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Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.
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- NS
Noah Smith quoted
Our readingAI-enabled cyberwarfare lacks an equivalent of nuclear deterrence's mutually assured destruction.
Their wordsAI hacking doesn’t have mutually assured destruction, like nuclear warfare does.
↗America is still beating China in the AI racenoahpinion.blog
- 1 day earlier
- SA
Scott Alexander quoted
Their wordsThe footnotes are critically important if you want to understand a world so completely different from the one we live in, and the characters generally behave, think, and feel in ways that are so outdated as to be completely unrelatable.
- 4 days earlier
- BM
Branko Milanovic quoted
Our readingNATO expansion is dangerous above all because it has no defined end point
Their wordsThat reckless expansion is particularly dangerous because it lacks an end point.
- 7 weeks earlier
- BS
Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Our readingIt is hard to name a country that is better off after a recent US military intervention.
Their wordseven the most committed American nationalist is hard pressed to name a country that’s better off after a recent US military intervention, something that wasn’t that hard to do from 1945-1991.
↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com 7th of 25 in this piece
- BS
Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Their wordsThis US government can’t build a bathroom in San Francisco, let alone a costeffective fighter jet, destroyer, combat ship, or aircraft carrier.
↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com 17th of 25 in this piece
- BS
Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Their wordsAfter the financial deplatforming of Western proles and foreign elites, of Canadian truckers and 145M Russians, it’s clear that digital finance is a weapon of war.
↗The Network Statethenetworkstate.com 23rd of 25 in this piece
- 10 months earlier
- UL
Ursula von der Leyen quoted
Their wordsThis must be Europe's Independence Moment. I believe this is our Union's mission. To be able to take care of our own defence and security. To take control over the technologies and energies that will fuel our economies.
- UL
Ursula von der Leyen quoted
Their wordsThis is Russia's war. And it is Russia that should pay. This is why we need to work urgently on a new solution to finance Ukraine's war effort on the basis of the immobilised Russian assets. With the cash balances associated to these Russian assets, we can provide Ukraine with a Reparations Loan.
- 4 months earlier
- FM
Friedrich Merz quoted
Their wordsDie Bundesregierung wird zukünftig alle finanziellen Mittel zur Verfügung stellen, die die Bundeswehr braucht, um zur konventionell stärksten Armee Europas zu werden.
↗Regierungserklärung von Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz, 14. Mai 2025bundesregierung.de
- 2 months earlier
- FM
Friedrich Merz quoted
Our reading · no longer heldGermany's constitutional debt brake will not be reformed.
No longer holdsAngesichts der Bedrohungen unserer Freiheit und des Friedens auf unserem Kontinent muss jetzt auch für unsere Verteidigung gelten: Whatever it takes.
SaidAngesichts der Bedrohungen unserer Freiheit und des Friedens auf unserem Kontinent muss jetzt auch für unsere Verteidigung gelten: Whatever it takes.
- 7 days earlier
- FM
Friedrich Merz quoted
Our readingGermany's constitutional debt brake will not be reformed.
Their wordsEs ist in der nahe liegenden Zukunft ausgeschlossen, dass wir die Schuldenbremse reformieren.
- 21 months earlier
- MA
Marc Andreessen quoted
Their wordsI even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders.
- 11 years earlier
- DR
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Dieter Rams quoted
Our readingGood design makes a product understandable: at best it is self-explanatory.
Their wordsIt clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.