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That's why breaking the US up into pieces is so important, as hopefully they would at least have to use those nukes on the parts that seced instead of other countries that have done nothing, on top of such breaking up leading to deteriorated nuclear weapons infraestructure for at least a while.

Well, the weather is really unpredictable, so let's just wait for good news tomorrow.

Considering how France's empire has been crumbling, if they don't do anything there is a high probability of Russia taking it's place there too and I think Russia would at least try to get paid for anything the colonists destroy, or even ask for more.

but seem to be focused on solely military targets for the time being.

Apparently they hit at least one oil rig as well.

Very unconfirmed so far but if there was indeed a new, and reasonably good, LLM trained without nvidia chips it would signal that alternatives exist, at least for the smaller models, and hopefully would drive down prices of chips needed for training or using such models by individuals and small groups as well, allowing for a lot more specialization of small LLMs for all sorts of tasks.

Nice to see that this is affecting oil as well which hopefully will weaken the petrodollar soon. And with a weaker dollar and more direct trade in everything it would be really nice for high tech goods to be affected as well, perhaps breaking quite a few western companies/monopolies/oligopolies on the way.

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Privateering coming back in the arctic, and pacific.

Anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, drones and many other solutions would make it not sustainable for long enough to hurt these countries, specially if Russia nuked whoever gave support to such privateers as their new nuclear doctrine (that they presented in the last 48 hours) would likely require they answer like that.

Using environmental concerns to pass a UN resolution putting major restrictions on what can be shipped through it.

That's why veto power exists, and if Russia lost their veto power then Russia would not follow anything comming out of there and the UN itself would likely go the way of the League of Nations.

“Accidentally” crashing a nuclear powered sub and having its reactor melt down up there so a choke point is unusable forcing ships to go through NATO waters to bypass radiation.

Two can play that game. Although I don't think there are any chokepoints for that anyway.

Doing “military exercises” in the Bering Strait constantly.

If civilian ships got hit by the "exercises" that would be an act of war because to the victim that is just a direct attack on them.

False claims of Russian/Chinese boats entering US Alaskan waters constantly, and disputing the maritime boundaries constantly changing where they claim the line is to confuse captains. Firing warning shots at any ships that cross the line that they move every morning.

That's the same as invading and taking Russian land and would likely be considered an act of war and nukes might fly. And there is also many ways to avoid crossing into the wrong borders anyway so it shouldn't be a problem.

Plus this doesnt even take into account that the US is working to create a maritime exclusion zone around Chinas entire coast.

Again, the US can circle China as much as they want but they can't fully block them without attacking China/Russia which would be considered an act of war.

This will work for now, but the end goal needs to be a huge railway project connecting Russia and China over land deep within their territory where its safe from any attack. High speed cargo trains running from the Chinese coast up into Russia all the way to Moscow would be an economic game changer.

It would be good but those lines are still attackable by drones and missiles, that's why there is no way for the US to block them without nukes flying being a very high likelyhood.

As long as it's not blocking Russian ships from the Black Sea the US can do anything and not much would come out of it straight away. Some countries would try to become independend of the canals but that would likely not lead to war.

On the other hand, the US literally shooting at Russian or Chinese ships would be a declaration of war that would require an immediate response of those attacked else it would just escalate to them losing more ships and probably even their ports and coastal infraestructure/cities being targeted soon as well.

Ya i wouldnt be so sure it cant be blocked.

It can be blocked but only by force and the only countries that can do this are the US itself, the baltics, the scandinavian countries, occupied Korea or Japan, neither of which could attack Russia/China without a high likelyhood of getting nuked in return. Meanwhile, the Suez can be closed and there is nothing Russia or China could do (other than going around or making more trains).

Hopefully this means something like sanctions on the colonists from BRICS is also being worked on in the background and close to becoming reality.

I thought it was just a 3D printed phone case full of C4.