Honestly, of all the made up outrages in recent memory this one seems to be the most made up by far
One could have cherrypicked enough "evidence" to make an equally sound "argument" for an octopus being a philosemitic meme. Here for example an octopus represents the antisemitic conspiracy to be battled with (referring to the Dreyfus affair)
PS If you are genuinely interested in this political metaphor, I very much recommend scrolling through this short article. One can rarely encounter an academician of such erudition, imagination and literary skill as Sophus Reinert
Leviathan and Kraken: States, Corporations, and Political Economy
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Передайте господину Ермаку, что ружья кирпичом не чистят. Ни отследить, ни перекрыть поставки consumer electronics невозможно. Потрошить ракеты в поисках потребительских чипов хорошо для поднятия моральной паники, но с т.з. санкционной политики - это все имитация деятельности
Российский ВПК массово использует *потребительскую* электронику в качестве компонентов вооружения. Так вот особенность потребительской электроники в том, что ее МНОГО. На порядки и порядки больше, чем чисто военной. Она не может являться узким местом
Этот канал не перекрыть
Ключевая особенность узкого места в том, что оно - узкое. А потому эффективная санкционная политика должна таргетировать НЕБОЛЬШИЕ рынки. Такие, например, как рынки промышленного оборудования:
Механообработка (это маст)
Гальваника
Термообработка
и т.д.
On a sunny spring day of 2022 someone transferred me 10 Ethereums. That was a lot of money. With this money I could do something big
So, I decided to do something interesting 🧵
Not long before that, I wandered into an article «Germany and Czechia help Russia to build ballistic missiles Sarmat and Sineva with the nuclear warheads» (2017). A case study on the Krasmash missile producing plant, it posed some questions that analysts seldom ask:
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What was the article about?
The Krasnoyarsk Machine Building Plant (Krasmash) is one of two key intercontinental ballistic missile manufacturers in Russia. Krasmash produces and maintains the liquid-propellant missiles such as the ICBM Sarmat and SLBM Bulava
The first order effect is that it will encourage the wars of conquest, and encourage globally. There are perhaps few nations in this world that do not believe that a piece of their neighbor’s land belongs to them by right
There will be way more attempts for territorial conquest
The second order effect is that states will have to adapt to the now unsafe world. Even if their neighbors do not seem to plan a war of conquest right now, they may be considering it in the future. One must prepare for this scenario
This applies to the seemingly mundane stuff. For example, even though Russian tanks are based on the Soviet blueprints, Russian tank barrels are of lower quality & durability than Soviet ones. Design may be the same, but details of the original production processes are lost
The nearly absolute reliance of the Russian war machine on the imported metal-cutting machines should be considered in the light of the qualified manual labour pool having shrunk and degraded