Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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@RibshackTV "Intuition is just that... You don't learn intuition"
false. you are not born with mechanical intuition. it is learned. you do things enough until you gain a working undersatnding of what does/doesn't work, that is where intuition comes from.
"by gaming you get exposure (in a fun way) which makes things like circuitry, electricity, operating systems, PCBs & software manipulation easier."
False. playing video games teaches you none fo those things.
Working on circuits, programming things, building things, troubleshooting things, etc. is how you learned those skills. Playing games taught you none of that. Your desire to play games, led you to do those things, so that you could then play games. but none of that was learned while PLAYING games. it was your INTEREST in games that led you to learn the other things. but you weren't soldering circuits or programming an operating system while playing video games.
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@Withnail1969 that proves nothing. Yes, the world needs oil, coal, natural gas, mining for raw material for other sources of energy, etc. That doesn't prove your right.
Cities also grew up around logging mills downstream of large forests. That doesn't mean wood is the most important cost of goods.
some cities grew up around car factories, that doesn't make cars the largest cost of goods.
energy is needed, but we have lived in an era of cheap energy. Energy is a prime consideration in my industry, but in no way related to making what we sell. We know our customers will spend more money operating our equipment over the life of the product than they bought it for. So we show them that if we spend MORE money making our product More efficient, they will save on their operating expenses long term, and will save more money in teh long run by buying a more expensive energy efficient device.
But we do that to justify selling a better more expensive product, and make more profit on our end. Doesn't hurt that our argument is also true. But when we design and manufacture our product, the cost of energy to manufacture it doesn't even factor into the design nor development of our product. Labor costs, and then material costs, are the two largest factors we deal with on a daily basis in engineering.
I also have a side business designing and selling various products, and we don't even consider the cost of electricity to run our machines to make our products. We factor in the material costs, parts costs, and time spent assembling it. But we don't include cost of electricity of the laser, printers, power tools, CNC, etc. as when you divide the energy cost by the number of parts made, it's just not worth the time to calculate it and add it to the price. it's pennies. Costs more in labor to take the time to calculate it.
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Naval warfare has already been using drones for decades
UAV: TDR-1 (ww2), FIDO (WW2), Fritz-X (WW2), anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, etc.
Unmanned naval drones: torpedoes (WW1), Homing torpedoes (WW2) submarines (US already has many such as ORCA, Manta, etc.), surface ships (US has many such as port protection, gunboats, sub hunting ship, etc.)
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@johntowers1213 "most of those things you mentioned are high value assets that lean heavily on the quality over quantity ethos"
Not true at all. torpedoes, and missiles are in widespread use and have been for decades. the TDR-1 was extremely cost effective, but was an experiment and not a fully approved nor funded project. but those who tested them in combat begged and pleaded for more. But even before testing had commences, US procurement had already decided not to make them operational.
You're missing the point though. Every single guided weapon in history is a "drone". Some are cheap, some are not, but all are equally DRONES.
the US used tens of drones in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades, I know I was there and we used them. many ideas used in Ukraine, many drones used in Ukraine, were developed by the US in decades past. Including things like the switchblade drones. And the US military and civilians saw the potential of weaponized quadcopters for years prior to Ukraine and did studies on it and people even made videos about the dangers and potential. But they are nothing more than an extension of the drones used in decades past in wars like WW2, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and OIF/OEF, Armenia, and Syria.
Small cheap Drones were already in widespread use for decades, but it wasn't until Ukraine that the public at large became aware of it is all. And partly due to teh fact that such drones don't work as effectively in wars the US is actively fighting in, as we fight differently, and the way we fight is not conducive to this type of drone warfare seen in Ukraine working.
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I was rooting for Wagner, because Russians fighting Russians takes pressure off Ukraine.
In a way the present situation is better than Wagner winning. Wagner was arguably Russia's most elite forces. They have now been dishonored, disbanded, broken up, dissolved, absorbed into regular army units, and will no longer fight as effectively and not has as good of leadership. The best Russian unit just got taken out of the war. This is a win for Ukraine.
And, it proves how inept the Russian regular armed forces are, how weak Putin is, and sows doubt in the future of teh Russian state as a whole. We are on step closer to the nation state of "Russia" as we know it today, ceasing to exist.
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