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My latest, on the absurdity of Canada, one of history’s most successful nations, surrendering to the likes of David Parker, Mitch Sylvestre, and Jeffrey Rath theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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Let’s all be free. And responsible. Let’s be freely responsible.
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Walt Friesen retweetledi
He wants to be a special boy so badly. He’s desperate for autocrats to love and respect him. Such a needy fragile child easily manipulated and rolled.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Ask the president… other prime ministers and presidents—does he bring them here?
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Could you imagine the international uproar if Ukraine spent 15 hours sending 1500 missiles and drones into population centers all over Russia, mainly into apartment buildings, killing 15 people, including children?
Russia just did this, and no one cares, especially the White House.
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Walt Friesen retweetledi
This repulsive hypocrisy is unbearable.
Europe’s political leaders have become masters of moral posturing. After every massive Russian attack, they step in front of the cameras, speaking of "solidarity," "European values," and "unwavering support"—while simultaneously withholding precisely what their own words would demand: decisive, uncompromising, and immediate action.
For years, European governments have claimed that Ukraine is defending Europe’s freedom. If they truly believed that, they would act like states facing a historic emergency—not like bureaucracies that talk every shipment, every sanction, and every strategic decision to death, delaying and diluting them in endless summits. You might be capable of running a town hall, but you certainly cannot lead a European nation in wartime.
You are simply pathetic.
While Ukrainian cities burn, Europe debates budgetary limits, opinion polls, and economic conveniences. While people die under a hail of missiles, European elites calculate domestic political risks and cling to the illusion that one can merely "manage" an imperial war of aggression without having to bear any sacrifices or consequences oneself.
No, that is not possible.
The truth is brutal: Europe possesses the industrial, economic, and military power to exert far greater pressure on Russia. It could radically ramp up weapons production, consistently seize Russian assets, enforce sanctions without loopholes, and deliver to Ukraine in a matter of months what currently takes years. Yet, what many governments lack is not the capability, but the courage.
And that is precisely why their constant declarations have long since rung hollow. Anyone who "condemns in the strongest possible terms" every attack—yet continues to act slowly, hesitantly, or not at all—transforms moral language into a mere exercise in political self-absolution.
Russia bombards Ukrainian cities with missiles. Europe’s leaders respond with press releases.
That is the true declaration of bankruptcy.
The bitterest truth, therefore, is this: It is not European rhetoric that is weak—but rather the discrepancy between words and deeds. And it is precisely this discrepancy that undermines Europe’s credibility far more than any Russian propaganda.
Emmanuel Macron@EmmanuelMacron
En lançant une nouvelle frappe massive de drones et de missiles contre les villes et les civils ukrainiens - la plus importante de ces quatre dernières années -, la Russie aggrave un peu plus le forfait de son agression. Elle donne à voir toute l'hypocrisie avec laquelle elle a négocié la fragile trêve des derniers jours. En bombardant les civils, la Russie apporte moins la démonstration de sa force que de sa faiblesse : elle est à court de solutions sur le terrain militaire et ne sait pas comment terminer sa guerre d'agression. La France se tient aux côtés de l'Ukraine et du peuple ukrainien et continuera de se mobiliser pour obtenir une cessation des hostilités et faire advenir une paix juste et durable pour l'Ukraine, qui garantisse sa sécurité et celle de l'Europe.
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And all because of how humiliated Putin feels about how drastically he had to scale back his all-important Victory Day parade, and Zelenskyy giving him 'permission' to hold it, on top of it. No doubt this enraged Putin thoroughly.
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Walt Friesen retweetledi
Right now Ukraine is under massive drone attack. There are over 300 enemy drones in the sky
Vid: the destruction of 39 Shaheds & Gerbers
In the coming days, the russ fascists will increase the number of attacks
Help provide the AFU with new interceptors. DONATE @sternenkofund
Serhii Sternenko@sternenko
Просто зараз Україна під масованою дроновою атакою. В нашому небі понад 300 ворожих безпілотників. А на відео — знищення 39 Шахедів та 5 Гербер операторами 9-ї ЗРБ Січ Наступні дні росіяни будуть тільки збільшувати кількість атак. Допоможіть забезпечити військо новими перехоплювачами. Донатьте на Шахедоріз!
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Fully endorse. In a multi polar world, and an unreliable America, this is precisely what’s needed.
Anna@AnnaDeMilanese
Leute, wo bleibt ihr?Rasmussen kämpft für uns. 60 Retweets. Sechzig. Während wir täglich über Trump und Putin jammern – hat der frühere NATO-Generalsekretär gestern eine konkrete Antwort lanciert: D7 – ein Bündnis demokratischer Mittelmächte das gemeinsam gegen Zölle, Rohstofferpressung und Drohnen antritt. Wovon wir so oft sprechen. Dieser Mann verdient mehr als 60 Retweets. Retweet sein Original. Jetzt. 🇪🇺🇺🇦
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Too funny, and accurate
Garry Kasparov@Kasparov63
😂 It would be the first negotiation in history in which both sides tried to surrender to the other!
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Walt Friesen retweetledi
日本にとって、ロシアによるウクライナ侵攻の問題は、単なる道徳論ではない。これは、日本を含む多くの国々が恩恵を受けてきた「ルールに基づく国際秩序」を維持できるかどうかという問題である。もし日本の一部の政治家がロシアの行動を既成事実として受け入れ、正常化し始めるのであれば、それはウクライナ以上に日本自身を傷つけることになる。なぜなら日本の西側には、急速な軍拡を進め、歴史修正主義的な姿勢を強め、日本に対する歴史的な反感や不満を抱える、はるかに強大な隣国が存在しているからだ。
目先の問題を解決するために、中長期的な利益や安全保障を犠牲にするというのは、ほとんどの場合、敗北につながる選択である。日本自身、決して安泰な立場にあるわけではない。海空戦力そのものは一定の能力を維持しているものの、艦艇数の制約、防衛関連法制、防衛予算の限界、軍艦建造能力の不足、さらには軍務に対する社会的な忌避感など、多くの要因が中国に対する日本の相対的な立場を弱めている。
日本が長年にわたり大規模な軍備拡張に踏み切らなかった理由は、アメリカの安全保障の傘の下にあり、最終的にはアメリカが日本を防衛するという前提が存在していたからである。その前提自体はいまなお有効である可能性が高い。しかし近年の中東におけるアメリカの対応、とりわけホルムズ海峡の安全確保すら十分に行えなかった現実は、アメリカがより巨大で能力の高い核保有国と本格的に対峙する準備ができているのかという疑問を生じさせている。
それでもなお、侵略戦争や領土併合を行う国家が国際社会から孤立し、先進国から排除されるという国際的な安全保障・政治秩序は、世界の安定と貿易を維持するうえで不可欠である。そしてその安定は、天然資源に乏しく、輸入と輸出、さらには安全な海上輸送路に大きく依存する島国である日本にとって、特に重要な意味を持つ。
ならず者国家との関係正常化は、まさにその秩序そのものを損なう行為である。もし各国が短期的な政治的利益のためにこうした原則を軽視し続けるのであれば、将来、中国と台湾の間で有事が発生した際に、世界が大きな代償を払うことなく中国との貿易を継続したとしても、何ら不思議ではない。その結果、中国は日本を含む地域全体に対する経済的・軍事的支配力をさらに強めていくことになるだろう。
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Walt Friesen retweetledi
Should be read as an attempt to force these governments to persuade Ukraine not to strike — i.e. a desperate threat designed to allow Victory Day to proceed without humiliation. Russia nightly bombs Kyiv and doesn’t give a toss about foreigners or diplomatic staff living there.
Bloomberg@business
Russia has told foreign governments and organisations to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from Kyiv, saying a retaliatory strike would be inevitable if Ukraine tried to attack Moscow during May 9 World War II Victory Day celebrations bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Walt Friesen retweetledi
The FDA just approved colorful fruit-flavored vapes.
Nothing says “Make America Healthy Again” like marketing cotton-candy flavored nicotine to middle schoolers.
When he's not busy cutting off penises from dead animals, RFK Jr. is busy being a total MAHA fraud!
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so good seeing dario in war-mode, no more fucking around
he’s acquiring as much compute as he can get his hands on including his competitors:
> 220,000 world class gpus from spaceXai
> $200B google cloud deal
> 2M+ amazon tranium chips.
> multiple neocloud deals.
what’s insane is the revenue number correlate with anthropic’s spend
$44B ARR rising 4-5X since start of year!
anthropic just hit a $1.2 trillion val across pre-ipo markets
they’re also about to raise a monster round (rumor says $50B)
Peter Yang@petergyang
Some nice quotes from Dario and Daniela from this session: “I’ve been training these models since 2015, they were really dumb.” "Build for the exponential. There are products that are not possible with the current model but could work with later models. This puts a premium on internal experimentation. You have to just try it with the model to see if it works." “Products reach their saturation when models get too good. The ways in which we are making models smarter today are much more evident in agentic and Claude Code workflows than chatbots. You have to think about what the next big thing is.” “Models are evolving from coding to software engineering to just growing a business.” “It’s easy to accumulate an extraordinary amount of internal tech debt when you ship that fast. But the models can also help you pay down this debt."
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Walt Friesen retweetledi
Отток наличных из банков РФ продолжается. Данные на сегодня. За вчера сняли еще 42 млрд.руб.
К 9 маю анонсируют опять полные блокироки интеренета в т.ч. отправку СМС.
Уже разосланы объявления абонентам из Москвы что завтра будут блокировать даже СМСки.
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Today, Iran has a total of 11 tons of uranium, at various enrichment levels. "With further purification, that is enough to build up to 100 nuclear weapons....Virtually all of that cache accumulated in the years after Trump abandoned the Obama-era deal.” trib.al/GBy8nzC
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The sheer volume of fake news websites Russia is running, with layouts that perfectly mimic legitimate media outlets, is staggering, and most people have no idea what a potent disinformation instrument they represent.
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György Wáberer, a prominent entrepreneur, claimed in an interview yesterday that he has been supporting TISZA for a year and a half, with a total of more than 100 million forints. After this came to my attention, I had it checked to verify what was true. As it turns out, five days before the election, he did transfer 5 × 20 million forints to TISZA’s account. Before that, to my knowledge, nothing. At TISZA, we are very proud that everything — including the party’s financing — has been, and continues to be, conducted legally and transparently.
We are grateful that tens of thousands of our fellow Hungarians have supported us through our crowdfunding platform. We want to avoid even the appearance that any entrepreneur or oligarch, from either side, is tied to us, or that anyone might feel they can gain any advantage by invoking our name, even if only for self-promotion.
Therefore, we will transfer the 5 × 20 million forints back to György Wáberer on Monday.
In future, if anyone makes any legally or morally questionable request in exchange for their support, or if we see that they are trying to gain any kind of advantage, we will return their donation. Furthermore, within the legal deadline, we will account for all incoming donations and publicly disclose the names of those who have provided support exceeding 500,000 forints. Legality. Transparency. TISZA. Systemic political change.
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NEW: In 2 months, Zelensky went from being first to back a U.S. Middle East operation to openly criticizing Trump’s foreign policy.
Frustration is growing in Kyiv over U.S. messaging, weapons uncertainty, and broken promises, sources tell me.
kyivindependent.com/ukraine-hits-l…
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Ukriane deserves every weapon we can spare…they are beating our enemy too!!Why is the Pentagon holding up Ukraine funds? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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Mitch McConnell, who leads the Senate Defense spending panel and was at this meeting, now writes in the Washington Post:
"Ukraine aid we passed months ago is now collecting dust at the Pentagon. When Senate appropriators have sought an explanation from the department’s policy shop, led by Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, they’ve been stonewalled. Our colleagues on armed services have also expressed growing frustration with the Defense Department’s inability to communicate."
Mark Satter@marksatter
New: In a meeting lawmakers yesterday evening, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he didn't know why $400 million in previously appropriated funds for Ukraine hadn't been released yet. "I guess I'll look into it," said Hegseth, according to Betty McCollum, top Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. "That's not an answer to the Congress," said McCollum.
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