Good. Necessity creates innovation. not so good for ASML that is getting competition created for it by the sanctions that aren't doing so hot.
Korkki
joined 1 year ago
it's not like human brain memory or consciousness is that information dense. They just did that high of a definition of a scan.
International law in this context just means that a single global hegemon can no longer push everybody else around and call it's will and interests "law", and therefore claim that it's interest somehow benevolent and part of how just things are. That is exactly what "rules based international order" means.
Not that we have ever had any law that equally applies to everybody equally. All laws and even international law needs a hobbesian Behemoth that is more powerful than any other to enforce "international law" and is in the end above it since it is at the best position to enforce and set the "law". The UN and it's institutions are basically basically a discussion club by design and it can't do shit so post 1990 world the Behemoth has been the world hegemonic United states. Now that US has declined relatively as Russia, China, India, Iran, etc have risen it finds itself unable to enforce anything through hard or soft power and therefore the idea of law, stability and peace under US dissipates. Not that it was ever lawfully, peaceful or stable, that illusion only applied to the western core nations of this now dead American world.
political elites in Europe are afraid and fear upheavals are coming in the coming years and months because of the cost of living crisis and the war. They try to clamp down beforehand to preserve their own power. This always happens when things go bad. The leash is kept looser when people behave and it's tightened again when the opposite happens. There is no real freedoms that is given to the people by the elites, because what concessions they give willingly they can just as easily take away when they no longer feel like it. Provided that they think they can get away with it.