This is an example of how we should be using ML. Specialized agents that are trained for very specific goals that are otherwise incredibly tedious, expensive, and inefficient to explore. Not fucking psychosis-inducing chatbots and propaganda generators.
The regime has made overt commentary and motions of hostility toward Canada, and has vociferously stated a desire for lebensraum in Canada, Greenland, and other neighboring countries. When they talk about neo-Monroe doctrine, they’re really talking about neocolonialism. They’re “joking” until they’re not. It’s an established pattern and practice with the regime, now as well as in the first stint they had.
I do actually think 2b-e are all applicable here.
This is… uh… maybe not the best place to be requesting asylum in these days.
That would just be racism.
What a year this month has been
I do think there’d be more than a few mutinies and refusals to follow orders all across the board. Perhaps even to the level of the president trying to nationalize (for instance) the Minnesota National Guard, and their commander responding with a hearty “fuck you, eat shit”.
Also, aside from the absolute, categorical failure of French strategic planning and leadership at the start of the Second World War, the Free French forces significantly contributed to a ton of campaigns during the war. Not to mention: WW2 was a divergence from the norm for France. Before, and since, they have been and still are a strategic military powerhouse, are able to punch far above their weight, and have pointedly maintained a serious domestic defense industry - which, nowadays, is showing very clear and obvious benefits.
I get that they’re taking advantage of people coming from developing countries… but seriously, at what point will everyone start to be like “hmmmm maybe I should rule out that Russian job offer because they’re just gonna shanghai me into military service”?
Ah yes, let’s apply punishment to the symptom instead of looking for and addressing any root cause issues that are causing this shit.
Side note: if any Swedes here want to share some insight and nuance into what’s going on up there and how it got to this point, I’d be very interested to hear.
Definitely parts of it, yeah. But it’s also a mixed bag - the fact that France helped stonewall the appropriation of an overtly hostile adversary’s assets is deeply fucking stupid, for example. And Macron’s unbelievable idiocy when it comes to the domestic French situation has me worried they’re gonna open the door for RN (their far right) to snag a win in the next election.
This is the most sane response to us knocking over Venezuela and then immediately threatening Cuba and several other countries in the area. As well as, you know, NATO allies.
well fuck, I guess we’ll just have to murder them.
^ that happened this morning in Minneapolis
Tell me you don’t understand how inflation works without telling me you don’t understand how inflation works
Tell me you don’t understand geopolitical strategy around an expansionist nuclear state works without telling me you don’t understand how geopolitical strategy around an expansionist nuclear state works
Tell me you have a reductive and naive view of history and current events without telling me you have a reductive and naive view of history and current events
…Says the guy who avoided the Vietnamese front line
I’m not shocked that German outlets are still in denial about this
Lmfao it’s so fucking comical.
This is 10/10 “I don’t want to come to your party” “WELL YOU CAN’T COME BECAUSE I’M UNINVITING YOU >:(“. Fucking kindergarten-grade rhetoric. What a time to be alive.
What I mean is that Germany should have taken this fucking seriously at some point between 2014 and now. Because to many people - including myself - it looks like they’re doing essentially fuck-all, and are being so punctiliously bureaucratic that they’re going to procedure themselves into an early fucking grave. The willful ignorance is absolutely astounding.
There are still a lot of competent people who continue to let themselves be used by the regime, particularly in the military.
…what…?