Dejan Corovic
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Talking about HIMARS we haven't heard very much about them lately?
Have Ruskies came up with Anti-HIMARS?
Have Ruskies came up with Anti-HIMARS?
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Ok. Mobile artillery/rocket systems. That's the point
AD1184
Celestial
Your enemy might not have easy access to artillery, or at least not able to bring it into theatre so easily. Towed-artillery and self-propelled guns are also fairly bulky, whereas drones are often not, and can be more easily deployed covertly.
Creepy Green Light
Silence = Deaf
I'm not sure if this was already mentioned but I see Switzerland has given Ukraine Patriot missile batteries.
Creepy Green Light
Silence = Deaf
I'm not sure about you guys but I thought Russia was going to take what they wanted in Ukraine in about a weeks time. I never thought we'd be going on years of war now.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
A little Googling tells me Ukraine is still using plenty of mobile artillery and has developed its own systems with respectable capacity.
I can’t believe this is still happening either but apparently Russian ineptitude and Ukranian ingenuity has a lot to do with it. That and craploads of foreign aid.
I can’t believe this is still happening either but apparently Russian ineptitude and Ukranian ingenuity has a lot to do with it. That and craploads of foreign aid.
Creepy Green Light
Silence = Deaf
I agree. Maybe "crap loads" is understating it but you're right. Ingenuity > Ineptitude.
Dejan Corovic
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Day ago Zelensky made some out of character moves, sacking this anti-corruption organisation, that he ignored for years and then on the same day calling in peace meeting with Russians. Zelensky was always hard to bring to table with Russians etc, suddenly he initiates talks etc. What's wrong?
This is wrong Trump wants to replace Zelensky with Saluzni, who's ambassador to UK. Zelensky doesn't want to go, so he stuck at anti-corruption org. because they have tons of dirt on his circle and that dirt can be used for political munition.
This video from few days ago explains it all, plus bonus reveals lots of Gabard's material about Clinton and Obama creating Russia-Gate narrative to compromise Tump:
View: https://youtu.be/rNJSeRzXrI4
This is wrong Trump wants to replace Zelensky with Saluzni, who's ambassador to UK. Zelensky doesn't want to go, so he stuck at anti-corruption org. because they have tons of dirt on his circle and that dirt can be used for political munition.
This video from few days ago explains it all, plus bonus reveals lots of Gabard's material about Clinton and Obama creating Russia-Gate narrative to compromise Tump:
View: https://youtu.be/rNJSeRzXrI4
nivek
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Terrorist who confessed to masterminding 7/7 London bombings AND 9/11 'could be walking the streets of Britain in days'
A 'despicable' terrorist who confessed to his role in 9/11 and the July 7 bombings is set to be freed from prison within days despite officials declaring him a 'risk to national security'. Haroon Aswat, 50, could be released from a secure hospital unit in the UK without a full risk assessment due to his mental health treatment. He was jailed in 2015 in the US for 20 years having admitted trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon.Aswat was visited by a British psychiatrist in America before he was deported back to Britain in 2022 where he declared: 'I'm a terrorist.' Now newly-surfaced US court documents show Aswat also confessed to being a 'mastermind behind the [9/11] attacks and a 2005 attack in the UK', The Sun has reported. In addition to his connection to the 7/7 London terror bombings, which killed 52 people, Aswat has also threatened to kill Jews, Christians and certain groups of Muslims.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said he feared Aswat's return to the streets of Britain and said: 'He should never experience freedom again.' Despite officials admitting their concern and the High Court's Mr Justice Robert Jay previously saying there was 'evidence of an ongoing risk', Aswat will only be subject to a notification order upon his release. It means Aswat must continually notify the police about certain information and keep them up-to-date.
These details include his address, foreign travel details and vehicle registration. Earlier this year Mr Justice Jay concluded: 'These were very serious offences and there is evidence of ongoing risk. 'A risk assessment in relation to terrorist offending is always inherently uncertain and in the present case is compounded by the mental instability of the defendant. 'Overall, I am satisfied for the reasons that I have given that a notification order should be made in all the circumstances of this case. A psychiatrist has deemed his treatment as being effective and his release from detention is expected in the relatively near future, with the understanding being that he will return to his family in Yorkshire.'
He added: 'No formal terrorist risk assessment has been carried out since the defendant's return here. The circumstances of his detention have precluded that. However, on the basis of the material which is available the defendant has been assessed by various police officers — including the senior officer dealing with this case — that he remains a risk to national security.'
A document from the US District Court, which has been released for the first time, described Aswat as a terrorist and foot soldier of al-Qaeda, and revealed he openly admitted to his involvement in terrorist activities. 'In March 2017 the defendant stated, 'if you think I am a terrorist, I don't shy away from my responsibility' and also stated he was a mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks and a 2005 terrorist attack in the UK.' The papers show that Aswat revealed his associations with Osama bin Laden and that he had spent time training in al-Queda camps in Afghanistan just months before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which claimed more than 3,000 lives.
His name was also found on a ledger discovered in a house in Pakistan where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 'architect' of 9/11, had been staying. Other activities included helping hate preacher Abu Hamza establish a US terror camp in 1999, staying at a house in Pakistan in 2002 - where he met two of the 7/7 bombers - and possessing a terror manual and alleged bomb materials. Police also traced 20 calls made by the 7/7 bombers to a phone connected to Aswat. Det Chief Supt Gareth Rees, head of operations for the Met's SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, said of Aswat in a witness statement: 'Based on my experience, this is conduct which gives me grave concerns about the risk which the defendant poses to the UK's national security and to the public.'
A report compiled by Dr Richard Taylor, who travelled to America in the summer of 2022, found Aswat still posed a risk to the public. The report states that in 2017 Aswat made remarks to prison staff in support of Al Qaeda and threatened violence towards them. In 2022 he sent letters which made demands and death threats, seemingly motivated by a terrorist ideology. Dr Taylor concluded that he openly endorsed an extremist ideology, but there was no evidence that Aswat was mentally ill.
However he had had limited opportunity to address the extremist mindset and showed traits of glibness, superficial charm, charisma, intelligence and elements of manipulativeness and narcissism. Even when mentally stable he continued to express violent, extremist Islamic ideology, Dr Taylor found. The diagnosis showed a schizoaffective disorder with symptoms showing unpredictable and aggressive behaviour.
Dr Taylor did not complete a full terrorist risk assessment, but identified 15 of the 22 relevant factors in the government's extreme risk guidance. He concluded: 'There remains the risk of Islamic violent extremism motivated targeted terrorist offending behaviour given his threats to kill Jews, Christians and certain groups of Muslims. 'There is also a risk of him influencing other vulnerable individuals, as when he is in an abnormal mental state his religious extremist rhetoric is amplified by mental illness.'
A senior police officer, Detective Inspector Karen Bradley, who was involved in the case, concluded that Aswat remains a risk to national security.
Aswat was born and grew up in Yorkshire but moved to Wood Green in north London where he fell under the spell of hate preacher Abu Hamza - and together they planned a terror training camp in Oregon with Aswat moving to Seattle to organise it. He also spent time in Afghanistan and in Pakistan - where he met and associated with fellow Yorkshire terror sympathiser Mohammed Sidique Khan and his accomplice Shehzad Tanweer. They would go on to carry out the deadly 7/7 bombings in London which killed 52 people on underground trains and a bus in July 2005.
Aswat served most of his sentence in America and was deported back to the UK in December 2022. He is currently detained at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Bromley, south east London.
A Government spokesman said: 'Protecting our national security is the very first priority of this government and if any individual poses a threat to that security, the police and intelligence services have a range of powers they can apply to deal with that threat. 'We will always do whatever is necessary inside the law to protect the public from any risk posed by former terrorist offenders or people of terrorist concern.'
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nivek
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Trump rushed into briefing as gunman shoots five people at US Army base
The Fort Stewart Army base in southeast Georgia has been urgently locked down after at least five people were shot this morning. The shooter struck the 2ABCT area of the base, located about 40 miles southwest of Savannah, which includes the Wright and Evans Army Airfield.Footage from the incident circulating on social media showed a number of soldiers seeking shelter as the active shooter warning was issued. The shooter was apprehended by law enforcement, however their identity has not been released. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the incident and the White House is 'monitoring the situation'.
Fort Stewart is the largest Army post east of the Mississippi River. It's home to 10,000 soldiers assigned to the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and their family members.
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nivek
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NATO member scrambles jets after Russian drone attack, as Witkoff meets with Putin
Romania was forced to scramble F-16 jets after Russia carried out a strike just half a mile from the NATO nation's territory. The country's Ministry of National Defense (MApN) confirmed in a post on X that Russia carried out a drone attack near its border."On the night of August 5-6, the Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on the civilian infrastructure in the Ismail area, Ukraine, in the vicinity of the border with Romania," Romania's defense ministry wrote in a post on X. "The radar systems of the MApN detected air targets in Ukrainian space, close to Tulcea County. At 1:10a.m., the population in the north of the county was warned via RO-Alert," the ministry added. RO-Alert is Romania’s official emergency warning system.
The defense ministry stated that two F-16 fighter jets took off "to monitor the national airspace," but no "unauthorized intrusions" were detected. The ministry said it would carry out checks in the area and keep NATO allies updated in real time.
The drones reportedly struck oil and gas pipelines at the Orlivka plant in Odesa, Ukraine. Bright orange flames and plumes of smoke were visible across the Danube River.
Nearby Lithuania has also suffered from Russia’s war on Ukraine. Drones from Putin ally Belarus crossed into its territory, according to Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kęstutis Budrys, who said he spoke with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
"These repeated incidents represent an alarming sign of the spillover of Russia’s aggression against [Ukraine] onto [NATO territory]," Budrys said of the incident. "We cannot compromise the security of our country and citizens, nor the integrity of NATO airspace. We must remain vigilant, as the threat is real and growing."
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nivek
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Mutually assured destruction is dead. Enemies are circling. And the Pentagon is divided. Nuclear threat is escalating and there's calls for the military to act... before it's too late
The US will soon be locked in a three-way nuclear arms race with Russia and China — a scary new chapter in global brinkmanship that experts say is far more complicated and dangerous than the two-sided Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union. For decades, the balance of terror rested on a relatively simple formula: Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) between Washington and Moscow. But now, Beijing's stunning nuclear build-up is reshaping the strategic landscape — and the old rules no longer apply.The numbers are sobering. China is on track to quadruple its nuclear arsenal by the early 2030s, racing toward a stockpile of 1,500 warheads, many mounted on ultra-fast hypersonic glide missiles designed to dodge US defenses. Beijing has also been constructing dozens of mysterious underground silos across its western deserts, sparking fears of a rapid-launch capability on par with America's own.
Russia, meanwhile, already possesses the world's largest nuclear stockpile, and Vladimir Putin shows no signs of slowing down. Moscow is even developing an underwater nuclear drone capable of triggering tsunamis. Worse still for America: Moscow and Beijing are cozying up. Their self-proclaimed 'no limits' partnership was on full display this week in the Sea of Japan, where their destroyers staged joint mock combat drills.
The challenge facing the US is immense. Eric Edelman, the vice chair of the National Defense Strategy Commission, a nonpartisan advisory panel created by Congress, called it a seemingly insurmountable 'three-body problem'. 'How can one nuclear power simultaneously deter two nuclear peers?' he asks. Pentagon officials are grappling with this unnerving new reality, where established principles of deterrence, crisis stability, and arms control become exponentially more complex when three roughly equal actors are involved.
A 2023 congressional strategy commission warned that the shift to a three-way race represented 'an existential challenge for which the US is ill-prepared, unless its leaders make decisions now to adjust the strategic posture.' For some, it's time for America to rearm and prepare for a looming Sino-Russian nuclear decapitation strike. Others argue that a three-way race is the road to the apocalypse — and only universal disarmament can save mankind.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) laid bare the threat in June. Its annual report confirmed that all nine nuclear-armed states are expanding their arsenals and walking away from arms control agreements. Members of the nuclear-armed club — the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel — plan to increase stockpiles amid rising geopolitical tensions, SIPRI expert Hans Kristensen reported. He warned of a 'clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, sharpened nuclear rhetoric, and the abandonment of arms control agreements.'
SIPRI said Russia and the US — which together possess around 90 percent of all nuclear weapons — kept their stockpile sizes stable in 2024, but are both extensively modernizing and could increase the size of their arsenals in the future. The fastest-growing arsenal is China's, with Beijing adding about 100 new warheads per year since 2023. By the end of the decade, China could have as many intercontinental ballistic missiles as either Russia or the US. SIPRI's estimates place Russia and the US at approximately 5,459 and 5,177 nuclear warheads respectively, while China holds around 600 — more than enough to wipe out humanity and collapse the planet's ecosystems.
In January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock one second closer to midnight, warning that humanity is now the closest it has ever been to a catastrophic event that could imperil all of civilization. The threat of nuclear Armageddon became painfully clear in recent days during a war of words between US President Donald Trump and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev, now a hawkish online provocateur, boasted of Russia's Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities. Trump hit back at his 'highly provocative statements' and said he had ordered two US nuclear submarines to reposition in response.
On Monday, Russia declared it no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of nuclear-capable intermediate-range missiles — the latest in a long line of rejections of arms control norms. The main nuclear arms control deal between the US and Russia, the New START treaty, is due to expire in 2026. A successor now appears unlikely, as Moscow continues to threaten the use of battlefield nukes in Ukraine.
Trump, during his first term, invited China to join trilateral nuclear arms reduction talks — but Beijing was reluctant, citing its comparatively smaller arsenal. Any such talks now appear to be a distant prospect. With no binding agreements in place, the three-way race is spiraling into a free-for-all.
Even worse, the US is struggling to keep up. Its nuclear arsenal is decades old. Modernization is underway, but painfully slow, plagued by cost overruns and bureaucratic delays. Warhead production facilities are outdated and bottlenecked, unable to quickly scale production if needed. Pentagon planners are increasingly worried about a nightmare scenario in which Russia strikes in Europe while China invades Taiwan. If both adversaries act in tandem or coordination, the US could face an unprecedented dilemma: how to respond to two simultaneous nuclear threats with a single command system, a finite arsenal, and mere minutes to make potentially world-ending decisions.
Emerging technologies make this scenario even more terrifying. Hypersonic weapons from Russia or China could arrive before US defenses can even detect them. Artificial intelligence, cyberattacks, and space-based weapons are rewriting the rules of deterrence — a game that once had predictable red lines. Edelman says Russia and China could even be preparing for a joint surprise strike to 'decapitate' America's leadership — including the president and top military commanders — before it can retaliate. The two powers are rapidly developing anti-satellite systems, cyberweapons, and hypersonic delivery vehicles that can evade US missile defenses. Upgrading America's aging command and control systems is the 'first order of business', Edelman says.
Strategic weapons experts Mark Schneider and Keith Payne, from the National Institute for Public Policy, warned in a recent report that the US has already fallen dangerously behind — and should ditch New START and rapidly catch up. They called for an immediate 'nuclear upload' — adding multiple warheads to 400 land-based Minuteman III ICBMs and to the Navy's submarine-launched missiles. This, they argue, is the 'only way America can adequately enhance the force size and flexibility needed to tailor deterrence in the near term for the prevention of great power conflict.'
Some experts argue a three-way nuclear race can only end in disaster — and that rapid global disarmament is the only hope. Others believe the MAD theory still holds: that despite the saber-rattling, none of the three powers would dare pull the trigger. But unlike the Cold War, there are no red phones, no predictable deterrence models, and no second chances.
One miscalculation — a false alarm, a misunderstood missile test, a flashpoint over Taiwan or Ukraine — could trigger global catastrophe within minutes.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, warned of deepening global divisions and an 'even more challenging' nuclear threat landscape today. 'That is exactly why we must make all-out efforts to bring about a world without nuclear war and a world without nuclear weapons,' he said at a wreath laying in the city where 140,000 perished in the August 1945 blast.
As the Cold War fades into history, a new, more chaotic, and potentially catastrophic nuclear era is dawning — and America finds itself caught in the middle. This is no ordinary arms race. It's a three-way sprint to the edge of annihilation.
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nivek
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Frantic terrorist MANHUNT 'begins across America' as terrifying Iran passport plot to flood the nation with jihadis is uncovered
After President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes to take out three of Iran's nuclear facilities in late June, defense officials warned that Tehran may have the ability to strike back – from inside the US Homeland. Indeed, the Islamic Republic and its proxy forces in the Middle East, namely Hezbollah and Hamas, have long sought to plant terrorist sleeper agents, poised to activate when called upon, in American communities.Now there is new evidence of how this suspected Iranian campaign may have operated – and the signs point to close coordination with Tehran's closest ally in the Western hemisphere: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. The Daily Mail has exclusively obtained a list revealing an alleged international scheme to provide Venezuelan passports to potential terrorists.
These passports would grant individuals the ability to travel, without a visa in certain instances, from the Middle East to South America. Then, according to national security experts, these people could taken advantage of the Biden Administration's lawless southern border and crossed illegally into the US alongside approximately 10 million illegal immigrants from 2020 to 2024.
'Over the past four years – until we got the border locked down – it's been much more likely for [Iran] to develop relationships with Venezuela and get people here, get them in place, and get them supplied and ready to go,' Jonathan Gilliam, counterterrorism analyst and former FBI agent, told the Daily Mail.
Concerningly, Gilliam warned that the probability of Iranian attacks on US soil is now 'high' following the June strikes. Some elements of this alleged Venezuelan-Iranian scheme has been previously reported and date back to former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez's regime (1999-2013). As far back as 2006, a US State Department report warned that, 'Venezuelan travel and identification documents are extremely easy to obtain by persons not entitled to them.'
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nivek
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ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: 'Silent genocide'
International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa – with some of the most brutal attacks happening in the nation of Mozambique.The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – a counter-terrorism research nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. – is sounding that alarm about what it describes as a "silent genocide" taking place against Christians.
The Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) recently released 20 photos boasting of four attacks on "Christian villages" in the Chiure district, in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, according to MEMRI.
MEMRI said the photos show ISIS operatives raiding villages and burning a church and homes. The images also allegedlydepict the beheadings of a member of what the jihadists consider "infidel militias" and two Christian civilians. Rampaging jihadist groups celebrated the killings. Photos also showed the corpses of several members of those so-called "infidel militias," according to the institute's analysis.
"What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community," MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital.
"That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa – take over the whole country or most of several countries – is dangerous," Fernandez, a former U.S. diplomat, said. "It's very dangerous for the national security of the United States let alone the security of the poor people who are there – Christians or Muslims or whoever they are."
The Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) also recently released several photos of their own documenting a July 27 attack against the Christian village of Komanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri province. Islamic State-affiliated soldiers opened fire at a Catholic Church and set fire to homes, stores, vehicles and possessions. At least 45 people were killed, according to MEMRI. The photos show burning facilities and the corpses of Christians.
Fernandez explained to Fox News Digital that the goal of these jihadist groups is "eliminating Christian communities," as they push down from safe havens and Muslims are "given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’"
"Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join," Fernandez told Fox News Digital. "Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed."
The United Nations migration agency said Monday that attacks by insurgents in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 people in the span of eight days last month.
The International Organization for Migration said nearly 60% of those forced from their homes were children.
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nivek
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Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons
Nobel laureates met with nuclear experts last month to discuss AI and the end of the world — and if that sounds like the opening to a sci-fi blockbuster set in the apocalypse, you're not alone.As Wired reports, the convened experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes. Exactly why that needs to be true is hard to pin down, but the feeling of inevitability — and anxiety — is palpable in the magazine's reporting. "It’s like electricity," retired US Air Force major general and member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board, Bob Latiff, told Wired. "It’s going to find its way into everything."
It's a bizarre situation. AIs have already been shown to exhibit numerous dark streaks, resorting to blackmailing human users at an astonishing rate when threatened with being shut down.
In the context of an AI, or networks of AIs, safeguarding a nuclear weapons stockpile, those sorts of poorly-understood risks become immense. And that's without getting into a genuine concern among some experts, which also happens to be the plot of the movie "The Terminator": a hypothetical superhuman AI going rogue and turning humanity's nuclear weapons against it.
Earlier this year, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that a human-level AI may not be incentivized to "listen to us anymore," arguing that "people do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level." That kind of AI doomerism has been on the minds of tech leaders for many years now, as reality plays a slow-motion game of catch-up. In their current form, the risks would probably be more banal, since the best AI models today still suffer from rampant hallucinations that greatly undercut the usefulness of their outputs.
Then there's the threat of flawed AI tech leaving gaps in our cybersecurity, allowing adversaries — or even adversary AIs — to access systems in control of nuclear weapons.
To get all members of last month's unusual meeting to agree on a topic as fraught as AI proved challenging, with Federation of American Scientists director of global risk Jon Wolfsthal admitting to the publication that "nobody really knows what AI is." They did find at least some common ground, at least. "In this realm, almost everybody says we want effective human control over nuclear weapon decisionmaking," Wolfsthal added. Latiff agreed that "you need to be able to assure the people for whom you work there’s somebody responsible."
If this all sounds like a bit of a clown show, you're not wrong. Under president Donald Trump, the federal government has been busy jamming AI into every possible domain, often while experts warn them the tech is not yet — and may never be — up to the task. Hammering the bravado home, the Department of Energy declared this year that AI is the "next Manhattan Project," referencing the World War 2-era project that resulted in the world's first nuclear bombs.
Underscoring the seriousness of the threat, ChatGPT maker OpenAI also struck a deal with the US National Laboratories earlier this year to use its AI for nuclear weapon security.
Last year, Air Force general Anthony Cotton, who's effectively in charge of the US stockpile of nuclear missiles, boasted at a defense conference that the Pentagon is doubling down on AI, arguing that it will "enhance our decision-making capabilities." Fortunately, Cotton stopped short of declaring that we must let the tech assume full control. "But we must never allow artificial intelligence to make those decisions for us," he added at the time.
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Dejan Corovic
As above, so bellow
China blocks supply of critical materials needed to replenish West's military stocks depleted by wars in Ukraine and Gaza
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nivek
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Trump puts $50 million bounty on Venezuelan president for helping terrorists bring 'deadly violence' to US
The Trump administration is now offering a $50 million reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, who is widely considered a dictator. The announcement came directly from Attorney General Pam Bondi, who accused Maduro of conspiring with multiple gangs to bring guns and illegal drugs into the United States. 'Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,' she said.The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has so far seized 30 tons of cocaine that were subsequently linked to Maduro and his associates, Bondi said. Nearly seven tons of that total was linked to Maduro himself, she added, explaining that this represents a primary source of income for gangs operating in Venezuela and Mexico. 'Cocaine is often laced with fentanyl, resulting in the loss and destruction of countless American lives,' Bondi said.
Maduro, 62, has been in the crosshairs of the American justice system since March 2020, when he was indicted in the Southern District of New York on a litany of charges related to drug trafficking. They included narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.
Immediately after the indictment, the first Trump administration offered a $15 million reward for Maduro's capture. President Joe Biden's State Department increased that to $25 million and with Bondi's announcement on Thursday, the federal government has doubled that. 'The DOJ has seized over $700 million of Maduro linked assets, including two private jets, nine vehicles and more. Yet Maduro’s reign of terror continues,' Bondi said. 'He is one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world, and a threat to our national security,' she added. She vowed that Maduro won't escape justice under watch and that he 'will be held accountable for his despicable crimes'.
Maduro has been the president of Venezuela since April 2013 and in that time, he has been accused of consolidating power in executive agencies while simultaneously wrestling it away from the elected National Assembly.
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Dejan Corovic
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nivek
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Europe's new iron curtain: Nato's new 30-mile-deep wall with minefields and booby-traps to stop Russia invading Europe
Lithuania has revealed plans to dig a 30-mile-wide ribbon of defences on its borders with Russia and Belarus that will include minefields and bridges set to blow up in case Russia invades. The plans are part of a Baltic-wide push for more defence, amid increasing aggression from Russia and its allies. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, alongside Poland, have been fortifying their borders, adding obstacles and redoubts to existing fences. All four are also looking for EU funding for these projects.
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pigfarmer
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I predict that now that Putin's had his day in the sun being treated as the leader of a superpower he'll go back to ignoring all this and continue on as if nothing's happened.
The real winner in all that was the Alaskan that got that nifty Ural. I bet the DMV in Anchorage isn't terribly different than the one right down the road and I can only imagine dealing with the clerk when you tell them this was a gift from Vladimir Putin. There's actually a form for that but I think getting Vlad to sign it might be difficult
The real winner in all that was the Alaskan that got that nifty Ural. I bet the DMV in Anchorage isn't terribly different than the one right down the road and I can only imagine dealing with the clerk when you tell them this was a gift from Vladimir Putin. There's actually a form for that but I think getting Vlad to sign it might be difficult