That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.

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  • Agreed. If there were American bases in Crimea/Donbas, I don’t think the russians would have invaded in the first place.

    I was refering more to a hypothetical scenario with a mutual defense treaty without bases. A situation where they would have to land in Crimea and start sinking the russian black feet and bombing Moscow.

    I have my doubts they would act even with a treaty that used explicit wording around a russian invasion in context of mutual defense obligations. I think Obama would chicken out and cite some technicality.

    In general, the impression I get is that US leadership in the last ~40 years has been subpar both in the foreign policy arena and in domestic matters.

    Dont take this an an Anti-American rant. Our leadership was incompetent and corrupt. Poroshenko had a chance after the Revolution of Dignity, but he messed it up. Zelebakyy is probably the first leader of modern Ukraine that has been competent and has shown some level of achievement.







  • “People are realizing that their creativity doesn’t need to be boxed in by a budget – there are no constraints creatively and that’s why AI can really be a positive,” continued Eline. “It’s just about changing people’s viewpoint.”

    What does this even mean? Agreed, creativety doesn’t haved to be limited by a budget, you can implement workarounds (Blair Witch Project), but those workarounds require creativity and not whatever this fellow is pitching.