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I think this take only makes sense if there is no such thing as morally or justice. If we were just discussing a business deal, fine, but Ukrainians are being killed and told to be nicer to the killer’s leader. It’s an insane position.
I'm truly surprised anyone decides to disagree with that statement.

It frightens me a bit that people think looks are more important than results.

But I guess it's the world we live in.
And there is also hundreds of years of historical experience where establishing buffer states worked.
Realpolitik is not a skill common among engineers. I won't begrudge anyone their outrage.
Before that there was the drawn out conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The amount of refugees was staggering.

Do take the time to check the facts sometime where those refugees ended up. How many did Germany accept? How many did Sweden take? How many did the US accept?

It does put the recent claims that Europe should pay up for its protection into perspective.
people have been saying that for 20 years, and yet, Bibi is still there
If there was ever proof that Trump is just a troll, this is it. Annoy the room just so you can't be overlooked, no matter how much you deserve to be.
Your government is certainly compromised but is it Russia? A lobby group for a certain settler colony in the Middle East spent money on 80% of the seats up for election last year, and boasts of its ability to interfere with US elections. Jeffrey Epstein was linked with the intelligence services of that colony and who knows what he had on Trump and other top US politicians.
1. Is keeping Russia in a forever war. Draining resources and preventing them from projecting any hard power anywhere else in the world. Seems like a good deal for US to me.
Exactly how were they managing former Yugoslavia let alone the other two
So now just loot Ukraine, a country weakened by war. And blame their president in stead of the agressor. Oh and 'he said bad but unfortunately true things over the phone' so let's humiliate him in my only language while he's asking for help in his third language.
Sitting US president siding with the RF. Truly unbelievable times.
George Washington's farewell address (1796) - on Europe:
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
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Most Americans understand and oppose Trump's surrender deal. Unfortunately a significant number of them weren't paying much attention this past November and were conned into voting for the present predicament.
The people of the US do not stand behind trump. Trump's word is not the word of the American people. Zelensky might not have Trump's support, but know that he does have overwhelming support from pretty much everyone else aside from the Trump clan.
Why not? Russia has elections too.
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Seeing the Twitter rumors about how great GPT4.5 was at drawing unicorns made me think that there should be a way to rank models based on their SVG drawing skills!

This started (and still mostly is) a joke, but looking at the outputs and the leaderboard, I think this is actually very decent eval (much better than most lmsys categories!)

And looking at previous battles is just fun :)
Many old men are delusional.
Electric car sales are up in Europe year on year. Tesla sales are down. Chinese cars are not a significant part of the BEV market. I mean, come on, now, do the maths.
It would be beneficial to russia to spread such claims to sabotage US even further even if it's not real. The problem right now -- you can't be 100% sure that it's not. It was believable even before the claim was made.
It doesn't do anyone any good to stress over non-existent things. ASI is a sci-fi trope, a pure fantasy in context of present day and time. AGI does not exist either, and AFAIK there's not even any agreement what it possibly means beyond very vague "no worse than a human".

In other words, I'm sure you're terrified of a modern fairy tale.
>the actual target audience for the loop

I, ahem, may have heard about that. At the time. In Minecraft.
Ep 180: Stephen Kotkin on Endgames in Ukraine
That’s reasonable, but the question we really want to know is how difficult it will be to equalize, which is a measure of both the number of equalizing moves and how difficult it is to find them. If the only moves are obvious, it’s not as bad as you might originally think.

In other words the correct calculation of subjective difficulty is a dot product, not simply a count of the number of equalizing moves.
If there's any remaining doubt that Trump has an under-the-table deal with Putin consider this: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions [1].

[1] https://therecord.media/hegseth-orders-cyber-command-stand-d...
that is correct but the OP's point is that SCOTUS won't care about that
What does are you taking? Do you need to ramp it up or cycle it? What's your source? Anything else important to know?
And now here we all are with the russian agents firmly entrenched in the GOP.
And you stop it now - no security guarantees for Ukraine - and more people will die in few years when Russia strikes back, having rearmed herself.
> The European Union says EU countries have provided around $145bn in aid so far and that just 35% of that has been loans

Sounds like the opposite of what you said.

Are you referring to Government support for Ukraine chart?

That shows the EU institutions made mainly loans but there is also money from countries of the EU.

And for some loans Ukraine isn't expected to pay anything, with repayments coming from revenues from frozen Russian assets.
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Except that since "war effort" is measured in $ the devil is in the details.

It's very simple to claim "we have given the most in military aid, in $" but much harder to look into it.

Then you find out that everything is priced insanely high, bullets and artillery that is identical to European (due to nato standards) can cost dozens of times more.

Then you find out that billions have been spent in private "consultancies" (I guess US military and navies have no clue how to organize logistical transports, even though we're talking about the biggest naval power on the planet).

Then you find out that Ukraine offered to come pick the weapons itself with their own ships to make it faster and save US taxpayers money and US said nope, we got people to feed with those contracts.
russia voted for or abstained from voting about the intervention in Libya if i remember correctly
All Putin has to do is not try to recreate the soviet union and the spice will flow

Obviously he has a history of doing these prideful things just to remind people he has chips to play.

But if he literally just didnt, there is upside for unprecedented economic development
Do boundaries matter more than people dying? Genuine question.
Yope is sparking GenZ interest with an Instagram-like app for private groups
Well, North Korea benefits from getting experience and field-testing radios and winter underwear. The drone environment is very good advertising for their goal of becoming a major arms dealer.
Or about the USS Liberty. A US navy ship that was destroyed by the Israelis. Israel said it was a case of mistaken identity and President Johnson accepted that explanation. Admiral Moorer, the 7th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accused President Lyndon B. Johnson of having covered up that the attack was a deliberate act.
What makes you think it will go any differently than the first time?
A pause will allow Ukraine to either rearm again as well or recapture territory.
you just launder a SCOTUS decision with some braindead argument and 50% of the country will believe it overnight
"stop advancing" is the compromise asked from Russia
Maybe yes. If so, that is great. But then why do we not see any damage to those countries either due to misinformation or any other hacks. On a related note, Snowden incident shows the depth of our ability.
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Not sure why you're counting Canadian uranium deposits on the American balance sheet.

So far at least, these are under our own control and we still have the free will to decide how they are traded.

Unless the new regime in the US really wants to show its true hand, I guess.

Maybe we can toss a 25% export tariff on them, since the US is trying to strangle our economy anyways.
> The UK does not rely 136k people to defend itself from military risk. It relies on its nuclear arsenal, which while not as large as those of the USA or Russia, it quite the deterrent all by itself.

It's a deterrent from invading the British Isles, which would require a navy that only the US has, anyways.

It's not a deterrent from challenging the world order. The US nuclear arsenal is the only one in the West that, if it were deployed, would end human society on a global scale.

Russia has designed its nuclear forces and defense infrastructure around a war with the United States, a country with a much, much larger nuclear arsenal than the UK or France. There's a possibility that if Russia decided to use its tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine (which it has threatened before), and the UK or France responded in kind with strategic nuclear weapons, that enough of Russian nuclear forces could survive to completely wipe out those two nations while also having weapons in reserve.

That's why the US stayed.
There's no such thing as a peaceful hard-drug manufacturing operation.

You have to research Gacha games.
He did not live through two world wars and the invention of ICBMs. His views might have shifted a bit.
Well when the president hands over all the data they've been collecting it makes their job a lot harder

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-rus...
Russia and China used to think they needed to beat America.

Then they hoped America would beat itself.

But I bet they never expected America to turn into an ally.
Just fyi - That reporter wasn't on the approved list and was removed once white house staff became aware of their presence.
Trump's claim to have banned him from Mar-a-Lago is as credible as his claim to be able to end the Ukraine war 24 hours after his election.
Enough with the founding fathers. They are ancient relics. They may as well have lived on another planet.
As an American I've never been more ashamed of the leadership of my country. And really just ashamed of my country. Ashamed to be an American at this point in history.

Zelensky has shown more bravery than Trump or Vance are even capable of and they decided to ambush and lecture him like that. Absolutely disgusting.
Many characterize Putin's current position as taking as much territory as possible, while staying in the game long enough for US political climate to change. So I'd posit back, how would Putin's posture change if the US right was as aligned as the left on supporting Ukraine as long as it took? I suspect he would have taken a deal long ago.

Trump wants it to look as though he is the one making the deal happen, but the reality is he's the only reason it has not happened already. IMHO.
Read my whole reply. I literally addressed that at the end. Read the whole thing before you dismiss something.
This is exactly right. Current US allies should not trust the United States to stand with them at least for the next four years or so.

I would go further than that and say you can't trust the US for anything, ever. The United States will not keep long term commitments for more than four years at a time. If you're lucky, or unlucky depending on which side you're on, that cycle will last 8 years.
This is a time to boycott all of the president's Elon enterprises. I just cancelled my Tesla solar installation in California. If you are thinking about buying a Tesla - don't. Also do not vandalize other peoples' Tesla.

If you are thinking about working in AI for x.ai or Tesla - do not. This will not look pretty on your resume.
Trump, and his posse of minions, are just not equipped to deal with real-world events and threats. What a disgrace.
I’m not familiar with this type of masterful deal making.
>I think you're in the minority.

Whoa, you don't say.
What relevance does Ukraine joining NATO, a defensive alliance, have to Russia? (Unless they are planning to attack again, which would mean the "peace deal" isn't actually worth the paper it's signed on, and is just a way for Russia to regroup for their next invasion.)
Nah, they just care about money is all. They look at Ukraine and they don't see a profit to be made, so they demand payment or the withdrawal of aid. Greed plain and simple.
Play lots of games! Especially ones you may not typically enjoy.
I disagree that it looked like a planned confrontation and that all the escalation is on Trump and Vance

Vance made a comment about the US' goal to be diplomatic.

Zelensky speaks up and says he wants to ask Vance something. He then goes on to talk about how Putin annexed Crimea and that between 2014 - 2022 Putin was murdering Ukrainian citizens and ignoring cease fires. He mentioned that nobody did anything to stop Putin, implying that Trump didn't do anything during his first term in office. Then Zelensky ends with something along the lines of "so what do you mean diplomacy" to Vance.

Even if Zelensky's statements were correct, that was not a wise course of action to attempt to call out the President and VP while you're in the Oval office. The meeting erupts from there.

Regardless of how you feel about the current administration, it is a fact that Ukraine has been dependent on the US' aid. I don't know what Zelensky expected to gain from those statements.
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That depends. It was true of WW2, but that had a unique set of circumstances. The US economy performed much better in the 90s, after the end of the Cold War, then it did in the 2000s with the invasions of Iraq/Afghan
The world is much smaller than it was 200+ years ago.
Zelensky should have asked Trump if he (Zelensky) need only lick Trump's boots or should he lick Vance's boots also.
You're thinking about intervention as if it means direct military involvement. They were allied with Assad and supplying weapons the entire time.
> Certainly, crypto offers basically no democratic control outside of control of crypto itself.

"For the hardcore neo-reactionaries, democracy is not merely doomed, it is doom itself. Fleeing it approaches an ultimate imperative. [...] Predisposed, in any case, to perceive the politically awakened masses as a howling irrational mob, it conceives the dynamics of democratization as fundamentally degenerative: systematically consolidating and exacerbating private vices, resentments, and deficiencies until they reach the level of collective criminality and comprehensive social corruption. The democratic politician and the electorate are bound together by a circuit of reciprocal incitement, in which each side drives the other to ever more shameless extremities of hooting, prancing cannibalism, until the only alternative to shouting is being eaten."
Even with my extensive work experience, I got nowhere.
So I just gave up and became a YouTuber.
This is why it matters that the president just EXECUTES policy but does not decide the WHAT or HOW MUCH it or decide if it is JUST.

This brings a wider perspective, which is why what Elon is doing is so scary because it takes out that wider perspective
Brian Krebs: This Administration Is Completely Compromised
The transsexual people didn't come from Europe. But you're right that hating them is why people support Trump.
That is a very weak argument, in my opinion. What if Ukraine attacked Russia, would you still expected Russia not to step into Ukraine while fighting back? Countries pull out of and break treaties all the time when the circumstances change. After all, all laws and rights and agreements and treaties are just ink on paper and they are worth nothing without the will and power to enforce them.
It's like the inverse of Gil Scott Heron's "The revolution will not be televised"

"The Nuclear Holocaust Will Be Televised"

There's even a trailer from the Reagan era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBtu0gr6JqM

But it seems the format is going to be in the style of reality TV shows from 10-20 years ago.
He's an entertainer / reality TV star / game show host. That's the sum of him.

I'm not sure what anybody could really expect other than this.
Oh, you mean people like Jill Stein? Sure. Notably, she has never been part of the mainstream left.

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/jill-stein-campaign-russia...

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/jill-stein-paid-100000-to-a...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-...

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/democracy-now/clip/why-jill-s...
> Trump is in this for himself. If he appears to represent Russian interests that's likely because he has made some kind of deal with Putin that benefits him personally.

That's usually how one state usually acheives a compromise of another state’s government, by finding the right weak links and making deals with them (the chief of state and/or head of government, and especially the person holding an office which serves simultaneously as both, is pretty much the ideal case for this, though in practice it is often only people a few steps down.)

So, while that description is true, it supports and explains rather than contradicts the claim that Russia has compromised the US government.
>> All Zelensky had to do was remain calm for a few more minutes and they would've signed a deal.

The deal was: give the resources so we give money. And btw just hand over the land to Putin. Glad he did not sign.
Russia already had, and even created more NATO membership on its borders(Finland just recently). That excuse is clearly false.
Honestly I think this is a bad take and I'm not exactly what one would call a "supporter" of the current administration.

Americans get too wrapped up in the propaganda around Ukraine to even start to understand it. If your understanding of what's going on starts in 2022 and not, at least, back to 2014, then you're not really understanding what's going on.

The conflict in Ukraine has, since the 2010s, has been about fossil fuels and other mineral rights. Around that time oil and natural gas sources were found in all the regions currently being fought over.

Ukraine, sadly, will always just be a pawn for the other major players. What we're seeing here is not "Russian interests being prioritized over American interests". This war has never been about what's good for the American people nor the Ukrainian people, but the companies that stand to benefit from extraction rights (Democrats as well as Republicans get their directions from billionaires, despite the song and dance to convince you otherwise).

The prior administration had fairly strong support from and for European parties that wanted to partake of these resources. The change is really away from support for Europe in favor of two things: better relations with Russia, and more importantly, ending this thing. The "ending this thing" is not because of desires for peace, but because as long as there are bombs being dropped in this region nobody can extract anything from anywhere.

People upset about this situation are living in a world that doesn't exist anymore. We're in the end game of industrial civilization and the rules have changed. The future is no longer infinitely bright and very soon the global economy will start to contract. Additionally we'll be seeing climate catastrophe ramp up dramatically in coming years. As the Arctic melts, Canada and Russia will effectively share a border (making Trump's other "crazy" idea, less "crazy"). Europe, once our obvious ally, will have increasingly less to offer the US in the coming decades.

Europe, largely lacking in fossil resources, is going to increasingly find itself a minor player in global politics. The realpolitik of today is major oil producing nations realizing that conflict with each other will, at this phase of the game, do more harm then forming alliances.
At least we know there's no deep state.
This debate is probably a communication strategy to fuel anger in the american public while distracting / confusing other partners. From the time I could watch TV I always saw USA spend intensely on military and foreign policy. I'm trying to find when the reversal occured, but it's probably during the previous campaign, as a trick to blame biden.
Yes, you shouldn't have to. "World's" also gets removed even though "world's first" is a common expression.
oh, that’s nice. tell me what country was the only one who invoked article 5 of the nato treaty? and which countries helped them? and now the the situation has reversed what does that country do?
> The American government has been compromised by Russia. It no longer represents American interests, but Russian interests.

What kind of conspiracy theory is this? It makes no sense, at least have believable ones if you’re going to promote them.
> best summary

From the author of "The origins of Woke", without aiming for ad hominem that sounds like a rather biased source from my European perspective.

I would prefer to watch the whole press conference and make my own conclusions.
That's what I keep coming back to. If I were trying to harm American interests, what would I do differently?

Nothing.
Quoting founding fathers on contemporary issues always makes me chuckle.

> If healthcare was a human right, then why didn't 18th century slave-owners put it in the Constitution?
biden ran on that, did a good job, and was demolished for it
The only reason for them to not accept NATO membership of a neighbor is if they're planning to invade that neighbor.

Russia's desire to not have NATO neighbors rather makes the point of why there can be no peace between Ukraine and Russia - Ukraine understands that without real guarantees of security, any 'peace' with Russia is a farce that only lets them prepare for the next invasion, except this one will start closer to home and be better planned.