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The US cannot provide any meaningful security guarantee: its military is largely lacks core skills and weapon systems for modern warfare. The defense industry is incapable of producing fast enough to sustain any meaningful conflict. The US is impotent against any nuclear state.
Apparently, many in the US still didn't grasp the simple idea that there was never any America in MAGA and that MAGA is a Potemkin front for MTRA (Make Trump Rich Again). He will sell everything that isn't nailed down.
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Prove that Trump is eating out of Putin's hand—he believes lies Putin tells him. The same delusion as with demand for somebody else—not Zelenskiy—to represent Ukraine. This is engraved in Russian mentality that only tsar makes decisions about fate of a country—but not in Ukraine.
In recounting once again this story of the battle for Kyiv that has zero connection to reality, Trump seems to be really disappointed that Russia didn’t end the war by conquering Kyiv in four hours.
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Russian tanks did use highways to Kyiv in 2022 and took heavy losses. The main reason the 40-mile convoy failed was it lacked fuel and food. Ukraine blew bridges, flooded the Irpin, and ambushed columns.
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Russia is a loose cannon but blames Ukraine for imaginary "biolabs":
A 28 y.o. technician at an "anti-plague institute" in the Irkutsk lab reportedly broke a tube containing plague pathogen on September 25. She died October 1 or 2. Nearly 200 people are now in medical isolation.
This is officially a civilian institute.
But Russia is well known to have an active military biological weapons program
And our intelligence agencies have publicly stated that their program has been expanding substantially in recent years
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Ukrainian language was banned by russia 134 times! 130 y. ago, Ukrainian-speaking area was not limited by Ukraine, but also some parts of russia and Belarus spoke it (see the red area—the result of russian Empire census in 1897, when people identified themselves by the language).
Why so many Ukrainians speak russian? Let me explain.
But first, let me ask you a question: Why do Irish and Scotts speak English, Catalans and Basques speak Spanish, Bretons speak French, etc. You probably know the short answer. But let me put a longer one. Ukrainian language was banned by russia 134 times! Here are most notable events:
1720: A decree by Tsar Peter I banned the printing of books in Ukraine.
1753: A decree by Catherine II prohibited teaching in the Ukrainian language.
1768: A decree from the Synod of the russian Orthodox Church called for the confiscation of Ukrainian primers from the population.
1775: Closure of Ukrainian schools after russian troops destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich.
1830-1840s: russification of Ukraine intensified. Even the very name "Ukraine" was prohibited to be used.
1889: At an archaeological congress in Kyiv, it was permitted to read papers "in all languages except Ukrainian."
1895: A ban on Ukrainian children's literature.
1914: A ban on the Ukrainian press.
1938: Mandatory study of the russian language was introduced throughout Ukraine. At the same time, there was a mass closure of national schools, and the prestige of the Ukrainian language declined.
1926-1939: Physical deportations of Ukrainian activists accused of nationalism. Four family members on my mother’s side were deported.
1929: Newly printed dictionary of Ukrainian was prohibited.
1960s: Arrests and extermination of the young generation of Ukrainian intelligentsia.
130 years ago, Ukrainian-speaking area was not limited by Ukraine, but also some parts of russia and Belarus spoke it (see the red area, that's the result of russian Empire census in 1897, when people identified themselves by the language). So, when someone says that some region of Ukraine is “russian speaking”, read the above list again. It’s a miracle that Ukrainian language even survived, and many people sacrificed their lives for it.
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American dominance, military bases, munition stockpiles, alliances, and influence—all of these were given away in exchange for additional $2B for Trump's personal bank account. That was the price for American reputation, morals, stability, and way of life. "The art of the deal."
The American age of global dominance that followed World War II was bound to end eventually, @PhillipsPOBrien writes—“What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived”: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
@googlebooks, was there a server crash and loss of data? It appears that there are notes (also kept in Google Drive) lost for a number of recent book I've read. Also, I opened my Android table Google Books app today and content of hundreds of books was deleted from the tablet.
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I'm surprised with the reaction of the US society and politicians—or rather lack of it—regarding unprecedented level of corruption by the president. Looks like it's true that an elected president is a creature and mirror of the society. Otherwise, he wouldn't be elected. Shame.
If it turned out that Russia had funded the wedding of an American president's son during the Cold War, that president would have resigned within hours. How far they've fallen.
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Damn Ukrainians. Why don't they just give away their land with homes and agree to be robbed, raped, tortured, and die to please Trump and his master.
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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The keyword is "gift." In other word, it's a bribe. The bribe is confirmed by a member of Trump's family. Trump's family, as a private entity, benefits financially by having its expenses covered by a direct bribe from a Russian "friend."
"Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us….
Friendship doesn’t require a political motive."
Girl, you married into the Trump family. Everything about them is political. Everything is about money. Everything is about favors.
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The problem of AI adoption is the term itself. It's too vague and not clear what it's for. The term "artificial intelligence" was first coined in 1955 as a trick to get funding for a research. The whole field should be called clearly and less vaguely: Statistical Machine Learning
It's amazing to observe the same trap AI adepts fall into after SV preached for decades to not built a solution in search of a problem. But so called AI—fake marketing term—is just an algo tool/solution. Companies don't know how, where, and to what problem to apply this solution.
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Appeasing is not negotiations. Trump talks about latter while doing former. There are no negotiations going on and never were.
Trump sent Ratcliffe to Moscow.
Putin refused to see Ratcliffe because he didn’t like the message, and asked for different Americans with a different message.
Witkoff and Kushner promptly arrived, pleasing Putin with tales about how they would cherish “incredible memories” of his blessed presence.
Now Trump is back to calling Zelensky an obstacle to peace.
It’s fun to negotiate with America.
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A ceasefire in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is impossible due to Putin's fictional bargaining position.
It is important to note that Putin’s delusional mapping of the front line makes any possible peace negotiations effectively impossible because Zelenskyi’s starting point is a ceasefire at the line of contact and Putin’s starting position is that Ukraine must surrender territory it controls prior to negotiating.
Since Russia is massively lying about where the line of contact is, no matter what happens any pause along the front line would force Ukraine to surrender territory it controls since the pause would be forced be on Putin’s conditions. And the more distant his front line gets from reality the more Ukraine would be asked to surrender without a fight.
This is, obviously, the point of Putin’s ongoing blatant lying about the front line and its surrounding ongoing misinformation campaign. And why we put so much effort into dispelling their lies.
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Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff—two mediocre real estate developers who, apparently, officially represent the US government—tell Ukrainians that we must compromise and make it win-win for Russia.
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A lot of intellectual heavy lifting and R&D in the USSR were done by its colonies. Then Moscow would present it as russian ingenuity. Ukraine was the key for space programs. The west feared Russia in vain. It's impotent nation with the only talant to rob, invade, and kill.
Russian satellites are failing to reach the required altitudes to create its own version of SpaceX's Starlink system, the Institute for the Study of War said this week. trib.al/lg7hKrn
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Military parade in Ukraine, Kyiv (top) an Poland, Warsaw (bottom). NATO learned absolutely nothing during the last 5 years on the full scale russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine tried to explain the difference to Poland but it won't listen. It's proud of spending money on tanks.
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Tech bros don't even understand the nature of the data centers problem. It's not data centers that people hate. They hate capricious, childish, irresponsible, and greedy CEOs that will stop at nothing to become even more rich. It's not about data centers.
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