It will make a difference if you don’t get enough of it. But having enough of it will just feel normal.

I’m not justifying anything. I was just reacting to this:

Just imagine China or Russia doing the same to some random European country.

Which was a weird sentence - we don’t have to imagine anything, Russia is already doing much worse.

Sure, but the comment I was replying to made a direct comparison with Russia.

Well Russia is currently bombing a European country which I personally consider much worse than an embargo.

SMIC used ASML lithography machines to produce those chips. Thry can’t buy more of them and can’t get spare parts. It will be more tectonic when China can produce such lithography machines, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Intel 10nm is comparable to TSMC 7nm.

The numbers sound exact, but they aren’t much more than marketing terms nowadays.

They have to work with what they have. Which isn’t much.

Could be that Russia’s response to this information might cause themselves more harm than it will affect future defectors

Yeah, that occurred to me as well. Provoke an atmosphere of suspicion, don’t trust each other, even perhaps encourage cases of friendly fire.

It’s possible that the amount of defectors isn’t actually close to being important and the few real cases are more useful as psyops.

Including the ones who save people’s lives?

Sure. Making such public statements is just sending signals …

Putting him on TV is a bad fucking idea. That must discourage a lot of Russian soldiers thinking about doing the same.

The context is Hitler, so why can’t you infer that German is spoken of as an ethnicity?

You wrote “Which German?”, how is that “clearly mentioning nationality”?

German means both ethnicity and nationality.

What was his ethnicity then?

You know which one. Austrians were considered (and most identified) as Germans before WW2. Insisting they weren’t of German ethnicity is a historical revisionism.

Musk provided terminals and connections initially for free, a contract with US for compensation was awarded only later.

The policy to provide coverage only in Ukraine controlled area was there all along, so that was clearly part of that contract.

Again, I very much dislike Musk, but then I also dislike when hate obscures facts.

That’s just twisting of reality.

I hate Musk, but Starlink has been immensely important to Ukraine, I remember Michael Kofman saying that if there’s one wonder weapon in this war, it’s the Starlink.

What Musk did was refusing to help more. Shitty move, but it’s absurd to call it “helping Russia”. You also aren’t helping Russia because you don’t send all your discretionary income to Ukrainian army.

Her net worth is like $100 million, I really doubt she seeks reelection for the money.

For sure. But UK would be admitted as a “regular” member, without many of the exemptions UK had before. I can imagine they might get the currency exemption this time around as well, though.

Well, a shit load of them are in fact in Armenia.