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> "what is the cost of killing every Russian you would be surprised but the cost of killing every Russian is less than $1,000 now that's why they send so many people to die on the front line they don't count them they don't value them" - **Oleksandr Kamyshin** [[00:04:21](https://youtu.be/SHLgNencz3o?t=261)] > "a Patriot missile battery cost about a billion dollars to procure one system each missile cost about $4…
> "anyone who's been to war would tell you that war is awful... at the end of the day it's all about deterrence... make it unthinkable to your adversaries that they should ever challenge you" - **Trey Stephens** [[00:03:39](https://youtu.be/mjNP5IOzCbA?si=f5pbs4hUgnamVjsJ&t=219s)] > "we lost the American industrial base and have a defense industrial base is you lose volume you lose the R&D stimulus" - **Shyam…
"what is the cost of killing every Russian you would be surprised but the cost of killing every Russian is less than $1,000 now that's why they send so many people to die on the front line they don't count them they don't value them" - Oleksandr Kamyshin [00:04:21]
"a Patriot missile battery cost about a billion dollars to procure one system each missile cost about $4…
"anyone who's been to war would tell you that war is awful... at the end of the day it's all about deterrence... make it unthinkable to your adversaries that they should ever challenge you" - Trey Stephens [00:03:39]
"we lost the American industrial base and have a defense industrial base is you lose volume you lose the R&D stimulus" - **Shyam…
"I think conceptually I think the distinction really is a weapon that is choosing its own targets on the battlefield." - Paul Scharre [00:05:15]
"The US military's flown over 6,000 sorties against Iran... US mil got to bring all that information together and find out where are these targets right now." - Paul Scharre…
"even if you believe that political instability or economic uncertainty might arrest China’s upward climb, that might not change the trajectory of Chinese science. All of those Chinese scientists and engineers will still be there. Their labs and facilities have already been built. Their equipment and instruments have already been bought. Their technicians are already trained. That will still be true if Xi Jinping…
Techno-nationalism is a mercantilist ideology linking technological innovation directly to national security, economic prosperity, and social stability. It involves governments prioritizing homegrown technology, restricting foreign technology access, and treating high-tech sectors (like semiconductors, AI) as vital national assets, often in a zero-sum competition.
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China's technology long game | High Capacity by Kyle Chan
China's Technology Long Game : What reading through China's Five-Year Plans reveals about its evolving tech strategy--and its plans for the industries of the future. | Kyle Chan (@kyleichan)
"frankly if you look back at history the only shit that ever worked the things that helped us win all the wars were the things that the heretics actually did" - Shyam Sankar 00:01:55
"we've had no deaths due to nuclear incidents in our submarine force and he designed it to a standard... 100 times safer than what we believe the minimum standard to be"…
The global tech supply chain. #Toto #Ajinomoto
Anthropic's AI usage by country & state - Anthropic Economic Index
McKinsey: " The US is the most economically competitive country in the world today, but it has work to do. Despite accounting for just 4% of the world's population, the US produces 26% of GDP, 27% of research & development, and has 59 of the world's 100 most valuable firms. But the world is changing rapidly, and the next chapter holds immense challenges. How can the US best position itself to…
"Markets won't work this out because market forces the way that we understand them are not at play... you're dealing with another side which is prepared to produce everything at a loss in perpetuity in order to achieve that control." - Michael Every [00:00:12]
"Economic statecraft really begins with making you ask that simple question of what do you…
"AI is looking more like the airline industry capex intensive but not necessarily very profitable... what is the killer app of a chat box so far I would say the killer app of Open AI is letting kids do their cheat on their homework." - Christopher Wood [00:04:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXaWjOOn1A&t=0h4m2s)
"if I'm investing in anthropic or open AI I'm definitely investing in anthropic." -…
The Geopolitics of AI: Decoding the New Global Operating System (Oct 2025) | J.P Morgan
Transforming for scale: Ashok Vaswani (MD & CEO)'s views about India’s financial sector
"The big five American firms have assembled about 10 times the compute to train their current LLM compared to their prior LLMs... if the scaling laws hold, then a 10x increase in training compute results in models that are about twice as capable." - Stephen Bird (On the widening gap between proprietary and open models) 00:03:46
"The pure technologist…
When they allude to Mark Twain's prescient but overused quote :- "History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” , this is what they mean:- The following article appears in The New York Times' print on Oct. 12, 1986. Yes, 1986 - not the 2020s. Such uncanny resemblance today:-
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*THIS is another story of the loss of a manufacturing industry to Japan, of protectionism that backfired, and…
Backed by Beijing, Huawei and SMIC lead efforts on 7-nm and 5-nm-like production tech.
Nikkei Asia: "Huawei itself plans to roll out several Ascend chipsets in 2026, including the Ascend 950 PR and Ascend 950DT, along with related computing solutions for AI infrastructure, as part of its efforts to further strengthen domestic AI computing capabilities. Its share of China's AI computing chip market was about…
"From an Indian standpoint, India is the reverse AI trade globally. That's the key point to understand here in India." - Chris Wood 00:02:30
"The Indian side of AI story is just like our AI summit—some people found it very attractive and some people found it very chaotic." - Nilesh Shah 00:03:03
"This…
"This is a fundamental root and branch surgery of the way business is done which is why this technology transition is so dramatically different from anything else that we have seen." - Nandan Nilekani (On the structural shift required by AI) [00:03:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X--yKbyhcAE&t=239s)
"Fundamentally accumulated tech debt over decades must be paid. You have no longer have the option to…
Excerpt from the report:
By the late 1860s, the leaders of Japan began taking seriously trends around their region and the world and recognized that they were in deep trouble. A scientific, technological, economic, and industrial revolution was transforming several leading powers, most especially the United Kingdom. In the nations that led this conversion, groups of scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, and…
A New Age of Nations: Power and Advantage in the AI Era (Jan 2026) | Michael J. Mazarr | RAND | (Clcik Source)
