I’m not sure why people are surprised? Intel pulled off 7nm without EUV. It’s just classic “China stupid, only American company can do that” bullshit.

AMD’s fabs became Global Foundries, who pulled out of the bleeding-edge node game once it became cost prohibitive to do so with 7nm.

Intel is still on 7nm. Samsung’s 5nm is basically 7nm+. The fact that SMIC can do 7nm without EUV is insanely impressive.

Intel took years and years of delays to achieve the same thing.

So… What leverage does Ukraine have to make that happen?

Speaking at a news conference at the United Nations on Saturday, the minister called a 10-point peace blueprint promoted by Kyiv “completely not feasible”.

Kyiv’s plan:

Energy security, with a focus on price restrictions on Russian energy resources

Restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity and Russia reaffirming it according to the UN Charter

Withdrawal of Russian troops and the cessation of hostilities, the restoration of Ukraine’s state borders with Russia

Justice, including the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes

building security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic space, including guarantees for Ukraine.

What leverage does Ukraine think they have to institute such a blatantly pro-Ukraine peace resolution? Based on Ukraine’s proposed plan, you’d think they were at the sea of Azov and halfway to Moscow, rather than stuck in a few salients along the same frontline they were at a year ago.

This isn’t unique to the far-left, though. It’s a problem throughout the entire political spectrum.

It’s rather dangerous to be creating echo chambers in a democracy, though. Democracy lives off of discourse between opposing views.

Al Jazeera has been given many awards for fair and (relatively) unbiased journalism. Notably, many of the journalists at Al Jazeera are not Qatari.