Putin's embrace of Xi will resolve any long term probs for Mother Russia. Putin will also sell all the gas and oil China will buy. There is some speculation that advances in renewables or CO2 storage will alleviate dependencies on fossil fuels worldwide, but this seems optimistic. Moreover, the greatest threat to humans was never The Climate as has been promoted ceaselessly for 30 years, it has been and continues to be nuclear annihilation. This should show us JC that ideology does occlude clear thinking of people with normal and exceptional intelligence.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 4, 2022 2:57 pm Subject: Russian sanctions In my opinion the greatest long-term damage to Russia from the sanctions will be in the semiconductor industry. Taiwan's TSMC is the largest semiconductor foundry in the world and Taiwan refuses to trade with Russia due to the Ukrainian invasion, INTEL and AMD also refuse to do business with Russia. In addition the Dutch company ASML dominates the manufacture of machines that manufacture semiconductors and they also refused to do business with Russia; the American company Applied Materials is #2 in the same business and of course they also refuse to sell anything to Russia. There are some chip foundries in Russia but they're using ancient Jurassic technology, it's 15 years out of date! Even China, Russia's only friend nowadays, can't produce anything that even comes close to what TSMC or ASML can make. The only trouble is it takes time for sanctions to work and I don't think Ukraine has that much time. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis oo0-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv363Ezg6JLuvobF%2Bfb09sRddMpZO8aBBXep70p8-ooRWA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/606191302.51097.1646442035957%40mail.yahoo.com.
