my point precisely

Here’s to hoping 🍻

I seem to remember they were using actual WW2 tanks?

This is just Trump. High on his own power, he thinks he can bully everyone around, even if they’re not under his power 🤷

I’m under no illusion that this is the start of a more critical stance towards Russia or will have any positive result for Ukraine. Or any positive result at all. Or result in anything at all.

I am kinda curious how the Kreml will respond though. So far they’ve been careful not to call the USA an ally afair.

The euphemisms are getting wilder. They’re inching closer to “Endlösung”.

You are Anonymous!

I’m deeply skeptical of the NY Times these days. The long article is devoid of any sources or links. It tries (and horribly fails) to create a military spy novel athmosphere instead. It’s the sort of stuff conspiracy theorists will lap up, twist further and present as proof of – what exactly?

That he is, along with the whole posse.

Some people (officials, journalists) are incapable of grasping “decentralised” and quickly have to bridge the abyss that’s opening in their minds, usually with something like “mentor”, or “ringleader” or, in this case, “co-founder”. I wonder how many “co-founders” there are: a hundred? ten thousand?

In a normal political environment I’d say this is a normal part of the games China & the US have been playing in Asia for a long time, and actually a good thing, considering how China postures around Taiwan.

But as things stand with the US now, this seems like just one more contradiction, and unclear motivation.

Paywalled for me. There’s no snapshot in web.archive.org, I tried to save it but did not succeed.

Meanwhile, there’s a perfect snapshot in Russia-backed archive.today already. It’s uncanny.

My first thought. Maybe the Russian equivalent: president’s billionaire buddy has a Russian luxury car factory propped up by government money, riddled with problems.

First of all, this does not look like an assassination attempt. The engine caught fire. A Russian-made limousine. Might be (politically motivated) vandalism, might be “a Tesla”.

There’s no freedom of speech or poltical expression in Russia anymore. The state controls the media and the media control the narrative. This is the totalitarian approach. The disadvantage for Putin/Kreml is that they really don’t know anymore how deep the resentment against them goes. And neither do we.

Of course the explanation will be that Ukrainian sympathisers did it, but I think it’s easy to see that a Russian does not even have to be a Ukrainian sympathiser to want Putin dead.

…until you consider that one large country that’s missing from your picture.

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Don’t link that fascist media trash. Make a screenshot instead.

We were supposed to go to Mars 10 years ago!

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Because that worked so well with Twitter. Or going to Mars. Or Tesla.

Only this time it’s so much worse. Goddammit this is all so dark.

The EU has been going easy on US tech giants for decades, the causality the title implies is complete bullshit.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love if they went much, much harder.

Also, X is not mentioned? I hope that’s a good sign (as in, EU will go easy on Apple & Facebook, but not on X).