> ...then we have to win by being smarter, more efficient, and forward-leaning through agility, rapid prototyping and innovation. We have to be ahead and lead. We can’t afford to be behind.

I ain't an American, but this strangely sounds like Cold War rethoric to me.

Nobody has to "win" anything, especially not states.

I am personally hoping for civilizational leaps, and more collaboration rather than competition. Examples of collaboration are free and open source software. And US people likely "lead" there along with European people (in the sense that most free software dev time is coming from those regions), but that's mostly due to the living standard making that possible.

Btw, I am sure government policy in China is even worse than this, but I prefer to be ideological rather than practical — my take on Brexit was that unions like the EU are worth paying for as a civilizational step forward, and one should not look for pure monetary value gained from it.

Maybe I am naive, but I do like to think that it is possible to be successful without someone else having to lose.

As a US citizen, I feel a lot less safe without Nicolas at the helm. Here's to hoping this necessary gesture wakes someone up.

from the article he mentions as one of the accomplishments:

  - Bring Kubernetes on weapon systems, including jets and space systems, where we demonstrated that containerization was not only possible but game-changing on Real-Time OS and legacy hardware

I wonder what kind of hardware specs make up the computer inside these jets. Also given he also mentions performing the first OTA update to these jets it makes me wonder if they used TUF (https://theupdateframework.io) or yocto.