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[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@torgeek I hope Russia does catch up and builds a genuinely competitive domestic semiconductor industry, but at present it is still decades behind the global frontier in lithography.

[Jack Simpson 🇮��� 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@torgeek semiconductor technology, it was leading-edge around 2003–04.

The fact the US no longer assembles complete lithography scanners domestically since SVG was acquired by ASML in 2001 is a separate point entirely.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@griptmedia 🤡🌍

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@torgeek in the Netherlands ships EUV for 2nm.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@torgeek 90nm isn't cutting-edge, it was cutting-edge in 2003. The US never "dropped out". Intel was at 22nm 15 years ago and is now at Intel 18A (~1.8nm). Dozens of countries operate 90nm fabs. If you mean lithography equipment , Russia is still working toward a 130nm tool, while ASML

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Opinion

Former Fine Gael minister Charlie Flanagan once said he’d have “more influence on Government policy if I was a middle-ranking official with an NGO”.

This is exactly it.

Ireland's Govt funded NGOs are mostly staffed with radical left wing activists. Our Govt has handed them the pen.

Its open season on national policy.

Normal people are too busy to understand how all this works. So when they open the paper and read "tradwives policy" they are completely lost at sea wondering what is happening.

Ministers get the blame, but Ministers come and go every 4 years.

The NGO class is the permanent fixture funded by the tax payer. Unelected and unaccountable.

Staffed with activists straight from college.
No real world experience & weak academic grounding.

Time to de-fund the NGOS.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

“NoFappers, Tradwives, and Fitfluencers: the new ideological entrepreneurs of the manosphere.”

(^this was a real UCC event promoted by the National Women’s Council)

I spent the weekend tracing how "Tradwives" became a Govt policy target.

The paper trail is extraordinary....

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@danobrien20 The comparison is almost self-defeating. Ireland’s low housing-cost burden partly reflects young adults staying with parents rather than forming households. Denmark’s young leave earlier, so their rent burden actually shows up in the statistics.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@danobrien20 These polls are a poor guide to causation because the issues are interlinked. The Russia-NATOwar scores 1%yet its fallout has fed directly into energy food prices, inflation, migration, housing pressure, public spending and healthcare demand. Voters rank symptoms, not causes.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@danobrien20 @thecurrency Technically true but this is misleading. The wealthiest 10% own 47% of the wealth, while the median household, not person, was worth €257k in 2023. Mean ≠ typical.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@danobrien20 Given Europe and Russia are already in a de facto confrontation ie Ukraine support, sanctions, sabotage, cyberattacks, rearmament, training, allowing use of airspace for drone strikes etc, Russia planning options for a limited attack or test of NATO should surprise nobody.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@danobrien20 @centralbank_ie The CB paper actually points the other way. Younger households are saving more partly because housing constraints force them to build much larger deposits. A high savings rate while living with your parents isnt evidence the housing problem is imaginary, can be evidence of it.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@clement_molin of up to 2,000 casualties per month is not derived from the data presented. The strongest defensible conclusion is that bomb totals cannot be translated directly into successful strikes or casualties, not that your own figures are proven.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@clement_molin Your mapping may be valuable, but the conclusions are still estimates built on assumptions. Without knowing the intended aimpoint, you cannot reliably classify a bomb landing in a field, forest or treeline as a miss.

The arithmetic also gives 5–10%, not simply 5%, and the claim

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Victoria Nuland finally admits it

US officials and Boris Johnson killed the 2022 peace talks so the war could continue.

Everything they’ve told you about Russia/Ukraine is a lie.

[Jack Simpson 🇮🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 @JackSim29461829]

@Ronieutd Woodgate

[Josiah Burke @realJosiahBurke]

BREAKING: My brother teacher @EnochBurke has been ordered to pay almost €210,000 in fines by a High Court Judge.

His crime: refusing to accept you can be suspended from your job for not calling a child “they”.

A shameful day for Ireland.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The NATO-backed coup in Ukraine was on February 22, 2014. In the article below, the New York Times confirms that two days later, on February 24, the new Ukrainian intelligence chief of the government that the US had handpicked, called the CIA and MI6 to establish a partnership against Russia. Only a few days earlier, Russia had been the main security partner of Ukraine - after the coup, it would become NATO's frontline state against Russia.

The CIA operation against Russia developed from 2014-2022:
- "12 newly-built, forward operating bases constructed along the Russian border. From each base, General Kondratiuk said, the Ukrainian officers ran networks of agents who gathered intelligence inside Russia. C.I.A. officers installed equipment at the bases to help gather intelligence and also identified some of the most skilled Ukrainian graduates of the Operation Goldfish program, working with them to approach potential Russian sources."

- "The listening post in the Ukrainian forest is part of a C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border... Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.

The CIA/MI6 presence in Ukraine became a key motivation for the Russian invasion:
- "Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Mr. Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the C.I.A., together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow."

*** The war in Ukraine was clearly provoked (and even started) by NATO. The amount of evidence makes this undeniable. However, the political-media establishment defends the "unprovoked invasion" narrative by dismissing and criminalising all explanations of NATO's involvement as efforts to "legitimise" the Russian invasion. Why is NATO's contribution to starting this war important? If we recognise NATO's contribution and the legitimate Russian security concerns, then it opens up an opportunity for compromise and peace. By clinging to the "unprovoked invasion" narrative, weapons are the path to peace, and NATO gets to continue its war against Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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