Privateering coming back in the arctic, and pacific.

Anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, drones and many other solutions would make it not sustainable for long enough to hurt these countries, specially if Russia nuked whoever gave support to such privateers as their new nuclear doctrine (that they presented in the last 48 hours) would likely require they answer like that.

Using environmental concerns to pass a UN resolution putting major restrictions on what can be shipped through it.

That’s why veto power exists, and if Russia lost their veto power then Russia would not follow anything comming out of there and the UN itself would likely go the way of the League of Nations.

“Accidentally” crashing a nuclear powered sub and having its reactor melt down up there so a choke point is unusable forcing ships to go through NATO waters to bypass radiation.

Two can play that game. Although I don’t think there are any chokepoints for that anyway.

Doing “military exercises” in the Bering Strait constantly.

If civilian ships got hit by the “exercises” that would be an act of war because to the victim that is just a direct attack on them.

False claims of Russian/Chinese boats entering US Alaskan waters constantly, and disputing the maritime boundaries constantly changing where they claim the line is to confuse captains. Firing warning shots at any ships that cross the line that they move every morning.

That’s the same as invading and taking Russian land and would likely be considered an act of war and nukes might fly. And there is also many ways to avoid crossing into the wrong borders anyway so it shouldn’t be a problem.

Plus this doesnt even take into account that the US is working to create a maritime exclusion zone around Chinas entire coast.

Again, the US can circle China as much as they want but they can’t fully block them without attacking China/Russia which would be considered an act of war.

This will work for now, but the end goal needs to be a huge railway project connecting Russia and China over land deep within their territory where its safe from any attack. High speed cargo trains running from the Chinese coast up into Russia all the way to Moscow would be an economic game changer.

It would be good but those lines are still attackable by drones and missiles, that’s why there is no way for the US to block them without nukes flying being a very high likelyhood.

As long as it’s not blocking Russian ships from the Black Sea the US can do anything and not much would come out of it straight away. Some countries would try to become independend of the canals but that would likely not lead to war.

On the other hand, the US literally shooting at Russian or Chinese ships would be a declaration of war that would require an immediate response of those attacked else it would just escalate to them losing more ships and probably even their ports and coastal infraestructure/cities being targeted soon as well.

Ya i wouldnt be so sure it cant be blocked.

It can be blocked but only by force and the only countries that can do this are the US itself, the baltics, the scandinavian countries, occupied Korea or Japan, neither of which could attack Russia/China without a high likelyhood of getting nuked in return. Meanwhile, the Suez can be closed and there is nothing Russia or China could do (other than going around or making more trains).

Hopefully this means something like sanctions on the colonists from BRICS is also being worked on in the background and close to becoming reality.

I thought it was just a 3D printed phone case full of C4.

Although it would be nice if they could do anything, what about congress and/or other parts of the government that can block the president?

I know that if this happened in my country the president would either have to basically sell the country to get even mediocre laws passed, or more likely with the even farther right congress of now, would get impeached in no time, though I don’t know how much of this applies to Sri Lanka.

Having a torrent every so often, like wikipedia does, would be nice.

Hopefully it grows even more.

It’s really nice to have a place to refer to when in doubt or to link others to, as although a lot of the Communist related topics in wikipedia are much bigger than the ProleWiki versions they tend to not have much, if anything, from an actual ML point of view on them.

Hopefully your countries can ban that place too like Brazil did a couple weeks back.

lol

And actually, I wanted a Soviet, or other Communist country’s dirigible as a profile pic but I couldn’t find anything that would look good and neither the AI made anything I liked so when I managed to have it genarate this I took it.

But thinking about it now I could probably try making/editing something myself as well, like I’ve done in forums long ago. Just need a good idea.

But I have an AI profile picture because I couldn’t find a nice enough Communist aethethics spaceship image around…

Of the 31 Abrams tanks the U.S. sent to Ukraine, six have been destroyed

Is it really that low? I was pretty sure it was at least double that many by now.

but when Iran gives Russia missiles suddenly it’s a problem

Not even that. They probably just invented it to try to use this as an excuse as there isn’t even any evidence of that.

I guess they could also do something like destroying GPS satellites or undersea cables as well, which might be a better approach if they don’t want to kill anyone in NATO countries while hurting them considerably.

I don’t see many chances of the US backing down of striking Russia by use of Ukraine, specially as they likely accept their own propaganda that Russia won’t or can’t do anything, so we unfortunatelly might know soon enough.

It took him far too long to realise that the western leadership is not interested whatsoever in peace or equality.

I’m not even sure he has fully realized it though.

I’m pretty sure US companies can still sell to some extent, or at least could, it’s mostly their puppets that can’t. But even then the second part of the comment is very much right.

That’s only because they themselves want to be respected and they want those they like to be respected. They will never actually respect those they don’t like but they will demand respect regardless because they are “always right” in their minds.

Not so much “wasted” as transfered to billionaries and politicians (massive profits on weapon sales) with some loss (actually having to pay to build the items bought and sold).

It’s likely, specially as from what I hear China was able to sell steel in Brazil cheaper than the local production too, so something likely changed/improved in China recently. It could be, at least in part, due to less internal demand, but cutting off the middlemen might have helped too.

From what I remember from a few months back the H100 GPU (I think) cost something like 30k and there were a few companies each buying up to 100k of them so something like this makes sense.

So if the demand for this GPUS don’t continue high, which is possible as the newer LLMs are smaller and much better while not taking as much compute to run after trained, then what matters is by how much this deman will fall as I really doubt the demand will fall to 0 but we could be one development away from the deman tanking, being maintained or even going up.