The Peanut Gallery: Polish Protestors Dump Ukrainian Grain - Freeze Border Checkpoint.
February 12, 2024
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Feb 12 (Reuters) - Kyiv urged Warsaw on Monday to "hold to account" Polish farmers for stopping three trucks at a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine and spilling the Ukrainian grain they were carrying.
It ain’t okay.
"The spoiling of Ukrainian grain on the Polish border is unacceptable. Any farmer should know how much hard work it takes to produce grain, especially during wartime," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"For the sake of friendly Ukrainian-Polish relations, the perpetrators of this provocation must be held to account."
This isn’t right—we know this isn’t right. Ukraine’s in the middle of a damn war, a fight for their very existence, and these protestors have effectively strangled their ability to export. There’s an entire season’s harvest backed up on the Ukrainian side of the border, hundreds of trucks all hauling a harvest gathered under the storm clouds of war. To block them now? That’s just cruel.
I get it—Polish farmers are suffering. Ukrainian grain drives up export costs and undercuts local competition, meaning they’re losing money. Lots of money. Enough money to seize a border checkpoint and quite literally threaten the existential existence of a neighboring people, apparently.
Is it bullshit? Yes. Absolutely yes. Is it also these people’s livelihoods? Yeah...yeah, it’s that too. Ukraine is fighting for her existential existence; and these people are fighting for the same damn thing. They’re not alone, either. There are small farmer protests popping up all over Europe, most of which are struggling because they can’t make a living. Inflation’s up, prices are down, competition is fierce, and there’s no end in sight.
But while I'm sympathetic it's not right to stand in the way of the free flow of commerce. Ukraine **must** be allowed to export its grain, and it is on the collective nations of Europe to figure out how to enable this without harming local agriculture. A price minimum, tariffs, subsidies: pick a damn solution implement it.
Ukraine’s Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported that elements of Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are training Russian drone operators at the Shayrat Air Base in Syria.
Come on, Netanyahu...be bro. One little airstrike, they could totally justify it. F-35—swoosh flip and BOOOM!~!!!
It’s even in Syria—nobody gives a fuck about Syria! It’s the geopolitical boxing ring! A paramilitary Disneyland. All it takes is one missile and then lots of shitty people suffer. Huzzah! Do the right thing, Netanyahu. Order the strike and then resign from office.
Boris Nadezhdin, the only openly anti-war Russian presidential candidate, filed two lawsuits in the Russian Supreme Court challenging the Russian Central Election Commission’s (CEC) refusal to register him as a candidate as the Kremlin continues efforts to suppress popular opposition while trying to preserve the veneer of legitimacy of Russian presidential elections.
We should take this as a sign of weakness. Nadezhdin was popular, not because he was popular, but that his issue was popular. He ran on a pro-peace platform. Putin flirted with the idea of letting Nadezhdin run to pretend the election was legitimate, but I don’t think he expected Nadezhdin to draw such a strong response. But he did...and now everyone trusts these elections just a little less.
Russian software company Hardberry-Rusfaktor reportedly designed the “Naka” artificial intelligence neural network that allows drones to automatically identify and locate objects.[52] Hardberry-Rusfaktor General Director Alexei German stated that the “Naka” artificial neural network software can work on all drone types, automatically identify enemy equipment types with 85 percent accuracy, and locate targets’ exact coordinates. German claimed that drones enabled by the “Naka” neural network’s object-detection capability will be able to identify NATO-provided equipment such as Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
Yep. If even I’m thinking, “EM doesn’t really matter if you just show a LLM ten million photos of a T-72,” then I guarantee the military is thinking about it too. Yes, the EM spectrum is a new domain of warfare, like land or sky, yet doesn’t mean eliminating the potential for communication will mean absolute victory. Once remote contact is out, the next inevitable step is automation. Lose communication with home base? Oh well, best find a target.
The future is AI controlled weapons. Skynet is inevitable.
Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces are increasing their use of illegal chemical weapons in Ukraine, in an apparent violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), to which Russia is a signatory.
Putin is losing his grip on sanity, and chemical weapons are just one of the nightmares in the old Soviet stockpile.
Please give Ukraine what they need to bring this war to an end.
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