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Unrelated to the convo but for those who’d like a visual on how LLM’s work: https://bbycroft.net/llm

That’s a lot of processing just to count letters

feel free to ask Google/Bing/Your favourite search engine to do the same :P

Ukraine is no less European than Norway or the UK

I think in the context of Europe sure, in the context of integration into the wider Western European ecosystem no.

If Russia had invaded Norway or the UK NATO would have been engaged from minute 1 and Russians would have been exterminated like cockroaches on day 1

Poles and the Baltics have been shouting “you’re idiots” from the top of their lungs, we ignored them, considered their shouting to be the result of PTSD. Which yes I mean it is but also they were right.

Yep there were plenty of warning signs, and this is probably one of the few times (as much as it fucking kills me to say it) that Trump has been spot on:

Word for Word: President Trump Strongly Criticized Germany at Start of NATO Summit (C-SPAN) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqZf72pAhk

If a fucking moron like Trump can spot a problem (and end up being right about it) then I think the EU is making some serious mistakes.

EU may consider replacing Russian LNG imports with those from US, von der Leyen says November 9, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-may-consider-replacing-russian-lng-imports-with-those-us-von-der-leyen-says-2024-11-08/

This is a joke

tbh Ukraine was almost in a different era before Euromaidan, once they did that it cemented them as pro-west not potentially pro-west, and it’s unfortunate that as soon as it cemented it was moving away from Russia it was attacked by it, this timing was precise by Putin, it leaves it open to the fact that Ukraine hasn’t had enough time to fully integrate into the EU meaning that Europe doesn’t see it as one of its own, in the same way an attack on Italy would be seen.

For those who haven’t seen this is a bit exaggerated American style but still really good movie:

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom | Full Feature | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxLzFfR5w

Well good news for Putin I guess, thanks to his stupidity NATO membership increased in size with Sweden and Finland joining and lots of other countries also looking at joining for protection from… Russia

He could have integrated Russia more deeply into Europe, with the gas pipelines and supply of energy, France/Macron was constantly saying that Russia should be more integrated into the EU… but then he did this and now I doubt in my lifetime we’ll see Russia be anything more than a pariah state

So why didn’t he say that instead of this special military operation to de-nazify ukraine? wth was that?