김시덕 金時德 KIM Shiduck🇺🇦
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김시덕 金時德 KIM Shiduck🇺🇦
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Chamath: Taiwan Loses Its Strategic Importance in 18 Months @chamath: “ We're 18 months from Taiwan not being an important moment of conversation the way it is today. Why 18 months? Because we are at a point where we're probably 1-2 nanometers away from being able to do what we need Taiwan to strategically do for us. And so as we scale up our chip fabs, as we get more capacity, and interestingly, there are these orthogonal technologies being developed. I don't know if you guys saw, but Neuralink was showcasing a machine that is literally operating at the almost nanometer scale to do the brain operations for the implantation, all automatically. When you have the dexterity and the capability mechanically to make these things, the real reason then is a very different one than what it is today. Today, it's economic. And if you take that off the table, I think we'll have a very different attitude to Taiwan.”







America is becoming an autocratic continental empire along the lines of the Late Roman Empire or China (or for that matter Russia), argues a Russian commentary. With the country now increasingly politically dominated by interior states, liberal democracy is disappearing. ⬇️ The Russian political blog/Telegram channel 'Madam Secretary' writes: "The United States is currently entering a very strange phase of transformation. The problem isn't Trump, the Democrats, or any particular elites. The very form of government is changing. "Historically, democracy worked well primarily in maritime trading civilizations—city-states, trading republics, maritime empires. There, power was almost always distributed among elites. "It could be an oligarchy, an aristocracy, a republic, a democracy—the form changed, but the very principle of dividing powers among influential groups remained. "Continental civilizations, however, lived differently. Persia remained roughly the same model of a centralized state for thousands of years. Egypt, too. No one ever built a democracy in the Western sense there. Such a goal simply wasn't an option. The state was perceived as a vertical power structure. China today is a good example of this logic. Coastal China, in terms of its level of development, would in many ways resemble Japan or Korea, if not for the enormous continental landmass within the country. It is this inland territory that shapes China's political model as a stable, centralised system. "The United States has long been the antithesis of this construct. America grew up as a collection of maritime trading states. East Coast, West Coast, ports, trade, capitalism, financial centers. Essentially, a classic maritime civilization. "But now an interesting shift is taking place. Coastal American metropolises are gradually transforming into ideologically driven leftist spaces. Conservative America is concentrating within the Heartland. It is the interior states that are becoming the bearers of demand for a more rigid and centralised model. "And here a very important point arises. Historically, the Heartland has not gravitated much toward a classic maritime democracy. "Maritime democracy is built around trade, capitalism, an independent middle class, and elite competition. Continental spaces typically gravitate toward a vertical system of power. "Therefore, the United States is now beginning to resemble the late stages of large empires. A similar process occurred with Rome. While Rome was a commercial republic, one system worked. "When it turned into a vast empire, the republic gradually became unnecessary. Britain followed a similar path as its global influence expanded. "America is still the number one world power. But within the country, it's already clear how much less suited the social structure itself is to the old type of democracy. "Democracy requires a sufficiently educated, rational, and economically independent society, directly interested in free capitalism. "Now this foundation is eroding. Dependence on the state is growing, political radicalisation is on the rise, the quality of the social environment is declining, abstract ideological constructs and catastrophic thinking are spreading. "All of this sits poorly with classical liberal democracy. Historically, maritime democracies were built on a very simple foundation: commercial power. "As long as there is a navy, control of sea routes, powerful trading elites, and enormous profits from global trade, the system works. All of society receives a share of this wealth. "As soon as such a system begins to lose competition or control over global trade, a political crisis ensues. Athens, after its defeat by Sparta, faced precisely this. As the economic base disappears, the political structure begins to crumble. "Therefore, the current US crisis does not look like a typical partisan struggle. Rather, it is about America's transition from a commercial maritime republic to a late empire." /end Source: t.me/madam_secretar…

"Britain's future lies with Europe - and one day, back in the European Union." Former health secretary Wes Streeting says the UK needs a new special relationship with Europe, as he calls Brexit a 'catastrophic mistake'. trib.al/zxwWsWg 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602



Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.



























