Our everyday lives depend on an incredibly brittle infrastructure of power and data. Once again, TheSmartestPeopleInTheRoom have failed to understand that bad people/countries do bad things, like break all of your toys - especially when it gives them greater power over you and yours. Some days you just want to slap some people upside the…
Our everyday lives depend on an incredibly brittle infrastructure of power and data. Once again, TheSmartestPeopleInTheRoom have failed to understand that bad people/countries do bad things, like break all of your toys - especially when it gives them greater power over you and yours. Some days you just want to slap some people upside the head to get their attention. Sigh.
So, what is the best response? Perhaps arresting this specific Chinese ship for starters. Then, require all Chinese and Russian ships to have a NATO country pilot onboard whenever the ship is within a NATO country’s EEZ. Just to prevent any further accidents, of course. Would that affect Chinese exports? Oh, so sad. Actions should have consequences.
The Russians are laying the groundwork to do this through the Northern Sea Route as the ice permanently melts away. It will be interesting to see how the worlds' shipping companies respond.
Suggest taking a hard look at "ice permanently melting away". History shows it's happened before, and was anything but "permanent". Might happen...again...or not. Just sayin'...
A viable Northern Sea Route significantly reduces the time to ship from East Asia to Western Europe. The point wasn't really to talk about climate change, but rather that the Russians are taking advantage of new sea lanes that haven't existed in a long time. The Chinese are right alongside them. We won't be able to do much to challenge excessive Russian claims in the area because we don't have ice breakers.
I would argue that, since the 200nm EEZ limit addresses and includes ocean bottom assets, communication cables are included in that treaty. Ultimately, all national claims are upheld only by power. Sink them? Not my first choice, but stranger things have happened.
"Our everyday lives depend on an incredibly brittle infrastructure of power and data."
By design. TheSmartestPeopleInTheRoom would do well to sit down with William Adama or take a couple of lessons from Montgomery Scott. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WJsp16CpY
Over two months after Hurricane Helene and the country is still dealing with a critical saline shortage. Hospitals in Utah remain in a yellow status, with two weeks or less quantities sufficient for expected number of emergency cases. A basic item of medicine that was able to be produced at point-of-use in a hospital from it's discovery in 1831 by Brooke O’Shaughnessy, through two World Wars, and into the 1950's is now dependent on a handful of computer controlled plants in North America.
The lesson here is: Don’t fuck around and find out. Pull support from Ukraine, let them and the Russians figure it out, and start treating China and Russia like our equals.
Our everyday lives depend on an incredibly brittle infrastructure of power and data. Once again, TheSmartestPeopleInTheRoom have failed to understand that bad people/countries do bad things, like break all of your toys - especially when it gives them greater power over you and yours. Some days you just want to slap some people upside the head to get their attention. Sigh.
So, what is the best response? Perhaps arresting this specific Chinese ship for starters. Then, require all Chinese and Russian ships to have a NATO country pilot onboard whenever the ship is within a NATO country’s EEZ. Just to prevent any further accidents, of course. Would that affect Chinese exports? Oh, so sad. Actions should have consequences.
And what if the Russian and Chinese ships say no? Sink them? BTW, sovereignty is limited to 12 nm not 200 nm.
The Russians are laying the groundwork to do this through the Northern Sea Route as the ice permanently melts away. It will be interesting to see how the worlds' shipping companies respond.
Suggest taking a hard look at "ice permanently melting away". History shows it's happened before, and was anything but "permanent". Might happen...again...or not. Just sayin'...
A viable Northern Sea Route significantly reduces the time to ship from East Asia to Western Europe. The point wasn't really to talk about climate change, but rather that the Russians are taking advantage of new sea lanes that haven't existed in a long time. The Chinese are right alongside them. We won't be able to do much to challenge excessive Russian claims in the area because we don't have ice breakers.
I would argue that, since the 200nm EEZ limit addresses and includes ocean bottom assets, communication cables are included in that treaty. Ultimately, all national claims are upheld only by power. Sink them? Not my first choice, but stranger things have happened.
"Our everyday lives depend on an incredibly brittle infrastructure of power and data."
By design. TheSmartestPeopleInTheRoom would do well to sit down with William Adama or take a couple of lessons from Montgomery Scott. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WJsp16CpY
Over two months after Hurricane Helene and the country is still dealing with a critical saline shortage. Hospitals in Utah remain in a yellow status, with two weeks or less quantities sufficient for expected number of emergency cases. A basic item of medicine that was able to be produced at point-of-use in a hospital from it's discovery in 1831 by Brooke O’Shaughnessy, through two World Wars, and into the 1950's is now dependent on a handful of computer controlled plants in North America.
Yay team!
The lesson here is: Don’t fuck around and find out. Pull support from Ukraine, let them and the Russians figure it out, and start treating China and Russia like our equals.