Why is it hard to impose sanctions on Russia?

     Why is it hard to impose sanctions on Russia? 

We always wonder why Trump hesitates to impose sanctions against Russia. The reason for that is extremely complicated. We know that the Russian government has large-scale nuclear weapons that they use as blackmail tools. That is an easy explanation. There is also another problem with Russia, and that problem is China. China is the biggest producer of rare earth metals. In the world. Even if the USA is one of the most powerful and advanced countries in the world. That country is bound in the international, global-scale raw material network. 

And that thing puts the brakes on the U.S. government. The USA has been the most advanced microchip maker on this planet. But the problem is that. This country requires many strategic metals and minerals that are used to make microchips and other technical equipment. This means that if China does not deliver those minerals, the USA’s ability to produce microchips decreases. Another problem is things like oil. Many oil producers in the Middle East are BRICS countries. Those countries want to see Putin as their ally. The reason for that is that those nations are non-democratic, and the activist movement wants to limit weapon sales to those countries. 

Those people know that Putin is not as sharp as Western actors who use those weapons. And Putin can sell things like nuclear weapons technology to those countries whose main source of income is minerals, and especially the oil and gas industry. The U.S military requires oil and gas for its global operations. The nuclear bomber can operate on a global scale using airborne refueling. But the support operators.  Like special forces teams. Need petroleum for their equipment, in case the nuclear bomber must make an emergency landing. Those operators also require a base in the Middle East where they can operate. In those situations. 

Another problem is that Putin thinks that he can try to buy politicians and other people to support his propaganda. People know. That Putin and his regime are willing to make sacrifices to stay in control.  The fact is that those sacrifices don’t touch Putin’s nomenclature. And that is the thing that is a big problem. Another thing is that nobody knows how big a sacrifice Putin is willing to make. Putin is the man who is in command. But he is not the entire regime. There are people in Russia who support his policy. That means changing the leader might not mean that war ends or anything changes in Russia. 

There is a certain cycle. When we think about the freedoms in the Soviet Union and Russia. There are always thaws when new, young leaders take their position. But when leaders turn old. The secret police will start to tighten its grip on society. That means arresting and sending to the GULAG. When the leaders change, the people who served those leaders turn into criminals. In one night. After Stalin’s death, his loyal servants like Beriya and many other people went to prison and were executed. That was the second purge. Those purges followed all other soviet leaders. And they still continued. The idea is that people who served the old regime are useless. And the new leader collects a new regime around him. 

The thing is that the secret police controls the entire society in Russia. If leaders are not pleasing the secret police organization. That person faces a heart attack. As long as the secret police exists, there cannot be big changes in the Russian government. The secret police surrounds all Russian leaders as it surrounded Stalin, Lenin, and the Tsar. That organization is like a state in a state. And those people don’t hesitate to use violence. It is almost certain that the secret police killed the ex. Chairman of the KGB, Yuri Andropov. because the leader of the Communist Party, or literally the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, wanted to limit the secret police’s power. The KGB probably used salt injection for that case because Andropov’s kidneys were damaged, and that caused death. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov

Information: the new tool.

   Information: the new tool. 

Information: the new tool. 

We are not in a crisis; we are in the middle of the fastest change in human history. AI and high-power information technology make it possible to connect all our devices and ourselves inside the singularity. In that singularity, the BCI, Brain computer interfaces, can connect us to the endless information flow. Brain-implanted microchips and AI are the ultimate pair, and in the wrong hands, they are among the most dangerous tools. That system allows us to see what we think and what we feel. 

That gives us the ultimate remote view if we can connect our brain-implanted microchips to surveillance cameras. The BCI is the tool that can destroy individualism. It can connect us to the artificial virtual world. And there are many risks. One of the risks is that the person can get lost in the multiple internal virtual worlds. In that vision, the person who uses the BCI can slip into cyberspace and then forget to come out. The virtual reality matrix is the thing. 

That involves multiple internal virtual reality spaces. And if a person uses BCI to enter that virtual space, they will not be able to separate virtual reality from real reality. The person forgets to drink and eat. When microchips give a signal straight to the brain. A person will not separate the data that they give from the data that natural sense gives to them. That means the person will not separate reality from virtual reality. 

The ultimate virtual reality with BCI systems can take us to eternity. That technology allows the transfer of data to people's brains. And this is the key to immortality. In that version of immortality, the person will be cloned, and all data that is stored in their brains will be transferred into the clone. That thing gives the possibility to "live forever". 

And that technology can open the road to interstellar flight. The journey takes about 250 years. Requires a new way to think about space exploration. And we must realize that if we make that journey to the other solar systems, we will never see that crew again.  This is one reason why it's so hard to create bases all around the solar system. Even if we had a nuclear engine, the journey to the outer planets takes years. And if there is some kind of problem, rescue will be impossible. One solution can be a space mission. Made by using AI-controlled robots. The spacecraft takes human-shaped, AI-controlled robots to the target, and the robots collect samples and other things. 

Time is the key problem in interstellar flight. The basic problem is that. The journey takes too long for human life. The "Project Hyperion" is one of the first serious attempts to map how humans can someday travel to the stars. The most common thing is the cryostatic ice where the astronauts will be put for the journey. The cryostatic ice, whose temperature is near 0K, will deny aging. When astronauts come near the other solar system, the system will wake them up. The cryostatic system allows the astronauts to fly for a long time. But the problem is that their friends and families will not see them again. And the cosmic radiation can still harm the DNA of those people. 

Cryotechnology, or cryogenics, gives the possibility to create a very slow time machine. The person can be put into liquid nitrogen. And then the system can wake that person up after 200 years. That is one version of time travel. 

But there are people on Earth who want to freeze themselves into cryostatic ice. The idea is that those people believe. That one day in the future, technology will allow them to wake up. So, they wait in the cryostatic chamber where medical experts create methods to heal their sickness. So, maybe someday in the future, those people will walk on the Earth again. 

But if we think about biotechnology, artificial cells, and viruses. We can see another way to reach immortality. In that case, the nanotechnology replaces damaged DNA with fresh DNA. The nanotechnology creates new DNA and then destroys the old DNA from the cells. And puts that new DNA into mitochondria and the nucleus. This methodology requires a large number of nanomachines, but it's possible to create a nanomachine swarm that can make this thing. 

Researchers can store people in the form of DNA. The DNA can be stored in digital form. And nanomachines will assemble those DNA bits into the new entirety.  Or it can be stored in an extremely static environment. The system just injects that DNA into the cells and grows a clone of the person. And after that, the BCI system can transfer memories of the person to that clone. That requires that those memories be stored somewhere. The system can use artificial cells to transfer memories to the clone. Memories are stored in the DNA, and then the artificial cell can transfer them to the nervous system by using electric impulses and neurotransmitters. 

https://www.projecthyperion.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenics