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UK could in theory be self-sufficient when comes to oil and gas, it's North Sea oil and gas fields produce enough, but due to invisible hand of market it has no control over where the produce goes and under what price. Most of the electricity in UK is produced via nukes and coal though, as far...

Nah, that is just the usual Saudis being Saudis. They have been snapping at USA for a long time and State Department forgiving them due ties to Israel and connections to US elites.

But what choice does the Europe have, now that Nordstream committed suicide? State Department has us all bent over the barrel and they sure won't be bothering with lube.

There are going to be regular rolling blackouts before politicians even start thinking about it and well, that is not an infrastructure you can build overnight. Also the shortage of lithium and rare earths will hit the electronics industry hard, hopefully my computer and phone will last a long time.

Remember that elections are fortified

It reminds me of the story of air crash investigation (thankfully it was a cargo plane), they discovered that the pilot was fired from several airlines, because when under pressure he started pressing random buttons to feel like he is doing something. Politicians are the same they are throwing...

Far from it, green energy will still be the main money sink, they are just going to use the coal to make up the shortfall (it won't be enough). I see no way that his shipping reform does not turn into mayor disaster.

However if the repackager pays bribes to a corporation with connections in Washington then they can do it. Kind of like after 2003, all mentions of Haliburton involvement in food-for-oil program were expunged.

According to some pilots I talked to, several airlines do that, if you are female or/and minority then the standards are lower, it is yet to have serious consequences.

Austria finished their nuclear power plant some forty years ago, but submited itself to the will of the greens and never started it. There are couple of solar panels on the building now. They are also constantly shitting on us for operating a nuclear power plant, albeit a bit less since Haider died.

That is exactly something Romans would say.

Even Romans pretended they are still a republic, when they were already an empire.

It less planned famine and more of unintended consequences are going to bite us in the ass. We have several factors here, with the biggest one in my opinion being managerialism, mangers today are totally interchangeable, usually don't know much about the industry they currently work in and...

Hell, much of equipment can run perfectly fine on Motorola 68000 derivatives, it's why these chips are still in production around the world.

Russia is striving for greater independence in this regard though, so they will continue trying to improve their industry, although procuring tooling will be much harder now.

According to Russians, Mikron is doing limited 65nm production as of last year (they are listed amongst offered products), but don't know what their current production capabilities are, the main production line is certainly still 90nm. Unfortunately their page is banned here and wayback version...

Defeating insurgency usually does not come down to chips, otherwise USA would have won the Afghanistan.

They got two chip manufacturers, will look up the details later, from what I remember they were abut decade behind the comparable western companies, but were considered good enough for military purposes.

Which is bullshit. Russia has it's own chip production and weapons for Russian armed forces are still in production. What was hit was export programs as several of the customers demanded Western components (French thermal vision for tanks for example), so without those components the orders...

I thought we were shooting lawyers first?