Full video (49:22), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajxSWocbye8
Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
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#782Sone real tech news here
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#783On the minerals front, the US doesn't need anything from Ukraine. Most of the minerals mentioned, except titanium, are un-mined deposits. Or things the US has plenty of already, such as oil, natural gas, coal, and iron. Here's a rundown: - Rare earths: I've mentioned the MP Minerals, Mountain Pass, CA mine before. The US doesn't have enough rare earth refining capability, and China won't export the technology. So US…
Note that there's an actual chance Trump will be so narcisstic to make the US lose its alliance with Canada over some rumor he heard on X which has no basis in any of the statistics, and Canada can now join the EU because of its shared border with Denmark.
The Trump administration doesn't give a single shit about truth, it's always about power grabs for them. If I were you I'd digitize any copy of school books I can find on the internet, because they will be gone very soon.
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#784I’d like to know who the despicable man was that asked him if he owned a suit. The definition of bikeshedding if I’ve ever seen it.
Brian Glenn, boyfriend of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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#785Sone real tech news here
HN isn't just for 'tech news' - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
More explanation elsewhere in this thread: https://inference-review.com/article/time-travelers
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#786Sorry about the podcast link, the gist is that Ukraine now can build drones from cardboard, controlled from Kiev, London etc. that can destroy Russian tanks. https://www.ft.com/content/8793e218-9dc4-43a8-8183-e2a092bbb...
Trouble with drones is that Russia makes them too.
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#787"All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was led by an idiot." –Mick Herron, Bad Actors (from the Slough House/Slow Horses series)
Not sure idiot is the right word for Trump.
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#788I wish the EU was more ... united. Most of the nations were woefully slow to act with Ukraine (hey let's send some token helmets). They've got a totalitarian regime invading democracies in their back yard but don't seem all that united about it ....
EU was plenty united when US cried NATO article 5.
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#789I have a naive question, as a foreigner: do European leaders have any kind of leverage on their US allies?
No.
But people will remember that no and realise that they need to arm themselves because allies can’t be relied. Next you will have nuclear arms race everywhere, particularly Europe and Asia.
Is it what US wanted/don’t care? If not then it is the leverage
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#790What is actually the projected end-game of people who support this war? It's been three years and ukraine has struggled to make any significant progress at retaking its territory. It should be clear by now that they can't return to their 2014 or even 2022 borders unless the countries backing them become directly involved in a potentially apocalyptic war against Russia, and I haven't seen anybody who wants that, not even the countries clutching their pearls over this incident.
The only three possible outcomes at this point are total Russian victory, peace treaty, and WW3. It's not realistic to think Ukraine will ever bring Russia to its knees on its own.