Ukraine sent untrained recruits into the battle of Bakhmut to save its professional soldiers for an expected counteroffensive, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Ukraine Sent Poor, Untrained Men Into Bakhmut Meat Grinder to Save Better Forces for Counteroffensive
Lindsey Graham in Ukraine: “The Russians are dying… it’s the best money we’ve ever spent.”
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Graham Statement Following Trip To Ukraine
“On this trip, it is clear to me that the Russians have been bloodied and weakened. We must provide cluster munitions and additional long range artillery to make the counteroffensive a success. While there are no magic weapons, the right weapons in the hands of determined Ukrainian people creates magic on the battlefield.”
Keep dreaming, psycho!
Forget guns and grenades — Ukrainian women training for war can kill Russians using just “office supplies,” a resistance group leader said.
Ukrainian women training for war can kill Russians with ‘office supplies,’ resistance group leader says
H/T: Alex Christoforou
The Pentagon is already writing the movie script, replete with jars of pickled tomatoes! 🙄
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Polish, German, French and Belgian diplomats do not confirm that Chinese Special Envoy Li Hui proposed to leave the occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Chinese delegation headed by Li Hui, during a tour of the EU, urged European leaders to demand an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, leaving Russia with the territories it seized.
Kuleba: China did not offer to give occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia
We’ve certainly been talking a lot about the “AI Doomers” who insist that AI is all too likely to destroy humanity. However, even people who aren’t fully on board with the existential threat of AI do often say that, at the very least, it’s going to destroy jobs for most people, potentially creating huge problems. For years now, people have been arguing for universal basic income, in large part, because they think that automation and AI will take away everyone’s jobs. I mean, it was a core plank of Andrew Yang’s silly run for President.
Studies Suggest That Rather Than Killing Jobs, AI Could Revive The Middle Class
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[2017] “Another kick in the teeth”: a top economist on how trade with China helped elect Trump
David Autor believes both these things to be true: one, that Donald Trump’s diagnosis of trade with China as the source of woe for countless American workers was both accurate and a crucial part of his appeal on his march to the White House. And two, that Trump’s plan to help those workers by cracking down on trade is likely to backfire.
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