
Beside, there are many young Ukrainians' models and women that work in China to support their family in Ukraine. You should blame how Ukrainian government failed its people and forced these young women to go all the way to China to take up such jobs.
Whether or not they went ASIC I think would be contingent on them being able to manufacture it domestically. If not, then they risk their design being intercepted by espionage. FPGAs are programmable, so they can have tight control on the information.
As a side note, it's much easier to fix/update a FPGA design against a new threat. With ASIC you would need to manufacture a new chip and rip out the old one. The cycle time will invariably be longer and more expensive.
Xilinx manufactures specialized FPGAs for digital beamforming and digital radar. I don't know if these are their latest designs:
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