Saturday, November 16, 2024

Militarizing West 2025

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> Rearming >>

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Xitonomics 2025

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24-11-14 [Xitonomic Implosion - Xi's Tofu-Dreg Xina Xitting Wall] - gtbt > . skip > .
24-12-18 [Chip & Resource War] - Update > .

Comment (edited)
Officially the GDP has doubled since 2014. From what I and my friends see: 
  • - Productivity growth in MOST sectors is pretty low since 2014. 
  • - Innovation in the service sector is limited to low productivity services like delivery services (yes they are backed by high productivity digital services but that a small GDP contribution). 
  • - Xi Jinping cracked down or discauraged many innovative sectors because they didn'T fit his vision. 
  • - Money was funneled into whatever he liked. A LOT of infra and housing - but also SELECT high tech sectors, which he pampered with ridiculous amounts of money. 
  • - A lot of money went into foreign investment, which was mostly unprofitable. But this has been scaled down a lot already. 
  • - In the "focus industries" (but also in general) the internal competition is so bad that nobody makes a profit, everybody is just betting to come out on top in the end. 
  • - For workers, even the highly qualified ones, this competition is pure hell. Quality of life is miserable. not in material terms, but psychologically, school pressure, work pressure, "get married and make children" pressure ... 
I see many many similarities to Japan in the 80s. Just on steroids. And we all know how this ended. BTW, I also speak Japanese and know the country well. Don't believe the conspiracies. The Japanese economy was a bubble in the 80s and everybody knew it.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Attrition, Armaments, Mobilization 2024

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24-8-9 Artillery: Mortars vs Howitzers - gtbt > .
24-8-5 List of Russia's Armored Fighting Vehicles in Storage - CoCa > .
24-8-1 [Ruscia Running Out of Tanks, Planes, People] - Icarus > .
24-7-28 Ukrainian Equipment Losses and Resupply (2024) - Perun > .24-2-14 Anders Nielsen on Ukraine's Strategy to Defeat Ruscia | Decoding Geopol > .
air shield 
24-1-19 Patriots & Franken-SAMs vs R A-50 & I Shaheds. What Ukraine needs - U24 > .
24-4-19 Swedish factory working 24/7 to make shells for Ukraine - Kyiv Independent > .24-4-14 US Arms Production - Strategy to Restore Arsenal of Democracy? - Perun > .24-11-19 Ukraine's First ATACMS Missile Strike Against Russia - AiTelly > . dubious
Camouflage, Decoys 
> Innovation, R&D >>
24-5-12 Russia's Turtle Tanks Are Evolving - Armourer's Bench > .
24-9-8 Ruscian War Economy 2024: sanctions, inflation, mounting risks - Perun > .  > NATO Membership >> N Militaries >>> N Politics >> NATO~R >>
24-2-16 United States | No More NATO? - Prof J K-L > .
Orcine armaments / economy
24-2-22 Война 2024 | Ukraine's & P00's Plans for 2024 (subs) - Katz > .24-2-4 New Russian Weapons: Harpoon, Python, "Dandelion". Effectiveness - U24 > .
R-U troops 
24-7-18 Extra Pay and Tricks: Assessing [ruZZian] Wartime Recruiting - Preston > .24-3-11 Troop Losses - Ukraine, Ruscia - Kyiv Independent > .
Ukraine 
24-4-13 Ukraine has a mobilization problem | Kyiv Independent > .23-2-9 Who could be conscripted to fight in Ukraine? | BBC > .
U$ Aid     
24-1-29 Ukraine War Aid: US Funds, Political Support Games | WSJ > .24-4-22 How NATO & Russia are Preparing to Fight Total War - Real > .> > Weaponry > > > Missiles >>
X~T 

Axis ⇔ West 2024

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24-6-11 Iran & XIR Aligning Against Israel & West | Jonathan Spyer | TBN > .
24-5-21 Погиб президент Ирана | Raisi Dead | Impact? (subs) - Katz > .
24-5-19 [Fingers crossed] Iranian President & Foreign Minister  chopper crash - 4 > .
24-4-19 Age of Wars:[Karaganov's Bellicose Ode to Axis of Envious Resentment - gtbt > .
24-4-16 [XIR] Iran's use of [terrorist] proxies to [harm] USA and Israel - Caspian > .
24-3-28 5 reasons Iran is involved in so many global conflicts - BBC > .
24-3-6 Could the Mossad Have Stopped Iran? | Unpacked > .
24-3-5 Alliance Between Venezuela and Iran - IDF > .
24-2-20 Roots of Iran’s Anger Against America - Context Matters > .
24-2-8 The Hezbollah-Iran Alliance - IDF > .
24-2-4 Iran would lose a war with the United States | Michael Clarke - Times > .
24-1-30 US and Iran: Deciding What to Bomb || Peter Zeihan > .
24-1-26 Saudi Arabia's Catastrophic "Iran" Problem - Hindsight > .
24-1-13 Iran, Xina, NK Supplying Ruscia's War Machine - drones+ | gtbt >
Chaos - Axis of Chaos 
24-12-17 The Boiling Moat | Deterrence Policy | Matt Pottinger - Hoover > .
24-3-24 Altai, Power of Siberia: Xina Outplayed Ruscia in Gas Negotiations - Res > .
> Europe >>   Economic & Climate Migrants 
24-1-27 If Russia Attacks, is Europe Ready? Fear of War - U24 > .
> Migrant Crises >>  >> Problematic Migration >>>
> NATO > > > Europe vs XIR >>
24-2-2 How P00ti Controls Every Aspect Of Ruscia | Decoded | Insider > .
24-1-28 Pillars of Russia. On What Does Russian Success or Failure Rest? - gtbt > .
Ruscia 
24-8-20 Can America and China [post-Xi] be Friends Again? - gtbt > .
Syria 
USA ⇔ > XIR >>
West vs X~T 
24-2-6 Matt Pottinger Sounds The Alarm On Asia | Hoover > .
West ⇔ > XIR >>
>> Xina >>>  > Xitting the Wall - Xina's Economic Decline >>
24-3-27 Peter Hartcher - Xi tanking Xina's economy to prepare for war - SMH > .
24-8-6 Anne Applebaum: XIR & Autocracy “Infecting US Politics” | A&Co > .

Pew Xina ? . ? Pew Iran ? .  ? Pew Ruscia ? . 
Pew Americans Remain Critical of China: About 80% of Americans report an unfavorable view of Xina and Xi. (24-5-1)
Pew In East Asia, many people see China’s power and influence as a major threat: In most places surveyed, more people name China’s influence as a major threat than any of the other geopolitical issues asked about. (23-12-5) 

24-10-25 New Survey: China’s Reputation Plummets To Worst on Record | Update > .

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