Dropping a Deuce on the Truce
“I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore … They’re scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people … If they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.” And with that, Trump announces that the ceasefire with Iran is basically over. (Trump also confused Iran with Japan and Zelensky with Putin during the discussion. So maybe everyone should keep their defenses on alert.) Trump also lashed out at Spain, saying he’s going to cut off all trade with them. In a whiplash-inducing shift, Trump praised Zelensky and said he will let Ukraine build Patriot missiles. (This definitely gives one the sense that US intel is advising Trump that Ukraine has the upper hand in the war. Or maybe there’s a bribe involved.) Here’s the latest from The Guardian.
+ “Mark Carney swept to power on a backlash to President Trump’s talk of making Canada the 51st state, which many Americans took for mere shtick. But for the new prime minister, reading intelligence reports detailing the gravity of the crisis, it was a breaking point. In private phone conversations with Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, Trump had threatened to scrap the 1908 agreement delineating their shared border. ‘I tear that up and your whole country unravels,’ Trump told Trudeau in one call.” WSJ (Gift Article): The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away From the U.S.
+ Europe may be moving away from the US government, but it’s not moving away from US software. NATO quietly puts trust in Palantir to move troops and identify targets. “If Russia moves its elite soldiers from the 76th Guards Air Assault Division closer to the border with Estonia, Palantir’s system will flag it. Military officers will be alerted to vulnerabilities in the alliance’s force structure across Europe, and which troops to move from where to fend off a Russian attack. At any one time the system knows how many troops NATO has, where and when, so it can advise what to do next.” (The next world war will be software vs software, with humans caught in the crossfire.)
