Macron said that the UN Security Council “is not making any useful decisions at the moment”.

 This statement is the best confirmation that the UN Security Council still\ is the best remedy from one-sided solutions leading to a big war. Macron wants "useful decisions" how he understands the usefulness for France and the EU. It is fully understandable that the President of a country must care about their own needs and problems. At the same time, if one country finds UNSC decisions as useful there are many others who might suffer. The creation of the SC was aimed at the impossibility of one-sided decisions. And it still works. The reason for such a strict rule is obvious - nobody has it right. The change is domestic and foreign policy among the UN countries has many dramatic moments since the SC creation. No country can claim that all problems are resolved now and forever (e.g. the 2020 US elections is a good example revealing structural faults in the US social/economic/racial/gender system). To retain this world as safe as possible the UNSC is needed now much more when during the cold war. The UNSC makes the most useful decision right now - it does not give any chance to fall in WWIII. I am sure that when Macron or any other top leader says that the UNSC is making useful decisions we will have thousands of missiles with nuclear warheads flying to make such decisions less useful for the speaker. 

European cities are not safe any more

 I reside in Vienna for the last 20 years with some gaps. The scene of the last attack in November is just at a gunshot distance from my place. I am scared and news from other European countries just makes my feelings suffer more. European cities are not safe because of the authorities' mistakes and crimes. We need a  safer environment to live and work.  

The US weakness is finally clear - the absence of order

 There is one clear feature of the US election which reveals the fundamental weakness of the social organization - disorder. The self-organization of free people was the cornerstone of the USA as a country. The conservative population as a founding nation was strongly connected to the wisdom of the previous generations in the assessment of the needs and dreams.  This nation was very inertial in the change of modus vivendi (200+ years of the same Constitution!) and thus strong in decisions at all levels and the capabilities to make dreams real (I admire engineering skills). The current era of the Internet made a big difference in the manipulation of the social wisdom pertaining to conservative minds. People lost orientation when meeting opposite opinions in the chaotic stream of the full spectrum of ideas and examples. The US society is now highly disordered and allows massif open and hidden manipulations in all aspects of life (e.g. subprime mortgage!). The society lost basic conservative values (Haidt) - respect of authority and loyalty  (i.e. order - I still wonder how they think the police will be working in a liberal world). For those who have some claims to the USA now in the best time to support Biden and Co and increase/deepen the disorder along all possible weak lines - power impotence with  COVID-19,  dissolving businesses, BLM (I wrote a few papers on race and gender disparity in income distribution and recommend Alstone commission report ), Sanders socialistic transformations (I fully support no student loans and higher taxes as the fairness of proportionality),  etc. The list is endless. Americans deserve to know all things at once. 

Надо ввести адвокатов от обеих футбольных команд в обсуждение сложных моментов ВАР

 С пяти лет болею за одну московскую футбольную команду. Футбол начали активно показывать по ТВ незадолго до начало моего страстного увлечения. Судейство всегда вызывало множество вопросов, вспомним хотя бы великолепный негол Тофика Бахрамова в финале ЧМ 1966. но любительский статус придавал ошибкам скорее эмоциональный характер. Теперь футбол не только большой бизнес, но и работа для большого количества людей. От результата  матча зависят судьбы игроков, тренеров и других членов команд, а также их семей. Страдает и бизнес владельцев команд. 

При этом футбол живет по правилам, применение которых невозможно обжаловать. Все неправильные решения принимают люди, судьи, которые руководствуются субъективными оценками. Человек неидеален, поэтому субъективные оценки часто очень похожи на непоследовательность в применении одних и тех же правил. А это на простом человеческом языке называются ошибками. В реальной жизни, где люди взаимодействуют между собой и зачастую вступают конфликты, давно выработаны механизмы разрешения споров. Принятие справедливого решения при разрешении конфликтов очень трудный процесс, в котором истцы, а это обычные люди, и даже технические эксперты, лишь небольшая и не самая главная часть. Для профессионального представления позиций сторон в спорах  используются адвокаты. Их задача представить техническую или эмоциональную проблему, лежащую в основе спора, в виде логической последовательности системного употребления законов и правил. 

Футбол это спорт и бизнес. В бизнесе невозможно обойтись без людей, которые уберегут от принятия незаконных и ошибочных решений, приводящих к искажению спортивных результатов, человеческим переживаниям, потере уважения болельщиков, а иногда и работы, а также к экономическим потерям отдельных команд и футбола в целом. 

Надо ввести адвокатов от обеих футбольных команд в обсуждение сложных моментов ВАР, Это не чисто технический, а юридический процесс, Такое решение позволит избежать субъективных оценок действий футболистов. Использование адвокатов особенно важно в условиях расширения толкования футбольных правил, в которых, видимо, плохо разбираются не только болельщики и игроки, но и сами судьи. 

 

Some thoughts on my choice in the next elections

 When discussing elections in the past I was interested in a few questions:

1. Why do people listen to top sportsmen? They are usually less educated (prerequisite of rational thinking) than the average voter and highly biased because of mercantile interest is getting top income. 

2. Why do people listen to actors? These human beings are puppets (not puppies) by professions and nobody can distinguish between their own thoughts and emotions (if any) and their roles.  

3. Why do people listen to pop-signers? 

Now I have an additional question. Why people listen to bloggers? Nobody should trust my posts and consider than as a source of valuable information. 

As a physicist, I am rather a conservative person with most of the methods and approaches from my University time and results positioned in the broader and well-established environment of experiments and theories. I cannot say that some poor theory or experiment deserves to be praised for the sake of liberal values.  The same is with the discussion between conservatives and liberals. It is difficult to discuss values that are under permanent change. How can conservatives know that the current statements of liberals will not change the next day? As a matter of fact, sportsmen, actors, and pop-singers are rather liberals. I cannot trust people who almost surely change their minds tomorrow.  

33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French)

French people always wanted to kill Russians. Nothing changes from Napoleon's time. They joined the Nazi and likely France does not deserve to be in the UN Security Council. The SS DIvision Charlemagne was larger than the Resistance. Here is a citation from Wiki:

The Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (German: Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a unit of the Waffen-SS formed in September 1944 from French collaborationists many of whom were already serving in various other German units. Named after the 9th-century Frankish king, it superseded the existing Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism formed in 1941 within the German Army (Wehrmacht) and the SS-Volunteer Sturmbrigade France (SS-Friwilligen Sturmbrigade Frankriech) formed in July 1943, both of which were disbanded the same month. It also drafted in French recruits from other German military and paramilitary formations and Miliciens who had fled ahead of the Allied Liberation of France (June–November 1944).

After training, the Charlemagne Brigade was reclassified as a division as the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) (33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" (französische Nr. 1)). It had 7,340 men at the time of its deployment to the Eastern Front in February 1945. It fought against Soviet forces in Pomerania where it was almost annihilated during the East Pomeranian Offensive within a month. Around 300 members of the unit participated in the Battle in Berlin in April–May 1945 and were among the last Axis forces to surrender.

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 Russia and USA are two by far the biggest nuclear weapon powers and their future is highly merged (as in the title of this post) to define the future of mankind. So, the stability of this duet is important for all of us. US presidential elections may create catastrophic turbulence and increase the probability of major nuclear war in case the US power will be not well defined. This might happen if the outcome of the elections is not accepted by the losing party. 

1. most dangerous is the case when Trump loses and does not recognize the loss. 

2. if Biden loses and does not accept the loss - the major control is safe for some time but the vacuum of power may increase dramatically

3. If Trump wins and Biden accepts or vice versa the overall stability may be retained for some time. But the battle may not end worldwide.