It's depressing that half of America still approves of what Trump is doing.

No eggs either.

Did they say please?

🧵How Key Figures in Musk’s Orbit Connect to Russia

The graph is hard to see so there's a link to a larger version. This is just in case you process visually. It's not really necessary to understand the information. www.mermaidchart.com/raw/25d141e...

Maxar has cut off satellite imagery access to Ukraine, undoubtedly due to pressure from the U.S. government.

This means that not just classified, but commercially available unclassified intelligence products are being cut off.

I now fully expect Starlink to be next.

An agency head finally said no. And when DOGE threatened employees and security guards they said no again. “No” might’ve stopped DOGE completely.

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Norway will more than double its financial pledge to Ukraine this year while also hiking its own defence spending, - Reuters

❗️The government and opposition leaders agreed to raise this year's Ukraine funding to $7.83 billion.

That would assume Russia can produce any military successes.

Стівен Пайфер був послом США в Україні з 1998 по 2000 рік.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss the Russian shadow fleet: a network of ships that operate in secret, dodge sanctions, smuggle oil, and undermine the security of Europe’s seas while keeping Putin’s war machine running.

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So with no weapon deliveries and no intelligence sharing, what leverage does Trump think he has to force Ukraine to do what he wants?

Make no mistake, to these sociopaths all you are worth is your slave labour potential or the sum value of your organs, whichever is higher.

Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

Ukrainian Warriors Prove Gepard’s Power Against russian-iranian Shahed Drones | Defense Express The German Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is highly effective, particularly against russian-iranian Shahed drones

Ukrainian Warriors Prove Gepard’s Power Against russian-iranian Shahed Drones

"It works perfectly against Shaheds and even against missiles. We have shot down four missiles and 28 Shaheds,"

en.defence-ua.com/news/ukraini...

Here's Trump's first tweet after sanctions are lifted:

"Europe says they won't buy our arms. That's their choice. Our arms are great. They're the best. And I have a buyer. A great buyer. America will get cheap oil for those arms, not like expensive Canadian oil. I will Make America Great Again."

He will lift sanctions, which will open a lot of excellent business opportunities (arms sales) and make America great again.

I'm all out of hopium.

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Starlink rival in talks to boost satellite services to Ukraine Eutelsat shares surge as investors bet that European competitor could replace Elon Musk’s company

Eutelsat, the owner of OneWeb, a satellite rival to Starlink, said today that it was “actively collaborating with European institutions and business partners,” adding that it had equipment that could be “deployed swiftly in Ukraine to connect the most critical missions and infrastructures.”

The US and Starlink already have the same owner.

Press statement by President von der Leyen on the defence package We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face. Or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those

Important: Commission plan ‘Rearm Europe’ will not require unanimity. Hungary and Slovakia cannot block it on their own

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

A weak and unstable US will never be a net positive for Canada and Europe. Sure, we'll try our best to make do without, but it's always the worse option.

a tank is driving down a snowy road in the woods ALT: a tank is driving down a snowy road in the woods

Europe’s disarmed state is …

(also) an advantage

✅… IF we use it right - by stepping up, NOW, to arm ourselves, for the ST, MT & LT future in a smart way

❌not slowly spending a fortune trying to replace US capabilities & arming ourselves to fight the last war, not the next one.
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Milton’s ‘double Empathy Problem’: A Summary for Non-academics - Reframing Autism Currently, Autism is classified as a diagnosable ‘neurological disorder’. Most non-autistic people think of Autistic people as ‘lacking empathy’ and […]

Double-empathy problem:

Because autistic and non-autistic people experience the world and express emotions differently, it can be difficult for autistic and non-autistic people to experience cognitive empathy for one another, which can cause misunderstandings.
reframingautism.org.au/miltons-doub...

If I could have a penny for every time non-autistic people projected their non-autistic feelings at me and thought they were being empathetic...

Or to put it another way (using words short enough that I understand them), any European plan that treats conflict as a *future* problem is already out of date.

"Nostalgic for pre-apartheid RSA" does not even come close to the eugenicist tech dystopia they crave. Being white won't save you from becoming a slave or a resource.

Same with the minerals deal. It was always meant to be unacceptable.

❗️“Anyone who cannot admit that Russia attacked Ukraine should not be helping to make decisions about our national security,” Senator Tammy Duckworth commented on the response of the candidate for the position