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Oh look, POTUS's Christmas present to Putin arrived early this year.

We are abandoning allies and leaving Russia to dominate the entire region.
Second gift to Putin: removing his allies from sanctions list

What will 3rd be???

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So, they lifted sanctions on deripaska's companies -- and issued new sanctions since he is integrally connected to Russian intelligence operations against the US.

Sure. Ok.
...

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Really significant in this one -- acknowledgement of ongoing Russian attacks in the information domain during the 2018 elections

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On balance of removed + new sanctions ---> sanctions on companies lifted, makes it easier to move money, enact state objectives for Russia; sanctions on individuals at low levels applied. A gain for Russia. But the symbol of the latter this matters.

USG at war with itself.
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I spent 55 hrs rewatching Battlestar Galactica this wk, & had deeper thoughts on AI/nature of consciousness/why we think of the divine, resistance techniques/guerrilla warfare, civil-military relations, representative govt/social stratification -- than I get from year of TV news
The spinoff needed (cc @RonDMoore) is how the idea of God evolved in the centurions, & what happened to them. The whole series should be without speech, as the centurions are.
Would be a good way to upend ideas re science, faith, human, machine, & battle over development of AI.
Also, this, again, x1000

I started watching the last ep without tissues and with cats on me, and that was a big mistake.

@edwardjolmos + @MaryMcDonnell10, thank you for your portrayal of my favorite TV romance, ever

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I'm rewatching Battlestar Galactica because man vs machine vs the unexplainable is pretty much the philosophy we need right now.
The exchange at the beginning between the military and civilian leaders re: the inherent evil vs benefit of networked computers/AI = 2018
Adama, as if speaking to 2018 tech companies: "When we fought the cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question why. Why are we as a people worth saving? ... We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done...
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For now, be skeptical about this supposed Russian missile hypersonic missile. Ditto their magic antimissile lasers and other recent leaps forward.

Yes, Kremlin is pouring money into R&D; yes, we need to reassess future threats/countermeasures constantly.

But ... /1
Believe it when you see it; they can't even keep an aircraft carrier at sea, and there is damn sure a reason that they are relying on the other lanes of warfare below the line of conflict.

Their conventional capabilities are real. But the scifi smells like Star Wars. /2
Said another way: focus on the tools/tactics threatening us now, because we still don't have a good response to the asymmetric/unconventional/guerrilla stuff and all the shadow warfare. /3
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1. Clinton friendship with Moscow runs deep. Very deep. We have a near half-century dossier connecting them.

The mainstream media hasn't called them out on this systematic pattern. The emperor has no clothes on.

#Russia #RussiaCollusion #Clintons #HillaryClinton
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(Some accounts place their first association as early as 1967)

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