☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPtoSocialism@lemmy.ml•Everything belongs to the workers
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    6 hours ago

    Basically, if Ukraine can disrupt fuel supply in Russia, Russia can disrupt it in Ukraine on a far bigger scale. And that’s what’s happening now that they started attacking gas stations and other infrastructure systematically.

    Russia has been shit at information war since the very start. They never really cared about it. It’s possibly a mistake, but that’s just how it is.

    And we have this same discussion literally every few months. You see the propaganda campaign, start talking about how Russia is in trouble, then a month later it turns out none of it actually mattered and Russia is still advancing. This has been going on for 4 years now.

    I don’t think the situation is mixed at all. Ukraine is about to lose key strategic strongholds and there’s nothing past them all the way to Dnepr. Meanwhile, the gains Ukraine makes are ephemeral because there’s no manpower to hold them. Even when the AFU manages to take some territory, it ends up getting rolled back almost immediately.

    I do think we’ll see the west throw all they can into the war now because we’re coming to the end here. And yes, the whole drone campaign was for Trump, he’s the audience. They convinced him to get back into it now. But you understand that the US hasn’t been able to do anything for the past 4 years, and they don’t have any new tricks to play here.

    And you saw what Putin and others are saying in Russia now. These strikes are NATO strikes into Russia and now there is a serious talk of retaliation against NATO countries directly. I think this could happen.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPtoSocialism@lemmy.ml•Everything belongs to the workers
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    7 hours ago

    With the exception of the $600 billion trade volume—where, yes, China sells more to the U.S. than it buys—and high-tech developments that China has not yet created itself but which are possessed by the U.S. (or Taiwan, which utilizes U.S. technology)…

    Trade with the US was already less than 3% in 2024, it’s even less now:

    Chinese exports of goods and services to the U.S. was 2.9% of Chinese GDP in 2024

    I’m expecting Sloviansk/Kramatorsk will get taken this summer, and why there’s such a major panic now.

    And nobody cared before because people were getting grabbed from eastern Ukraine, now the kidnappings are starting to happen in western Ukraine more and more. I think it’s also an indication of how desperate the situation is. See how Europeans are now trying to send people back too. There are real manpower problems nobody wants to talk about.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPtoSocialism@lemmy.ml•Everything belongs to the workers
    2·
    1 day ago

    I’m going to repeat this again, we have concrete and irrefutable proof that China is no longer dependent on the west. China was completely unaffected by Trump’s 140% tariffs which basically amounted to cutting off trade, and just now we saw that China is similarly unaffected by global oil disruption. The reality is that the world has changed, and developing economies are growing rapidly while the west is in an accelerating decline. The west isn’t the centre of global economic gravity anymore.

    Outside Crimea, the shortages seem to be more a result of panic buying than anything else given that export volumes haven’t been affected. There is going to be a lot of pressure on Putin to do some major retaliation now though, and this time he might have to.

    Even though they can force people to fight by dehumanizing them, this is not an effective tactic. Notice how Russian advance is accelerating now, and big towns towns like Konstantinovka that used to be fought over really hard are now falling mostly intact. There are no more fights to take very building like what we saw in Artemovsk.

    It is absolutely sick what western backed fascists are doing to the people of Ukraine and how people in the west keep cheering for it.

    And I think there likely will be a mutiny in the army sooner or later as well. We talked about this a long time go, but the dynamic is that they have to use actual trained and motivated soldiers to do important operations, and each time that happens the ones that are lost can’t be replaced. Russians know this and that’s why towns like Pokrovsk are always used as nazi roach motels. Ukraine has no choice but to defend them to the last because it looks bad to western sponsors when they lose them. So, they can’t just throw mobics there. And that depletes the core of motivated fascists holding the army together. Eventually there will be an inflection point where there just aren’t enough of them and the mobics will start taking revenge for all the abuse they suffered.

    Also, when they flee to the west that’s when things are going to get really bad for Europe. They’ve already been smuggling a lot of weapons into Europe and establishing links with fascists there. Once you have a whole bunch of hardened, trained, and well armed fash running around, Europe might start looking a lot like Syria at that point.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Light-controlled microgripper bridges the gap between precision and force
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    2 days ago

    Could be useful for minimally invasive surgery since the gripper’s small size and ability to operate through channels narrower than 300 micrometers make it ideal for delicate surgical procedures. Single cell biology research would be another since the device can grasp, transport, and release individual human cancer cells without damaging them. Potentially could enable microscale assembly and manufacturing. The team demonstrated the ability to assemble miniature mechanical components like bearings and gearboxes with micrometer precision. Drug delivery and targeted therapy would be another interesting use.

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