Russia has 5, 10 and 20 year building investment plans/projects across the globe while America has 5, 10 and 20 day bombing plans/raids.
I wonder if Putin could tempt DJT into building a Trump Tower in Murmansk in exchange for Odessa at the next round of chatter in Saud Kingdom. They could extend political asylum to him if/when the shit hits the fan at home.
How long would it take to train the 10's of thousands of UAF/NATO mercs currently held prisoner? If those Mofo's can become experts in drone operation, mine sapping and other military disciplines then a 20 year time-served sentence in the Far East would save billions of roubles in operating costs.
'Similar' impossible due to different conceptions of time - long term national and societal development in decades and centuries vs the quick buck, the daily stock portfolio, and the quarterly returns for the oligarchic cabal before the mid-terms.
It is very impressive that Russia is investing in projects which they know will not pay off for decades. Also impressive that Russia is actually able to move ahead with projects. That makes Russia competitive with China which has built thousands of miles of High Speed Rail in the same time that California has managed to complete exactly 0 miles -- but California has managed to make many rich Democrat lawyers even richer in the process. And we all know that if President Trump proposed analogous developments in Alaska (twice the area of Texas!), lots of Far Left "environmental" groups would immediately sue to stop anything happening ... and Far Left judges would issue injunctions left and right.
The interesting question is why do Russia & China have the ability to get things done, while the US apparently only knows how to make lawyers richer?
Exactly. British lords stole the Indigenous Americans' land and formed a "government" of wealthy white men, by wealthy white men, for wealthy white men. Women, children, POC, LGBTQ people, poor people, and the disabled are just human capital meant to be subservient, submissive, exploited, and invisible.
Russia and China still consider themselves countries. The US stopped being a country a few decades ago. To the degree that mobs running the US even acknowledge the existence of human beings, it's just to wish they'd shut up and die.
Kk, first of all the US isn't a legitimate country. It, like Israel, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia is a British colonial settlement birthed by genocide and built by enslaved people. Secondly, Russia and China don't have adversarial governments like our, so called, democracies so they learn of a problem, gather information, and find solutions. Then they implement them. They don't allow a handful of conservative assholes to impede taking care of their citizens like they do here in the US. I'm still anti government but if we're stuck with them, for now, they should at least be working for us and not actively working against us.
" ... to get to where Russia already is would take several trillion dollars in investment, money the Empire doesn’t have ... " It wouldn't be surprising if the empire used the money confiscated from Russia to invest... in Russia! The Collective West is completely crazy and out of control.
But with a little imagination, I believe I can see that many nationally and binationally separate developments and projects not only have the potential to merge into a single, large project in the distant future, but that global infrastructure, economics, and settlement processes will change the world in breathtaking ways. Be it the "Arctic Route," the "North-South Corridor," the exploration and development of northern Russia and Siberia, and the global "One Belt." Not to mention the thousands upon thousands of expected regional development projects that will arise within the framework of the aforementioned gigantic projects. If I consider it all as a whole, I would describe it as a unique "millennium project" for civilization.
The US and the West are building nothing. Let alone anything good for their own people. They only destroy and fight. The US and Western oligarchy sees only one way to defend their global dictatorship: by attempting to sabotage these peaceful projects of global proportions with threats, blackmail, terrorism, economic warfare, and war.
The BRICS are building, and the US and the West are destroying. Regardless of good and evil, I see only two future scenarios. First, the end of humanity through a global nuclear war, or second, the era of the decline of Western civilization. Whatever emerges in the next 1,000 years.
US Navy owns no icebreakers. What few ships US has in this general category are owned by the Coast Guard, aren't suited for Arctic travel, remain in the Great Lakes, and in any case are currently inoperable: "All three of America’s polar icebreakers are at least temporarily sidelined....The [US] Coast Guard owns nine icebreakers that remain in the Great Lakes. While these ships are important for keeping that region navigable for both armed forces and civilian commerce,
those ships are not suitable for transiting in the arctic.
Instead, America on paper is reliant on three polar icebreakers — but even that number is misleading. The two heavy-class ships Polar Star (WAGB-10) and Polar Sea (WAGB-11), both built in the 1970s, are nearing the end of their useful service lives. Due to a costly engine problem that occurred in 2010, Polar Sea was put into “inactive commission” — meaning it’s not operational, and the service has made clear that’s unlikely to change. The third ship is the Healy (WAGB-20), a newer, more technologically advanced icebreaker built in the 1990s, considered a medium-class vessel.
And there’s zero infrastructure along the northern Alaskan shoreline to support any Arctic activity, nor on the mainland to get it there. I’ve seen video of start to finish Far Eastern Russian mega-project construction from absolute scratch that’s extremely impressive given the scale. I wrote an article about its development. The USA could do arctic development, but it would take many dollars and years to accomplish—and vision.
Russia has 5, 10 and 20 year building investment plans/projects across the globe while America has 5, 10 and 20 day bombing plans/raids.
I wonder if Putin could tempt DJT into building a Trump Tower in Murmansk in exchange for Odessa at the next round of chatter in Saud Kingdom. They could extend political asylum to him if/when the shit hits the fan at home.
How long would it take to train the 10's of thousands of UAF/NATO mercs currently held prisoner? If those Mofo's can become experts in drone operation, mine sapping and other military disciplines then a 20 year time-served sentence in the Far East would save billions of roubles in operating costs.
Incredibly impressive.
Lets see Trump give a similar speech touting MAGA.
'Similar' impossible due to different conceptions of time - long term national and societal development in decades and centuries vs the quick buck, the daily stock portfolio, and the quarterly returns for the oligarchic cabal before the mid-terms.
Different universes.
To an outsider, (Australian), Russia is moving forward whereas USA is in decline.
It is very impressive that Russia is investing in projects which they know will not pay off for decades. Also impressive that Russia is actually able to move ahead with projects. That makes Russia competitive with China which has built thousands of miles of High Speed Rail in the same time that California has managed to complete exactly 0 miles -- but California has managed to make many rich Democrat lawyers even richer in the process. And we all know that if President Trump proposed analogous developments in Alaska (twice the area of Texas!), lots of Far Left "environmental" groups would immediately sue to stop anything happening ... and Far Left judges would issue injunctions left and right.
The interesting question is why do Russia & China have the ability to get things done, while the US apparently only knows how to make lawyers richer?
Look at who devised the US Constitution and made the nation an oligarchy.
Exactly. British lords stole the Indigenous Americans' land and formed a "government" of wealthy white men, by wealthy white men, for wealthy white men. Women, children, POC, LGBTQ people, poor people, and the disabled are just human capital meant to be subservient, submissive, exploited, and invisible.
Russia and China still consider themselves countries. The US stopped being a country a few decades ago. To the degree that mobs running the US even acknowledge the existence of human beings, it's just to wish they'd shut up and die.
Kk, first of all the US isn't a legitimate country. It, like Israel, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia is a British colonial settlement birthed by genocide and built by enslaved people. Secondly, Russia and China don't have adversarial governments like our, so called, democracies so they learn of a problem, gather information, and find solutions. Then they implement them. They don't allow a handful of conservative assholes to impede taking care of their citizens like they do here in the US. I'm still anti government but if we're stuck with them, for now, they should at least be working for us and not actively working against us.
" ... to get to where Russia already is would take several trillion dollars in investment, money the Empire doesn’t have ... " It wouldn't be surprising if the empire used the money confiscated from Russia to invest... in Russia! The Collective West is completely crazy and out of control.
if anyone wants to read the altered, and completely dishonest presentation of what putin said in murmansk - read this article from the bbc -
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7432451el7o
There’s his chat with the sub crew whose transcript got posted late that I’m still working on where he disses the Brits.
good!
Thank you so much for the highly interesting and exciting information in this and the many other articles.
Apparently, the following is a separate topic.
https://www.pekingnology.com/p/zhou-bo-on-should-the-world-fear
But with a little imagination, I believe I can see that many nationally and binationally separate developments and projects not only have the potential to merge into a single, large project in the distant future, but that global infrastructure, economics, and settlement processes will change the world in breathtaking ways. Be it the "Arctic Route," the "North-South Corridor," the exploration and development of northern Russia and Siberia, and the global "One Belt." Not to mention the thousands upon thousands of expected regional development projects that will arise within the framework of the aforementioned gigantic projects. If I consider it all as a whole, I would describe it as a unique "millennium project" for civilization.
The US and the West are building nothing. Let alone anything good for their own people. They only destroy and fight. The US and Western oligarchy sees only one way to defend their global dictatorship: by attempting to sabotage these peaceful projects of global proportions with threats, blackmail, terrorism, economic warfare, and war.
The BRICS are building, and the US and the West are destroying. Regardless of good and evil, I see only two future scenarios. First, the end of humanity through a global nuclear war, or second, the era of the decline of Western civilization. Whatever emerges in the next 1,000 years.
Agreed. If you find the time, the Diesen/Hudson hour-long chat is worth viewing, https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/economic-collapse-in-europe
US Navy owns no icebreakers. What few ships US has in this general category are owned by the Coast Guard, aren't suited for Arctic travel, remain in the Great Lakes, and in any case are currently inoperable: "All three of America’s polar icebreakers are at least temporarily sidelined....The [US] Coast Guard owns nine icebreakers that remain in the Great Lakes. While these ships are important for keeping that region navigable for both armed forces and civilian commerce,
those ships are not suitable for transiting in the arctic.
Instead, America on paper is reliant on three polar icebreakers — but even that number is misleading. The two heavy-class ships Polar Star (WAGB-10) and Polar Sea (WAGB-11), both built in the 1970s, are nearing the end of their useful service lives. Due to a costly engine problem that occurred in 2010, Polar Sea was put into “inactive commission” — meaning it’s not operational, and the service has made clear that’s unlikely to change. The third ship is the Healy (WAGB-20), a newer, more technologically advanced icebreaker built in the 1990s, considered a medium-class vessel.
Making things more complicated for the Coast Guard in the short term is the Healy suffering an electrical fire in July, forcing it to return to port in Seattle, Vice Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday confirmed during a talk at the Brookings Institution last week. With the Healy forced home and Polar Star in a California dry dock for maintenance work, all three of America’s polar icebreakers are at least temporarily sidelined."...8/16/2024, "ICE Pact: Why the US had to recruit help in race with Russia, China for Arctic icebreakers," https://breakingdefense.com/2024/08/ice-pact-why-the-us-had-to-recruit-help-in-race-with-russia-china-for-arctic-icebreakers/#:~:text=America's%2012%20icebreakers%20are%20not,owned%20by%20the%20Coast%20Guard.
And there’s zero infrastructure along the northern Alaskan shoreline to support any Arctic activity, nor on the mainland to get it there. I’ve seen video of start to finish Far Eastern Russian mega-project construction from absolute scratch that’s extremely impressive given the scale. I wrote an article about its development. The USA could do arctic development, but it would take many dollars and years to accomplish—and vision.
I'm glad to hear this.