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Emmanuel Todd, one of the greatest French intellectuals today, claims that the "Third World War has started."

lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/emmanuel

13 Jan 2023 at 20:55 | Open on mas.to
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Alex Coventry

@yogthos Purports to be an English translation of the most important bits (I can't access the original article.)

mobile.twitter.com/RnaudBertra

It sounds extremely misguided and misinformed to me in important respects, but I'm an Australian who loves the US.

13 Jan 2023 at 21:56 | Open on mastodon.mit.edu
Yogthos

@alx do elaborate what parts you believe to be misguided and misinformed. This reads like a sober assessment to me.

14 Jan 2023 at 0:04 | Open on mas.to
Alex Coventry

@yogthos The idea that Russia is going to be competitive with the US for engineering in the forseeable future is ludicrous unless there's a drastic regime change, for starters. Russia has lots of successful engineers, but not so much in Russia itself.

14 Jan 2023 at 1:19 | Open on mastodon.mit.edu
Yogthos

@alx I'd love to know where you got the notion that there aren't competent engineers in Russia. How do you think Russia was able to develop things like hypersonic weapons ahead of US exactly?

Russia also consistently tops programming competitions zdnet.com/article/why-us-has-l

And it's the only country that managed to produce platforms like Yandex, VK, and Telegram that outcompeted US equivalents domestically.

14 Jan 2023 at 1:25 | Open on mas.to
Alex Coventry

@yogthos It appears that my response to this has been deleted. Not sure why.

14 Jan 2023 at 3:11 | Open on mastodon.mit.edu
Yogthos
Alex Coventry

@yogthos I've contacted one of the server admins, and will continue if I get their approval, I guess.

14 Jan 2023 at 3:40 | Open on mastodon.mit.edu
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