Thanks. It gets worse:

“That’s the purpose of it, and they’ve done a good job of it. But now I’m president.”

This is who Trump is. Thinks he is. Strongman. But alas, he’s fighting windmills. And by fighting them, he makes those peaceful windmills fight back. Which then retroactively justifies his paranoia that the world is against him? Stop the sanewashing. This person belongs in an asylum.

Systematically

It’s the sort of long standing horror show that nobody is surprised by anymore. My continued disgust at what Israel is doing cannot go any higher, nor does it change anything. We all knew this has been the ultimate goal for a loooooong time, and we all knew it was going to happen much sooner the moment Trump got elected again.

While everyone is flabbergasted by Trumplon’s shenanigans, China decides it’s a good time to ramp it up.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP repeatedly claims that the European Union was “formed in order to screw the United States”.

I thought I was immune to the insanity, but I’m flabbergasted again. Did he really say that?

😙👌

Oh My God! Prepare for a Tsunami of third-rate jokes by second-rate comedians!

I can vividly see before my mind’s eye a stand-up guy walking up and down the tiny stage, speaking into his mic: “BTW, have y’all heard that Hooters went bankrupt? [Insert punchline objectifying women]”

I can’t help myself, I’m glad that EU countries recognize the threat and arm themselves.

Have you noticed that most “Say No To War” people - then and now - claim to be “unpolitical”? In other words, follow a gut feeling instead of forming an informed opinion? That was me in the distant past. And I see people around me talk like that.
Yes, it feels nicer. But they open themselves wide to hybrid warfare disinformation tactics, unless they make the effort of informing themselves. Until then, please have the courage to say “I don’t have enough information to have an opinion about this topic”.

As for specifically Finland and specifically this treaty:

The move aligns Finland with Poland and the Baltic states, which also plan to leave the treaty.

This makes sense.

The EU should’ve listened to the Baltic states’ Russia policies decades ago.

In case you were wondering what exactly this MS money is:

Francisco Mingorance, Secretary General at the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) association, explained that as part of the settlement reached with Microsoft last year an innovation fund was set up using Microsoft’s cash.

Some €1 million of that has now been allocated to Fulcrum, an open source project to aggregate products from smaller tech vendors to rival the hyperscalers, he said.

Sounds really good.

“It’s happening,” he said. "There’s been work going on for over a year on this, you know, coding and everything, testing, proof of concept…

Um. “coding and everything”? “Proof of concept”? So they don’t really have anything (yet)? Well, let’s hope they get there anyhow.

In 4 years. But still, shit. Hadn’t even thought about it.

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Yeah, I was wondering. One would suppose 80 yo ordnance is the bottom of the barrel. Thanks for clarifying.

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TBF they did get the hint but it took them a while to start doing something about it.

Here’s to hoping 🍻

I seem to remember they were using actual WW2 tanks?

This is just Trump. High on his own power, he thinks he can bully everyone around, even if they’re not under his power 🤷

I’m under no illusion that this is the start of a more critical stance towards Russia or will have any positive result for Ukraine. Or any positive result at all. Or result in anything at all.

I am kinda curious how the Kreml will respond though. So far they’ve been careful not to call the USA an ally afair.

The euphemisms are getting wilder. They’re inching closer to “Endlösung”.

I’m deeply skeptical of the NY Times these days. The long article is devoid of any sources or links. It tries (and horribly fails) to create a military spy novel athmosphere instead. It’s the sort of stuff conspiracy theorists will lap up, twist further and present as proof of – what exactly?

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Let’s say it together: No, it isn’t