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Who is she with? And who with before? Honestly have no idea about her dating status.

Miyazaki is on the record in considering A.I. art deeply offensive. There is something sinister about Altman & co using the Ghibli style for these memes. It's almost as if they want to say, "we don't care if you like it or not, we are still going to do it."

The right hates the Rachel Zegler casting, the left hates the Gal Gadot casting. Not sure who is going to see this film to be honest. In general I think the quality of the live action adaptation of Disney film has been dire. It's not even about the casting choices, most of them look like garbage.

In the least surprising turn of events, the Russians have upped their missile and drone attacks now that the Ukrainians have been deprived of U.S. intelligence and live satellite data.

When he was asked about this in the Oval Office, he denied it.

The Trump administration might revoke the refugee status of 240K Ukrainians, essentially triggering a mass deportation at a time when the situation on the ground is going to become much more dangerous. Whatever this administration goals are with its Ukraine policies, they can now no longer pretend in good faith that their primary concern is to save lives.

Wait, they are already walking back the tariffs?

They don't really have much choice, a Russian victory in which the map is redrawn along the current front lines is much more of an issue for Europe than the current stalemate. For one thing, it would open up Crimea as an effective launch pad, in which case the entire Black Sea comes into play. The real question is how much appetite Ukraine has left for something that keeps on going for several more years. I'm guessing not too much.

Kind of expected this. Not sure what it means in the long term. The problem is that Europe cannot provide for everything the U.S. did, so it's not just a question of money. The Europeans do seem finally ready to cough up enough money as the Ukrainians might need but it's really equipment and operational capabilities they require right now and some stuff is near impossible to do without the U.S. One military expert I saw talk on this issue yesterday said it will take a committed Europe that is determined to do it and pours enough money into it 3-5 years to recreate a modest version of the kind of command structure and intelligence gathering apparatus that the U.S. takes for granted. Obviously Ukraine does not have that much time, they might only have months if the U.S. does indeed close the military aid valve completely.

Seemed to me it went off the rails when Zelensky mentioned the fact that Putin has never respected ceasefires and without any guarantees to prevent that, what is stopping him to do so now? Vance seemed to have no immediate answer ready for that and instead went for the "why have you never thanked us?" nonsense. In any case, the theater in the Oval Office wasn't very interesting to me. I think everything was already articulated in Vance's Munich speech. That was the real reset of the transatlantic relationship. Nothing new has been revealed since then.

The Democrats aren't going to win any elections in the near future. In any case, a NATO that depends on what party is in the White House is worthless to begin with.

Meh, NATO was already over after Vance's Munich speech, this was just the final nail.