I have several appimages for Kdenlive, for different parts of TROM II so that I make sure all works fine and updates never break anything. All integrated into the system. I also have the Kdenlive from the repos. Everything simply works. That's the default TROMjaro. :)
When people say Linux is just for the geeks and programmers...I wanna slap them! Try TROMjaro, or so many other distros out there.
Thank you @Unkle Bonehead for doing a TROMjaro review ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=SGfJlykwlo… - I like that you also mentioned our WebApps. They are often ignored by those who look at TROMjaro.
I take a quick stroll through TROMjaro and talk about some of the features that other people dont seem to be talking about.
TROMjaro is based on Manjaro and sports a heavily customized desktop.
I am getting better at editing with Kdenlive. I swear you can make some really cool (pro) stuff with it. You just have to combine effects in the proper way and always use audio effects. Makes everything a lot better. I am working on the very beginning of part 3, and that's a bit challenging but am getting there.....probably will finish the first few minutes these days. Takes time....to tweak stuff....I want this documentary to look the most professional that I can personally make it....
I think except 3D stuff, and some motion tracking, Kdenlive is suited for all video editing needs. Oh and it is quite difficult to do awesome transitions in Kdenlive....you have to spend a lot of time on those...would help a ton if they had some pre-built stuff, and am not talking about their pre-built simplistic fading transitions...
Anyway....I feel good that I am finally working again on TROM II. #tromlive
I got my money back from Contabo (kinda). I had to submit an abuse report from their website...about their website :D - to get a reply...they sent me the money to my "contabo account" whatever the hell that is. I think is like your "credits" there that you can only use to buy contabo services. I asked them to refund to my bank account. I was again not made aware of this entire thing. I had to contact them aggressively to get any sort of reply.
Point is: Contabo has the shittiest customer/technical support that I've ever seen. I've read that before, but didn't realize how shitty it is until I had to deal with it. On top of it, they only have robots and zombies employed so you can't talk to anyone in case, say, they ask you to remove some files or URLs and you know it is not fair/legal....they will not care. They give you 12h to do it, else they will remove your account.
Yeah....don't use Contabo. I regret recommending them. I only did that because they are super cheap.
I got my money back from Contabo (kinda). I had to submit an abuse report from their website...about their website :D - to get a reply...they sent me the money to my "contabo account" whatever the hell that is. I think is like your "credits" there that you can only use to buy contabo services. I asked them to refund to my bank account. I was again not made aware of this entire thing. I had to contact them aggressively to get any sort of reply.
Point is: Contabo has the shittiest customer/technical support that I've ever seen. I've read that before, but didn't realize how shitty it is until I had to deal with it. On top of it, they only have robots and zombies employed so you can't talk to anyone in case, say, they ask you to remove some files or URLs and you know it is not fair/legal....they will not care. They give you 12h to do it, else they will remove your account.
Yeah....don't use Contabo. I regret recommending them. I only did that because they are super cheap.
We are looking at strato.de for an alternative. Even cheaper...still n Germany...idk if I should trust these ones either....
Another review of TROMjaro - Much appreciated! Also, fantastic that he got to talk about the trade-free idea quite a bit. That's very important! #tromlive
TROM-jaro OS - Beautiful Trade Free Linux OS
A quick video covering this beautiful Linux OS. Designed for your brain, but you can install it on a computer. No more ads and trackers consuming you, no ‘free’ trials, no bullcrap.
I am now actively removing all of the "shorts" from tromnews.com/videos/ - this format needs to die. Awful video formats, very short, very clickbaity. No place on tromnews. Bloody toktoking nation.
Daily reminder that the Contabo hosting company charged me 15 Euros for a service they refused to provide without any explanations. Then they said they will refund me. It's been 8 days already. No refund and they do not answer my emails anymore.... What else can I do? This is truly outrageous.
If you have not seen this Linux Usability Test review for TROMjaro, you should watch it videos.trom.tf/w/6Ab3keuBiN2nQ… ! We showcase how we managed to implement a plethora of fixes and features to make Linux more user friendly. #tromlive
What if we test TROMjaro, our linux distribution? Well, perhaps it is a bit biased but there are objective things to learn from this test. See how TROMjaro manages to deal with these basic tasks.
Sorry but now...I could enable automatic subtitles but they are really bad....partially because of the way I talk it is true, but generally they are not good...
In short, I need and want to finish the TROM II documentary before our TROM Meeting in May next year. And I need 0 distractions.
In long....
2019.
I remember brainstorming with @Aaron about this documentary some 3 years ago.
The idea was that we have so many materials for TROM (think about the latest book, The Origin of Most Problems that is over one thousand pages long) that we definitely need a documentary of some sort to introduce people to these ideas. Maybe a 1h long documentary or so. And make it quick. I was kinda convinced I can do it in like half a year....
2020-2021
A year or so later I started to work on it. I said, let'
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In short, I need and want to finish the TROM II documentary before our TROM Meeting in May next year. And I need 0 distractions.
In long....
2019.
I remember brainstorming with @Aaron about this documentary some 3 years ago.
The idea was that we have so many materials for TROM (think about the latest book, The Origin of Most Problems that is over one thousand pages long) that we definitely need a documentary of some sort to introduce people to these ideas. Maybe a 1h long documentary or so. And make it quick. I was kinda convinced I can do it in like half a year....
2020-2021
A year or so later I started to work on it. I said, let's do it! But I needed financial support. I made a donation campaign for 13k euros to allow me to work for a full year on the documentary. I only raised 2-3k. So I didn't have the money. I thus delayed it...
I even made a sort of video-campaign for it....
My idea was to make a script, to write it, but I ended up writing more and more....then I thought "Fuck it, I cannot make a short documentary....I wont limit myself. I will make it as long as it will be.". So I wrote more and I was starting to incorporate our books into the documentary. Lots of scientific papers, lots of science, lots of facts....and I started to realize that this will become a huge documentary and perhaps boring...also....wtf do we still need "proof" that this society is fucked-up? And to explain "trade as the origin of most problems" (the core of the documentary) we should not need "facts" as much as a way to make people rethink that the problems we see today are a result of trade. Many voice it by accusing "money", corruption, capitalism and so forth.
Anyhow, after talking with others I kinda got convinced that I should ditch the script and do a more personal one. A documentary that's easy to follow and makes sense for most people. So I decided to interview a few of my TROM-friends. Also, I would be a talking head too.
That was easy to do. Sit down and record. Of course I had a sort of script/notes for it all. We started to record in June 2020.
And finished in May 2021...
Took almost a year to finish the recordings...which I would have considered insane if you told me when I started it. But you know the Covid19 pandemic started and we got busy with that, mentally (following the news) and physically - a bit restrained by the restrictions.
It was also when I had to deal with some serious stuff for TROMjaro and took me a lot of time to deal with...
On top of that I released a new massive project: trom.tf/ and we were adding new services to it.
We moved all of our videos and social presence to alternative platforms that were trade-free. This was a massive amount of work but something I am extremely happy I did. We also moved the many websites we had to a new, unmanaged server since it was far cheaper and far more powerful....this was very new to me. I had to learn how to manage a server. Took at least a month or two to get used to it.
We were also TROM-casting.....and we were suffering tremendously money-wise. I was quite depressed about all of it. Felt really down because I didn't know how to continue the work.
So that period of time was quite busy and stressful for me. In July 2021 I started to edit the documentary. Luckily I got some financial support and that allowed me to work on it.
I had over 40h of recordings....with 2 cameras. Was a lot more difficult than I expected. I did a of of work.
The rest of 2021 I spent trying to work on the documentary but also stressing about the financial situation...plus a ton of work on trom.tf - from technical to moderation and everything in between. Oh, and we moved TROMjaro from Gnome to XFCE...for those who understand what these are they get it that it was very difficult.
Took several months to work on and off and make it stable. At times I worked everyday for weeks on end. I had to postpone the documentary work several times because of this.
Between dealing with TB of backups, moving servers, creating new projects, trom-casting, tromjaro (remember I was also testing hundreds of apps for our tromjaro library), moving our materials to alternative platforms and such....I tried to work on the documentary too.
2022
This year I worked a lot on TROM II. By June I was able to finish some 2h of it. See. But then I had to stop again because we were financially fucked again. I launched WebApe, a webdesign project to help me make some money. That took some time to create and then to try and find some websites to make. Thanks to @Alexio I managed to get 3 projects. That was not financially sufficient. It was still stressful.
Luckily our financial situation greatly improved. Thanks to @Guillaume , @Roma @Aaron and a few others who donated big amounts of money, and especially to @Sasha who managed to make some money too. Now we were fine. Now we are fine!
I managed to add 30 more minutes to those 2h in July/August. Then cut the rest of the 20h into the last remaining 3h of the documentary. I tried to start working on these 3h but I could not much....busy with tromjaro, trom.tf, videoneat and the rest. TROM-Cast no more either....
NOW
You see I am busy with more things than what I just explained. Since the start of the documentary I did a lot of new projects and a lot of work in many ways. I also spend time replying to emails or having long discussions on the TROM Discussions chat. I do many things....no wonder that I could not finish this documentary yet.
Now it is October 2022. And things seem perfect for me. We have enough money till next year, same time. So I should not worry about money for at least a year or so. That's absolutely FABULOUS. I've never been better financially actually. But let's not celebrate yet since my calculations only take into account our basic needs. Who knows what else may intervene. Also, what do we do after 1 year?.... Therefore any donations are immensely important to prolong this work. And I am always transparent with whatever money we get for TROM.
Anyway, I have money now. And it is quiet here (summer is gone). Things should be calm and relaxing. Now it is the perfect timing to work and finish the documentary. Unless some weird things may happen, like a World World 3, or the hosting company kicking me out, or who knows...
All of the trains work great: tromjaro.com, videoneat.com, trom.tf, tromsite.com, tromnews.com.....my websites. All!
Therefore I will have to force myself to get back to TROM II.
I will mute the TROM Discussions chat for now, so that I am not distracted. I am really sorry that I have to do this. There are over 100 people in that chat. But I truly need to focus on TROM II and I will 100% get distracted if I leave the chat on. People will comment there and I cannot help but check it and respond...it is great to see more and more people there, and no worries, as soon as TROM II is released or close to be released. the chat will be available for all to comment again! I am 1 human and I can't do everything, please understand that I need some quiet time to finish this.
And won't even open my email until later on in the day or something like that. I need to isolate myself. Let's see how it goes...
Trust me it starts to annoy me this documentary....I do not want to work on it for so long...I want to do new things. New videos, books, talks, debates....etc. So let me finish it :D.
TROM Meeting in May
Next year, in May, we will organize a meeting- Similar to this -
And I definitely want the documentary to be done by then. Things look exciting again! Cannot wait! 6-7 months Tio boy! FINISH IT!
Go Tio! Hope you will have some productive time, friend :loveheart I, as someone who has been priveleged to see little sneakpeaks from the upcoming TROM II documentry, can only say that I absolutely loved what I saw and it's going to be fabulous! :smiling face with hearts: In my humble opinion it is one of the most important stories ever told and can't imagine something more suitable, especially, in times like these in the world, when we keep suffering with so many problems without realizing at all the most possible origin of all of them..
No. Some people ruined and abused the practice of "donating" especially in the online world. Donate means: I give this to you andI do not expect anything in return. This is why it is donation and not a payment for a product/service. Anyone has equal access to everything that we produce at TROM, regardless if they donate or not. Same as Wikipedia.
If anyone asks you for a donation and in return they give you some perks, then that's not a donation.
So in short a donation is not a trade, because I do not give you anything in return for your donation. It is a one way street: you donate. That's all :).
It would be the case if the donated money would be expected to be used for whatever, but the expectation of donating to Wikipedia is that it will be used to work on Wikipedia and not to buy alcohol or cigarettes for some random person on the street.
So I'm donating to Wikipedia and I'm getting a better quality Wikipedia, I'm getting something back for it, the only difference is that I also let other people use the fruits of my donation.
That's about your expectation. But nothing to do with trade. Trade is a practice between at least 2 humans, else we go into the abstract and anything can be seen as trade, including you reading a book in order to get educated. You "trade" your time to get educated. But we are not talking about this. This is too abstract and goes nowhere.
So between you and Wikipedia there is no: I give you that in order for you to give me this. It is: I help your project because I like what you are doing. So there is no trade involved. Unless you define your expectations as "trade".
It is true that people likely donate to support some specific cause, therefore they have some internal expectations. This is totally ok, and it is still not a trade in my view. Since there is no exchange between us.
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If you feed your brain with culture, then culture is your operating system. But culture is a human invention. Often too simplistic, moronic, competitive driven, trade-influenced. A culture of celebrities and those watching them, dreaming of becoming one of them. Shallow values, fake smiles, fake lives.
If you watch movies, listen to music, scroll endlessly on social (ad) networks; you tiktok daily, gossip, small talk, come'here drink a beer; if you are enculturated, you are missing out on something mind blowing.
This:
And this:
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If you feed your brain with culture, then culture is your operating system. But culture is a human invention. Often too simplistic, moronic, competitive driven, trade-influenced. A culture of celebrities and those watching them, dreaming of becoming one of them. Shallow values, fake smiles, fake lives.
If you watch movies, listen to music, scroll endlessly on social (ad) networks; you tiktok daily, gossip, small talk, come'here drink a beer; if you are enculturated, you are missing out on something mind blowing.
This:
And this:
And this too:
And this weirdo:
And this, wtf that is:
Or these:
THE WORLD: The REALITY.
The center stage of your life. You are the center of the universe because your experience is yours, and that makes you the most important creature in the universe for yourself. And the reality is something we, humans, recently discovered. Plus, it is not being "marketed". And thus, it is not "popular". So many do not know about "it". The "reality" is, for most, a geeky thing...science and such...
Immensely misunderstood.
You are being tricked into culture/society. You are being fooled and scammed. By this:
This:
Or this:
And this weirdo:
You are not part of that "world". It is not yours. You are only here to watch it, get jealous, to consume and be consumed; to dream about illusions.
But if you realize that you are part of a humongous universe, and of an evolutionary process taking up billions of years, then you are as equal as anyone else. We are all in this, and it is about us, because we discovered this world. Embrace it. Force it into your essence!
As harsh as this may sound: stop watching movies or listen to dumb music. Stop using Facebook, Tiktok and the like. Games? Fuck them! Don't copy this retarded society. Don't be tricked by it. Netflix, Spotify, "smart"-phones, whatever the shit it is advertised to you: clothes and fake holidays, are all a scam. You'll live and never realize what you truly are, a HUMAN.
Everyone tells you to consume these stupid useless shits. Because they are traded. Refuse!
I am telling you from my personal experience. I too was watching movies, and all sorts of shows, football, and all that. Was obsessed over some. But me, my life, felt mediocre at best. I am not like those famous people, I am not as good looking, well dressed, and so on....It is impossible to escape these feelings when you are soaked into culture.
But then I forced myself to watch documentaries, and read about the real world. For years. Felt very unnatural and uncomfortable. But after some time that gets into your system. Now I feel as important as any living creature. We are truly the universe looking at itself.
These used to mean "stars" in my world:
But now the only stars in my world, in my head, in my reality, are those that I see in the night sky.
That's the difference!
You are star-stuff, literally. The story of you, and the importance of you, is far greater than you may imagine. This is not some inspirational corny post, it is true all that I am saying. A star had to explode, for the elements in your body to be created.
A frog, a fish, a mountain, that grass and the blue sky. Only made of a handful of building blocks. Same ones. A lego-like world. A mystery waiting to be revealed. An endless process of discovery. We will never know the full story of ourselves.....how the universe began....what was before that....where do we go....and that, to me, makes us immortal. Because we are, the universe indeed.
How beautiful! How real!
I wish we would all realize who we are, rather than what we are told to be, by a culture oiled by trade.
I mean I would not be surprised. They injected the Amazon services into their distro for many years now.
You want me to sound like a broken record? When you trade something, even when it is about Open Source Software/Hardware, you'll become a little or a big charlatan. You will try to deceive, lie, exaggerate, and so forth....there is no way around it. When others cheer for Open Source Software, I am not excited. I do not care as much. I care if the software is Open Source but also Trade-Free, meaning it does not want anything from you. Not your currency, not your data, not your attention...
We need to remove these really bad incentives! And trading is a practice that will make humans fuck things up. #tromlive
People should understand that open source software isn't a silver bullet for everything. Proprietary software is a problem, but trade is a much bigger problem. And arguably even proprietary software is a direct result of this trade based society where developers are forced to trade their software in order to make a living.
I do not think that will make any difference honestly....unfortunately. It is true, it trashed the Amazonian rain-forest and all that is connected to it. His business is the opposite of natural/nature.
Twitter and vertical videos created a world where the information is being severely handicapped. You struggle to make sense of whatever people talk about or report on. You see immense Twitter threads explaining important things, divided into little chunks because of an artificial limitation. Or vertical videos showcasing important events, scanning horizontally to hopefully grab the entire scenery. All handicapped. All without a reason.
It feels like the world went backwards even in this regards.
Direct examples. Recently there was an explosion on the bridge connecting Crimea to Russia. Here's a video showcasing the damage - bird.trom.tf/KyivIndependent/s…
A normal video would showcase the entire damage quite easily, giving you a better idea of what has happened.
Here's another example of a dude trying to perhaps explain some interesting things about the situation in Ukraine
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Twitter and vertical videos created a world where the information is being severely handicapped. You struggle to make sense of whatever people talk about or report on. You see immense Twitter threads explaining important things, divided into little chunks because of an artificial limitation. Or vertical videos showcasing important events, scanning horizontally to hopefully grab the entire scenery. All handicapped. All without a reason.
It feels like the world went backwards even in this regards.
Direct examples. Recently there was an explosion on the bridge connecting Crimea to Russia. Here's a video showcasing the damage - bird.trom.tf/KyivIndependent/s…
A normal video would showcase the entire damage quite easily, giving you a better idea of what has happened.
Here's another example of a dude trying to perhaps explain some interesting things about the situation in Ukraine bird.trom.tf/noclador/status/1…
In a gazillion of little Twitter posts....while this could have easily be done in a simple article.
WTF world we live in!? It is almost like people want to make things harder for themselves....Actually they simply go for whatever becomes popular not giving much thought for anything else.
⚡️Crimean Bridge has been severely damaged following explosion.
According to first videos of the aftermath, published by witnesses, a part of the bridge had collapsed.
The video also depicts the burned out tanker train.
The idea of launching satellites to display ads to humans, from space, sounds like an utter idiocracy. But it is something some are thinking seriously about. See here. "Space advertising turns out to have a potential for commercial viability."
A trade based society where humans need and want (because of constant training) to trade this for that, even when we have enough to provide this or that without trading anything in return.
If we keep this trade society alive, humanity will get trashed. And is likely to be too late anyway.... #tromlive
Interesting Contabo still didn't refund me 4 days later after I paid for a service they refused to provide for me....for "unknown" reasons that they didn't want to disclose. See social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…
I am emailing them daily to ask for my money back....I even contacted the EU consumer protection but I don't think anyone is of help in today's society.
Let's see if they will decide to kick me out entirely and force me to move all of my servers somewhere else in like 12 bloody hours....I won't be surprised and that would be a giant dick move from them.
Contabo is quite garbage in terms of support and overall dickheads when they refused me a service, charged me, then didn't refund me days later.
Here's a fun story with Contabo, the hosting company I use for our servers. Remember when they were dicks and forced me to remove a Nitter URL despite it bei...
Musk is what I predicted he will become or what he always was: a salesman. A trader. Here's a great video that simply showcases him promising and never delivering ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=lD6ICmMRSL…
Typical for a trader. He wants to trade trade trade. That's what we all are taught to do. Any of us, in his environment, would become Musk. Every company and individual that engages into trades in this society is a little or a big charlatan. Pretty much everyone who throws poopoo at Musk is also a liar, cheater, scammer at times, and so forth. At least a little bit. We are all forced to be, including myself at times.
So yah, do not accuse the individual, accuse the system! Else we change the individuals, but they are all the same, produced by the same system. Change the system! Difficult? Well, what other option do we have?
Published with permission from the creator of this mini-documentary. This video keeps 'disappearing' from his channel, so this is posted for posterity.
EXCELLENT reporting on the ongoing scam that is Tesla FSD.
Though, usually the news like that about him flies below the radars, since while he is a good Monopoly's game player and Tesla's investors are happy, it's nothing interesting about it to the world..
He's recently very active about the political situation around Russia & Ukraine, infuriating people by suspiciously stupid opinions to create another media bomb and to drain some attention, for what another reason I am curious.. :thinking face:
Hey people, I simply wanted to let you know that Friendica is the most awesome federated social network. And criminally underrated. Here trom.tf/social/ - long posts, format the text, markdown support, connect with twitter or wordpress, works with mastodon's API, follow any rss source, and so on. Give it a try!
You know I made a post some months ago being quite concerned about WW3, and I really try to keep my tits calm when it comes to such scenarios since I have seen so many times speculations about all sorts of things and normally nothing radical happens in this world, in any regards.
I haven't posted about the situation in Russia in some time, but I kept an eye on it via AlJazeera, BBC, Euronews but also the awful rt.com out of curiosity. Things slowed down a bit for the past months, but became a lot more tense for the past weeks. There is a serious worry that this can still escalate into a WW3, as unimaginable as it may seem even for those acknowledging that it may happen. Like me.
Russia (Putin kinda leading it) seems to have very few options on the table other than some small nukes to "scare off" the world. And Ukraine is pumped full of weapons and support.
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You know I made a post some months ago being quite concerned about WW3, and I really try to keep my tits calm when it comes to such scenarios since I have seen so many times speculations about all sorts of things and normally nothing radical happens in this world, in any regards.
I haven't posted about the situation in Russia in some time, but I kept an eye on it via AlJazeera, BBC, Euronews but also the awful rt.com out of curiosity. Things slowed down a bit for the past months, but became a lot more tense for the past weeks. There is a serious worry that this can still escalate into a WW3, as unimaginable as it may seem even for those acknowledging that it may happen. Like me.
Russia (Putin kinda leading it) seems to have very few options on the table other than some small nukes to "scare off" the world. And Ukraine is pumped full of weapons and support.
Russia already set the stage to not allow itself to go down in a controlled manner. Declaring some 10% of Ukraine as "theirs", and Ukraine having no interest in backing down, to the contrary taking that territory back, combined with the inability of Russia to fight on the ground and hold onto territories....makes me think that these crazy minds that are in power in Russia, are very close to use bigger weapons like nuclear ones.
Problem is, once they do, it is like trying to extinguish a flaming cooking pan by pouring a liter of water on top of it. Ukraine + the rest supporting them will probably respond in kind. Explosions, the big kind, will happen. We are past the "sanctions" card, we are past the threats that seem to have 0 effect, and now the morons may go on a full-war approach.
I hope I am wrong, again, but seems quite a tense situation.
And as much as people hate Putin, he is not the only one there. He has a lot of supporters and people around him. Whatever they think, they have started a big fight and they won't back away easily, or at all it seems.
Let's see how things will progress....probably we will see 2-3 more months of fighting on the ground, to then who know....a nuke or two!?
Fucking awful bunch of humans this society has created.
There is, of course, a possibility. However, the way things have been going and the way Putin has been acting does not point in that direction.
His recent annexation of a large part of Ukraine is an example of the lack of focus in that direction. Yes, he has declared a large part of Ukraine to be Russia ... but what part, precisely? No one knows. That's the most crazy part of the annexation - NO ONE knows the borders of the annexed region. They have not been defined anywhere. At all.
So, how serious can this "line in the sand" be when Putin hasn't even shown where this "line in the sand" even is? Even the laughable time President Trump drew a modified hurricane map with a sharpie marker had more definition.
Of course, the quintessential problem is that there was no place to draw this "line in the sand" where the Ukrainian forces hadn't already crossed. So, there was no way to say, "Don't cross this line or we nuke!" They were already across the line before the threa
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I wouldn't take anything RT says seriously.
The short answer to your question is "No".
There is, of course, a possibility. However, the way things have been going and the way Putin has been acting does not point in that direction.
His recent annexation of a large part of Ukraine is an example of the lack of focus in that direction. Yes, he has declared a large part of Ukraine to be Russia ... but what part, precisely? No one knows. That's the most crazy part of the annexation - NO ONE knows the borders of the annexed region. They have not been defined anywhere. At all.
So, how serious can this "line in the sand" be when Putin hasn't even shown where this "line in the sand" even is? Even the laughable time President Trump drew a modified hurricane map with a sharpie marker had more definition.
Of course, the quintessential problem is that there was no place to draw this "line in the sand" where the Ukrainian forces hadn't already crossed. So, there was no way to say, "Don't cross this line or we nuke!" They were already across the line before the threat!
The talk of nukes seems to only be directed toward Ukraine's western allies ... a desperate ploy to get them to ease off on the military support.
But there's no way to use nukes to threaten the Ukrainians themselves. They've seen Bucha and Izjum. They know that they either push Russia out of Ukraine or they're dead. Whether it's from a nuclear bomb or shells and bullets to the back of the head ... the Ukrainians simply have no choice.
I dont take it seriously either. I am simply curious what they say at times, for my personal satisfaction and to see how it compares to the other ones.
The short answer to your question is "No".
I can't be so sure. No one knows. I worry that Russians have to go beyond the bluff. They can't play any other card in my view. We will see....
Putin's best card is one he can play at any time ... simply take his ball and go home. This means admitting that the Russian military is kaput as a world leader, but at this point all of his potential allies or flunkies have already come to that conclusion.
So, really, what has Putin got to lose by just ending the war, including giving up Crimea? It's a bitter pill, but that pill has already been shoved halfway down his throat.
I know there's all this talk of how Putin's regime will collapse and/or break apart if Putin doesn't keep up the appearances of invincible military strength, but he's got powerful internal security institutions ... he'll probably stay on top. His chances that route are pretty good, probably; much better than if he throws around any nukes. And in any case, any illusions of invincible military strength are moot by now.
Tio
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