I have not changed my belief that Ukraine will take back all its territories eventually since President Zelenskyy said "I need ammunition, not a ride" and Ukrainian warriors stopped the Rashist advance.  It is just a question of cost and time. The basis of my point is that the Moscow KGB thug regime will end. It may take longer than many like, similar to the CCP mafia regime in the PRC which has survived much longer than I originally expected. I maintained my PRC citizenship and delayed my naturalization for a long time in the hope that I would cast my vote in the first democratic election that we fought for in 1989. I did not expect the West to give such overwhelming support to the CCP to help extend its life. However, I have never doubted the totalitarian regime will be finished, and the Chinese people will be free, and so will the Russian people.  When the CCP regime is finished, China will disintegrate inevitably, and so will Russia after the KGB thugs are done.  The wors

I was surprised and amused when I found out last week that THE most influential foreign role model for 2 generations of indoctrinated Chinese youths (including yours) was a Ukrainian - Nikolai Ostrovsky. My ignorance. Let me tell you how popular he was in the PRC.  His novel How the Steel Was Tempered, claimed as an autobiography, was ranked #1 among the 50 most influential books selected by the public in 1999, beating books by Mao, Shakespeare,  Lu Xun, Hemingway, Sholokhov, Hugo... If I remember it correctly, we were required to recite his quote: “Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the Liberation of Mankind” Another surprise: the propaganda department of the CCP's Shenzhen committee sponsored the 2

Just in case some have the illusion of an extremely close and equal partnership between Russia and the PRC, allow me to go over some history quickly to show "close and equal" has never happened and will never with the PRC. Russians founded the CCP and the relationship between the CCP and Russia couldn't have been closer before Stalin died. When Mao wanted to be the boss of the communist movement, the relationship soured quickly. The CCP suffered over 1M casualties in the Korean War to save the DPRK. The true relationship between the PRC and the DPRK was very poor and rocky for a long time because Kim was too independent for the CCP. Nehru was hailed by the CCP as one of the great world leaders. The Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence initiated with India were treated as the gold standard guiding international relationships.  The honeymoon ended with the Sino-Indian war. The CCP provided massive support for Viet Cong with military personnel, weapons, apparel, and food

The KGB thug is in Beijing to report to his masters 10 days after his inauguration.  He is appropriated by the state councilor Shen Yiqin in charge of women, children, pension, sports, and veterans affairs at the airport . Here is my ultra-brief summary of the history of the Sino-Ruso relationship in light of gross misunderstandings by some people such as Vivek Ramaswamy. Russia annexed 910k km^2 from China (i.e., the Qing dynasty) through two treaties signed under the gun (Aigun and Beijing) from 1858 to 1860 . That is 25x the area of Taiwan, but the CCP does not want it back while being obsessed with Taiwan. The CCP was started and then funded for a long period by Russians as their puppet through their controlled Comintern . The CCP established t he short-lived Chinese Soviet Republic in 1931 with the intention to turn China into a Soviet republic to help complete Russia's annexation of China. Mao was the state head. The party was still under complete Russian control then. Russi

I have wanted to share my thoughts on Ukraine's manpower issue for a long time mainly because I keep hearing the lie of Ukraine running out of men. Since I am not a genius like Musk or Sacks who get indisputable truth from pro-Kremlin sources, I can only share my observations and speculation. Let's first acknowledge that manpower has been an issue from the very beginning of the Rashist invasion. No one disputes it. Otherwise, Ukraine would not have issued the order to ban men 8 to 60 from leaving the country as soon as the Rashist invasion started. It is true that some Ukrainians do not want to serve for various reasons. Ukraine's current population is 35M-40M with about 10M military-age men. If 10% fo them do not want to serve, and your narrative is Ukrainians do not want to fight, you could theoretically find 1M cases to support your argument. You could compile a book of Ukrainians evading or resisting conscription. I remember at least 2 of my 3 exits from Ukraine saw a l

These are my long-held thoughts or speculations about post-CCP China. Generally speaking, the longer the rule of the CCP, the more disintegration of China. My preferred analogy is a pressure cooker that China resembles and the CCP is its lid.  The cooker would remain intact if the steam were released constantly. The CCP wants a tight seal (e.g., riding free speech completely), so eventually the cooker will explode.  The longer the seal, the higher the pressure, hence the more fragmented the post-explosion cooker. It was possible for China to maintain its current territory or even expand (by recovering Outer Manchuria from Russia) until 1989.  Yes, the CCP committed a lot of crimes against minorities such as Tibetans and Uyghurs, but it did against Hans too. It harmed Hans even more than minorities in some cases. For example, the great famine that killed 40 million Chinese had less impact in minority regions. In the 1980s, people felt the CCP made a lot of mistakes and it started to ack

I was excited by  the video How Aurora Got Self-Driving Trucks On The Road  a few months ago. I thought the concept of highway-only autonomous driving might have a significant positive impact on many people in not very far future. The consensus is that true autonomous driving under all conditions will not happen until at least 2035.   Aurora has started this hub-to-hub autonomous driving . This eliminates the most unpleasant part of a trucker's job - long hours on highways.  I can see this technology ported to passenger cars relatively easily. When it happens, it will enhance the quality of life for tens of millions in the US alone by allowing them to be productive and stress-free during daily commutes on highways. Even for those without daily highway commutes, it can be highly beneficial. Two examples: Many in MA enjoy hiking and skiing in the NH mountains. For me, the 3-hour driving (one-way) kills the interest most of the time. If the 2.5 hours on highways are done autonomously,

The free world has paid and will continue to pay heavy prices for the current US administration's illusion about the PRC. Two of many examples: 1. The current Rashist slaughter in UA would have had a good chance to be prevented if the US had not acted based on the illusion. The administration begged the PRC for months with US intel about Putin's planned invasion. The PRC passed the information to Moscow to confirm the weakness and fear of the US to affirm Putin's confidence in the victory of the invasion.  The US could have prevented the slaughter by rapidly ramping up lethal weapon aid to Ukraine. The slaughter will cost the free world at least hundreds of billions of dollars in the end. 2. The pledge to ban AI weapons could cost the US astronomically, or even threaten its existence. There is ABSOLUTELY ZERO chance for the CCP to abide by it. Marines and the relatively small Space Force are the only two out of the five military branches that meet their recruiting goals . I

I support whatever Ukrainians want to do with their territories on their own land. If I am allowed to have personal wishes regarding Ukraine, they will be: Never concede any territories.  Pause all high casualty ground offensives regardless of the outcome. If Rashists have offensives, set up optimal meat grinders to induce their human wave assaults to incur maximum casualties on them. Beef up SOF activities and drone/missile attacks in the occupied territories to maintain constant maximum pain on occupiers. Work with international communities constantly to impose maximum sanctions on PRC's Russia province. Rejuvenate Ukraine's legendary defense industry to provide the bulk of the weapons to sustain the fight and churn out high-performance and highly cost-effective weapons. Start reconstruction now and integrate the economy with the EU as much as possible to bring back high single-digit or even double-digit growth. Ukraine has both the brains and resources to make it with intern