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Destroying USAid weakend US' soft power abroad.
NATO's members turning against each others in a non-sense economic war.

Weakening all federal agencies meant to bring stability in society.
Trump spreading bluntly the propaganda from the Kremlin.

Putin couldn't have written a better scenario to get rid of his main opposition.

It's quite clear that Trump is just a puppet, but there's nothing new here. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers...
If only that credit had any weight against his equally quick decision to fund a Zionist genocide against Palestine, and engage in administrative subterfuge, Doublespeak and Ministry of Truth type shit about the true nature of the conflict.
That's not true. As of 2024-12-31, the US had provided 64bn EUR of military aid to Ukraine, and Europe had provided 62bn. The US had pledged further 66bn and Europe 100bn. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073733
A ceasefire without security guarantees is just a temporary pause for russia to rearm and continue on. None of the justifications for russia's invasion have changed, and this would mean the US will roll over for anything.
> What happened to the left that used to be anti-war?

I am extremely anti-war, but capitulating to Russia and rewarding them for invading a neighbor would guarantee more war and killing, not less.
We’d need a common language in order to get as close as US states are to each other. English does work, but it’s not quite the same.
Most people also want a negotiated end to the war: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HHP...

Americans aren’t wiling to invest in what it would take to win the war. So Trump has to break Zelensky’s spirit so there can be a settlement.
Zelenskyy is an absolute hero. I couldn't be prouder of him in this very moment, to actually speak his mind and demand that the man who claims to be the leader of the free world admits one simple thing - that Putin is a killer. If he can't even do that then it's clear no productive discussion can take place.
But those 22% make an awful lot of noise and are aggressive in getting moderate Republicans to lose their seats.
I think that the median US voter likely did not want this.

With two candidates and a variety of issues, you are very likely going to have to compromise on something. You can support Trump's immigration policy, DOGE efforts, and more; without thinking that the US should help Putin restore the Soviet Union.

Personally, I could not bring myself to vote for either of the presidential candidates. I only voted on the down ballot races.
That seemed plausible at one time. But what could Russia have on Trump at this point that would be more than mildly embarrassing? Certainly nothing sexual. Trump had an affair with a stripper while his wife was pregnant, and that didn't bother his base. It now comes out that Trump flew on Epstein's "Lollypop Express", and nobody cares. No leverage there.

On the financial conflict of interest side, Trump and his base treat that as a non-problem.

Somebody shot at Trump and hit his ear, and that didn't change Trump's behavior.

What could Putin do to apply pressure to Trump personally?
The EU has probably net helped Russia with all the gas they have bought
> Definitely not. (He may do that, I just hadn't ever heard of that book before today.) I think it was one of Isaacs, Herstein, or Artin, but I'm a bit too lazy to dig through my old books at the moment.

Herstein does it.
How much money? Can you point me to studies that show this?
Did they elaborate why? What do you think they were expecting from you that you didn't demonstrate?

Best wishes with your job search.
first hand reports from friends who are fighting the war every day.
I'm sure the very lacking obituaries that Russia is actively fighting to suppress will give you a better picture.
Russia must be made to kneel, just as Germany and Japan had to in WW2.

Any other "peace treaty" will only lead to Russia rebuilding and attacking again, leading to yet another war, having learned the important lesson that aggression works.

We want it to stop NOW, but that's wishful thinking just as world peace is. The sooner you internalize that, the better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_of_slaves_in_the_Unite...
I think traditionally anti war meant being opposed to aggression, for example the United States invasion of Iraq to maintain oil interests.

Ukraine is a western country invaded by an enemy of the west. You can still be anti violence but it’s a different situation.
> reliable car mechanics don't get paid a lot.

Actually, they do. It's the unreliable car mechanics that need to swindle.
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpAj8rRe-p0&ab_channel=PBSNe...
The Baltics, which we have very serious contracts to defend with American lives, including drafting our children if it spirals.
How can you compromise with an invader looking to occupy your country?
Trump is calling for peace and a ceasefire agreement.

Zelensky won't agree?
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The point isn't to pick the "best democracy" as if it were a beauty pageant. It was to oppose unilateral military invasion as an instrument of national policy, which is bad regardless of the form of government of the victim.

Ukraine might have been corrupt, but it was a peaceful neighbor and evolving in the right directions. Russia is (literally) throwing bombs around, cutting internet cables, and generally being a terrorist asshole. And at some point, yes, an emboldened Putin will decide to invade a "good democracy". It's happened before.
This isn't just trolling or good TV. It's doing severe and permanent damage to US foreign policy.
Nobody's firing nukes any time soon, everybody loses when they start flying and you can't rule over a desert.
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> because the main distinguishing factor is that 'real' crypto assets are designed to perform some economic or financial purpose whilst memecoins are not

This seems like dressing up intent in another phrase and treating it the same. Regardless of intent, crypto currencies mark avenues of mass transfers of economic value. Introducing intent just seems like an obvious way for people pushing crypto to avoid regulation despite pushing the same venues of mass transfers of economic value. It doesn't matter if people had good intents, the behavior itself still must be punished for guidelines to make any sense.

At the end of the institution of chattel slavery in the south, the justification wasn't economic, it was moral. (At least in popular, individual conception of the discourse.) To "free" enslaved people was to release uneducated, unprepared people to the world, unprepared to take care of themselves. It was clearly a moral motivation, even if extremely misguided and bigoted. Why would we particularly care about intent here when it's more difficult to come up with a plan for this "coin" where people are not obviously misled and misguided? Surely people would push that "great businessmen" or however you term rich people are better at guiding financial policy allegedly directed by democratic control. (Certainly, crypto offers basically no democratic control outside of control of crypto itself.)
At the risk of stating the obvious, you can criticise the government without personally insulting public officals. In fact, in Germany, you can be prosecuted for insulting anyone; there is nothing special about public officials.
It doesn't matter when lay people misuse professional jargon. It matters when professionals speaking to lay people misuse professional jargon. (As was what was being pointed out as wrong about the OP article — it is professional writing, from the PR department of a university!)

In other words, it's about "those who know" being a role model for correct usage by "those who don't know."

(Why bother? Because then people are more likely to come into the profession with an understanding of the concept that's at least compatible with teaching them the model; rather than having an understanding of the model so debased that they need to actively unlearn it before they can learn the correct model.)
Gosh could there be some kind of connection between Biden and the conflict in Ukraine?
Absolutely right! E. G. freedom of speech is in the German constitution one of the highest items. But it isn't higher than human dignity.

If you slander somebody your freedom of speech and their dignity need to be balanced.

In Germany we have chosen to rank dignity higher.
I don't. Not because this isn't an important topic - it is, but because:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is about politics. It is already being covered on TV news. Is it evidence of an interesting new phenomenon? It's unusual to see that sort of behaviour, sure, but in the Trump era? How surprised are we exactly?

All the comments are the very predictable trench digging. I'd rather see it flagged into oblivion.
I'm not sure that I agree with this, not that I'm big on troubleshooting, but experienced SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) are worth their weight in gold and get paid an insane amount of money. Perhaps the key is to debug a vendor's solution rather than an in-house one.
> China themselves have said 2027-ish.

According to the CIA, which has never, ever fabricated anything in the entire history of its existence to justify starting or escalating wars.
If you damage somebody's eye which happens to have their tooth embedded in it, then justice means takeing one of your eyes and one of your teeth. Pretty sure it's a footnote in Hammurabi somewhere...
Hopefully Salesforce Legal cleared everything surrounding this project's name and logo:

https://www.stb.gov.sg/about-stb/stb-brand-assets#94e2cb04e4...

That said, it also looks like this project has been around for 3+ years without issue.
My understanding is that Ukraine gave up their nuclear arsenal in exchange for an agreement Wirth Russia to not be invaded? If that is the case and Russia invaded anyway, then what kind of compromise can you have with a country that breaks any agreement they sign?

I doubt many people want war, I know I don't. But once you have a warring nation going rouge, there aren't many options left on the table.
"freedom of expression isn't freedom from consequences". Freedom of expression is about whether the government will use state powers to arrest or silence you. Being uninvited to a gathering is not that.
>In 20, 15, or 7 years from now when terrorists are sending drones into medium-sized cities in Alabama to kill indiscriminately, it would have been better for the USA to have been on Ukraine's side.

Spot on. This is what Zelenskyy implied when he said "now you have an ocean but one day you'll know how it feels". But the dumb kakistocrat commander-in-chief took it personally.

By the way remember the New Jersey drone sightings that spooked the East Coast for a week? That was likely the government secretly testing defense deployement against a hypothetical drone swarms attack.
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The first profitable AI product I ever heard about (2 years ago) was an exec using a product to draft emails for them, for exactly the reasons you mention.
The bet would be that in the long run (talking 5-10 years down the road after the EU has built their defense), the EU would still be more likely to ally with the US then China.

The current administration perhaps thinks that alienating them in the short run is the only way to get them to actually get serious about building military.
I would like to know what the alternatives are. None that I can think of are palatable:

1. Support Ukraine enough so that Russia doesn't take too much more territory, but not enough for Russia to feel threatened and escalate the war. This was the Biden plan and it sounds like what Europe wants. I just don't see how this ends the war. Is this just buying time for someone to depose Putin?

2. Support Ukraine enough so it can take all its territory (maybe minus Crimea). This may not be possible with weapons alone. This might require a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine, which effectively makes us a combatant. I actually would support this path, but the downsides are all too obvious.

3. Freeze the conflict at the current lines and guarantee the agreement with US/NATO forces. What does that mean in practice? If Russia violates the agreement we go to option #2? That sounds like a hollow threat because we're clearly not ready to do #2 right now, when it could actually help. All this will do is let Russia rearm.

4. Abandon Ukraine and make a deal with Russia against China. [This is Trump's plan and it's as stupid as it sounds.]

Did I miss anything?

The root of the problem is that this is a hard-power conflict and the only solution is going to be hard-power. But neither the US nor the EU are willing to put in hard-power against Russia. In that situation, I honestly don't know how to stop Putin from getting what he wants.

My frustration is that, as awful as Trump's plan is, it acknowledges that the only way to beat Russia is to send US troops to fight Russians, and there is no universe in which the US public will support that.

But please, correct me if I'm wrong. I would like to be wrong.
Yeah pretty much. I'm quite sure the behavior described as "modern" is what Mac OS X used to do when I had my first Mac ca 2003-2010.
Did you guys already forget 9/11 and invoking Article 5 of the NATO agreement for an issue on your soil?

Please elaborate how starting a war in Afghanistan was in Europe's interests. In fact, it was the USA that had created Bin Laden in the first place.

All I hear from MAGA is hypocrisy and revisionism.
Is Ukraine like Poland, or more like Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan?
I just honestly cannot fathom how you voted for this person and somehow surprised by this. Were you just not paying attention since 2016?
Any compromise at all which brings the meat grinder to an end. We basically have a WW1 situation where both sides are grinding themselves down and the only thing the left can bring themselves to support is continuing the conflict.

Just think for a sec, you are on the same side as Dick Cheney. This is a good hint that you MIGHT not be on the good guys team as much as you think you are.
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What exactly do you think the outcome is? Just because Trump is selling out Ukraine to Putin, doesn’t mean the Ukraines are just going to lie down and take it.

What are Zelensky’s aims, they’re pretty damn obvious, do everything in his power to remove a foreign aggressor from Ukrainian land. Why would expect people who have been invaded to not defend their country and their land?
Copy/pasting from below:

The bet would be that in the long run (talking 5-10 years down the road after the EU has built their defense), the EU would still be more likely to ally with the US than China.

The current administration perhaps thinks that alienating them in the short run is the only way to get them to actually get serious about building military.
Vance has even better chances of lasting the entire term after his pro-Russia performance today.
It makes more sense when you understand he is an actor reading the script he is given. He cannot act independently and what he says has no relation to his actual opinions, if he even has any of his own. This is true for most of the GOP at this point. Exceptions include Romney.
> Trump doesn’t respect the function of the US President

Probably why people voted for him.

> shits on the vote of the citizens.

yes 4 years ago. But now… can’t really say we didn’t know what we were voting for. I didn’t vote for him, but most of my fellow Americans did, and we gotta live with that, and hope we learn.
If Mozilla really is as shady about user data as some people think they've become, someone's about to be pretty confused about why they suddenly have hundreds of nearly-identical screenshots of this HN page on their servers
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It's not what America wanted. It's what the felon-in-chief wants, but he doesn't represent most Americans.
There are two opposing strategies for the US:

- Be aggressive against China allies to weaken them before attacking China (Biden)

- Try to be friendlier to China allies so they become US allies or at least neutral (Trump)

We are seeing oscillations between those two strategies, because both US factions are playing his cards according to what both see at the end of the tunnel: A new World War with US and China as the main actors, the most probable outcome of imperialism and capitalism crisis. The Trade war is his first act.
As I understand it, the evidence that the US government has been compromised by Russia comes from documented instances of Russian interference and influence attempts, including election meddling and disinformation campaigns.
I'm tempted to join a monastery.
Great idea!

Though we learned the hard way what "dontate to ukraine" means

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/estonia-biggest-charity-helping-u...
> Rarely is this accepted by whoever chooses what we should work on.

I get that YMMV based on the org, but I find that more often than not, it’s expected that you are properly maintaining the software that you build, including the things like fixing warnings as you notice them. I can already feel the pushback coming, which is “no but really, we are NOT allowed to do ANYTHING but feature work!!!!” and… okay, I’m sorry, that really sucks… but maybe, MAYBE, some of that is you being defeatist, which is only adding to this culture problem. Oh well, now’s not the time to get fired for something silly like going against the status quo, so… I get it either way.
> You think Russia is going to nuke America if Ukraine loses the war?

No. But can it escalate to that via cyber attacks, territorial attacks, and global warfare? Yes.

Rule number 1 of untrustworthy counterparties: They will always be untrustworthy, even if they are temporarily friendly.
Why is compromising the anti war stance? Ukraine is not Putin’s end goal, it’s his first step
In my OneOplus Nord 2 5G, that's a kinda mid range of that same era, works fine. Firefox 135, Android 13 (with all the stuff that OnePlus puts over it)
> this overestimates the US's need and relations with Europe (EU and non-EU) in the 21st century

If Europe goes to war America is in a higher state of defcon even if we try to pretend we’re uninvolved. Global trade would crash which means a lot of middle class jobs vanishing.
Everything Trump touches ... dies.

RIP Elon
RIP Vance
etc
I actually think Europe has a lot of levers to pull in terms of manipulating American politics and public opinion that they have thus far refrained from engaging in, and I, as an American, think they should be much bolder about speaking directly to the American people.

I don't think that ordinary diplomacy is going to work here. The US is in the middle of a totalitarian coup, and that should be called out by our friends and allies more forcefully.

Stop trying to ingratiate yourself with Trump. He doesn't deserve it and you won't get anything out of it but humiliation.
Sorry, was ChatGPT 4.5 :/
actually the funniest HN comment i've read in years, bravo
You assume EU united would act strongly in favour of Ukraine. But there's no guarantee of that. There are significant differences in how for example, Poland approaches Ukraine with how Germany does it.

I think, nations with bad historic experience with Russia support Ukraine significantly more.
You've not understood what is said.

If on move 29, you choose a move that is slightly worse but leave yourself in an extremely difficult position for you but an easy one for the other guy...

And then only on move 40 does the eval extremely diverge...

In my opinion, your real blunder was on move 29, not 40. Just because an engine could hold a position doesn't make it a reasonable move.
keep those goalposts moving; the soul of a good faith argument here
Checks out - Russia is the country you end up with when you have the far right's ideology.
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> Sadly the US still has a lot of nukes and aircraft carriers ready to project power over its rebelling subjects and partners.

So does the UK.

Not enough to take back the old colonies and demand interest payments for the tea, but enough to make it a bad idea for anyone to try that.

> I don’t expect the military to start refusing orders just because the president became a corrupt tyrant through legal means.

I expect almost all militaty personel to obey almost all orders, even when they're expressly unlawful… but not all: Vietnam had both the My Lai massacre and the coining of "fragging" due to soldiers throwing fragmentation grenades into the tents of their own officers.
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Maybe if you had instead done some research you'd see that Europe has provided more military aid than the United States.

Also, relying on "TikTok interviews" ridiculously naive. You could just as well watch Russia Today and get the same amount of propaganda shoved down your throat.
We've already had that decision, last year. Trump v. Anderson. Per the Supreme Court, if Congress doesn't explicitly call something out down to the last detail and already have anyone potentially impacted on double-secret probation, then oops, too bad, nothing anyone else can do to enforce the Constitution.

The Vice-President and President need to meet the standards in the Constitution? Did Congress pass a law establishing how those standards are to be judged and enforced? No? Guess they don't matter then. If Congress wanted, it could pass a law and Trump could sign it. Unless that happens, the Constitution is just unenforceable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If Russian soldiers leave then the war ends immediately.
Wow, thanks for the reply, and correction! I look forward to learning more about Gleam, as I've just started with it, and I'm really enjoying it so far.
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Look, the fact that you guys came here to Europe and liberate us from the nazi Germany, then you defeated Japan, made you a global superpower because you effectively won the war. You have been in this position since the war until 20th of January this year. Trump is actively removing USA from the position of the leader. Talking about leaving NATO, removing soldiers from Europe, … something that took decades to establish takes weeks to destroy.

What’s next? “TSMC give us all trade secrets or we don’t defend Taiwan”?

You have all there benefited from these decades of being in that position.
Russia isn't winning against Ukraine.
I don't think you should be down voted for opinions.

The question is how to organize incentives to make anti-war ideal a reality.

As the last 70 odd years have demonstrated, Economic development as a carrot alone seems to have not worked. The stick of MAD unfortunately seems to required.
Then never download an Android app, they're obfuscated by default.
Both can be simultaneously true
I have to imagine being under non-stop threat of violent death for several years also gives one a rather thick skin.
If Russia was allowed to annex Ukraine with no military resistance... would this not certainly encourage more invasions/annexations in the future between various countries? Would this not result in more violence in the long run?
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Uhm, that Polish plane wasn’t shot down. Don’t spread silly conspiracy theories.
Polish military spendings were rising steadily since long before the accident, but a significant increase happened after Russian full scale invasion on Ukraine.
Trump represents a short term "win" for Russia, but Russia in the medium/long term is as screwed as you can be as a country.
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