China, like Russia does not rely on Microsoft for its internet cables and data centers. There are just few Microsoft data centers in China heavily controlled by the Chinese government, but the majority of internet infrastructure is Chinese. This makes China, and Russia that has no Microsoft Data centers at all, tech self-sufficient and how valuable is to be self-sufficient from any point of view, we just witnessed these days: Russia and China were not affected by the “Blue Screen” crisis.
Other than the fact that tech self-sufficiency makes a nation less vulnerable at external tech attackers, it makes that nation less vulnerable at staged attacks as well. China and Russia have leaders that are “people” oriented, because they need the people to work and produce value. China and Russia are interested to lower the prices and the speculation as much as possible in their economies with the view to increase the living standards for its people. Unfortunately the Western world have leaders that are “profit” oriented which means that they can just create crisis for so many reasons: to increase control measures, to create panic and instability, which makes people spend more on certain products, to increase prices for this or for that. They tend to financialize and speculate more and more, without any concern for the living standard loss. The financialization and speculation were always present in the Western world, but the people living in the Western world did not know about it or did not feel any living standards drop because this financialization and speculation was kept under a decent level. Today this practice increased to the point that started to have visible effects, like inflation, less and less patriotic leaders, more and more elito-cracy and burocracy, liberalo-cracy, free-to-speculate-at-the-expense-of-many-cracy.These elites that harvested all the gains from 80 years ( after World War II) of financialization and speculation tried to corrupt Russia and China in the same direction but Russia and China escaped, just like these days they “escaped” the “Blue Screen Death” due to their tech self-sufficiency.
Is it a coincidence the fact that China and Russia were not hit by the “blue screen death” because have leaders of a different mindset?
You do not even need a nuclear bomb if you want to create terror. You just have to “program” a fault at the electrical circuits that feeds a community water pump. If you live in a house, then you can go for your needs in the garden. If you live in a block of flats, in matter of days you will have to leave your house because the smell from the toilet would become unbearable. Someone like Annalina Baerbeck, Kaja Kallas, Zelensky that exterminates a nation, Mark Rutte, Andrzej Duda, Claus Iohannis… they do not speak like they care about you and me. They have titles, positions, carers, elite’s solidarity, emotionally charged moods, phobias… They already speak probably behind closed doors what would be the next “death” after the “blue screen” one and when. Could be the “black water” next?!
(Blackwater: is the wastewater from bathrooms and toilets that contains faecal matter and urine. Water from kitchens and dishwashers are also considered blackwater due to the contamination by pathogens and grease)
That is why I am not “religious” but a firm “person of faith”, I came to learn the dangers around.
I have hopes and prayers, because only God Almighty can hold a “profit minded leader”‘s horses.
Who lives in “wonderland” does not need God or faith, but one that takes the pulse of the reality around or is hit hard by reality, will find any means to get ever, including to believe there is Hope when it looks like there is none and to pray instead of fear-mongering or worry-mongering.
Faith don’t cost a thing, but thrives only where one applies honesty with oneself.