Understanding the War (16) - Technology with Lucia Velasco

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  • Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024

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  • @jotaele4878
    @jotaele4878 2 года назад +20

    I think the Geneva convention is only useful if all the parties respect the protocols but what we are seeing is that one country is breaking most of the agreements, so the problem is not the lack of updated protocols but how to make accountable those who brake the rules

    • @andyreznick
      @andyreznick 2 года назад

      Agreed. Russia seems only concerned with expediency and domestic publicity and propaganda, relying on lying, deflecting and denying their way out of everything.

    • @noahway13
      @noahway13 Год назад

      They have all that. Problem is, the opponent has to capitulate and have unconditional surrender. So it would not work in Vietnam, Korea, etc.

  • @sharoncloete4060
    @sharoncloete4060 2 года назад +5

    These chats open my eyes each time to the critical elements prevalent in the world today. It is scary when one realises that we are facing the "unseen" enemy. Again Prof, thank you to you and Lucia for the insights given today. Best regards from South Africa 🇿🇦

  • @emom358
    @emom358 2 года назад +3

    Your talks are fascinating, please keep them coming.

  • @christophercousins184
    @christophercousins184 2 года назад +2

    Excellent conversation. Thanks so much.

  • @rossvoss5408
    @rossvoss5408 2 года назад +4

    That’s the genius of drone technology no one is held accountable for any crimes enacted by the drone. Everyone will have an alibi to avoid responsibility

  • @sydarn
    @sydarn 2 года назад +6

    Thank you Lucia and Alex! I miss semiconductors here, something which I would argue is as important as energy today. Is this something we can expect a dedicated episode on?

  • @andyreznick
    @andyreznick 2 года назад

    Thanks for the video. Ms. Velasco was an interesting guest.

  • @БогданФещак-о4д
    @БогданФещак-о4д 2 года назад +22

    Dear Lucia, you criticize Ukraine a bit for using images of Russian soldiers, but in comparison to Russians our army is very human.
    There are no executions, the prisoners of war are given enough medical and humanitarian help. We don't shoot civilians too. I think it's very important to say that. Love from Ukraine

    • @madoldmanyelling6420
      @madoldmanyelling6420 2 года назад

      What do you mean *_ there's no executions...*_ - there's videos showing surrendered russian soldiers being deliberately shot by ukrainians. Nazi spirits taking over your poor country.

    • @JamesC785
      @JamesC785 2 года назад +1

      She questioned the use of images of POWs (which is covered by the Geneva Convention I believe),. Any interviews of russian soldiers that I saw the person being filmed expressly gave their consent at the start of the interview, however even this is borderline flirting with the rules & could be abused by others.
      These interviews were very interesting though & I can understand your pride in how well Ukraine seems to be treating its POWs.
      Stay strong - Glory to Ukraine !!

    • @julio-iz3sk
      @julio-iz3sk 2 года назад +5

      Let me try to explain Lucia’s way of thinking, to know that you need to know Spain (one of my favorite countries in the world)
      First, she is Spaniard, Spain has an archaic data protection system, that they think is flawless and perfect.
      Examples:
      1. Belgium police was tracking a terrorist group, they spot them in Spain, they asked the Spanish Police for info and location of maroocan crew, the answer back was: "we know them, but they have data protection"
      The same crew ran down the ramblas killing innocent people a couple of months later.
      2. The leader of the group that accidentally died fixing a bomb, was caught trafficking drugs, put in prison for a couple of years, on his way out he wasn’t deported cause "it looks racist and the guy has data protection"
      3. Spanish lefties are very special, anything socialist-communist sound pretty good to them, during Franco’s dictatorship Stalin was supporting the republicans, world revolution, that was welcome cause they didn’t have a clue how bad was that type of government, they didn’t mInd the millions of Ukranians that died in the Holodomor and looked the other way.
      She wants to give the image that "look, we are good, benevolent and fair, we also know what is good for you" "we are saving you" sounds familiar? Can you guess what will happen if a person that thinks that way could do in a position of power? Cause if you don’t accept his/hers way of saving you hell will brake loose cause you don’t know what is good for you
      I’m not amazed by her reaction to the Russian soldiers interviews, that where recorded with the knowledge and acceptance, obviously the ukranians thinking on the Geneva Convention.
      4. Russian propaganda inside Spain is almost perfect, they will feed independence movements inside Catalunya (left) and feed Right wing Spanish society agains the Catalans, brilliant.
      She doesn’t really care about what is the Russian army doing in Ukraine, she cares about saving you, her way.
      This is going to be a long war, one’s Russia falls again, some one worst than Putin will rise, and the wheel turns again.

    • @daniellarson3068
      @daniellarson3068 2 года назад +1

      The Ukrainians actually went out of their way to inform Russian parents of soldiers that their child was dead whereas the Russian government did nothing. In some ways the Ukrainians treat the Russian soldiers better than the Russians treat their own.

    • @julio-iz3sk
      @julio-iz3sk 2 года назад

      @@daniellarson3068 she is idealogical possessed, extreme socialism-communism does that.
      Geneva convention is for every one, it just happens that some are more equals than others to them.

  • @ElenaRadu33
    @ElenaRadu33 Год назад

    Lucia opinions make sense.

  • @rockflowerful
    @rockflowerful 2 года назад

    Listening to this interesting discussion one is comforted that information technologies can record and expose instantly breaches of rules of war. Then appalled at the complexity of , recording, tracking atrocities,sorting fact from fiction. The instinctive thought is, that combative parties knowing they operate under an international spot light, this must be a good thing and hopefully will discourage the worst excesses. It does seem to me that this war for Ukraine is opening up a very new kind of war and those rules of military engagement will have to be updated rather quickly.

  • @kamilziemian995
    @kamilziemian995 2 года назад

    Fascinating discussion.

  • @bron-sconcess.10
    @bron-sconcess.10 2 года назад +1

    We are indeed in a 'new world order!'. It is welcome to see the 'government' of 22nd Century regulation, being addressed in an open forum, one particular point made by Lucia Valasco, not having escaped my thoughts recently!

  • @SerendipityChild
    @SerendipityChild 2 года назад +3

    Second post! Sorry .. child of the 90s .. it's an impulse in us.
    Thank you for another informative and thoughtful video.

  • @Billy01113
    @Billy01113 2 года назад +2

    About the Elon Musk topic and the question if private entities can provide assets for the war effords of a countries. Private entities have always done that, from the ancient greeks, where rich people fielded their own trieme for the Athens fleet, over war ships financed by the German Hanse to big companies financing and equipping different sides or even multiple sides in the second World War. What is new the type of technology and maybe the level of strategic power they can bring to bear, but the action itself is as old as warfare.

    • @daniellarson3068
      @daniellarson3068 2 года назад

      Lots of bankers have got rich lending money to wars over the centuries. Banks are private entities with assets.

  • @LazyTram911
    @LazyTram911 2 года назад

    Are updates in Geneva conventions will stop the war?

  • @qqchan
    @qqchan 2 года назад

    I feel that the problem with such conventions is that the “bad guys” do not have a problem with breaking them. Especially when the one breaking them is a nuclear power, then others will be powers will be scared to really step in, leaving the conventions more or less toothless.

  • @spectral-analysis
    @spectral-analysis 2 года назад +1

    What is the "moral" distinction between drones, robots, and AI versus mines, IEDs, unguided missiles, artillery shells, bombs, cluster bombs, thermobaric bombs, barrel bombs, and similar "undirected" weapons? I understand that drones and AI are more directly substituting for human agency, but so are explosives.

    • @chrisrosenkreuz23
      @chrisrosenkreuz23 2 года назад

      in the sense that they are indiscriminate, yes and also in the sense of the collateral damage they cause.

  • @Kannot2023
    @Kannot2023 2 года назад +2

    Question : you prefer to be killed by a robot or a human? Why?

  • @remyheinis
    @remyheinis Год назад

    But, just theorical,
    If the Geneva conventions, was an agreement from 1860... Almost none of the country that signed it are "dead" or were "dead", it's like saying that France could use Napolenic rules in modern world, not the same France, or during USSR, not same countries...
    is it re signed every year? Every 10, 50 years ?

  • @iI_Principe
    @iI_Principe 2 года назад

    Sori siitä

  • @s.m.7018
    @s.m.7018 2 года назад

    The US and Europe need to continue as equal partners without one being the Senior or junior partner in security and trade.

  • @aaron2709
    @aaron2709 2 года назад +2

    I suppose it depends on definitions but there are really no 'autonomous' weapons. There is always a person 'aiming' the weapon... even a computer virus, even propaganda. Weapons technology has often focused on being able to hurt/kill from greater and greater distances... club, to spear, to arrow, to bullet, to rocket... but there's still people aiming, just from greater distances.

    • @andyreznick
      @andyreznick 2 года назад

      I get what you are saying but that may be changing...

    • @aaron2709
      @aaron2709 2 года назад +1

      @@andyreznick Tech will eventually get there but I think we're a long way from AI actually choosing who to kill. Humans will (should) be very reluctant to give this determination to a machine.

    • @andyreznick
      @andyreznick 2 года назад

      @@aaron2709 I agree on the human side. Sadly, those focused on power at any price are focused on the most efficient paths to domination. Anyway, I hope you are right and I am wrong. I think the next step will be that humans make broad ranging and general target lists and machines prioritize, implement and update them more accurately and quickly than any human could. Cyber warfare in this environment will be savage.

  • @micumatrix
    @micumatrix 2 года назад

    Starlink helps Ukrainians with the communication on the battlefield. It’s a win-win situation, because Elon Musk gets huge positive press and praise before the IPO of this company and the Ukrainians have a secure communication way that gives with it bandwith a big plus. On the other side Musk puts his system under huge stresstest and can work to improve this system. I also think you would not hear anything bad from Ukraine about this system, even if it isn’t working as well as advertised.

  • @remyheinis
    @remyheinis Год назад

    Once total war, it's survival, life or death, no more rules,
    Ukrain is in survival mode...

  • @kevinharries9513
    @kevinharries9513 2 года назад

    How could rules be applied while an active war continues ? The new technologies are the advantage for any army providing they can make their own rules. And.. Once any standards are created they must be adhered to which, as we currently see , example of russian blatantly ignoring basic human rights. Good luck inforcing since the old saying is Rules are meant to broken.

  • @mikecorrigan4243
    @mikecorrigan4243 Год назад

    Any agreement is only useful if the entities who sign them follow through and do what they agreed. I don't think a Geneva Convention type of agreement would mean much nowadays as madmen bet their nations on their own personal dreams and visions of granduer and have to much to use and little interest in humanitarian rights of prisoners. And its not just Russia who are butchers. Plenty of other nations have breached the Geneva Convention or found ways around it.

  • @imnotanalien7839
    @imnotanalien7839 2 года назад

    Critical discussion ….Biotechnology, ie. genetic manipulation of virus’s is going on presently with technology like CRISPR (gene editing), and biotechnology is now a worldwide event. And, although ‘rules of war’ are important.. the ‘winners of war’… are usually the guys with the superior technology… and they usually don’t share or acknowledge their new weapons…
    even if the weapons escape and spread around the world. We are in a frightening new world.

  • @oscarmora4602
    @oscarmora4602 Год назад

    Ahhh

  • @ontheland5055
    @ontheland5055 2 года назад

    Okay. But, the rules we have got are being completely disregarded. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima surely was a fragrant violation of the rules of war. The fire bombing of cities in WW2. No-one will be held accountable so no-one cares. Isn't it more important to be talking about enforcing international conventions. But, then again, does the US ecognize the international war crimes tribunal? I wonder if we should not start with reforming the UN, and in particular the Security Council. Now I see this is exactly what Lucie Valasco is suggesting as you sign off.. But, she doesn't say Security Council. That's where we have to start.

  • @carlroberts4963
    @carlroberts4963 Год назад

    The pepie o cor
    Corect hewrog

  • @wvereijssen9449
    @wvereijssen9449 2 года назад

    comment.

  • @pavlopaavo6144
    @pavlopaavo6144 2 года назад +6

    This is the crappiest episode so far. Two bureaucrats/scientists talking calmly about data privacy while Ukrainian children are being barbarically killed, raped and deported. This talk is just ridiculous and pathetic rubbish

    • @daniellarson3068
      @daniellarson3068 2 года назад

      It is kind of silly. They make up rules that Russia will ignore.

    • @jansix4287
      @jansix4287 2 года назад

      This war with obsolete cold-war era weapons is pathetic. The legal responsibilities of unmanned drone strikes are burning questions of the international humanitarian law, which seeks to limit the effects of armed conflict.

  • @charleslaird870
    @charleslaird870 2 года назад +1

    I found this to be disappointing. It was a theoretical exercise that has little to do with current reality. By its own definition the GC does not exist re. technology. The end. Now, how is current technology being used in the battle space? What are the predictable outcomes such as the economic impact of tech sanctions on Russia in the short and long term?

    • @jansix4287
      @jansix4287 2 года назад +1

      Current reality has little to do with theoretical power vectors. On the ground they’re fighting with 50-year old tanks, but the global order is endangered by cyberwar against critical infrastructure.

  • @russianpatriot2022
    @russianpatriot2022 Год назад

    The best way for you to show the world and to teach the world how bad Russia is, that you show us the Finnish Constitution and the economic development of Finland under the 100-year Finland was under the Russian rule. If you don't show the world that, you will come across as a liar of great proportions. It is up to you.

  • @jfk-shotbybanksters479
    @jfk-shotbybanksters479 2 года назад

    lots of people are waking up because of the so called "barbaric times of war" , wich seem to have started this year - right ? and before that we used to had peace all along the way through Afganistan, Lybia, Irak.... what a shitty bias

  • @noahway13
    @noahway13 Год назад

    He has a WOMAN discussing weapons and military strategy? Seriously? OMG...😑

    • @noahway13
      @noahway13 Год назад

      Ha ha. Just felt like some trolling tonight. Relax. Seriously, she did great. I learned some things.

  • @henryruizmeeden
    @henryruizmeeden Год назад

    ABOUT TIME you have a female guest. Tired of male patriarchy in all aspects of life...

  • @ianthesiow3013
    @ianthesiow3013 2 года назад +1

    United States call it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on... Why the double standard? Confused... Please enlighten. Genuine question...
    Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
    China 1949 to early 1960s
    Albania 1949-53
    East Germany 1950s
    Iran 1953 *
    Guatemala 1954 *
    Costa Rica mid-1950s
    Syria 1956-7
    Egypt 1957
    Indonesia 1957-8
    British Guiana 1953-64 *
    Iraq 1963 *
    North Vietnam 1945-73
    Cambodia 1955-70 *
    Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
    Ecuador 1960-63 *
    Congo 1960 *
    France 1965
    Brazil 1962-64 *
    Dominican Republic 1963 *
    Cuba 1959 to present
    Bolivia 1964 *
    Indonesia 1965 *
    Ghana 1966 *
    Chile 1964-73 *
    Greece 1967 *
    Costa Rica 1970-71
    Bolivia 1971 *
    Australia 1973-75 *
    Angola 1975, 1980s
    Zaire 1975
    Portugal 1974-76 *
    Jamaica 1976-80 *
    Seychelles 1979-81
    Chad 1981-82 *
    Grenada 1983 *
    South Yemen 1982-84
    Suriname 1982-84
    Fiji 1987 *
    Libya 1980s
    Nicaragua 1981-90 *
    Panama 1989 *
    Bulgaria 1990 *
    Albania 1991 *
    Iraq 1991
    Afghanistan 1980s *
    Somalia 1993
    Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
    Ecuador 2000 *
    Afghanistan 2001 *
    Venezuela 2002 *
    Iraq 2003 *
    Haiti 2004 *
    Somalia 2007 to present
    Honduras 2009 *
    Libya 2011 *
    Syria 2012
    Ukraine 2014 *
    Pakistan 2022 *

  • @dodomarek
    @dodomarek 2 года назад +2

    She's hot.

  • @Ivan-fs7go
    @Ivan-fs7go 2 года назад

    The technology is just a tool. A gun is a technology. Owning gun doesn't make you a killer but having the information how to use it and trigger the action does. The modern technology can calculate well, can make predictions/decisions and can evolve its decision making capability by itself. An advanced AI can change its decision to trigger or not a specific action. If we want to survive as human race, our defence is not sharing with AI the information how do deface the human race / individuals or ban the creation of decision making AI system. The most powerful AI systems are privately owned and the ownership of those entities is secured by patents and laws. The most powerful of those privately owned companies are having more resources than some of the countries in the world. They was allowed to develop such a systems as part of the espionage programs developed by the military powers like USA, China, Russia and so on with the idea the Government to control them. The data collected from the people around the world is the base for the creation of the most powerful weapon in the world. Actually with the current laws you cannot stop an entity to create AI that will deface the human race for example. Even they do this by mistake. Just the laws frame created by the rich to serve the rich is having only one outcome - the machines will rule us all due to corrupted and greedy people that are selling our destiny for money. Money are representing power. I mean you'll never stop the wars until you change the possibly someone to be more powerful than other. Today Putin, tomorrow someone else. All this because we find acceptable that a human can use other humans power. Until we use the monetary system and accept the private ownership we will never change and we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes killing each other for money and power.