Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts

Monday, March 03, 2025

3: Ukraine

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Monday, February 24, 2025

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

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Monday, January 06, 2025

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The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025 15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators provide some explosive potential scenarios for the new year.

Antony Blinken: ‘China has been trying to have it both ways’ The outgoing US secretary of state on putting pressure on Beijing over Ukraine, the ‘road map’ for Syria — and why America must co-operate in order to lead ........ “We faced the worst economic crisis arguably since the Great Depression. We faced the worst public health crisis in at least 100 years. We had strong divisions at home, a challenge to our democracy, and we had very fraught relations with our closest allies and partners.” ......... Back in 2021, he says, adversaries believed the US was in “inexorable decline”. Since then, big investments at home, including in infrastructure and the domestic chip industry, in addition to intense work with allies, have changed the landscape. “We’re now operating from a position of strength.” ........ Blinken, 62, is a Francophile who speaks fluent French from his teenage years living in Paris. ........ “Iran is not in much of a position to pick a fight with anyone . . . That had real repercussions for Syria in a positive way.” ......... four Indo-Pacific countries — Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea — were invited to attend Nato summits during the Biden administration and that the transatlantic alliance now criticises China, which was previously unimaginable. He recalls how former Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida warned that “Ukraine [today] might be east Asia tomorrow”, in a veiled reference to China.  .......... I ask why Nippon Steel’s $15bn acquisition of US Steel has faced such opposition in the administration as a security threat, even though Japan is the most important US ally in Asia. ......... The presence of North Korean soldiers fighting with Russians against Ukraine has further underscored how conflicts in one region have implications for nations in other parts of the world. Giving another example, Blinken stresses that Chinese groups are still providing Russia with critical materiel to help it rebuild its defence industry base.  .......... “This is . . . powerful evidence to Europeans that the biggest threat to their security . . . is unfortunately being driven in part by the contributions of countries that are halfway around the world in the Indo-Pacific.”  ......... “China is hearing a chorus of concern from many countries” who along with the US have imposed sanctions on Chinese entities aiding the Russian war effort. ....... Blinken defends the decision to withdraw when the US did, however, saying that its adversaries wanted Washington to remain “bogged down” in Afghanistan. ........ I am also curious how he views the situation in Gaza compared to Xinjiang, where the Chinese government has detained more than 1mn Uyghurs in a persecution campaign. In his 2021 Senate confirmation hearing, he said China was committing “genocide” against the Uyghurs. Could the same conclusion not be drawn for the tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza? Blinken simply says “No”. ........... he says the US has a “responsibility” to talk to Beijing despite big differences. ............ I am curious if he thinks the engagement helped reduce the odds of a conflict with China over Taiwan? “Yes,” he says emphatically. “Certainly [of an] accidental [conflict] and possibly even deliberate.” ...........

We have reason to believe that China engaged Russia [on nuclear weapons] and said: ‘Don’t go there’

.......... nuclear weapons were also one of the few issues where China may have helped the US, despite Beijing’s support for Russia. “We have reason to believe that China engaged Russia and said: ‘Don’t go there’,” he says. 



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Thursday, July 20, 2023

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Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system From 2019 to 2022, more than 122 million people were driven into hunger by a combination of the impacts of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine ........ The World Food Program, the world’s largest humanitarian agency, purchased 80% of its wheat from Ukraine. ........ But on July 17, 2023, it said it’s unwilling to stay in the deal unless its demands are met to ship more of its own food and fertilizer. Over the following two days, it attacked Odesa with drones and missiles in one of the largest sustained assaults on the port. Russia also said it would deem any ship in the Black Sea bound for a Ukrainian port to be a legitimate military target........ While Russia has extended the deal after previous threats, this time may be different. Russian strikes caused extensive damage to Odesa, which may severely limit Ukraine’s ability to export through the port in the future – deal or no deal.

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Workers doubt they can retire: Poll One in five Americans doesn't think they will ever retire, while only half feel like they can save for the future, per a new Axios-Ipsos poll. Just over a third of people nearing "typical" retirement age — 55 and over — believe they'll be able to retire when they expected to. While most workers say they want to retire someday, "roughly half the workforce, we’re talking 50 plus million people, work for an employer that doesn’t offer a retirement plan," says a senior policy advisor at AARP. But good news for those who've managed to retire: 68% say they feel better than ever. .



Fed launches instant payments Nations including England, China, Sweden and India already have instant payments

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

19: Ukraine

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Monday, June 12, 2023

12: Ukraine



What’s ahead for biotech: Another wave or low tide?
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The State of Organizations 2023: Ten shifts transforming organizations
The Hottest Thing in Real Estate Is a Loan From Two Years Ago Real estate agents are pushing sub-3 percent mortgages as an amenity, just like marble countertops or a view of the mountains.

How to Use A.I. to Edit and Generate Stunning Photos An A.I.-powered version of Photoshop and the image generator Midjourney live up to the hype.

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Watch out Ukraine, here comes the Hungaro-Austrian Empire Pro-Russian politicians in the vein of Hungary’s Viktor Orbรกn are on the rise in Austria and Slovakia. ......... Austrian politician Herbert Kickl is a pro-Russian, anti-American conspiracy theorist who champions horse dewormer as a remedy for COVID-19 and wants to turn the Alpine country into a “fortress” against migration. ...... He’s also the odds-on favorite to become his country’s next leader and Europe’s next big headache. ........

Wall Street's top cop is determined to bring crypto to heel. He just took a big shot Although Binance and Coinbase may not be household names, they are well known in the world of crypto. Billions of dollars worth of digital assets change hands on these platforms every day, and they have customers all over the world........... Coinbase and Binance are both being accused of failing to register their exchanges with the SEC.......... What many crypto companies want are new rules of the road that are crypto-specific. ........ In many ways, this is an existential fight for these companies. ........ in the days since these lawsuits were announced, there have been significant outflows from Coinbase's and Binance's exchanges. ......... The spectacular collapse of FTX ushered in a so-called "crypto winter" that has yet to dissipate. ......... 12% of the population owns crypto investments, a small fraction compared to how many households own stocks



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Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class using AI to explain topics and help with projects and create new things. As educators, we got to see the full range of AI’s impacts on display: as threat and as opportunity. ........... I made AI mandatory in my classes ........ the well-known problem of hallucination and confabulation - AI makes stuff up .......... seven different ways to use AI in classrooms: AI-tutor, for increasing knowledge, AI-coach for increasing metacognition, AI-mentor to provide balanced, ongoing feedback, AI-teammate to increase collaborative intelligence, AI-tool for extending student performance, AI-simulator to help with practice, and AI-student to check for understanding .........

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