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On weekends you get the words of the day and news as well as think-pieces. Here's your free think-piece, news links and word of the day follow below.
Strategic Issues: Demography & Climate
Rich countries have fewer children, often failing to replace their own population. In a rural poor country children are the retirement plan, the insurance policy, and productive workers. In urban countries children have no paid work possibilities and thus need much greater education and care, as well as protection from various threats. This can have strategic consequences: See, e.g.
Russia's 'catastrophic' missing men problem https://theweek.com/russia/1017914/russias-catastrophic-missing-men-problem
Because of negative population growth some rich countries try to encourage having children. These measures are only somewhat effective.
As countries grow richer they also pollute more.
Two key challenges for the future are reducing pollution and growing the population. These are somewhat opposing goals since all people want to enjoy heating, transit, and leisure, most of which now involve machines which emit pollution. This also ties in with energy: whether and how to reduce pollution by solar, wind, hydro, geothermal; and whether substituting nuclear energy which is also polluting for coal is logical; and also whether building and operating nuclear power plants will lead to more nuclear weapons, since waste fuel can be reprocessed for bomb fuel.
These interlinked issues: power, population, and peace are like a gordian knot, which you may wish to think about solving somehow.
Words of the day:
Nuclear Energy, Nuclear power=
Kernkraft,
énergie nucléaire, l'energie nucleaire,
la energía nuclear,
атомная энергия, атомная энергетика (atomic energy) ядерная энергетика, ядерная энергия (radioactive energy)
核电 he2dian4 (lit. nuclear electricity), 核动力 he2dong4li4 (nuclear motive power)
News & Predictions:
Putin will eventually be removed from office; how violently and how long until then is an open question. Between here and there more Russian journalists, generals, politicians, strongmen, and oligarchs will have "accidents" commit "suicide", suffer from "heart attacks". Kasparov is just the most recent example of a dissident having an “accident”: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-karpov-chess-hospitalized/32110442.html
Russia's war effort is a financial failure:
https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/100-drafted-russian-soldiers-went-on-strike-refusing-to-fight-in-ukraine-after-not-getting-paid-report-says/articleshow/95282868.cms
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-putin-war-soldiers-payments-1756872
Guerilla Resistance:
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/03/1133549136/ukrainian-soldiers-kherson-battle-russia
https://news.yahoo.com/blackout-central-moscow-ministers-sit-171507391.html
Revolution Brewing in Iran:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-human-rights-lawyers-criticise-clerical-leaders-amid-unrest-2022-11-03/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-issues-fresh-iran-related-sanctions-2022-11-03/
France:
https://www.eurotopics.net/fr/291090/quelles-sont-les-visees-de-scholz-en-chine
Deutsch:
https://www.ukrinform.de/rubric-ato/3607162-17000-tonnen-sonnenblumenol-vernichtet-russland-greift-von-chinesischem-unternehmen-gemietetes-hafenterminal-in-mykolajiw-an.html
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/niederlage-ist-eine-waise-so-einsam-wird-es-um-putin,TM7F8bv
https://www.news.de/politik/856569609/wladimir-putin-ausser-sich-nach-attacke-in-propaganda-zeitungen-kreml-propagandist-dmitri-kisseljow-wuetet-nach-rueckzug-in-ukraine/1/
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ukraine/id_100074140/ukraine-krieg-so-systematisch-machen-die-partisanen-russland-druck.html
.RU
ЕС изучит возможность использования активов ЦБ РФ для восстановления Украины https://dzen.ru/news/story/ES_izuchit_vozmozhnost_ispolzovaniya_aktivov_CB_RF_dlyavosstanovleniya_Ukrainy--a79900b1ca4068915ebdc583c18977d1
МИД России предоставит доказательства прича стности Великобритании к атаке на Севастополь
中文
台灣下周一起 放寬港澳觀光團入境 https://hk.news.yahoo.com/台灣下周一起-放寬港澳觀光團入境-082126907.html
习近平知道:乌克兰会赢了。 https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-04/Xi-Jinping-The-road-is-under-our-feet-and-the-light-is-ahead-1eGT3XK9jGg/index.html
https://tv.cctv.com/2022/11/03/VIDEAC024hfMt2TK8A4ZePFj221103.shtml
中国 / CHINA
https://www.politico.eu/article/china-xi-jinping-warns-vladimir-putin-not-to-use-nuclear-arms-in-ukraine-olaf-scholz-germany-peace-talks/
Sverige:
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/11/swedens-new-sigint-ship-artemis-begins-sea-trials/
That’s all folks! See you again on Monday! Have a great weekend!