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Europe under extreme duress

JTS11

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CommodoreMid said:
So I need to ask my steak sauce to help me with my papers, not ChatGPT. I’ve been fucking this up!
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What I can't wrap my head around is that she obviously knows nothing about the subject and was provided a script, is the fact that she didn't feel the need to ask, 'what is this A1 shit?' to her staffers. But no, just YOLO yourself in front of the world. Shame is no longer a thing, I guess.
 
Brett327

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JTS11 said:
What I can't wrap my head around is that she obviously knows nothing about the subject and was provided a script, is the fact that she didn't feel the need to ask, 'what is this A1 shit?' to her staffers. But no, just YOLO yourself in front of the world. Shame is no longer a thing, I guess.
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How much more thoroughly ensconced in your bubble could you be to not have heard of the now ubiquitous term AI? It’s all we hear about. It’s in every tech-adjacent advertisement. She needs to be ground up and turned into cat food.
 
JTS11

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Brett327 said:
How much more thoroughly ensconced in your bubble could you be to not have heard of the now ubiquitous term AI? It’s all we hear about. It’s in every tech-adjacent advertisement. She needs to be ground up and turned into cat food.
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It is hilarious to watch self-important people that get beyond their skis and embarrass themselves. We all have blind spots of knowledge, but it's the inherent wisdom to know this about yourself that should be the key to being a leader...Like others in the cabinet though, she was not brought on to be a good steward (maybe streamline the dept, and make things better), instead just to bring sycophantic bs all day, every day.
 
Spekkio

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JTS11 said:
Shame is no longer a thing, I guess.
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Umm, are you at all familiar with the WWE during the attitude era? That her daughter got breast implants to partake in the shenanigans? That her husband decided to roid up at over 50 years old? That she essentially excommunicated her own son from the family because god forbid someone say ehhh, this probably isn't the direction we should go?

Also, her husband is a serial molester and I'd bet a paycheck that she knew about it wayyyy before it hit the news.
 
JTS11

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Spekkio said:
Umm, are you at all familiar with the WWE during the attitude era? That her daughter got breast implants to partake in the shenanigans? That her husband decided to roid up at over 50 years old? That she essentially excommunicated her own son from the family because god forbid someone say ehhh, this probably isn't the direction we should go?

Also, her husband is a serial molester and I'd bet a paycheck that she knew about it wayyyy before it hit the news.
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Can you refer Linda to the officer recruiters on this site to how her credentials/resume stack up for a cabinet secretary role?
 
Hair Warrior

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Both things can be true. The West backed the Euromaidan “color revolution” to dislodge pro-Kremlin Ukrainian leader Yanukovych in 2014, causing him to flee to Moscow in exile. NATO also steadily expanded with accessions of post-Soviet republics, especially on Russia’s periphery in the Baltic region.

But can you blame Ukraine, Central Europe, and the Baltics for wanting to distrust Moscow and seek US support? Can you blame the US for expanding NATO to help these new members have security guarantees and a propserous future? After the Holodomor of the 1930s for Ukraine and brutal treatment across Europe during and after WW2 in the USSR, there are lots of reasons for Europe to distrust Moscow. Plus, Russia has started wars and trampled other nations’ sovereignty all over Eurasia since 2000 to suit its goals, including in Crimea 2014, Georgia 2008, Montenegro 2016 (attempted), and of course its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

That said, this region of planet earth is complicated and it is appropriate for the US to take a step back after 3 years of all-out war and ask what are the US objectives in Ukraine, is the investment worth it, what are the risks, who else is able to step in/ pony up, and last but not least - what are the opportunity costs including investments domestically.
 
BigRed389

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Bad_Karma_1310 said:
What a bunch of bullshit.
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There definitely is a lot of nuance to the Ukraine story, but this guy (whoever the fuck he is) is making himself out to be some kind of beacon of truth.

“Mainstream” reporting spans everything from batshit insane, politically motivated opinion pieces to writing that tends to either be more focused on objectively verifiable info or balances opinion based reporting.

This guy makes it sound like consuming “mainstream” media limits you to mainlining Fox News or MSNBC into your brain 24/7. If you only consider the really obviously shitty options, of course “independent” journalism sounds fantastic.

And for the record, there’s been some absolutely fantastic independent reporting during this conflict, including folks going boots on ground. But this dude is years late to the party, and his profile screams social media grifting piece of shit.
 
Griz882

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Steven Kuhn is well known in business and start up circles. He came to talk to my old office at Interior (kind a guest speaker thing) and spoke mostly in B-School lingo of “rapid” and “disruptive” type stuff. He did serve in the Army as an ordinary Joe and I guess now he has enough money to think his opinion has value. I remain ambivalent for now.
 
Flash

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AIRMMCPORET said:
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As Bad Karma already pointed out, that idiot is spouting a bunch of bullshit and is doing nothing more than trafficking in well worn Russian propaganda.

To start with, the whole premise that ‘The Hill’ is saying that the President was right about Ukraine is not really correct, it was an opinion piece by a former press secretary who worked for Republicans said that. Then there some of the ‘facts’ the guy spouts about how it was all Ukraine's fault they kicked out a grossly corrupt president, then got invaded by Russia, had two free and open presidential elections in 2014 then in 2019 before being invaded, again, by Russia in 2022. But yeah, all Ukraine's fault. :rolleyes:

Griz882 said:
Steven Kuhn is well known in business and start up circles. He came to talk to my old office at Interior (kind a guest speaker thing) and spoke mostly in B-School lingo of “rapid” and “disruptive” type stuff.
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You don’t say:

Steven Kuhn is a business advisor, author and speaker who has been hand-picked to consult with some of the most influential people in the world (rock stars, singers, actors, business leaders and politicians) about how build value and loyalty and develop strategies for increasing beneficial relationships and achieving true Quality of Life (QOL).

robav8r said:
Interesting but not surprising video. Not sure Victoria Nuland and the CIA will agree with his characterization of events since 2014, but hey, anything is possible, right? 🤣 ☮️
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Again, what is with the bizarre fixation with Nuland?

Hair Warrior said:
That said, this region of planet earth is complicated and it is appropriate for the US to take a step back after 3 years of all-out war and ask what are the US objectives in Ukraine, is the investment worth it, what are the risks, who else is able to step in/ pony up, and last but not least - what are the opportunity costs including investments domestically.
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As long as Ukraine is willing to fight we should support them as much as we can, full stop. The cost to us has frankly been minimal for the rerun, which is diminishing the capacity of a country that is an existential threat to threaten us and our allies.
 
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