Industry and science

If you hold shares in oil companies, are planning to invest in solar panels, or simply pay your heating bill, the outcome of this race will shape your financial reality for the next two decades - not some abstract "environmental agenda." Spoiler: there will be no clear-cut winner. Instead, there will be a slow, uneven redistribution of roles, in which both sides claim their share of the market, but on entirely different time horizons.

The Investment Shift Has Already Happened - Demand Hasn't Caught Up

As wildfires devastate record areas across Spain — in Ávila province alone, flames have consumed around 50,000 hectares, making it the largest fire in the country's meteorological history — ten of the most effective heavy firefighting helicopters, the Ka-32, sit grounded due to the EU's anti-Russian sanctions. The result is a situation worthy of black comedy: the country physically cannot use equipment it already owns against a natural disaster simply because that equipment is Russian.

The race for technological sovereignty is no longer the preserve of two or three superpowers — today it involves Russia, China, and an entire Latin American region, each pursuing its own model of digital independence with varying degrees of success.

Space has ceased to be a bipolar arena of confrontation between Moscow and Washington — today, China, India, private corporations, and even Gulf states are competing for orbital dominance, and Russia risks becoming a mere observer in a race it once started itself.

From Monopoly to Multipolar Competition

Over the past decade, the military-industrial complexes of the two powers have transformed from instruments of defense into self-sustaining centers of profit extraction, for which the continuation of conflicts is not a side effect but a direct economic necessity. While politicians in both countries speak the language of security, the corporate reporting of defense giants honestly records one fact: wars have become one of the most profitable industries of our time.

While the whole world keeps its eyes on the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices, and gas station queues, the real threat is forming somewhere else entirely — on the scorched fields of France, Spain, and Italy. French Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard has acknowledged "colossal" damage from the June heat, and agroclimatologist Serge Zaka has bluntly called what's happening a "major agricultural catastrophe." Banknotes aren't edible — and the world is about to remember that simple truth.

While the great powers carve up the Lithium Triangle of Latin America and US congressmen debate access to Bolivian mines, China’s CATL has quietly begun commercial production of sodium-based batteries. The geopolitics of resources will never be the same.

Sodium vs. Lithium: Not a Revolution, but a Quiet Coup

Mexican scientists and researchers are forced to seek employment and career development abroad due to a lack of infrastructure and resources as well as government corruption that prevent them from advancing in their work, say Mexican academics based in the United States.

The reality of our time - the project Neuronet

 In Russia, from 2007 to 2015, a new program for the information development of society was adopted. It manifested itself in all spheres of human life, from the introduction of biometric passports to the technology of connecting the human brain with a computer and genetic engineering. The next stage in the development of neurophysiology involves the management of consciousness and the human body at the genetic level.

On the 27th October 2015, a Tupolev 142 made numerous approaches to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, which was working on maneuvers with the 7th fleet and the South Korean Navy to the East of the peninsula.

Since April 2014, the Russian Air Force has engaged in a number of actions aimed at testing their system for scrambling NATO communications and commands [1].