That’s a bold bet if Maduro escaped capture. But the fact that this bet got media attention after Maduro was captured means this is more like a brag.

I had several issues using teams on browsers before so I felt compelled to use Windows for the app. But I admit that I never tried using it on Chromium so I will try next time.

I am on Linux and never looking back to Windows (except if I have to use Microsoft Teams for interviews).

I know what you’re saying but what I’m saying is that some people feigning concerns tend to lay the responsibility solely on Ukraine to cease fighting. Not saying you’re one of those but the Russian trolls amplify bad faith advocacy.

Sometime after the initial invasion of Ukraine, I see floods of faux concerns from “peace advocates” online telling Ukraine to just stop fighting and think of the men and women dying against a bigger opponent. And yet I don’t see these “peace advocates” turn their attention to Russia, the aggressor and the one who started the war, to stop invading. I mean, peace advocates would usually tell both sides to stop. Why haven’t these peace advocates done that, and instead lay the responsibility of ceasing the fighting to Ukraine alone? It’s very obvious these are Russian trolls feigning concerns on Ukraine. These trolls mention the cost to Ukraine, but conveniently ignores and don’t mention the bigger cost to Russia-- which is the accelerated demographic decline, and loss of economic and political prestige of the country. Even if Russia comes out with more concessions than one would have liked, the cost to Russia is a Pyrrhic victory. And their invasion of Ukraine will pay negative dividends in decades to come; kinda like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan cost them dearly, and the US adventurism in the Middle East twenty years ago is now costing the US democracy.

Where are all the Russian faux concern trolls telling Ukraine to give up and stop sending their men and women to war; while more Russian soldiers die capturing Ukrainian territory at snails pace, which worsens their already dwindling pre-war population, and their economy being constrained by unprecedented sanctions resulting in ever increasing inflation on Russia?

Me: Come on, pop already. There are funds betting on AI bubble burst, ready for me to invest in.

Nvidia has competitive edge. They won’t go bankrupt but they they will undermined heavily when the AI bubble pops.

Unless we live in a one-world government, the default set up is the Thucydides trap where one state tends to dominate.

Who’s going to dominate trade? Cos people are hoping it won’t be an authoritarian state like China.

Don’t shoot the message, shoot the messenger.

ItS sTiLl bEtTeR tHaN uNpAiD sLaVeRy!¡

Europe is still trying to cope with the fact that the US may no longer be the long standing ally it once was.

Exactly. In my opinion there is no social justice without economic justice. The two come together.

Before the war, ordinary Russians were slowly getting fed up with Putin. As per the dictator’s playbook, Putin is stoking the base tribalism of the citizens to distract them from his government’s own corruption. The world respects Russia, it’s only that the world doesn’t respect him.

Just like Saudi Arabia hosting COP-21.

no idea how he got picked to host a TV show.

The American media intentionally give airtime to dumb individuals.

isn’t remotely like China.

Not yet.

Yup. It’s unfortunate. I want to visit the US but it had become one of the countries I would not visit alongside China because of Orwellian surveillance.

I like how the media is hammering in the identity of the hero not because of “DEI” or “wokeness”, but to counter the obvious bad faith right wing actors that would spread fake news.