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This has been the excuse for inaction since the invasion of Crimea. Clearly, Russia has no intention of stopping its westward expansion. Eventually we are going to have to bite the bullet.

They do!

Yes, this just further unites and galvanizes Europe, which is good.

This is where tariffs would actually be appropriate since there's already an established domestic manufacturing base to protect. Don't let the Chinese drive you out of business so they can jack up prices later.

This was absolutely disgraceful. Another step on the road to becoming a pariah state.

Trump just now destroyed the US relationship with Ukraine and possibly the Western world on live television so I'm leaning towards intentional.

> "I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected," climate scientist Zack Labe wrote on X. He said that he had worked on strengthening the agency's machine learning and AI tools.

https://xcancel.com/ZLabe/status/1895244032923836498#m

Note the replies

https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3ljapdyp7os2u

None of this is surprising if you start with the premise that Trump's goal is to destroy the federal government.

> Asked whether he would consider selling the cards to Russian oligarchs, Trump responded: “Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.”

It's the early 2000s again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

It's not just an Argentina problem, the Chinese fishing swarm also targets the Philippines, the Galapagos islands[0], and basically anywhere that doesn't have a Navy strong enough to deter them. It's a huge, underdiscussed problem.

[0] https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/12/22/280055...

If Trump 2.0 shocks Europe into solving some of their longstanding internal problems, it may be the one positive thing to come out of this administration.

That’s probably not possible anymore given China’s increasingly large and advanced military.

I honestly don’t even see how this benefits them.

We’re fine until China invades Taiwan and the tech companies that prop up our economy can’t buy high-end chips anymore.

This was added in the last 24 hours after a few tweets went viral showing Grok would name Musk and Trump if asked who the biggest spreaders were of disinfo on Twitter.

> The many comments from Chinese people are especially interesting providing historical perspective on current events in the USA.

Not really, it's your typical Chinese autofellatio over their tenuously claimed "5000 years of history".

The new bit of info here is that they only have 48hrs to respond on a weekend.

What is preventing someone from just lying? They’re not going to be able to follow up on all of the responses.

Mandarin is already on its way to becoming the lingua franca of electronics manufacturing. Many devices don’t have datasheets in any other language. I expect that to happen in other fields that China is taking over like biotech, especially with the US committing science-funding suicide. People learn a lingua franca out of necessity, not want.

The cars were already bought, the chargers were already installed, there's no conceivable rationale for this move besides pettiness.

It would have been nice if they had done this for the other agencies, but they're too stupid to realize America derives it's power from other places besides its military.

So SSRI treatment worsened verbal memory?

Is this the consensus on Tiangong as well?

> It's true the President should not refer to himself as king, even as a joke.

He's not joking, he's testing the waters. He's seeing how far he can push his power and rhetoric before he faces concrete consequences.

Sic semper tyrannis

Trump likes dictators and has even referred to himself as one so maybe this is just a misunderstood compliment.

> As reported last night, the job cuts within Marvel Rivals' western-based development team follow a recent pattern by NetEase, which has made broader reconsiderations to its overseas investments and studios.

> In November of last year, Mac Walters - the veteran writer and producer who worked on Mass Effect for almost two decades - announced a "pause" in operations at his NetEase-backed AAA game studio, Worlds Untold. Then, last month, Jar of Sparks - the Seattle-based "AAA" studio established by Halo Infinite head of design Jerry Hook back in 2022 - halted work its currently-unannounced first title as it searched for a new publishing partner, stating it's looking to "find all of our team new homes" as a result.

> More recently, the NetEase-backed and Sweden-based developer Liquid Swords announced an unspecified number of layoffs, before it had even released its first game.

Maybe one day westerners will realize the stove is hot and learn to stop working with Chinese companies lest they get burned.

I mean, the connections between Trump/the far right and Russia have been known for almost a decade now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associat... https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential...