This headline does not remotely match what the PM actually said. If a process of ever closer integration ends, that doesn't mean the relationship is over--just that it isn't getting any more integrated. The framing is much more inflammatory than the actual statements.

It sometimes seems like there is an inverse relationship between how useful a post is on Bluesky vs how much attention it seems to receive. This is very worthwhile and I will share with some people who mostly live in the offline world.

Well, my visits to VIA are about to drop 100%… Sorry to hear this, but will continue to follow you wherever you go.

It is like a Cartesian proof... Aren’t manyAmericans able to post “this is fascism” without personal consequences? Then it’s not fascism (not yet). They post, therefore they’re wrong.

He's either naive or is wilfully obtuse about Russia. Putin changed his constitution once because it suited him to do so; he could change it again if he wanted to. It's obvious that the law serves rather than constrains an authoritarian. The Russian constitution only matters in Russian propaganda.

Remember when George W Bush confused Slovakia and Slovenia? It was a bigger story at the time. His popularity didn't suffer at all in America. It just made him seem like more of a regular, relatable guy who probably copied his geography homework from someone wearing thick glasses.

In these dark times we can only hope to see Patterson on the ice with three Pettersons.

Is he not aware of Desert Storm? Or was that war not major enough to count?

Wait, Russia is now one of the conspirators now? What happened to that great relationship from 15 mins ago?

The payload is similar to the AASM Hammer, which seems like it has been very useful to Ukraine. Maybe the real limitation is having Elbridge Colby sign off on each target. Hard to imagine the US admin approving sensitive and doing so in a timely fashion.

CBS is the wrong venue for the show. They get 4m views on Youtube for Colbert's monologue and a celebrity interview. It's basically a podcast. Why does he need to broadcast on a dying medium? The corporate interference with the show's editorial content was only going to get worse.

Very interesting thread. It seemed like most western assessments spectacularly underestimating Russia's intentions before Feb 2022 and equally overestimated their capabilities afterwards. Is there reason to believe the quality of these assessments has improved since then?

In Trumpland, Walz's infraction was much worse than Hegseth's. Hegseth broke the law by disclosing classified info and then acted with impunity by punishing leakers and avoiding accountability himself. All of that is par for the course. Walz made them look stupid on Fox News, which is unforgivable.

That Google AI is so bad. After it advised me to cook a roast 50% longer to reach rare vs medium rare, I went to the trouble of disabling it. The best way is to use a browser add on such as this one addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefo... There are probably also equivalents for other browsers.

Yes! In the aftertimes, people won't be able to afford cars, except maybe to live in. Not unless they are titans of the new industries, such as scrap scavengers or recyclers of fingerless gloves. Hopping into open boxcars will be the future of transport, which will be empty for lack of trade.

The 'weapons grade' claim was in the original indictment. It's worth a read here: www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

This would understate the true cost of tariffs, which should include the distorted pricing power of domestic producers. With less affordable foreign competition, goods will get more expensive even if they contain no foreign inputs.

Another interpretation is that Russia knows America monitors changes in its nuclear readiness. The heightened alert level would have been a signal to western leaders. Putin mostly got what he’d been conditioned to expect: continued self-deterrence from the west.

They should have announced this with the first strike in the deep rear, not in the media. Even in authorizing strikes, the priority remains not alarming Moscow at the expense of strategic surprise.