It is fucking bonkers to me that the intelligence agencies and/or the DoD didn’t immediately say “we’re taking that over” the instant it was discovered that he was communicating directly with Putin.

And more broadly, the tactic is known as sealioning, and is a tactic commonly used by bad-faith actors.

The “referendum” they conducted was not at all an accurate representation of the resident’s opinions.

Are you trying to say that you trust literally any electoral mechanisms administered by Russia at this point?

HL Not So Jolly Good Fellow

ROU Memorandum? But I Hardly Know Him!

GSV The Treaty Was Never Officially Ratified

Also, old people run everything these days

It is absolutely an Iain M Banks reference (and thank you for noticing <3). I identify as a GSV.

Type II (alternate): said cheekily, immediately after finding a loophole in the Geneva Convention

As an American, it is utterly insane to me that there’s a good number of Americans that are just like “huh yeah I guess we’re gonna bomb Canada to make them do what we want”.

Then again, there’s a lot of utterly insane things happening these days.

A lot of my countrymen are gonna be finding out about Type II “sorry” if we try any military adventurism. And I’m sure Greenlanders would welcome an expeditionary force of Finns, considering their rich and storied experience (5-6.5:1 KD ratio; ~5:1 overall casualty ratio, without even considering the Continuation War).

Yeah, that’s the fun part of going to war with an adversary that was formerly a part of your empire: they have A LOT of people that can convincingly pass as your nationals - not to mention, there’s a small but meaningful percentage of your own citizens that are going to be sympathetic enough (due to family, social, and cultural connections) to that adversary that they’d be willing to act on their behalf for stuff like this.

Yeah… more like a decade at least, if we’re being honest. Even if we do a U-turn in 4 years (which, frankly, I doubt, because I’m not convinced we’ll even have elections, much less meaningful ones, very much less free and fair ones).

Also, I see you, fellow Bostonian 😉

Sick edge-grain cutting board, too. I’m jealous.

The DNC? Learn?

Lol

I’m horrified by what my government is doing right now, but if one of the side effects is that Mexico experiences an economic renaissance as a result of our idiotic racially-motivated isolationism… well, that is genuinely one hell of a silver lining.

You’re willing to pay $none to have hardware ML support for local training and inference?

Well, I’ll just say that you’re gonna get what you pay for.

Ok? And?

Translation: “we’re dangerously low on supplies in a bunch of areas and we need to rush some logistics in without Ukraine blowing them up”

I genuinely do hope Zelenskyy completely ignores this unilaterally-declared truce

I mean it IS retaliation though. It’s retaliation for thinking absurd tariffs are a great idea to apply to one’s allies.

And please do note that some particular countries who were until very recently considered geopolitical adversaries by our government (Russia; Belarus) are NOT targeted by any of the tariffs.

This is what happens when you switch teams, and all of your allies are not a fan of you switching teams, and they don’t want to be tied to your currency standard anymore.

lol yeah, the lemmy userbase is NOT an accurate sample of the technical aptitude of the general population 😂