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Lavrov added this uncharacteristically blunt statement: “We are asked what Russia is doing on the border with Ukraine. The answer is very simple – we live here, this is our country. But what the United States is doing via its warships and troops, which are constantly organising some kind of events in Ukraine under the auspices of NATO, thousands of kilometres from America’s own territory – this question still remains unanswered.” ...It is undeniably evident at this time that the West, which...

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Turkey and Russia are ancient territorial adversaries and Turkey's alignment with NATO and Ukraine is no accident. The US knows this, of course, and is now taking advantage of Erdogan's revanchist neo-Ottoman ambitions, which involve competing with Russia over Central Asia.This is on the order of Jimmy Carter's enlisting the "freedom fighters" under Bin Laden to confront Russian presence in Afghanistan as advised by Zbigniew Brzezinski. In fact, it is crazier. It will not end well.NEOWhy is...

I have been noticing that Russians view this a religious war, with "God-less liberalism" pitted against Orthodox Russia. They see this as the liberal world mounting an analogue to a crusade to impose its "post-human" ideology with religious fervor. And they see the liberal West as a decadent civilization, not only a declining one, effete and animalistic. Russians are hardly along in this, and this view is shared by many conservative Americans, too, as I glean from my reading.What is in...

 Bad judgement? If you want to engage Russians — just about all of them — wear Nazi symbols on a uniform while facing off with them. The death's head was a symbol used by the Waffen SS (Schutzstaffel). It is now a neo-Nazi symbol.The SS became an elite corps of the Nazi Party, answerable only to Hitler. Himmler's title of Reichsführer-SS now became his actual rank - and the highest rank in the SS, equivalent to the rank of field marshal in the army.... WikipediaConfirmed here.Sputnik...

This is Jessica. Last August, NIST published a draft document describing four principles of explainable AI. They asked for feedback from the public at large, to “stimulate a conversation about what we should expect of our decision-making devices‘’. I find it interesting because from a quick skim, it seems like NIST is stepping into some murkier territory than usual.... Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceIs explainability the new uncertainty?Andrew Gelman | Professor of...

More bluster.Defend Democracy PressSecretary of State Blinken Throws Down the Gauntlet to China and Russia… AgainRick RozoffAlso at DDPObama ‘deterred Russia from doing even more’ in Ukraine, Blinken claims as he’s grilled on US policy towards Moscow & Beijing

It is good that [Col.] Douglas Macgregor goes on record in this case and underscores the fact that Russia can and will, God forbids it comes to this, win conventionally, while the United States loses even in a nuclear conflict. But then again, in this case we all lose. Conveying this reality that the US has no good options against Russia is very important, especially to those people in current admin who have no clue about modern war and how it is fought--and that is the overwhelming majority...

Reminding of the insanity that passes for expertise and "gravitas."CaitlinJohnstone.com“CHINA BAD”, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone see alsoTASSCGTN presents "The War in the Shadows" - new documentary on fighting terrorism in Xinjiang

Issuing a warning, the head of America’s central banking system said, the risk that the Federal Reserve is keeping its “eyes on the most now is [the] cyber risk,” laying out a situation in which a hack could easily take financial institutions offline.While there are a number of potential cyberattacks that could cripple the US economy, the Fed chairman said the nightmare scenario for the US would be a hack that removes the ability of institutions to track payments being made and received,...