@PrzemekShura "This is their war not ours." A real jaw-dropper, that one. Definite lunatics running the asylum.
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Anton Radenquad 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
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🇺🇸 Jakbyście nie wiedzieli, że to nasza wojna z Iranem:
„Europa potrzebuje Cieśniny Ormuz znacznie bardziej niż my. Mogliby zacząć mniej gadać i organizować mniej eleganckich konferencji w Europie, a zamiast tego wsiąść na statek. To jest ich wojna nie nasza” - Pete Hegseth na konferencji prasowej w Pentagonie.
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There is definitely an element of quiet menace in Colby's announcement: the sense that much is going on behind the scenes. "A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric" ... and it would appear, as per US preference, over practically everything else. This becomes confusing, for what is one thrown back on? Surely one does not want to defend also, in defending "the idea of Canada," the sheer vapidity of most Canadian cultural production. Would Canada's becoming a sort of "hard power" nation in some way compensate? A record does exist: 2nd Ypres, Vimy, Passchendaele, Dieppe, Ortona, Normandy, the Scheldt. And this, from Richard Aldinton's 1929 novel Death of a Hero. Its protagonist George Winterbourne is a lieutenant in the British Army toward the end of WW1. He visits Canadian front-line trenches: "The Canadian officer walked Winterbourne round the positions. He was bare-headed—strictly against orders—and his men greeted him as he passed with friendly nods and an occasional brief remark. Winterbourne noticed that they did not wait for him to speak first and did not call him 'Sir.' He reflected with amusement that the Canadians were easily the crack troops of the British armies, and were sent into all the hardest fighting. And yet they didn’t even say 'Sir' to an officer!"
Is this the kind of Canada that now is called for? But against what enemy?
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Has Canada long neglected defence? 100% true. But it just reached 2% of GDP, with more to come. Strong alliances have always been a key US advantage relative to the USSR and now China; Trump is squandering what has long been a major source of US power.
Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby@USWPColby
A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3
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@NatalkaKyiv In terms of working vocabulary it would appear that Russian women sound like Russian troops¨: an expletive every two or three words. What amazing conversations must take place as they drink their vodka.
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Alice Weidel says Ukrainian drone strikes inside russia threaten Germany’s security.
Not the russian genocide.
Not the daily terror attacks.
Not the massacres.
Not the millions displaced across Europe.
Only Ukraine fighting back.
Absolutely vile hypocrisy.
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@IneBackIversen Not exactly a nation on the verge of defeat. Heroyam slava.
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🥹If you somehow only see one video today, I really hope it’s this one 💙💛
Вдома - Home 🇺🇦🫂
Finally, Home.
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Anton Radenquad 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 retweetledi
Every time I see videos like this, I cry.
We were waiting for you 🫂🇺🇦
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@Mylovanov That's around a 95% fatality rate. Nobody wins a war with that kind of number.
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Russian POW: From 90 people from my polygon, only 2 survived. Me and my friend Karat.
When we were on the mission, I saw many bodies lying. One man was alive, breathing. Almost purple. A part of his flesh was torn apart. I wanted to help but commander prohibited to.
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@Gerashchenko_en What these guys have gone through is etched on every face. Heroyam slava.
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Marine Vitalii from the 36th Marine Brigade (Mariupol) has finally returned to Ukraine after more than four years in Russian captivity.
Vitalii defended Mariupol during the first days of the full-scale invasion.
Welcome home, Warrior!
📹: TSN
Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
‼️⚡️205 Ukrainian Defenders return from Russian captivity!
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@saintjavelin Doesn't exactly look like a country on the verge of defeat. And this is after the winter siege.
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This is how Ukrainians welcome their defenders home after Russian captivity.
No one here is paid. These are ordinary people who came out in the cold, heat and just to wave a flag, cheer, and say “welcome home” to those who defended their country.
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@StratcomCentre A wise man. It would appear that they do not change & cannot, & that this incapacity remains whether the formal system is tsarist, communist, or neo-imperialist.
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Even back in 1899, Sergei Witte, the man that would later become Russia's first Prime Minister noted that unlike other countries, when territory is acquired by Russia, it becomes ruins and that Russians see money only as a means to fund yet more war for more territorial expansion, to then neglect into ruins..
“The Black Sea coast possesses natural riches unmatched in Europe. In our hands it lies neglected. If foreigners controlled it, it would already be generating enormous income and full of tourists. But for that, capital is needed — and for us, the purpose of capital is war. We cannot sit even 25 years without war; all public savings are sacrificed to wars. We leave the richest lands in neglect while constantly striving for new conquests.”
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And this is how Putin repays Ukraine's willingness to honour a ceasefire so he could hold his mind-numbing each-time-the-same-but smaller imbecilic parade. The entire world, but especially those questioning whether Ukraine provides a defensive line against something really bad, should take this in
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The death toll has risen to 21, including 3 children, after a Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of May 14‼️
21! And still counting. Why 21 people were killed in their home? Why?
Rescuers are working around the clock to clear the rubble and search for survivors.
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The great irony is that while university arts programs tend to view AI as a grave threat to their main evaluation paradigm, i.e. the term paper, businesses outside the university view facility with AI as a point of recommendation. It's a bit like what's happened with drone technology. The skills to control drones remotely were for many combatants honed on video games that their elders felt were a waste of time. Turns out they weren't.
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AI means the death of the term paper. It means more hand-written in-class exams, oral presentations, and class debates and exercises. The end of the term paper is a problem, and we need to find alternative ways to nurture writing skills. But other means of evaluation can work.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel
I don't think people fully realize how badly AI has damaged higher education. This is not an easy problem to fix. There are two major issues that foster cheating with AI: 1) Friction: It used to be hard to cheat. You had to find another student to copy. Now you just drop a short prompt (or the PDF of your assignment) into a chatbot and you get a complete response. This problem is not going away, it will only get worse as AI answers get harder and harder to detect 2) Social norms: Too many students are using this technology. As more and more students use AI to cut corners, it becomes easier and easier for other students to rationalize it. At some point, you reach a tipping point where cheating (rather than following the rules) feels normative. Unless you can fix both of these issues, cheating will get worse. Much worse. The problem is that the lack of friction creates worse social norms, which then makes it easier for others to justify cheating. Even students who don't want to cheat will eventually feel that it's necessary to keep up with other students. Like many professors I know, Princeton is trying to do something to protect the integrity of their educational experience. If they don't, employers will quickly figure it out and the value of a Princeton degree will eventually approximate the value of a degree from a diploma mill. I have had to change my exams and class assignments to reflect this new reality.
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@MarkJCarney Thank you, Prime Minister, for this strong statement. Canada has so much in common with Ukraine, including direct proximity to a hegemon. We need to recognize how bad such proximity can go & in this there are many lessons from Ukraine also.
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Anton Radenquad 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 retweetledi
Yesterday, Russia launched one of its largest drone and missile attacks on Ukraine in four years.
Canada unequivocally condemns these indiscriminate attacks. I express my deepest condolences to those injured and everyone mourning their loved ones.
Canada stands with Ukraine as it defends itself against this unconscionable aggression and we will work with allies to sustain pressure on Russia to bring this conflict to an end.
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I subscribe to your newsletter from Canada. Your, I'm going to say struggle with aesthetics in the midst of war is both informative & in my opinion valuable. Canada & Ukraine share much, though certainly not on the scale of tragic history that has beset Ukraine. What perhaps they most share is direct proximity to a hegemon, & this leads also to sharing aspects of art history. Only to be frank Ukraine's is so much richer. Thank you for providing insight into it.
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@Gerashchenko_en A very admirable boy. So this is how Putin repays Ukraine's honouring a ceasefire so he could hold his mind-numbingly repetitive parade, year on year. Only this year smaller. What a diseased mind.
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18-year-old Ivan helped rescue workers after a Russian strike crashed a residential building in Kyiv.
A woman was trapped under a concrete slab, she was screaming. Ivan and the rescuers did all they could to save her, talking to her, trying to comfort her. Ivan held her leg so she knew she wasn't alone.
Ivan says there was so much smoke and fire that his eyes were stinging horribly, he and the rescuers could hardly see anything.
Thankfully, they were able to get under the concrete slab and save the woman.
📹: Radio Liberty
Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
In 24 hours, Russia launched 1560+ drones on Ukraine. In addition, Russia launched ballistic and cruise missiles. In Kyiv, one person was killed and 31 more injured. A lot of civilian infrastructure damaged. 📹: rescuers saving a person from a building destroyed by Russia.
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@wartranslated Difficult to watch. The war in Ukraine is producing a new iconography of death, on massive scale.
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Wounded Russian servicemen have been trapped for the fifth day without food or water in the collapsed basement of a building hit by a Ukrainian aerial bomb. A striking video from the series "why you shouldn’t sign a contract and go to the so-called special military operation."
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Hegseth proves he's a moron multiple times every day
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Coons: Our president said that we never asked for and never received anything from our NATO allies. Was that your experience in Afghanistan? Hegseth: I've written extensively about that, and the vast majority of my experience was frustration with the limits of what those troops were able to do because of the political caveats, rules of engagement limits that came from there. Coons: But you don't doubt or question that about a third of all the combat casualties in our war in Afghanistan were our NATO partners and allies? Hegseth: I would have to go back and check that number
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@jason64bit "Loser" is an understatement. His very presence in government office indicates how low things have sunk in the USA.
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158 Canadian Armed Forces members died during Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. And he doesn't recall. What a loser.
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Coons: Our president said that we never asked for and never received anything from our NATO allies. Was that your experience in Afghanistan? Hegseth: I've written extensively about that, and the vast majority of my experience was frustration with the limits of what those troops were able to do because of the political caveats, rules of engagement limits that came from there. Coons: But you don't doubt or question that about a third of all the combat casualties in our war in Afghanistan were our NATO partners and allies? Hegseth: I would have to go back and check that number
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