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E__Strobel retweeted
At one point, Ukraine had the third-largest contingent of personnel deployed in Iraq, behind only the U.S. and UK.
@BernardGoldberg So, Ukraine is coming to our aid if we are attacked? Do you really believe that?
Community note
Ukraine did provide military support to the US following the 9/11 attacks, with over 5,000 troops serving in Iraq as the third-largest coalition contingent and contributions to Afghanistan operations.
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E__Strobel retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: Romania’s domestic intelligence service (SRI) and the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) attribute last month’s fire at the Carfil factory to an act of sabotage carried out by the Russian Federation.

Carfil Brașov is an arms manufacturing facility. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first case of sabotage publicly attributed to the Russian Federation in Romania.
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E__Strobel retweeted
In free nations, we investigate crimes to see who is guilty of them.

In communist tyrannies, they investigate men to see what they can be punished for.
INVESTIGATE ELON MUSK.
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E__Strobel retweeted
Open source models and access to compute should be protected by the second amendment indeed

Amen
We believe access to capable open-source cyber models is our constitutional right as Americans under the 2nd Amendment.

It is our duty as technologists and patriots to help protect the digital infrastructure that powers the world's largest economy.

As such, we’re serving our cyber models “at-cost”, in US data centers only, with ZDR enabled by default.

We do not plan to make money serving these models.

If you run a company that is considering how to best protect against cybercrime, reach out to me or @atbeme. We’d be happy to advise.

KYC required. Apply below.
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E__Strobel retweeted
They, in fact, came to our aid after we were attacked on 9/11. So yes.
@BernardGoldberg So, Ukraine is coming to our aid if we are attacked? Do you really believe that?
Community note
Ukraine did provide military support to the US following the 9/11 attacks, with over 5,000 troops serving in Iraq as the third-largest coalition contingent and contributions to Afghanistan operations.
army.mil/article/15056/…
nato.int/en/what-we-do/…
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E__Strobel retweeted
In a big development Ukrainian forces have liberated the town of Yampil fighting has been going on in the area for years.
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E__Strobel retweeted
Elon Musk calls Senator Mark Kelly a “traitor” for supporting Ukraine.

Apparently, standing up to Putin is betrayal, but giving him what he wants is a peace plan.

Elon Musk: “I take great offense at those who put the appearance of goodness over the reality of it. Those who virtue signal and say we can't give into Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day."
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Not to anyone who understands ethics. Which the commies at Nutty Propaganda Radio do not (and never have).
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And even with that honkin' huge income, @elonmusk still financed $40 billion for GPUs...

One wonders if this was to soak up available financing to keep it out of other AI companies' hands? Or if it's simply getting an advance on the nearly $40B a year he'll be taking in?
🚨 BREAKING: SpaceX locked Anthropic into paying them $3.1 billion per MONTH for compute starting December

$37B a year
= $120.5 BILLION through 2029

Every month, ~80% of Anthropic's current revenue would be SpaceXSI compute bill

BIGGER than its Google and Amazon long-term short-term compute "carries a higher cost per unit" and will "compress our operating margin"
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Not saying it's gonna be a hard winter here in North AL, but the squirrels have turned my yard into the friggin' craters of the Moon digging around for stuff.
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E__Strobel retweeted
"So if your entire plan is built around what happens after the Insurrection Act is invoked, you are building a plan around mass violence happening"

Exactly.
I've been going through the Democracy Files leaks @DataRepublican has been releasing, and whether or not any of this ultimately meets the legal bar for seditious conspiracy. The plan these organizers are discussing doesn't hold together unless you assume their "non-violence" language is masking their true intentions from public consumption.

Their red line is the Insurrection Act as a potential triggering action, there may be others, but all of the potential triggering acts that have been hinted at are lawful actions. Nobody invokes the Insurrection Act over people walking down the street with signs. It doesn't happen. The Guard deployments in LA and Portland last year to counteract violent protestors weren't even the Insurrection Act. The only scenario where it actually gets invoked is one where there is sustained violence that local authorities can't or won't control.

So if your entire plan is built around what happens after the Insurrection Act is invoked, you are building a plan around mass violence happening. You can say "non-violence" as many times as you want. The plan doesn't work without the violence. That's a wink and a nod tactic to cya legally.

But understand the logic flow of what comes next. In the transcripts published by The Post Millennial and WECU, the talk is about governors becoming "the leading governing authority," about how to "wall off these illegitimate individuals," and about moving "into an extra-constitutional process." In other words, the federal response has been labeled illegitimate before anything has even happened.

That's where this starts to matter legally. The seditious conspiracy statute covers conspiring to oppose by force the authority of the United States, or to prevent, hinder or delay by force the execution of any law. The Supreme Court said back in 1887 that if federal officers carrying out the law are forcibly opposed by people who conspired for that purpose, that is exactly what the statute was written for.

If violence breaks out, and the federal government steps in to protect communities, and these same organizers then use ongoing violent protests to tell governors and the public that the federal government is no longer legitimate, that bleeds out of activism and into something far more serious.

Advocating an idea isn't a crime necessarily and the courts have been clear about that. But there is a big difference between teaching an abstract idea and lining up the lawyers, the bail money and the governing plan for the day after.

Maria Stephan, who co-leads the Horizons Project, the group that co-wrote the toolkit for these organizers, wrote in 2020 that calling the George Floyd protests violent riots "is simply untrue" and that the looting and vandalism were "a minute portion" of it, "largely committed by opportunists." Erica Chenoweth, whose 3.5% rule keeps coming up in these circles, co-wrote that claims the protests were overtaken by rioting "are false." Paul Zeitz wrote last year that troops had been "deployed against peaceful protestors" in LA. So they are obviously hiding behind legalese to cover their tracks while having a background of defining violent protests as non-violent.

All of this tells you exactly how they'll describe the violence when it comes. “It isn't really violence, it's a tiny percentage, it's opportunists, and the real threat is the federal response.”

They're being evasive and misleading, intentionally.

The question now is what the full archive shows. If anyone on these calls is planning to physically resist federal law enforcement once it shows up, or keeps backing these movements after they've clearly turned violent, that's not politics anymore. And it’s worth repeating this last point. If the organizers of this say “peaceful protest” now, but advocate for advancing their plan to delegitimize the authority of the United States government after violent protests break out, they will be exposed to more obvious legal scrutiny.
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E__Strobel retweeted
Round 1:
🏆Bolsonaro: 56.1 million votes
Lula: 53.9 million votes

Round 2:
🏆Lula: 64.1 million votes (+10.2M)
Bolsonaro: 59.8 million votes (+3.7M)

To give you an idea of how unlikely this is: all the eliminated candidates from round 1 got 9.33M VOTES COMBINED
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Ummm… if it’s *publicly available*, what’s the big deal?
Claude AI accessed publicly available Georgia voter data, Anthropic confirms foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/… #FoxBusiness
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Possibly the most intelligent thing Vance has said in a meeting.
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just wrapped his Cabinet meeting with an absolute CLASSIC exchange with JD Vance!

Trump: “I like this better than 3 hours! JD, would you like to say something? He is, after all, the VICE PRESIDENT!”

Vance fires back: “It’s OK sir, I’m here for the om lost it.

Trump & Vance dropping gold-tier banter while running the country like bosses.
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E__Strobel retweeted
Proud of every Trump voter who refused to be shamed or silenced. No apologies. No regrets.

Keep the RED WAVE rolling! Let’s embarrass Democrats at the ballot box!
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E__Strobel retweeted
Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.
Stolen children, bombed hospitals, jailed Americans, and peace rejected 42 times.
Read the record. x.com/i/article/2114…
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E__Strobel retweeted
饿到喝尿吃树皮的俄军士兵,投降乌克兰反倒活了下来。

一段从前线流出来的审讯现场,94名俄军战俘排成一排报数。
队伍里走出来一个军官。
胸前挂着伤,自报家门是第3步兵营的少校马纳姆科夫。

他面对镜头开口第一句,直接控诉自己的后方指挥官。
战斗最紧张的时候,长官自己先乘车撤了。
临走前把电台关死,扔下一句“就地组织环形防御,死守”。
电台一掐,后方就把这几十号人当成了耗材。

阵地上断水断粮整整一个半月。
几十个人趴在泥地里舔雨水积成的水坑,水坑干了就喝自己的尿。
身边一个战友严重脱水,活活死在战壕里。
饿极了怎么办?
剥树皮嚼,拔地里的野草,摘路边的荨麻在野战炉子上煮成水充饥。
三个受了重伤的士兵,连一块止血纱布和止痛药都拿不到,在旁边拖到断气。

按俄军内部的战前宣传,投降乌克兰会遭到非人折磨。
结果这帮被逼到绝境的残兵,在乌军第3突击旅阵地前举了白旗。

乌克兰军医进场,立刻给伤员做清创。
少校脑壳里嵌着的弹片、肋侧扎进去的碎铁块,当场取了出来,送去卧床休息。
吃上了热饭,喝上了干净水。
马纳姆科夫在镜头前苦笑了一下:
“整整一个半月,我第一次吃上一顿饱饭,居然是在战俘营里。”

善待战俘除了人道原则,背后有一套极其现实的利益驱动。
镜头后方,乌克兰士兵一句话点透了关键:
这批人是换回自家兄弟最好的筹码。
死战俘换不回自己人,只有活着的、治好伤的俄军军官和士兵,才能在谈判桌上按人头把被俘乌军换回家。

更深层的影响在战场之外。
这94个人亲眼看到长官把他们当炮灰扔在绝境,也亲身体验了对面的战俘营给他们治伤发饭。
这些战俘一旦被交换回国,他们亲口说出的每一个细节,都会在俄军基层私下传开。
保障战俘活下来,不仅是为了人道和换俘,也是在用肉眼可见的事实瓦解对手的抵抗意志。 x.com/RafaMorgan64/s…
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E__Strobel retweeted
Miksi Putin haluaa niin kiivaasti Donetskin, jota Venäjän armeija ei ole onnistunut valloittamaan vuosien sodankäynnistä huolimatta?

Kyse on paljon suuremmasta asiasta kuin yhdestä maakunnasta Ukrainan itäosassa.

Putin ei aloittanut sotaa vain saadakseen haltuunsa lisää ta, vaan palauttaakseen Ukrainan Venäjän vaikutuspiiriin ja estääkseen sen kehittymisen itsenäiseksi, länteen integroituneeksi valtioksi. Tämä on ollut Venäjän strategisen ajattelun ytimessä jo pitkään.

Donetsk on tässä kokonaisuudessa poikkeuksellisen tärkeä useasta syystä.

Ensinnäkin alue on ollut historiallisesti yksi Ukrainan taloudellisista ja teollisista keskuksista. Donbasin hiilikaivokset, terästeollisuus, konepajat ja energiantuotanto olivat aikanaan keskeinen osa Neuvostoliiton teollista perustaa.

Vaikka sota on tuhonnut valtavasti alueen tuotantokapasiteettia, Donetskin taloudellista ja historiallista merkitystä ei pidä vähätellä. Venäjän näkökulmasta sen hallinta merkitsisi samalla Ukrainan taloudellisen perustan heikentämistä.

Vielä tärkeämpi on kuitenkin sotilaallinen ulottuvuus. Ukrainan hallussa olevat Slovjansk ja Kramatorsk ovat osa vuosien aikana rakennettua puolustusvyöhykettä, joka suojaa Ukrainan sisäosia Venäjän etenemiseltä. Kyse ei ole vain kahdesta kaupungista, vaan kokonaisesta puolustusjärjestelmästä, jonka rakentamiseen Ukraina on käyttänyt yli vuosikymmenen.

Jos Ukraina luovuttaisi nämä alueet ilman taistelua, Venäjä saisi haltuunsa strategisesti arvokkaita asemia, joiden valloittaminen sotilaallisesti voisi vaatia vielä vuosien taisteluita ja valtavia tappioita.

Samalla Ukraina menettäisi yhden tärkeimmistä puolustuslinjoistaan, eikä vastaavan rakentaminen lännemmäksi olisi yksinkertaista. Tämä voisi avata Venäjälle huomattavasti paremmat lähtökohdat myöhempään hyökkäykseen syvemmälle Ukrainaan.

Donetsk on myös osa Venäjän omaa turvallisuusmaantiedettä. Alueen hallinta kasvattaisi Venäjän hallitsemien alueiden syvyyttä ja suojaisi sen Itä-Ukrainaan rakentamia sotilaallisia huoltoyhteyksiä. Laajemmassa kokonaisuudessa Donbas liittyy myös Etelä-Ukrainan miehitettyihin alueisiin ja Krimille johtavaan maayhteyteen.

Taloudellisten ja sotilaallisten kysymysten lisäksi Donetskilla on Putinille valtava poliittinen ja symbolinen merkitys. Kreml on vuodesta 2014 lähtien rakentanut kertomusta Donbasin venäjänkielisen väestön suojelemisesta ja alueen kuulumisesta niin sanottuun venäläiseen maailmaan.

Vuonna 2022 Venäjä julisti koko Donetskin alueen liitetyksi itseensä, vaikka ei sitä kokonaan hallinnut. Koko alueen haltuunotto antaisi Putinille mahdollisuuden esittää sodan lopputulos historiallisena saavutuksena.

Venäjän vaatimukset eivät silti rajoitu Donetskiin. Kreml on vaatinut myös Ukrainan Nato-jäsenyyden torjumista ja sen sotilaallisen toimintavapauden rajoittamista. Yhdessä alueluovutusten kanssa nämä tavoitteet voisivat jättää Ukrainan tilanteeseen, jossa sen taloudellinen perusta, puolustuskyky ja mahdollisuudet päättää omasta tulevaisuudestaan olisivat nykyistä huomattavasti heikommat.

Tässä mielessä Putin voi saavuttaa neuvottelupöydässä jotain, mitä hän ei ole kyennyt saavuttamaan taistelukentällä.

Siksi mielestäni olisi virhe tulkita Donetskin vaatimista vain Putinin tarpeeksi saada sodalle jonkinlainen "kunniallinen päätös".

Putin voi olla valmis lopettamaan sodan ilman, että hän luopuu alkuperäisistä tavoitteistaan. Siksi Donetskin kysymys on paljon suurempi kuin miltä se kartalla näyttää.
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E__Strobel retweeted
Recurring PSA: tariffs and trade wars are incredibly stupid. Markets always adjust. So do nations.
NEW from me:

Last year, Mark Carney set a goal to double Canada's non-US exports by 2035. Today, he's already halfway there

In response to Trump's tariffs & threats, Canadian businesses, consumers, & even tourists are taking difficult steps to decouple from the US🧵
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E__Strobel retweeted
Russia has the Midas touch in reverse: Everything Russia touches turns to shit
Exactly this. Whenever Moscow conquers a country, it is impoverished, polluted and destroyed. This is what happened to Estonia's economy (compared to Finland) during the Soviet Occupation. Estonia was wealthier than Finland in 1938, the Soviet occupation (1944-1991) turned it 10 edom from the Russians was achieved, it's back on track.
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