Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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The knowledge of tech will eventually lead to the above. Just look at China how much they have advanced in the last 25 years. They were behind Russia and now they are far more advanced.
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025
China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software
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Caporegime
Because a superpower is yet to git gud at something doesn't mean that somone else hasn't already done it (they have, at least twice) nor that it's unlikely (it is not, that's the bit where 'super' becomes important) but carry on, no harm no foul (apart from the harm part)The knowledge of tech will eventually lead to the above. Just look at China how much they have advanced in the last 25 years. They were behind Russia and now they are far more advanced.
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025
China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software
The United States Has Fallen Behind China on Artificial Intelligence
American officials can’t talk seriously about national security and securing the future if they’re going to continue treating civilian and military applications of AI as an afterthought.
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The west is losing to the East, we all know that, but we don't want to admit that. We need to admit we are losing before we can pull ahead of them.
The United States Has Fallen Behind China on Artificial Intelligence
American officials can’t talk seriously about national security and securing the future if they’re going to continue treating civilian and military applications of AI as an afterthought.
The west is losing to the East, we all know that, but we don't want to admit that. We need to admit we are first before we can pull ahead of them.
Losing in what?
Caporegime
This.
(when did Grim5's views on anything strart to relate to my own views. Oh dear.)
Still, what he said.
The government kind of addressed a small part of the problem with buying out forgemasters in Sheffield for the MoD
They advanced primarily due to espionage, they still can't even make decent jet engines for thier fighters, without all that stealing they would be nowhere stillThe knowledge of tech will eventually lead to the above. Just look at China how much they have advanced in the last 25 years. They were behind Russia and now they are far more advanced.
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025
China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software
Just like Russia, China is full of super killer duper weapons and like Russia they probably aren't as good as they make out.
Western tech is pretty well proven.
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I suppose it was one way to stop them supplying Iraq with the major component parts of a "super gun"
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They may not be, but remember they invented the 4 most popular items in the world.The United States Has Fallen Behind China on Artificial Intelligence
American officials can’t talk seriously about national security and securing the future if they’re going to continue treating civilian and military applications of AI as an afterthought.
The west is losing to the East, we all know that, but we don't want to admit that. We need to admit we are losing before we can pull ahead of them.
Remember they have higher average IQ than us, and remember Russian iq is low.
Not really, stealing current tech is pointless as new tech is always in development with counter measures against it being designed in.
*Russian Defence Ministry: Russian Forces Destroyed Five Ukrainian Army Command Posts in Donbas and Mykolaiv Region With High-Precision Weapons — IFAX
*Russian Defence Ministry: Russian Air Force Struck Ukrainian Weapons and Equipment Base at Tractor Factor in Kharkiv — TASS
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Russians trying to deprive the Ukrainians of tractors to protect their own materiel?
CCTV footage of British Army on exercise:It looks like the British army would be shouting bang bang after 8 days in a real war.
British Army 'ran out of ammo in eight days in online war simulation'
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges told MPs that the 'entire British Army's inventory' was exhausted and 'every bit of important ammunition was expended' before the 10-day exercise finished.www.dailymail.co.uk
Soldato
I see you ignored GD rule number 1 there and applied rational thought.
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Moment Russian hockey star is forcibly enlisted after signing NHL deal
A Russian ice hockey player poised for a move to the NHL has been detained on 'draft dodger' charges. Ivan Fedotov, 25, was hauled to an enlistment office and could be sent to fight in Ukraine
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Some here might have more experiencing than I dealing with Russians, though from my own varied experience and perspective which includes:
- One of my closest friends being born in St Petersburg (same place Putin was brought up), living in Severomorsk, near the Murmansk naval base where his Dad worked.
- Me, for several years having a Russian girlfriend whose mother owned a bar in Soviet times and apparently used to inform for the KGB
- Being lucky not be killed by a Russian policeman, though still unlucky enough for him to dislocate and break my elbow for no other reason than he felt like doing it.
Many years ago I had a conversation with my aforementioned Russian friend stating that a similar thing that happened in Georgia in 2008 might also happen in Ukraine. I was frankly surprised at the time it hadn't happened already and he presciently replied, "All in good time..." and here we are today.
Though from my own experience and perspective, Russians in this regards, are just the worst people ever and lack any kind of moral decency. They just do whatever they want and don't give a **** about anybody else. It's one of the reasons that corruption is normalised there. When you see it first hand coming from a western upbringing it does really make you sit up and pay attention.
There really was no need for Putin to go into Ukraine in the cavalier way that he did. Ukraine joining NATO was off the table as long as the problems in the east of Ukraine still existed.
The most at a push he 'needed' to do was officially support the separatists in the east, rather than pretend it had nothing to do with Russia. But to try and invade pretty much the whole of Ukraine like he has done is just... "Russian", I can't find another word for it!
So whatever you perceive the West being at fault for in this geopolitical game of chess, as far as I am concerned Russians deserve all the opprobrium they get and more.
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A large amount of what that poster is referring to as "Russophobia" is simply people commenting on current events and only appears as Russophobia when reframed or taken out of the original context as that poster is doing - not sure if that is due to their preconceptions meaning they can only see people's posts in a certain way or intentionally done.
The number of posts displaying prejudice, etc. or enjoying seeing Russian's suffer, etc. in this thread are a tiny percentage.
Again with the accusations of lies, etc. it is what that poster expects or wants to see, it is telling they have to distort people's posts with constant rubbish to make it look like people are saying what those with a heavy pro-Russian bias expect Western people's opinion to be - again by far the majority of posters in here have taken a fairly open position - no one actually believes there is an actual specific "Ghost of Kyiv", etc.
That poster also seems unable to comprehend, maybe intentionally so, that appeasement rarely avoids the longer term issue when dealing with a regime like Russia - there might have been more Western governments could have done to avoid the suffering we've seen so far in the short term but allowing the likes of Putin to further their goals in the short term just means tackling a bigger problem and an even larger amount of suffering in the longer term - which has been proven time and time again historically. Even assuming any degree of sincerity to that poster's stated opinion it is blue sky type thinking at best. That doesn't mean anyone is indifferent to the suffering of the Ukrainian people just being realistic.
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