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Surpluswarrior

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Temstar said:
Lol it's already having pretty interesting effect:

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Very independent, totally not beholden to US

I realize now I should've trademarked that "US the country will cannibalize US the hegemon to ensure it's own survival" comment, I suspect we'll get to use that a lot more going forward in the next 4 years.

Likewise the member here who came up with the "J-36 is an air cruiser" idea.
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Ukraine's "Independent Media" is in collapse after U.S. funding was cut-off. From
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In a number of countries the halt of such 'aid'
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(machine translation):

Several major Ukrainian media outlets have asked their readers for financial support due to the suspension of American grant programs by the new President, Donald Trump.
In particular, this is directly reported by Hromadske and Bihus.Info.
"Some of the projects that we implement thanks to grants are temporarily stopped. That is why we especially need the support of each and every one of you," writes Hromadske.
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Ukrayinska Pravda and Detektor Media also asked for donations, but did not directly name the reason for this suspension of USAID projects.
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The U.S. practically owns
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(machine translation):


Approximately 90% of Ukrainian media outlets have become dependent on American grants since the outbreak of a full-scale war.
This was stated by Oksana Romanyuk, head of the Institute of Mass Information, which is also a recipient of foreign grants, to Public Radio.
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Political analyst Kostya Bondarenko responded to this statement with irony in his Telegram channel, doubting the lack of engagement of the press.
"Almost 90% of Ukrainian media survived thanks to grants," says Oksana Romanyuk, director of the Institute of Mass Information. I translate it into a normal language: 90% of Ukrainian media was controlled by the West through grants. Independence of the media and freedom of speech, you say?" - wrote Bondarenko.
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The dozens of 'independent' U.S. financed pro-war media outlets in Ukraine are just some of a
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official USAID projects in Ukraine (machine translation):


There are 112 projects in Ukraine The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), their funding reaches a total of $ 7 billion.
Such data was provided by MP Maryan Zablotsky on his Facebook page.
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In particular, over three years, $ 297 million was allocated for the following activities::
  • support in creating a talk show called "Ebout"on YouTube;
  • support of the TVORCHI music group in creating the song "At Once" and conducting concerts;
  • Zminy organization (also known as Don't Take Fake, or DTF) hosts an electronic musicians' camp;
  • creation of a mural and a series of cultural events by CUKR;
  • producer Tatiana Postavna and singer Vladimir Dantes created a reality show about the restoration of cultural spaces in frontline settlements;
  • release of the first series of the project "College Check";
  • release of the second season of the project "Ukrainian Palaces. Golden Day".
"And there are dozens of such projects – Maybe someone needs it. But I don't quite understand why American taxpayers should do this. And why don't we ask for funds for something obviously more necessary?" Zablotsky asked himself.
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USAID projects in Ukraine (and elsewhere) include the promotion of Neo-Nazi ideology:


Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski -
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Neo-Nazi linked activist tweets that podcasts with leader of neo-Nazi C14 in Ukraine would also stop because of Trump's suspension of USAID funding.
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Some
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that foreign funds do not influence the content that is produced:


It’s understandable to be wary of foreign money funding Ukrainian journalism, but there’s no hidden agenda behind it. It’s not about controlling the media or pushing specific narratives — that is more common for domestic actors. Organizations providing foreign grants don’t tell the media what to write or order journalists to support or attack particular policies or figures. That’s what local oligarchs do.
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The Washington Post recently demonstrated how oligarchic ownership of media
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their content through control of its editors. Dependency on foreign aid creates similar ways.


As Alexey Arestoivich, a former advisor to the former president of Ukraine,
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“Almost 90% of Ukrainian media survived thanks to grants,” says Oksana Romanyuk, director of the Institute of Mass Information.
Actually, this is called "intellectual occupation".
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Domestic humanities and media were intercepted and put under control back in the 90s, and this is the secret of why, instead of a large, multicultural symphony of Ukraine, “humanitarians” began to build a UPA dugout here the size of the largest European country.
This is one of the main reasons for the start of the war.
Because when the Biden administration needed to buy Ukraine to contain Russia, it didn’t have to try very hard, everything had already been bought long ago.
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iewgnem

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TPenglake said:
This attitude is easily explained when we know that Bill Maher said on one of his shows, "the reason we don't study the history of other countries outside the West, is because there really isn't much there at all to begin with." Like fool, if it wasn't for China's invention of paper and Arab chroniclers during the Golden Age of Islam preserving the history of Rome and Greece onto paper, compared to parchment and papyrus which was bulky and decayed much faster, Westerners wouldn't even know their own frickin history.

Lots of Westerners have this attitude that they have this divine right to being the sole torch carriers of civilization, eventhough the time where they were was only roughly for 500 years. Even during the time of Rome and Greece, the vast of majority of Westerners today claiming those civilizations were living as barbarians.

Least of all Maher, which is an Irish name. Nevermind China, during the time of Rome and Greece, his ancestors hadn't even mastered straw huts, they were living in caves!
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Occam's Razor, they don't know any history outside the west because they can't read.
 
Sardaukar20

Sardaukar20

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Ringsword said:
I bet all of my tungzhi here(a good dinner at a good Chinese restaurant) that even with an openAI template that india will not be able to produce their own in 10 months as modi says.!!!!
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In 10 months time, these are the more likely scenario:

1) India produces nothing and says nothing. Then non-Indians are gonna troll them. This is business as usual.
2) India produces an 'AI' and makes a glorious presentation about it. But this 'AI' is not powered by servers, but legions of Indians in call centers and slums. This has a precedence, the Amazon Web Services "Just Walk Out" scam job.
3) India builds an AI on top of OpenAI or DeepSeek. Then makes a glorious presentation about it and declares itself to be an AI Supapowar. India will boast itself as the main challenger to the US in AI. Excluding China.
 
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