…is investing in new chip technology. They were showing a wafer which is 15 inches in diameter, holds 70 chips, each chip contains 50 billion transistors. Which means this 15 inch circle contains 3.5 trillion transistors each smaller than 1 strand of human DNA. How can a species capable of such sublime accomplishments choose to be ruled by such a limited man?
Actually if you look at the headline I was referring to Putin and those in Russia who chose him as their leader. The same could be said about the Americans who chose the geriatric who is Dr Calamity . Don’t bother to apologize I know you are embarrassed. How many times can this poor chap shoot himself in the foot trying to ‘get’ me?
And Plum the last 2 pages is what the Greenies hate…go figure.
Mozart
Your initial comments are very misleading and forgot what happened in Russia since 1990. the fall of the Communist regime as initiated by Yeltsin and when the Communist sent Russian troops to take over the Russian Parliament - Yeltsin mounted a tank and addressed the troops and the people who tried to protect the Parliament building.
The fall of the Communist Party was followed by extreme poverty of virtually everybody - I was in Russia in 1993 and everyone was poor with average income less than $30 a month. In one shop window in the main street of St Petersburg the only item on display was a tube of toothpaste - everything was in short supply.
Yeltsin was not really effective as leader and the eonomic problems persisted while he was President. He then when getting old thought about appointment of a vice-President and his choice fell on Putin. When Yeltsin died he as succeeded by Putin as President and the econmy started to recover rapidly and in view of their pocket books .he recevied a majoruity vote in Russia - where the people after decades of poverty under the Communist people found the fact that they were really looked after.
Unlike what you believe Russia is not a dictatorship - in the last Parliamentary election the Putin supporting parties ended up with 48% of the vote - but due to the fact that the opposition is divided into at least 6 parties they suffer from the fact that votes are split between parties and the first passed the post principle applies the Putin supporting parties have a huge majority in the Duma. 53% of he voters not supporting the Governing Party does not indicate the country is a dictatorship.
Putin's leadership causing the major economic recovery of the early 2000's caused him to be popular and he served the country well in that respect. He was initially elected with a majority of 70% support - that hovers around 60% at present - so it is another example of not being a dictatorship. The Russian Parliament did not as alleged changed the constitution as alleged - they gave the green ight to run in a third consequent term as a special case. Whether he would win is another question.
The Russian people do not like to see Russians being oppressed - there are many Russians living in the Baltic states as well - but they are not oppressed in those countries so there never was a threat of attack on those countries, In the case of the Ukraine the situation was different. In the 2013 election a pro-Russian president was elected by. majority vote - and wth the financial help through the US Embassy an uprising took place in Kiev resulting in attacking of Police by essentially the Azov battalion and the elected President was under threat of his murder by the said battalion left the Ukraine.
The 2014 coup resulted in a civil war erupted between essentially between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples living in the Eastern Ukraine. In that civil war that continues unabated since 2014 - 18 000 civilians died - most caused by attacks of the Ukraine army on the Russian civilian population. That got worse in 2021 and 2022. - in the end the Ukraine Parliament passed a law banning Russian teaching in schools and the Ukraine Government arrested opposition Parliament members - despite the fact that the Russian speaking members supported a proposal condemning a potential Russian Invasion - but they are still in jail without real charges . Russian speaking people were fined basically fo speaking Rusisan in public. All opposition parties have now been banned and the country has been turned into a real dictatorship.
Putin raised the issue of oppression of Russians in Ukraine repeatedly in negotiations prior to the invasion and the EU countries and US Government ignored the situation and pretended there were no problems facing the Russian speaking residents in the .Ukraine. The end result was that the Russians invaded the Ukraine to protect fellow Russians - many of whom has relatives residing in Russia. The latest news is for instance that the Mariupol residents are forced to go to Moscow - they are not and those who wanted to go elsewhere can do so - the Russian speaking people are evacuated for their own safety to Russia,.
The fact is that instead of losing support of the people because of he Ukraine invasion Putin will likely end up more popular than he ever was for his role in protecting Russian speaking people from oppression in the Ukraine.
The BRIC country leadership was aware of what is going on and is now supporting peace talks between the Ukraine Government and Russia - real negotiations prior to the invasion would have stopped it and the destruction stemming from the invasion would not have occurred.
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Rooinek
Trump was not a fool - he was a competent President and the USA and the rest of the world was a safer place than at present. Biden is a total incompetent dementia sufferer - everything he and his Administration touched has turned to shit. The corrupt Biden in fact is a front for the real government in Washington.
However - the Democratic Party is divided into the more moderate elements - the center leftists and the radical leftists, The midterm election is just over 6 months away and the Democrats as a Party is self-destructing. There support from the Latino voters and independents has dropped since 2020 by more than 20% (57% of the Latinos and 63% amongst the independents becoming 37% in both categories) and the results may be the worst the Democrats will suffer in the past 100 years - they may self-destruct as a party and a decent center-left party not determined to destroy the USA may emerge.