Totally agree with you Glenn, the Russian education system is superior to many Western standards. Producing a lot of highly educated civilians. The Russian leadership will no doubt tap into one of it most important resources, if not it's most important resource. China has invested massively in its hi tech industry. India is also teaming with citizens, that are experts & specialists in the field. I've no doubt the way President Putin has developed Russia in many areas over the years. His outstanding team of top political advisors & ministers. Will be looking to cooperate with its reliable trading partners. In industries for the future, who comes after President Putin is the key for me. Who carries on his legacy? There's some very capable professionals at the top of the Russian political system. Time will tell if the right choices are made by the right people. Russia has a much better chance of technological independence than the EU. In the EU's case they've lost their own relevance. Totally under US control. The UK is nearly the same, in fact that single reason the UK hasn't totally succumbed to being a 100% US vassel state. Is the much hated arrogance of the British ruling classes & their longing for their old ways of being an empire. As a British citizen of quite a few decades. I've watched the ruling classes of my own country closely. Believe me when I say this, these people are more responsible for the destruction of so many British regions & citizens lives than any war. All the stolen wealth, all of the ill gotten gains. Are where exactly? The country is nearly bankrupted, but has an obscene amount of very wealthy families. With huge wealth, there's many foreign elites who have made huge wealth from Britain. The vast majority of citizens have been kept divided, controlled & poor. Britain today is as tribal as any country on the planet. Just without the head chopping, that time is to come. Russia has genuine rulers not all but many that want the best for their country & citizens. For that reason alone they'll look to the future & decide what they believe is the best way forward. The West looks to an increasingly corrupt basket case of a country, that has no known knowledge of history. A very important aspect.
I am not sure that the US policy of "what's good for Silicon Valley is good for America" is much of an example that others should follow. Silicon Valley is hollowing out the US leaving massive social problems in its wake as it asserts its grip over the political classes. It has no interest in addressing these issues and the politicians don't seem that interested either blinded by the new techno-utopia they imagine.
I think the tech companies need to be reined in and fast otherwise we face a re-run of the worst excesses of the era of Dickens. That dystopia seems to be the trajectory the West is heading towards. Whether others will do any better remains to be seen but you would like to think that they would be a bit more circumspect.
"Move fast and break things" doesn't seem much of a plan for the good governance of already fragile and fracturing societies.
The tech sector running wild and totally unchecked is actually central to the breakdown of economic and social cohesion in western societies. This sector impacts who makes what money, how that money is distributed, and even how and on what terms political and social discourse is conducted, which currently is on a very unhealthy way, as documented by people like Jaron Lanier and Anil Dash.
Tech sector is also not a neutral sector: is funded and owned primarily by by extreme ideologues like Peter Thiels and Sheryl Sandbergs and Zuckerberg. These are broken, or at the very least highly unbalanced and incomplete human beings.
If tech is a wild horse with no reins, no limits for them, society goes straight into the toilet.
"Move fast and break things" is more suited to organized crime - Move fast, break things and extort money to fix them. Im fine with paper mills and filing cabinets.
I have read two excellent substack articles this morning.
This one and David McGrogan's 'Ruthlessness and Pity' .
Between them they describe pretty well the underlying effects of the forces at work across the western world. Overlay that with the Empire's protection of its hegemony and the threat from Trump 'the Mule', and you get the picture.
Russia's seeking technological / political independence from the western geopolitical hegemony and her own corrupt (and corrupting) billionaire robber barons, is the CAUSE of the west's hostility to Russia
and thus, sanctions. It is no coincidental complicating factor and the implication that it is reveals a startling naivete.
Excellent article. Perhaps Professor Diesen should consider writing a book on the same subject. I would like to suggest you also cover the choice of what industries should be nationalized and nationalized in what form. For example, MIC probably should be 100% nationalized or under very tight supervision. Agriculture and other natural resources industries with strategic significance including steel making) can probably have government owning some shares and board seats, but management can be left to private industries. Some industries probably have to be decentralized from giants and allow smaller concentrations like co-ops organized by first-line producers. Russia, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have taken different approaches in their industrialization process.
Wow. Where to begin to pinpoint the real reason to all the problems the world has created for itself?
We all have different abilities and experiences to see where the world is stumbling and what it needs to come back on track. Anyway this is my proposal for a solution to what I will describe as problems:
What we have today is a problem because we are in a critical situation and has been for as long humans have existed. So what doesn’t work?
We have for thousands of years used a political model of centralized power in every state and now also in alliances between states that makes it even worse with its block policy against competitors or what is seen as enemies. This model doesn’t work because it is impossible to change when the will of the people is both manipulated by propaganda and or oppressed by dictatorship like today and have always been in different forms. Even the democratic systems we have today in most countries in the west are built upon choosing candidates that represent a particular political program or so they say without any obligations or responsibility for their own political promises to the people.
In USA we also see that the economic elites with their lobbyists totally decide the agendas of the political decisions that also controls the mainstream media that indoctrinate the masses with misinformation and propaganda to support the elites agenda and policy and have been for decades. We some signs of changes now with the coming Trump administration but the democratic system is still the same and this means we might have all the warmongering puppets back in office after 4 years so the real problem is still not solved.
We cannot have a democratic system that is rigged and dominated by a small group of corrupt power ignoring and manipulating the will and need of the majority of the population.
This problem is the same in nearly all western countries.
In reality we do not have a working democratic system for the people in the west and it works too well for the elites with the real political power.
And because of the constant political propaganda in the mainstream media the people also lack the ability to understand that this is the real problem.
In addition are the leaders at the top of all political and corporate powers and influence not motivated to let go of any power and control and the manipulating tools of the mainstream media. The situation is extremely stuck in power hungry elites and uninformed and misled population but if the situation should radically change it would be necessary to let the people choose the agendas based on relevant facts with pros and cons and rewriting of the constitution so this would be the basis of a reformed democracy.
The monopolistic and feudal systems in the society must in all circumstances be erased or regulated heavily.
The governments and bankers should be our servants and not our masters and rulers.
It's not about who owns, but who controls. Putin has to at least a significant degree taken control over the Oligarchs in Russia. What maybe is lacking is taxing them heavily, like the article suggest. The EU have the power to control and tax the Magnificent Seven in Europe, just do it!
Right, without 5G which is above all a weapon of war, and without artificial intelligence there is no Power, we are defeated from the outset. It is like gunpowder or the steam engine in other historical eras; it is also a weapon of control. The question is: who controls whom? For the moment, it appears as a weapon of control of the minorities in power against the peoples of the world, wherever we look, it is ultraliberal governments or narrow elites who govern. It is the same old story, who owns the means of production? Certainly not the people.
Monopolies rarely occur. An oligopoly market structure is more likely. Intra-sectoral international trade is common and can blunt the anticompetitive outcomes of concentrated domestic market structure.
Russia can do several things. For one it can continue to use the resources of the state to foster academic and basic R&D as well as encourage academic researchers to accept private funding both domestic and foreign. It can carefully use public sector procurement to advance economic innovation. Russia can continue to promote international cooperation in education and research.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can be a significant source of technological advance and economic innovation. If great power competition makes it difficult for US and allied multinational companies to operate in Russia, Russia should lay out the welcome mat for Chinese and non-western companies with innovation potential.
If the opportunity presents itself, Russia should welcome becoming a supplier of components and subsystems for foreign produced technology goods and services. Numerous national economies have slowly but steadily worked their way up towards system integration in the past. Sometimes economies of scale and scope dictate that smaller economies specialize in components and subsystems. This should not be prevented due to national pride.
Western solidarity with US-sponsored zero-sum great power competition will likely at some point start to crack. Russia should shrug off past animosities and disrespect in order to foster opportunities for scientific collaboration, trade and FDI with NATO countries as they present themselves.
There’s so much in this to talk about, Tech Sovereignty but up to what point? Benefits all the way but when I pick up some grassroots and come to a prudent and incomplete synthesis; The age of Living Machines meaning the machine outliving the living; Robopathology can a robot also suffer Alzheimer or automachine-immunity, can he be schizophrenic or suffering one of the mental disorders in the DSMOV? The ghost in the machine, Musk’s cars with no driver why not then with no passengers needed, or drones killing drones, machines without any biology and no biology behind the operating systems! Killing us softly with this song of lay back we take over from now, anyone capable of not falling for this tech “whisperers”? The fusion of the digital, biological and tech entities, the one and only survivor will be the digital just to prove we are greater than our creator, namely we out-created ourselves.
Technological sovereignty is a cornerstone of national power in the 21st century, as control over technology equates to control over the economic, political, and security dimensions of statecraft. Nations that dominate critical technologies—such as AI, semiconductors, and data ecosystems—gain leverage to project power, shape global norms, and secure strategic autonomy.
Dependence on foreign technology, on the other hand, creates vulnerabilities, exposing states to coercion, surveillance, and economic disruption. In a multipolar world, technological leadership is essential for maintaining influence and resisting subjugation by more advanced powers. Without it, a state risks becoming a dependent actor, losing its ability to protect national interests in an increasingly competitive and digitized global landscape.
Totally agree with you Glenn, the Russian education system is superior to many Western standards. Producing a lot of highly educated civilians. The Russian leadership will no doubt tap into one of it most important resources, if not it's most important resource. China has invested massively in its hi tech industry. India is also teaming with citizens, that are experts & specialists in the field. I've no doubt the way President Putin has developed Russia in many areas over the years. His outstanding team of top political advisors & ministers. Will be looking to cooperate with its reliable trading partners. In industries for the future, who comes after President Putin is the key for me. Who carries on his legacy? There's some very capable professionals at the top of the Russian political system. Time will tell if the right choices are made by the right people. Russia has a much better chance of technological independence than the EU. In the EU's case they've lost their own relevance. Totally under US control. The UK is nearly the same, in fact that single reason the UK hasn't totally succumbed to being a 100% US vassel state. Is the much hated arrogance of the British ruling classes & their longing for their old ways of being an empire. As a British citizen of quite a few decades. I've watched the ruling classes of my own country closely. Believe me when I say this, these people are more responsible for the destruction of so many British regions & citizens lives than any war. All the stolen wealth, all of the ill gotten gains. Are where exactly? The country is nearly bankrupted, but has an obscene amount of very wealthy families. With huge wealth, there's many foreign elites who have made huge wealth from Britain. The vast majority of citizens have been kept divided, controlled & poor. Britain today is as tribal as any country on the planet. Just without the head chopping, that time is to come. Russia has genuine rulers not all but many that want the best for their country & citizens. For that reason alone they'll look to the future & decide what they believe is the best way forward. The West looks to an increasingly corrupt basket case of a country, that has no known knowledge of history. A very important aspect.
Good article with much to ponder.
I am not sure that the US policy of "what's good for Silicon Valley is good for America" is much of an example that others should follow. Silicon Valley is hollowing out the US leaving massive social problems in its wake as it asserts its grip over the political classes. It has no interest in addressing these issues and the politicians don't seem that interested either blinded by the new techno-utopia they imagine.
I think the tech companies need to be reined in and fast otherwise we face a re-run of the worst excesses of the era of Dickens. That dystopia seems to be the trajectory the West is heading towards. Whether others will do any better remains to be seen but you would like to think that they would be a bit more circumspect.
"Move fast and break things" doesn't seem much of a plan for the good governance of already fragile and fracturing societies.
Exactly!
The tech sector running wild and totally unchecked is actually central to the breakdown of economic and social cohesion in western societies. This sector impacts who makes what money, how that money is distributed, and even how and on what terms political and social discourse is conducted, which currently is on a very unhealthy way, as documented by people like Jaron Lanier and Anil Dash.
Tech sector is also not a neutral sector: is funded and owned primarily by by extreme ideologues like Peter Thiels and Sheryl Sandbergs and Zuckerberg. These are broken, or at the very least highly unbalanced and incomplete human beings.
If tech is a wild horse with no reins, no limits for them, society goes straight into the toilet.
"Move fast and break things" is more suited to organized crime - Move fast, break things and extort money to fix them. Im fine with paper mills and filing cabinets.
https://rumble.com/v5ypriq-kissing-the-ring-of-aipac.html
I have read two excellent substack articles this morning.
This one and David McGrogan's 'Ruthlessness and Pity' .
Between them they describe pretty well the underlying effects of the forces at work across the western world. Overlay that with the Empire's protection of its hegemony and the threat from Trump 'the Mule', and you get the picture.
Russia's seeking technological / political independence from the western geopolitical hegemony and her own corrupt (and corrupting) billionaire robber barons, is the CAUSE of the west's hostility to Russia
and thus, sanctions. It is no coincidental complicating factor and the implication that it is reveals a startling naivete.
Russia was listed under countries to be broken up
Excellent article. Perhaps Professor Diesen should consider writing a book on the same subject. I would like to suggest you also cover the choice of what industries should be nationalized and nationalized in what form. For example, MIC probably should be 100% nationalized or under very tight supervision. Agriculture and other natural resources industries with strategic significance including steel making) can probably have government owning some shares and board seats, but management can be left to private industries. Some industries probably have to be decentralized from giants and allow smaller concentrations like co-ops organized by first-line producers. Russia, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have taken different approaches in their industrialization process.
It’s not”probably”. - making weapons to kill people should not be a profit making enterprise. In order to limit its use to absolute minimum.
You are absolutely right!
Wow. Where to begin to pinpoint the real reason to all the problems the world has created for itself?
We all have different abilities and experiences to see where the world is stumbling and what it needs to come back on track. Anyway this is my proposal for a solution to what I will describe as problems:
What we have today is a problem because we are in a critical situation and has been for as long humans have existed. So what doesn’t work?
We have for thousands of years used a political model of centralized power in every state and now also in alliances between states that makes it even worse with its block policy against competitors or what is seen as enemies. This model doesn’t work because it is impossible to change when the will of the people is both manipulated by propaganda and or oppressed by dictatorship like today and have always been in different forms. Even the democratic systems we have today in most countries in the west are built upon choosing candidates that represent a particular political program or so they say without any obligations or responsibility for their own political promises to the people.
In USA we also see that the economic elites with their lobbyists totally decide the agendas of the political decisions that also controls the mainstream media that indoctrinate the masses with misinformation and propaganda to support the elites agenda and policy and have been for decades. We some signs of changes now with the coming Trump administration but the democratic system is still the same and this means we might have all the warmongering puppets back in office after 4 years so the real problem is still not solved.
We cannot have a democratic system that is rigged and dominated by a small group of corrupt power ignoring and manipulating the will and need of the majority of the population.
This problem is the same in nearly all western countries.
In reality we do not have a working democratic system for the people in the west and it works too well for the elites with the real political power.
And because of the constant political propaganda in the mainstream media the people also lack the ability to understand that this is the real problem.
In addition are the leaders at the top of all political and corporate powers and influence not motivated to let go of any power and control and the manipulating tools of the mainstream media. The situation is extremely stuck in power hungry elites and uninformed and misled population but if the situation should radically change it would be necessary to let the people choose the agendas based on relevant facts with pros and cons and rewriting of the constitution so this would be the basis of a reformed democracy.
The monopolistic and feudal systems in the society must in all circumstances be erased or regulated heavily.
The governments and bankers should be our servants and not our masters and rulers.
It's not about who owns, but who controls. Putin has to at least a significant degree taken control over the Oligarchs in Russia. What maybe is lacking is taxing them heavily, like the article suggest. The EU have the power to control and tax the Magnificent Seven in Europe, just do it!
There should be no oligarchs
Right, without 5G which is above all a weapon of war, and without artificial intelligence there is no Power, we are defeated from the outset. It is like gunpowder or the steam engine in other historical eras; it is also a weapon of control. The question is: who controls whom? For the moment, it appears as a weapon of control of the minorities in power against the peoples of the world, wherever we look, it is ultraliberal governments or narrow elites who govern. It is the same old story, who owns the means of production? Certainly not the people.
Monopolies rarely occur. An oligopoly market structure is more likely. Intra-sectoral international trade is common and can blunt the anticompetitive outcomes of concentrated domestic market structure.
Russia can do several things. For one it can continue to use the resources of the state to foster academic and basic R&D as well as encourage academic researchers to accept private funding both domestic and foreign. It can carefully use public sector procurement to advance economic innovation. Russia can continue to promote international cooperation in education and research.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can be a significant source of technological advance and economic innovation. If great power competition makes it difficult for US and allied multinational companies to operate in Russia, Russia should lay out the welcome mat for Chinese and non-western companies with innovation potential.
If the opportunity presents itself, Russia should welcome becoming a supplier of components and subsystems for foreign produced technology goods and services. Numerous national economies have slowly but steadily worked their way up towards system integration in the past. Sometimes economies of scale and scope dictate that smaller economies specialize in components and subsystems. This should not be prevented due to national pride.
Western solidarity with US-sponsored zero-sum great power competition will likely at some point start to crack. Russia should shrug off past animosities and disrespect in order to foster opportunities for scientific collaboration, trade and FDI with NATO countries as they present themselves.
Glenn doesn't even mention USSR 🤕
There’s so much in this to talk about, Tech Sovereignty but up to what point? Benefits all the way but when I pick up some grassroots and come to a prudent and incomplete synthesis; The age of Living Machines meaning the machine outliving the living; Robopathology can a robot also suffer Alzheimer or automachine-immunity, can he be schizophrenic or suffering one of the mental disorders in the DSMOV? The ghost in the machine, Musk’s cars with no driver why not then with no passengers needed, or drones killing drones, machines without any biology and no biology behind the operating systems! Killing us softly with this song of lay back we take over from now, anyone capable of not falling for this tech “whisperers”? The fusion of the digital, biological and tech entities, the one and only survivor will be the digital just to prove we are greater than our creator, namely we out-created ourselves.
Thanks for your great work Glenn!
We've shared the link on our daily report.
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Technological sovereignty is a cornerstone of national power in the 21st century, as control over technology equates to control over the economic, political, and security dimensions of statecraft. Nations that dominate critical technologies—such as AI, semiconductors, and data ecosystems—gain leverage to project power, shape global norms, and secure strategic autonomy.
Dependence on foreign technology, on the other hand, creates vulnerabilities, exposing states to coercion, surveillance, and economic disruption. In a multipolar world, technological leadership is essential for maintaining influence and resisting subjugation by more advanced powers. Without it, a state risks becoming a dependent actor, losing its ability to protect national interests in an increasingly competitive and digitized global landscape.