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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 14 hours ago • 182 comments

European managed funds should definitely invest more in European companies IMHO (currently even military industry is helping society IMHO, I wish it were not so and changes again sometime)

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Now that the chances of impact are reducing to next to nothing we can focus on how cool this #asteroid flyby will be! Hopefully space missions can investigate up close like RAMSES for #Apophis... or maybe it will hit the moon which would be fascinating for impact studies! #PlanetSci

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The EU is exploring more aggressively ways to seize Russia’s frozen central bank assets as a collateral to compensate for the destruction of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Not trying to alarm people but just noting that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among their other important functions, is also one of the small number of people explicitly designated for translating Presidential nuclear strike orders into reality. www.doctrine.af.mil/Portals/61/d...

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

Trump announced a new phase of talks between American and Russian delegations. The talks would take place in the Saudi capital Riyadh on 25 February, a week after the first round which took place, also in Riyadh. www.euronews.com/2025/02/22/d...

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has denied reports that the United States threatened to shut off Starlink in Ukraine unless Kyiv agreed to a minerals deal. Responding to a report by Reuters, Musk called the claim "false" and accused the news agency of lying.

submitted 7 hours ago • 104 comments

PDSls now has opt-in support for backlinks using the constellation index enable it by opening the settings on the top right and checking the backlinks checkbox

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

'THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE', reviewed in The Irish Times by Denis Staunton www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

'Draft US-Ukraine rare earth minerals deal not one President Zelensky would accept, source says' www.yahoo.com/news/draft-u...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Although the majority of people around the world are worried about climate change, most still feel it is a future issue or one that only affects the natural environment. They couldn’t be more wrong: climate change is already affecting what’s on our kitchen counter!

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

55 years ago this morning, a W50 thermonuclear warhead (with three yield options: 60, 200, or 440 kilotons) fell about nine feet off a Pershing 1-A SRBM during a maintenance procedure, landing on its nose on the pavement at a combat alert location near Böttingen, West Germany (south of Stuttgart).

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

russians are actually dying for nothing. Ukrainians are dying to defend themselves from genocide

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Direct attack and threats against the European Union’s digital services act and digital market act. Tech policy has become geopolitical and is now at the center of the 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 relations

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

As it happens, Trump has gone so far off the cliff that Europe isn’t divided but closing ranks. I figured that it’ll become politically difficult for European politicians to try and suck up to him because electorates see what Trump is doing and are very angry. But it’s even better than expected:

submitted 19 hours ago • 35 comments

Firing career military officers for obeying the orders of the previous President sets up chaotic and dangerous incentives for senior commanders to shirk and scheme. Trump should wonder, will his generals resist following his orders on fear of what the next POTUS will do?

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments