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WORD OF THE DAY
aircraft carrier, der Flugzeugtraeager, le porte avions, portaaviones, авианосец, 航空母舰 (Hángkōngmǔjiàn)
https://www.reuters.com/world/commerce-secretary-tout-us-strategy-counter-china-2022-11-30/
Work on English oral comprehension wth: Russia Suffering 'Colossal' Military Losses in Intense Battle: Ukraine https://www.newsweek.com/russia-suffering-colossal-military-losses-bakhmut-battle-ukraine-says-1764004
audio+text
Destroyer Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee Delivers to the Navy https://news.usni.org/2022/12/01/destroyer-lenah-sutcliffe-higbee-delivers-to-the-navy
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/11/preligens-report-detecting-chinas-aircraft-carriers/
J-20
https://eurasiantimes.com/beijing-accelerates-j-20-production-as-us-surrounds-china/
HUAWEI
Vladimir Putin’s top diplomat claimed the US posed an existential threat to Russia through its support for Ukraine. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-lavrov-us-ukraine-nato-b2236886.html
FRANCE
Improve your French oral comprehension and give your eyes a rest!
https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/le-chef-du-pentagone-exhorte-la-turquie-a-ne-pas-mener-d-offensive-en-syrie-20221201
https://www.frandroid.com/marques/huawei/1554958_huawei-abandonne-leurope-sans-abandonner-leurope
DEUTSCH
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bnd-ukraine-krieg-1.5706803?reduced=true
RU
Mozilla предложила альтернативу Google Translate — конфиденциальный офлайн-переводчик для Firefox https://3dnews.ru/1078219/mozilla-predlogila-alternativu-google-translate-konfidentsialniy-oflaynperevodchik-dlya-brauzera-firefox
Эдвард Сноуден получил российский паспорт https://www.interfax.ru/russia/875101
https://www.chita.ru/text/society/2022/11/27/71838494/
中文
晶片大戰|華為為減外國依賴偷建中國供應鏈 外媒揭爛尾晶片廠死而復生 https://hk.finance.yahoo.com/news/晶片大戰-華為為減外國依賴偷建中國供應鏈-外媒揭爛尾晶片廠死而復生-082745936.html
Chinese Communist Party Congress: Putin is Finished
When we analyze the material conditions of history over millennia we see fairly clearly that path dependence caused by language, geography, climate, culture, past choices and prior historical events drive historical processes. Moreover, these material factors drive similar outcomes across centuries, even millennia. If we better plan for the recurrence of event clusters then we may outmaneuver our less prepared opponents. History, like subjective personal psychology, is an iterative process of recurring situations seeking for healthy, non-dysfunctional outcomes. We study the impoverished, war-like, diseased past in order to attain better outcomes.
The apparently all-powerful tyrant Putin brutally invaded his weak neighbor, exposed thereby all his weaknesses, and will now be deposed, one way -- or other...
Not a question of "if" but rather "when", "at what cost", "with what consequences". Often, political leaders fail to consider consequences, preferring instead to "kick the can down the road", which is literally thoughtless and foolish. A Materialist reading of Russian history repeatedly reveals that the head of state in Russia is always an autocrat --how else to hold a lawless savage diverse nation together in a severe climate? Russian history also shows the Russian autocrat just about always gets ousted by a coup or is even assassinated. All of this is because of Russia's climate, geography, history, and culture: certain people, or even peoples, Need and Want a strongman "to hold them all in awe". So don't expect a new magical unicorn to replace the old tyrant Putin: but a different tyrant will be less disposed to continue the brutal failed war of his predecessor.
However, the stupid pointless war in Ukraine is NOT "the main event".
China will of course seek greater dominance in Mongolia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, and will likely obtain that: human nature abhors a power vacuum. China and Turkey will likely wind up competing for influence in the Turkic speaking former Soviet republics in central Asia.
China will prove to be a far, far tougher adversary than the USSR.
a) Not a nation of alcoholics
b) Not a nation of corruptionnaires, not implementing corruption-as-governance. Much closer to Singapore than NoKo.
c) Chinese people are hard working, intelligent, productive, optimistic, civilized 勤劳,文明, 乐观 的民族. I didn't make those words up, they are literally proverbial.
d) China is not implementing a crazy-stupid business model.
e) The U.S.A. is the fourth largest Chinese country on earth, with significant trade, investment, and personal ties between USA and China. That's entirely unlike U.S.-Russian ties, which are nigh non-existent.
f) Chinese people love family and money in that order and thus are not war-like. They would prefer to win wars without firing a single shot. They would prefer to be wealthy and that their relatives not be eaten by war machines.
I have pointed out the fact Ukraine will win since Day 1 of the invasion. A study of the Makhnovschina and Bandera insurgencies as well as of the Great Northern War shows, even under total occupation the Ukrainians, armed or unarmed, fight savagely and relentlessly. I have wanted that victory to arrive as quickly and bloodlessly as possible.
The Chinese are MUCH sharper than Russians.
The Chinese are not war-like but are not cowards and are highly intelligent. They would prefer to win without fighting, as Sun Tzu's "Art of War" and "Unrestricted Warfare" both state.
In war, there are two main errors: overestimating one's own capacities, and underestimating the opponent's capacities. Wars are more often lost rather than won: Whichever side in a war makes more mistakes loses. Correct strategy plans for its own failure, and plans to succeed no matter what the opponent might do.
Wars just about never end by negotiation due to the escalation of commitment and sunk costs fallacy. Once killing starts negotiation stops. There is no "off ramp" no "negotiated solution". Who negotiates with pathological liars, serial killers, and gang rapists? The war in Ukraine will end with a Ukrainian victory. This ends with Putin dead or in the docket for war crimes. But it’s not the main event.