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Feb 3, 2023Liked by Simplicius The Thinker

A lot of hard work and it shows .Well done

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Feb 3, 2023Liked by Simplicius The Thinker

Great article.

I have barely started reading and I already see information here that is new to me.

You are the first person I have bothered subscribing to on SubStack.

I am glad I took a look.

Many thanks.

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Feb 3, 2023Liked by Simplicius The Thinker

The West's deeper problem is with history it's not they fail to learn its lessons, but they learnt the wrong ones and continue repeating it, militarily and economically. Their perception based on entitlement, global command and control will implode

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Feb 3, 2023Liked by Simplicius The Thinker

Hi,

nice write-up. There is one thing you missed though, and that's Russia's actual domestic chip capability. It's way beyond 65nm. They were already making 30nm in 2011 (prototype stage). Martyanov had a post about it a little while back:

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/and-now-something-off-left-field.html

What's important to note is a huge difference between Russia and the west in WHO is doing the cutting edge research and production of these chips. In the west it is commercial enterprises who are responsible for it, and for their own commercial benefit, widely proclaim their accomplishments. In Russia though, it is being done by organisations who (directly or indirectly) report to the government and who keep their (high end) capabilities a secret. Understandable, as the primary beneficiary are defence related projects. So we don't actually know what Russia can produce on its own when it comes to chips, but given all those extremely high-tech military developments come out of Russia, I doubt they are lagging far behind, if at all.

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Did you write for the saker in early SMO reports since most vids were refer to your bitcut channel?

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The only problem is China is currently waging a chip war with the west. Yes, it supplies to russia but for how long? I wouldn't be surprised if china begins to dial back how much they give considering their own needs and dwindling supplies. The same goes for turkey.

Russiaa only hope is to accelerate it'd own homegrown manufacturing and research program to make smaller chips and even if they can they still need certain technologies to be able to even etch such small transistors on a circuit board. It's a tough road ahead

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I have recently noted a trend to call Western elites to be sociopaths, or psychopaths...etc. I really think that this ‘psychologising’ of “a select technocratic cabal”, which is a much better descriptor, covers over the neoliberal take over of the Western world. This is not a comment on the article, of course. This is a general comment on psychologising everything, reducing individuals to their psychological traits, while missing the most egregious outcome of neoliberal financialisation of everything human, leading to a destruction of society. Thank you for your analysis of Russian economy. Suddenly, it seems to me, there is a hope to change what neoliberalism unleashed on

Western societies. But could we regain our humanist tradition?

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