Actually, going after pre-nuclear shipwrecks for their steel has more to do with pre-nuke steel being needed for very sensitive instruments, and it's...very difficult to filter out the various decay products from nuclear testing which exist in most modern steel, or forge new steel that does not have any of the decay products get into during mining, processing, or forging.Yeah, but it's shit steel. That's why they're going after old shipwrecks to chop them up and recycle them.
But Chinese steel still is shit steel.
Yeah, there is a price to that. Every expensive and hard to replace cruise missile going into civilian infrastructure is one that cannot hit an ammo dump, training facility, command post, barrack or armor maintenance workshop. Russian strike-reconnisance complex is still well in XX century though, and not even at the tail end of it, so it really struggles with arranging attacks on those, so they shoot what they can hit, civilians, hence the jokes about Russian military being unmatched when it comes to fighting civilians.Not like Russians are not experienced with starving Ukrainians.
Although I disagree with his assessment of how smart Russia is at attacking infrastructure and food networks. Ukraine has suffered under Russia before, does anyone believe it will be better if Russia wins?
As Zeihan points out, hitting the grain is more about exercising power over the nations Ukraine would have exported it to, namely Egypt, and the Suez isn't any less important now than it has been for decades.Yeah, there is a price to that. Every expensive and hard to replace cruise missile going into civilian infrastructure is one that cannot hit an ammo dump, training facility, command post, barrack or armor maintenance workshop. Russian strike-reconnisance complex is still well in XX century though, and not even at the tail end of it, so it really struggles with arranging attacks on those, so they shoot what they can hit, civilians, hence the jokes about Russian military being unmatched when it comes to fighting civilians.
Those other infrastructural targets are not the most expensive, the power network was a pretty smart (or least wasteful at least) and as such obvious choice to begin with, it works on expensive yet delicate and hard to replace pieces of kits destroying which can cut off whole cities, yet the results are kinda disappointing compared to the predictions - with agriculture or the like, it's going to get only less effective, as such targets would be more spread out and have their own potential replacements and alternatives that weren't strained yet, while Russian missile stockpiles aren't getting any bigger.
As Zeihan points out, hitting the grain is more about exercising power over the nations Ukraine would have exported it to, namely Egypt, and the Suez isn't any less important now than it has been for decades.
Sounds like the US needs to be looking at ag aid to nations who may lose their export loads from Ukraine to Russian missiles.
No, We don't have the ag surpluses we used to do to the stupidity of the Dems during the Wu Flu and due to people like Bill Gates buying up farmland left and right to use to grow the stuff to make his fake eggs and fake meat.American farmers are going to make bank.
Funny enough, many of these countries are Russia/China allies, and may find themselves to be the natural choices to take the hit from Ukraine's export reductions.As Zeihan points out, hitting the grain is more about exercising power over the nations Ukraine would have exported it to, namely Egypt, and the Suez isn't any less important now than it has been for decades.
Sounds like the US needs to be looking at ag aid to nations who may lose their export loads from Ukraine to Russian missiles.
At least some of the fake food is made in China. Oh the irony, who else would they go to for expertise in making fake food cheaply...No, We don't have the ag surpluses we used to do to the stupidity of the Dems during the Wu Flu and due to people like Bill Gates buying up farmland left and right to use to grow the stuff to make his fake eggs and fake meat.
And yet they're still the number one steel producer in the world, producing over half the world's steel. #2 is India, with a tenth of China's production.But Chinese steel still is shit steel.
And yet they're still the number one steel producer in the world, producing over half the world's steel. #2 is India, with a tenth of China's production.
Some times you can make a pretty good living of good enough.Quantity is not the same thing as quality. Some of what they produce is doubtless of decent quality, but the endemic corruption of communist culture hits them everywhere.
Le parfait est l'ennemi du bien.Some times you can make a pretty good living of good enough.
Some times you can make a pretty good living of good enough.