couldn’t have put it better myself

That’s fair, there’s still a lot of work to be done there. At least most libs, like the one in this thread, fled Russia now, so the healing process can begin.

Yup, and I think you’re completely right that United Russia is basically propped up by Putin’s personality. Once he’s gone, there will be a power vacuum and KPRF only keeps getting more popular. They’re not without problems, but they’re way further left than anything in the west.

clearly that didn’t help you much

I’m 13 and this is deep.

It also helps that DPRK, China, and Vietnam are some of the main Russian allies now. People used to look up to the west and wanting to become like the Americans and the Europeans. Now, they’ve been cured of that thanks to the war, and they’re increasingly looking at what’s happening in the socialist states they’re allied with and realizing Russia could’ve been developing like that as well if the socialist path wasn’t abandoned.

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Hmmm… well if you don’t even understand the concept of facts, I suppose have a great day my man.

4D chess

ok thanks for confirming that you are pulling numbers out of your ass

It’s hilarious how dronies living in the vassal states think they’re somehow different.

So you just pull numbers out of your ass to make an argument?

This is literally what’s happening with the US war in Iran right now, meanwhile Russian military industrial complex is state owned and it’s outproducing all of NATO as openly admitted by mainstream western media.

Oh you’re just projecting.

Do you think the engineers building this system might’ve done the basic math to figure these things out?

And there is a whole interview they did on a Russian TV channel where they show the system in action and taking out Ukrainian drones. You can watch it here. https://southfront.press/russia-unveils-secretive-lasers-downing-ukrainian-drones-videos/

I’d argue that full on central planning was the wrong model. I can highly recommend reading Thinking in Systems to understand the problem. But the gist is that any large system will have noise, as information travels through it. So, when you do central planning the way USSR was, it becomes very difficult to balance things. You make a plan, the directives travel down to the factories and farms where production happens, there’s delay in the information arriving, mistakes in transcription, and so on. Then the same thing happens on the way back up, so the picture at the top is divergent from the situation on the ground. And that leads to things like overcorrections, and plans based on false data, so the system becomes unbalanced over time. And that’s what we saw happen in USSR.

Now, that doesn’t mean that the idea of central planning itself is wrong. The problem is with micromanagement which just doesn’t work. And this is the problem China figure out by using markets as allocators within the centrally planned system. The planners still set five year plans, they still control the commanding heights of the economy, and give overall direction on what types of things should be produced, but the details are left to market mechanisms to work out dynamically at the appropriate level. And this type of a hybrid system is proving to be highly effective.

Yes, and that’s literally where power comes in. The more powerful the laser, the further it stays coherent. Again, these are literally being used in combat right now. And they’re not intercepting missiles, they’re intercepting slow flying drones. What I was saying is that it’s much cheaper to power a laser than to make an interceptor.

Americans also can’t figure out how to make hypersonics, but Russia, China, Iran, and DPRK can. Just because the reich can’t do something, doesn’t mean it’s not possible.

uh yes them untermensch am I right

people have infinite capacity to trivialize any advancement I guess

Yes, it’s very important that they are being surveilled by a capitalist regime. That makes all the difference.