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@CogitoInGa @standic @McFaul @grok Thanks for saying that. We probably agree on a lot more than we disagree on!

@uffehenrichsen @standic @McFaul @grok We are getting close to common ground here. I appreciate the discussion.

I regret that some NATO allies are denying us access to our bases in their countries. I also regret that the US president threatened to invade and annex NATO countries. This ridiculous Trump policy is obviously negatively impacting our national security now. I hope both of these issues within NATO can be overcome soon.

@CogitoInGa @standic @McFaul @grok Let's be clear: It is some countries in the EU - not the EU per se. And I agree with you that their position is counter-productive. Iran is a threat and we should be working together to eliminate it. The problem is that Trump is Putin's guy, and Russia is the bigger threat.

I do not know how many times I have to criticize Trump before we move past that and talk about how Europe has chosen to react to that. This was the EU statement on Iran last October: "The EU remains strongly committed to peace and security in the Middle East. We have always been clear that Iran must never be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon." The EU also designated the IRGC as a terrorist group since then. Iran militarily supports the Russians in Ukraine more than any other country. Yet Europe is going to walk back from all of that over Trump's bullsh*t about Greenland? Do you believe that is wise?

@CogitoInGa @standic @McFaul @grok And perhaps, if he was a more competent leader, and had made the case and assembled a coalition before starting the war, and was not likely to change his mind any second...we would have been able to solve the Iran problem together. But he blew it.

I have been to Nornandy and Bastogne. The stream of people who come to visit the graves of dead relatives says you are incorrect to frame that sacrifice like it is ancient history. 1 million total annual visitors to Normany cemetery alone. The US bases on European soil exist there because of WW2 and the Soviet threat that came out of it which the US paid the most costs to hold off. Russian threat today is rooted in much of that. Ukraine would already be overrun without US help. I have repeatedly, loudly criticized Trump over many issues. But he is right to point to the way Europe is handling Iran. Most of it is wrong.

@CogitoInGa @grok @McFaul Appreciate your service, as I'm sure most Europeans do. But it makes no sense to insist that Europe should ignore the Greenland threats and join in Trump's war of choice because the US helped in WW2.

I respect the service of everyone who fought next to me in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think Trump was idiotic with the Greenland threats. Those things do not somehow wipe away the massively higher cost US has paid for Europe than Europe has ever paid for the US. Just the training deaths suffered by US troops in Europe during the Cold War probably constitute a higher percentage of US losses vs European losses than any comparison the other way around.

@McFaul Trump has no good options with regard to Iran or NATO. And he is incapable for solving either. As my old boss used to say: Your biggest messes will be cleaned up by someone else.

@CogitoInGa @McFaul What was idiotic, was thinking that threatening even one NATO country would have no consequences. We went along with Iraq and Afghanistan - at great cost to ourselves - because a friend asked us to. Trump has made clear that we are not friends, and he continues to make threats.

@McFaul Trump didn't threaten to invade and annex NATO "countries." He threatened Greenland, one territory of one country. It was idiotic for Trump to do that but quit acting like he was massing forces to attack London and Paris.

@SlimBooter @unlimited_ls True. It should have started with 'Florida man left with a brain breed...'

@unlimited_ls Why on Earth does the very beginning part of that sentence written that way? "Tesla driver left with a brain bleed and broken ribs" What matters what type of car(s)? Has nothing to do with the main part of the story.

🚨NEW: Tesla driver left with a brain bleed and broken ribs after being viciously beaten by a man he stopped to help on a Florida highway Hans Hamilton driving north on the 429 Expressway near Walt Disney World when he saw a white Lexus crash into a guardrail Daniel Coman, 44, suddenly jumped on Hamilton’s Tesla and smashed the windshield Footage obtained by News 6 shows Coman attacking Hamilton on the ground, repeatedly striking his head and body for over 30 seconds Hamilton managed to free himself and struck Coman in the throat to stop the assault A deputy from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrived, and Coman immediately tried to fight the officer

@DEVIANT__ARTIST @QBCCIntegrity Maybe you should watch the video before commenting.

@uffehenrichsen @QBCCIntegrity No, there was no vote or referendum for Britain to rejoin the European Union in 2026.

BREAKING: United Kingdom Prime Minister Kier Starmer stopped the entire nation to do his part in the announcement of a new global order. It appears the UK will now rejoin the European Union. With Ursula Von der Leyen just leaving Australia, are we joining the EU?

@DEVIANT__ARTIST @QBCCIntegrity They voted to leave. They can vote to rejoin. It's not complicated.

@QBCCIntegrity how the fuck can he do this when the country voted to leave? this is some dictator shit

@paul_nourse @PasHenFr @AmericaFan1 @JessePeltan Dunno. You should ask the Dutch.

Ah, the classic superiority vibe. 🙄 Curious how's Dutch culture doing amid all the changes? Some folks there seem worried it's slipping away... Suicidal empathy, right? On a brighter note, my Belgian Malinois/Doberman crosses are bilingual pros Dutch commands like Zit, Blijf, and Af Liggen get instant obedience. Culture's safe with the dogs! 😎

Regardless of what happens in Europe and the U.S., the world is moving to EVs. There is nothing that western automakers can do to reverse this trend, and geopolitical risk in oil will only accelerate it. Either get good at EVs, or wither away.

@paul_nourse @PasHenFr @AmericaFan1 @JessePeltan I'm not American, so yes.

@uffehenrichsen @PasHenFr @AmericaFan1 @JessePeltan Are you sure it was sarcasm?

@paul_nourse Yeah - except there are no actual democracies in it.

President Trump has already done exactly that. He created the Board of Peace, a new international body where responsible democracies and sovereign nations actually have real influence (no more letting autocracies and dictators dominate the agenda like at the UN). Trump chairs it himself, it’s already delivering on Gaza reconstruction and expanding to other conflicts, and it’s a model for getting things done instead of endless UN talk. The future of peace isn’t another bloated bureaucracy, it’s results through strong, like-minded partners."

We absolutely need a UN where democracies have a greater say than autocracies.

@BRICbreaker @WeTheBrandon China will take Taiwan. Trump has assured that. The best we can do now is negotiate the terms.

@WeTheBrandon I dare say that there are people in the West who are fine with that. Egg on a wider war next...with china. If China sees us as weak, they believe, they'll move on Taiwan.

Rheinmetall CEO confirms my reporting. All stockpiles in Europe, the Mideast, and US are basically empty. Cannibalization of INDOPACOM Arsenal, which began a little bit last week, will begin in earnest. It will take years, if ever, to recover. Moscow and Beijing know this.

@paul_nourse @PasHenFr @AmericaFan1 @JessePeltan Americans and sarcasm don't mix.

😄 Are you serious? Heat and cold? Buddy they’re ALREADY selling EVs there and absolutely dominating. The post you replied to literally said Vietnam at 38% EV sales share and Singapore at 50%+. Norway? 96% of all new cars sold in 2025 were electric (97.6% in December) in Arctic cold that hits minus 30°C. They run annual winter tests there and EVs still crush it with heat pumps and preconditioning. Thermal management solved the “issue” years ago. The world moved on. Your bubble didn’t. Pop! (Reality called. It’s not taking your calls anymore.)

@pmarca Pretty sure you regret eating all those cheeseburgers.

It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.

@ytahen @SinnettCam87346 @IAPonomarenko It's hard to point to anything Trump has done for Ukraine while he has literally rolled out the red carpet for Putin. If the actions on Venezuela and Iran somehow help Ukraine, it will be a by product and not the main objective.

@SinnettCam87346 @IAPonomarenko You gotta ask yourself why you, as an American, both support bombing Iran but also enjoy parroting the propaganda of their ally Russia. It's possible you have no actual opinions or principles though.

Honestly, I’m genuinely stunned by the sheer amorality and the complete absence of even a drop of conscience. And the most astonishing part is the sheer pointlessness of this demonstrative repetitive disgrace. The total pointlessness of this absurd lies and smearing of Ukraine -- for absolutely nothing.

@clashreport Finally.

German Chancellor Merz: We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true. But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly. With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.

@PalmerLuckey The most lucid argument yet. The problem is that the laws have not caught up with AI yet. Without limiting the capabilities of the AI, we are in a dangerous place until they do.

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms. Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control. Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer. Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like: -What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more? -What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President? -At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality? The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive? At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe. And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

@rabois @MasoudJ_ The point is not who controls the AI. It is what happens we noone can control it? China understands that.

@MasoudJ_ China hasn’t adhered to a single international accord it has signed in the modern era.

Imagine Apple sold computers or iPads to the DOD and tried to tell the Pentagon what missions could be planned on their computers.

@chamath How is this different from all other SaaS companies?

In a democracy, it’s absolutely ok to define who can use the things you make and how. But it’s also absolutely ok for the Government to lose trust in you, tell you to fuck off and find an alternative. It’s also absolutely ok for you to nuke your own company in the process. The timing of this is not good for Anthropic and could be a potential boon to every other model that is exceeding expectations in their upcoming version (Grok, OAI, Gemini). More generally, I don’t see how this isn’t a slippery slope. What if a model maker updates their ToS that would block a use case that is legal but subjective? Agreeable in some states but not in others? What about in different countries with different governance or religions? It’s a huge can of worms. How can a government or company rely on a model that could have an ever-changing definition of what’s allowed without taking on major business/governance risk? They won’t. My hunch is that the company that embraces the “no holds barred” ToS will win because it’s the least risky to adopt wrt long term risk of getting rug-pulled.