The EU falls short of the research funding levels called for and is at a clear disadvantage compared to South Korea, the United States, and Japan.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/pPACf
This is what we should do instead of massive military.
To be fair, a good chunk of the US military budget does go towards scientific research. It’s just not public.
More to different topics.
Agree, but you still might be surprised. Back in high school I was paid minimum wage to catch bugs with a butterfly net for a few hours a day, for a team of biologists studying insect behavior. It was funded by the military, but the research was incredibly basic and far off from being directly usable in a military application.
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Sure. Now convince Russia and China to go first, because I’d rather not sacrifice Ukraine and Taiwan and quite possibly the Baltic states.
And Kazakhstan, and Moldova, and who knows where else if they can spin their genocide in Ukraine as a success and keep going.
Okay Japan is… not a good comparison for research given their academia is floundering.
