The only thing about that that’s changed from 1945 to 2023 is the criteria for being a “great power”. Then, it meant being a winner of WW2. Now, it means having a large nuclear arsenal.

No, the criteria didn’t change, it’s still the original set of countries with the permanent seat and veto power. It’s also unlikely to change.

And Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, soon Iran …

He would love to, but he just can’t, at the moment.

Those vetoes existed before most of these countries had nukes.

It will make a difference if you don’t get enough of it. But having enough of it will just feel normal.

I’m not justifying anything. I was just reacting to this:

Just imagine China or Russia doing the same to some random European country.

Which was a weird sentence - we don’t have to imagine anything, Russia is already doing much worse.

Sure, but the comment I was replying to made a direct comparison with Russia.

Well Russia is currently bombing a European country which I personally consider much worse than an embargo.

Far right gonna naziing and far left gonna tanking. Does not say much about political stability…

That must be why SMIC just showed 7nm capability years ahead of when people expected it.

Nah, it was expected all the way since SMIC bought 7nm lithography machines from ASML. It will be more interesting to watch when they start building their own lithography machines since their current stock will not scale (and will eventually break down without spare parts).

That must be why Russia is projecting GDP growth this year and Russia’s manufacturing

Yeah, according to Rosstat :-)

Who do you think you’re convincing with this?

I’m not trying to convince anybody, I’m fine with the current sanction course. But it’s kinda funny to watch the Russian / tankie desperate “sanctions don’t work, so … you know there’s no sense in continuing them, so … you should lift them.”

Could be that Russia’s response to this information might cause themselves more harm than it will affect future defectors

Yeah, that occurred to me as well. Provoke an atmosphere of suspicion, don’t trust each other, even perhaps encourage cases of friendly fire.

It’s possible that the amount of defectors isn’t actually close to being important and the few real cases are more useful as psyops.

Including the ones who save people’s lives?

They are working, but they can still be improved, hence this.

Sure. Making such public statements is just sending signals …

You (intentionally?) leave out the important detail that the main orchestrator of the attack bin Laden / al-Qaeda were based in Afghanistan and Taliban refused to extradite him/them.

Putting him on TV is a bad fucking idea. That must discourage a lot of Russian soldiers thinking about doing the same.

So far they didn’t complain. My manager is all praise too ;-) It’s kinda weird that I’m supposed to be the asshole for not being hateful of a technology. But you the hater are the nice guy?

The things is, I don’t diss on technologies without arguments. I’ve grown to recognize that they are tools, not a subject of passion, at least in a professional context.

Sure, but part of the claim was “without any compilation”. But bun/deno do compile TS into JS.

Why would they sell in Germany? With sanctions they can probably fetch better price in Russia.

The context is Hitler, so why can’t you infer that German is spoken of as an ethnicity?