ElHexo

In the sphere of world trade, Sanders masks a strident chauvinism with “human rights” rhetoric, particularly with respect to China. In 1992 he co-sponsored a bill, first proposed by Nancy Pelosi, and later vetoed by George H.W. Bush, attempting to restrict the trade status of China due to its human rights record. As always, the supreme “human right” was the right of American corporations to scour the globe in source of profit; one of the benchmarks that China would have been required to meet was to provide “United States exporters fair access to Chinese markets, including lowering tariffs, removing nontariff barriers, and increasing the purchase of United States goods and services.”

Sanders' stance on immigration is entirely in line with right-wing efforts to scapegoat millions of impoverished and exploited Hispanic workers for the falling living standards of American working class. He has repeatedly introduced bills in Congress calling for the suspension of the federal visa program under the guise of protecting American jobs. For his efforts, he has earned the admiration of noted anti-immigrant racist and talk show host Lou Dobbs, who called him “one of the few straight talkers in Congress.”

It's nothing new

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/15/sand-m15.html

You may destroy the two skyscrapers next to the Battle Lab for power up crates. The one on the right will promote a unit while the left crate will heal the unit to maximum health.

The Republicans will set fire to the State Department and purge their leadership, who are basically the cheerleaders of war against Russia.

I believe the Pentagon and intelligence community see Ukraine as a distraction in their own holy war against China (and more Middle East adventurism).

Obviously they're all brainwashed bots

I would add that D-Day involved what, 200k soldiers? While the eastern offensive at that time involved 3.5 million soldiers.

Ukraine has what, a couple hundred thousand Russian soldiers? Blunting the initial offensive and signing a peace treaty was always the best option for Ukraine itself.

Ukraine will not receive F-16 fighter jets from its allies this year as hoped, a spokesman for the country’s Air Force said late Wednesday, confirming that, as expected, the advanced planes won’t play a role in the current counteroffensive.

However, American officials have said that Ukraine has identified only eight combat pilots — less than a single squadron — who speak English well enough to start a period of training expected to last at least a year.

If D-Day was reliant on eight fighters being operational in June 1945, I don't think the chances of success would be very high.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/world/europe/ukraine-f16-jets-nato.html

The oligarchs declared war on the oligarchs, but rest assured the oligarchs will win.

Actor Volodymyr Zelensky stormed to the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 on a wave of public anger against the country’s political class, including previous leaders who used secret companies to stash their wealth overseas.

Now, leaked documents prove that Zelensky and his inner circle have had their own network of offshore companies. Two belonging to the president’s partners were used to buy expensive property in London.

The revelations come from documents in the Pandora Papers, millions of files from 14 offshore service providers leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with partners around the world including OCCRP.

The documents show that Zelensky and his partners in a television production company, Kvartal 95, set up a network of offshore firms dating back to at least 2012, the year the company began making regular content for TV stations owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch dogged by allegations of multi-billion-dollar fraud. The offshores were also used by Zelensky associates to purchase and own three prime properties in the center of London.

https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle

It's real

The 7nm process is a copy of the N7 node TSMC put into mass production four years ago.

https://www.techinsights.com/blog/disruptive-technology-7nm-smic-minerva-bitcoin-miner

Another article expands on why it does and doesn't matter:

The key to competitive chipmaking is scale. Once you have a commercial opening, you scale up as quickly as you can to take market in what can be a very short window. China's half-inched TSMC process cannot scale because, most likely, it doesn't have all the specialist expertise and tools that turn the process into products. It also doesn't have a window of opportunity. It doesn't even have a staging post from which it can continue to erode the US and Taiwan's multi-year lead.

If your objective is to dominate the market, China is being crushed by their lack of progress

If your objective is tech self-sufficiency, they're doing fine

I don't think the US has been able to penetrate China very well, particularly after all the CIA assets got executed for visiting www.SecretCIAwebchat.com a few years ago, and they can't lean on Mossad for it like they can with Iran

Pretty limited impacts so far, costs will go up if they apply the controls strongly but it's not an all out ban.

A number of countries have mothballed production facilities that can be restarted, but for example Australia's formerly world-leading cobalt industry has been dead for decades because despite the horrors of imperialism it's cheaper in Africa - so firms will still be trying to get cheaper materials from China until there's a hard ban.