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”Europe could someday be competing against three autocracies: “Russia, China, and the United States.” When he said that, it was my turn to shake my head, not because I didn’t believe him, but because it was so hard to hear.”
The Atlantic
Why Is Trump Trying to Make Ukraine Lose?
The former president isn’t in office—but is still dictating U.S. policy.
”The company is working with a limited number of partners including social tools like Sprinklr, Sprout Social, Social News Desk, Hootsuite, tech news board Techmeme, and a few other developers.”
TechCrunch
Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June | TechCrunch
Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.
”Wirecard, the German equivalent to PayPal…with a valuation of $28 billion…
COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian spy.”
The Insider
A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy
Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek wasn’t just responsible for Germany’s largest financial fraud in history. He was also a decade-long Russian ...
The UK offered solutions to Berlin’s resistance to sending them, including a swap deal that would see Britain supply Kyiv with more of its own Storm Shadow missiles, and Germany then restock the UK with replacement long-range missiles.
Bloomberg.com
UK Is Pushing Germany to Send Taurus Missiles to Ukraine
The UK government has privately urged Germany to provide long-range Taurus missiles to the government in Kyiv as London expressed irritation over c...
Time to start winning instead of losing?
”Germany, home to 133 active pro-Kremlin voices across business, media, diasporas, and fringe political movements. Before the invasion, many mainstream German groups also openly backed Moscow”
Euromaidan Press
Russia's propaganda war: How Putin bought Germany - Euromaidan Press
A new report exposes over 130 Russia's influence agents active in Germany, even after the Ukraine invasion.
”American singer LP’s concert in Lithuania was canceled after she posed in a Russian flag hoodie. The event organizers said…
With this decision, we want to draw LP’s attention, as well as other artists planning events in Lithuania, that we will not tolerate messages supporting the aggressor country”
Euromaidan Press
Lithuania cancels American singer LP show seen in Russian flag hoodie - Euromaidan Press
American singer LP's concert in Lithuania was canceled after she poted in a Russian flag hoodie. The event organizers said "Our position remai...
“The most important thing is people who are close to Putin: his friends, associates and keepers of mafia money. You and all of us must fight [against] the criminal gang,” Navalnaya said.
Navalnaya added that the West should aim for “investigations into the financial mechanism, not statements of concern but a search for mafia associates in your countries.”
The Moscow Times
Navalnaya Urges EU Politicians to Target Western Assets of Putin’s Inner Circle - The Moscow Times
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, urged European politicians to “investigate” the Western assets of ...
”At the RRC gala event held in Moscow, the Russian Red Cross was praised as the nation’s oldest humanitarian organization. The event would have been ordinary had Avangard not been an arms factory under the ownership of the sanctioned, state-owned Almaz-Antey Group”
VSquare.org
Kremlin Leaks: How Putin turned the Red Cross into a tool of propaganda and war - VSquare.org
The Putin administration made the Red Cross, which is supposed to be neutral and independent, part of Russia's war and propaganda machine.
”North Korean munitions factories are operating at full capacity to supply weapons to Russia in exchange for much-needed food and other necessities…
North Korea is estimated to have shipped around 6,700 containers to Russia since the summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in September, he said. The amount is enough to accommodate approximately 3 million rounds of 152 mm artillery shells or 500,000 of 122 mm artillery shells.”
Yonhap News Agency
Defense chief says N.K. munitions factories operating at full capacity to supply Russia | Yonhap News Agency
By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korean munitions factories are operatin...
”They hope to record billions of the animals’ clicking sounds with floating hydrophones, and then to decipher the sounds’ meaning using neural networks….
Their codas could be orders of magnitude more ancient than Sanskrit.”
The Atlantic
How First Contact With Whale Civilization Could Unfold
If we can learn to speak their language, what should we say?
Funny how countries change their stance with Russia’s advancement.
Do they become like CEE when Russia is at their border?
”Sending western troops to fight in Ukraine “could not be ruled out” and that Paris would drop its long-standing opposition to purchasing emergency artillery supplies for Ukraine from outside the EU.”
Client Challenge
Russian meddling with elections and threatening with nukes are nothing new. From 60 years ago:
“The Soviet Union was mainly motivated by a desire to ensure Kekkonen's re-election in 1962. Kekkonen, who enjoyed the confidence of the Soviet leadership, was seeking re-election for the first time, and his main opponent, Olavi Honka [fi], was regarded as having a good chance of victory with the backing of a six-party coalition, including two major parties, the Social Democrats and the National Coalition. The extent to which Kekkonen may himself have been involved in orchestrating the incident is disputed, but it is commonly accepted that he was expecting a Soviet intervention in the presidential election, and Kekkonen is known to have planned dissolving the Finnish parliament, forcing his opponents to campaign together in the presidential election and against each other in the parliamentary election at the same time…
The note coincided with the detonation of the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear test in history, and followed close on the heels of the Berlin Crisis and Bay of Pigs Invasion.”
Note Crisis - Wikipedia
Digitalisation finally enters Hollywood after roaming elsewhere for decades:
”To his mind, AI tech poses an existential risk to the entertainment industry that it can't ignore: "There’s got to be some sort of regulations in order to protect us. If not, I just don’t see how we survive."
Ars Technica
Tyler Perry puts $800 million studio expansion on hold because of OpenAI’s Sora
Perry: Mind-blowing AI video-generation tools "will touch every corner of our industry."
”We pretend to hurt our enemies but without hurting our own interests. Everyone involved in these posturing policies knows this. Nobody cares.
..Any country can ban bankers, lawyers, accountants, company directors and others from the rest of the world who keep the wheels turning for the Kremlin. The plutocratic elite is accustomed to frictionless globetrotting but only because we allow it. Even the faintest prospect of landing on a “no-fly” list of enablers would be an alarming prospect.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cdf82eb9-f3f5-4730-8cae-6d58e1e28638?shareToken=cf45e1ab12ac515fd0c91fc53dc3b404
It takes the US to do the sanction job in Finland
”Finland-based HD Parts OY has made thousands of shipments of spare parts since 2022, making it one of the largest foreign suppliers of truck parts to Russian companies.”
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2117
”This week a security deal was announced that could see Chinese police on the streets of Hungary…
It has long been Chinese Communist party policy to drive a wedge between Europe and America, and in a narrow sense its investment in Hungary has paid dividends, since Orban has faithfully blocked the EU from issuing communiques criticising human rights abuses in China and been a drag more broadly on security-related affairs, such as the expansion of Nato and support for Ukraine, which also serve Beijing’s wider security interests.”
The Spectator
Hungary has become China’s useful idiot
This week a security deal was announced that could see Chinese police on the streets of Hungary. Despite this, there was remarkably little fanfare ...
”Even when Europe can produce combat forces, they often lack the things needed to fight effectively and for long enough: command-and-control capabilities, such as staff officers trained to run large headquarters; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, such as drones and satellites; logistics capabilities, including airlift; and ammunition to last for longer than a week or so”
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/02/18/can-europe-defend-itself-without-america
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