#militarism — Public Fediverse posts
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"While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant idea to flatten the competition: simply bomb their data centers to smithereens.
In a new report titled “Superpowers and AGI,” former Obama-era national security official Jacob Stokes calls for United States to begin preparing readiness drills in response to Chinese AI development — up to and including military strikes on the nation’s data centers, the South China Morning Post reported.
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to the theoretical point at which an AI model achieves human, or superhuman, levels of reasoning and intelligence. Though the science is still out on whether such a system is even possible, Stokes’ report begins from the assumption that AGI is inevitable, and that if the US can’t get to it first, its military needs to prepare to take drastic action.
Referring to the US as a hypothetical “laggard state” behind China’s achievement of AGI, Stokes — now the deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, a prominent DC think tank — writes that the country could “try to sabotage the leading state’s AGI systems, either through physical infiltration or offensive cyber operations; that is, cyberattack.”"
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Hierodeacon of Ukrainian Monastery Killed Defending Ukraine
https://uoj.news/news/hierodeacon-of-ukrainian-monastery-killed-defending-ukraine/
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"All nations that depend on energy from the Gulf will have to work out their own arrangements with Iran. What choice will they have? If the United States with its mighty Navy can’t or won’t open the strait, no coalition of forces with just a fraction of the Americans’ capability will be able to, either. The Anglo-French initiative to police the strait after a cease-fire is a bit of a joke. French President Emmanuel Macron has made it clear that this “coalition” will operate only under peaceful conditions in the strait: It will escort ships, but only if they don’t need an escort. Yet with Iran in control, the strait is not going to be safe again for a long time. China presumably has some influence over Tehran, but even China cannot force open the strait by itself.
One effect of this transformation may be an expanding great-power naval race. In the past, most of the world’s nations, including China, counted on the United States to both prevent and address such emergencies. Now the nations in Europe and Asia that depend on access to the Persian Gulf’s resources are helpless against the loss of energy supplies that are vital to their economic and political stability. How long can they tolerate this before they start building their own fleets, as a means of wielding influence in an every-nation-for-itself world where order and predictability have broken down?
The American defeat in the Gulf will have broader global ramifications as well. The whole world can see that just a few weeks of war with a second-rank power have reduced American weapons stocks to perilously low levels (...) The questions this raises about America’s readiness for another major conflict may or may not prompt Xi Jinping to launch an attack on Taiwan, or Vladimir Putin to step up his aggression against Europe. But at the very least America’s allies (...) must wonder about American staying power..."
#Iran #USA #Trump #Israel #StraitOfHormus #MiddleEast #Militarism #War
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Trump Allies Use Faith to Justify War as Divine Mission Through Hegseth and Graham
Trump allies use religious rhetoric to justify war, framing violence as God’s will. This analysis exposes the danger of blending faith, power, and militarism.
#antiWar #democracy #evangelicalPolitics #faithAndPower #FranklinGraham #geopolitics #IranWar #MILITARISM #PeteHegseth #politicalRhetoric #progressiveAnalysis #religionAndPolitics #Trump #USForeignPolicy #WarPropaganda https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oRA -
CENSORSHIP: "Satellite imaging firm Planet Labs said on Saturday it will indefinitely withhold visuals of Iran and the region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from the U.S. government.
California-based Planet Labs announced the decision in an email to customers and said the U.S. government had asked all satellite imagery providers to indefinitely withhold images of the conflict region.
The restriction expands upon a 14-day delay on imagery of the Middle East that Planet Labs imposed last month, a move the firm said was meant to prevent adversaries from using it to attack the U.S. and its allies.
Planet Labs said it will withhold imagery dating back to March 9 and that it expects the policy to remain in effect until the conflict ends.
The war began when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, and the conflict spread in the region when Tehran responded by launching its own attacks on Israel and U.S. bases in Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain."
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"The US Air Force had sent the Rivet Joint, one of the world’s most powerful surveillance aircraft, to gather intelligence before a hostile operation. The UK also owns three of the planes and last month dispatched one to the North Atlantic to support the seizure of the Marinera tanker, which the US said had transported sanctioned oil for Venezuela.
Equipped with cutting-edge military technology, the Rivet Joint can pick up radar signals, geolocate enemy systems and intercept communications from 150 miles away.
Exactly how it does this is kept strictly under wraps. But we can reveal that an Australian tech company called Appen has performed work for a secretive US military unit, code-named Big Safari, that installs the planes’ tech systems.
Appen recruits gig workers from all over the world to help train AI systems. The company’s latest annual report says it has a workforce of a million people who speak over 500 languages.
Many of these gig workers are paid very little. Some are from countries that have faced attacks from US armed forces. None were told by Appen that they may have been working for the US military."
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"An entrenched oligopoly of five large defense contractors, down from 51 in the early 1990s, has an interest in selling the #Pentagon ever-costlier evolutions of the same ships, planes and missiles." #Miltary #Militarism #Politics #USPol #Capitalism #NYTimes #GiftArticle https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/08/opinion/us-china-taiwan-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7E8.edUI.K0fK8TQ4GT3W&smid=url-share
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Chris Hedges: The Banana Republic of the United States
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/12/chris-hedges-the-us-banana-republic/
Every dictatorship is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost El Presidente…
#Politics #Commentary #Corruption #DonaldTrump #LatinAmerica #Militarism #PoliceBrutality #Propaganda #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AnastasioSomoza #Authoritarianism #ChrisHedges #FrançoisDuvalier #IceRaids #JeffreyEpstein #JulieBrown #KennedyCenter #MaximilianoHernándezMartínez #MiguelÁngelAsturias #MilanKundera #ÓscarR.Benavides #PapaDoc #PaulaWhiteCain #RafaelLeónidasTrujillo #RichardGrenell #TontonMacoute #Tyrants #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump -
FUN FACT: The #RomanEmpire "inflated" their currency by mixing increasingly more cheap metals with the #gold over time?
Thus our current flirtation with #Keynesianism is not a new 20th century thing, its as old as the Roman Empire! Just like that empire we squandered our wealth on #militarism.
Militarism that comes #homeToRoost?
#howVeryKeynesian #inflation #funFact #whyBitcoinCore #whyMonero #stopWar #austrianSchoolEconomics #time #history #historyRepeating #neoFascism