China is sending tools to help Russia build its nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that Vladimir Putin is using to threaten the West.
“It’s always about us” strikes again.
China, however, never signed up to Western sanctions on Russia.
The shock of the century for everyone, I’m sure.
“Anything you know that moves uses ball bearings,” Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, told The Telegraph. “They have to be manufactured with precision and go into everything.”
Huh, why would they ask that particular person about ball bearings.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C
Oh.
The technology is far more damaging for Ukraine – and the West – than the hundreds of artillery shells sent by other allies like Iran, which deplete quickly and have little long-term impact.
Gotta have that token Iran tie-in there.
“That’s why you’re seeing imports being of such high importance,” he said. “The Chinese manufacturing ecosystem is leaps and bounds ahead of the Russian manufacturing sector.”
Implicitly admitting how much more effective a vanguard-run state is.
“Capturing the full scale of shipments of sensitive goods between China and Russia is increasingly difficult because of routes, shell companies and intermediary logistics companies used by shippers to evade detection,” said William George, director of research at Import Genius.
Wait, do people in war-time circumstances sometimes do things clandestinely? Truly, we are blessed by the analysis of Import Genius.
These publications are only going to sound increasingly absurd as the empire more declines, aren’t they.
Alao worth noting that on the visibility into logistics bit they don’t mention the elephant in the room which is that trade now happens outside western financial system and that’s why it’s so hard for westerners to track now.
And that’s a huge problem with dedollarization, western companies have lost privileged access to global trade statistics which they used for logistics planning.
Good point!
OMG, they sent a lathe! 😱
