‘All of Ukraine is ours’ — Putin on Russia’s territorial ambitions in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin said “all of Ukraine” belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly aggressive official statements about Moscow’s final territorial ambitions in Ukraine.

Putin’s claim was based on the false narrative often pushed both by himself as leader and by Russian propaganda that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people.”

The narrative has long figured prominently in Putin’s rhetoric, often brought up as justification for its aggression in Ukraine.

In July 2021, just half a year before the full-scale invasion, the Russian leader stoked fears of a larger attack when he wrote and published an essay on the “historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians.”

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This is the same story we had yesterday, and I still don’t understand how one covers a story about that without even mentioning the reason for the EU’s rearmament and calling out Russia as the aggressor of the Ukraine war.

The Spanish PM is also a close ally of China as we know, the country which has been labeled as “decisive enabler” of Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Mr. Sanchez nor anyone else in this article mentions that Russia spends 7.1% of its GDP for military (according to SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), and officially ~40% of its annual budget.

How would this “dialogue” work with Russia? Putin has been attacking Ukraine for years, and is preparing new attacks against Europe. This article is pure Russian propaganda.

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More than 350 Russian drones, missiles blast Kyiv killing at least five

Russia launched 352 drones and 16 missiles overnight [June 22/23] in a new “massive” attack on Kyiv killing at least five people and injuring about 20 more, after Ukraine said it would increase the “scale and depth” of its operations against Russian energy and military infrastructure.

I wouldn’t exactly start a petition against it if they ban Meta, but it is likely no coincidence that far-right political parties like Germany’s AfD are strong on China’s Tiktok while exactly these parties have close ties with the Chinese party-state.

The Daily express is a tabloid with a more than troubled history, including multiple accusations of xenophobia and hate speech. That’s not a credible source I would say.

The Daily express is a tabloid with a more than troubled history, including mutliptle accusations of xenophobia and hate speech. That’s not a credible source.

The outlet newarab.com is owned by Qatar-based Fadaat Media Ltd.

Do you think this is a reliable source?

What is a good source you trust with this topic?

What another absurdly derailed comment of today on this topic.

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Russia is increasingly dependent on military cooperation with several (non-Western) countries, above all with China. This is not in-house.

These are the relevant numbers, and there are more investigations than this one with more or less the same conclusions.

@SierpinskiDreieck@feddit.org

Your statement is outright false.

Russia’s military spending surpasses the whole of Europe’s as Putin ramps up war budget, study says

Russian total military expenditure reached I$462bn in 2024, exceeding the total for Europe in USD at market exchange rates (MER) […] Estimable Russian spending in 2024 still represented the equivalent of 6.7% of GDP – more than double the levels in the years prior to its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

How can you cover a story about that without even mentioning the reason for the EU’s rearmament and calling out Russia as the aggressor of the Ukraine war?

Jacobin is perpetrating the same anti-democratic talking points as many of its authors (such as Yanis Varoufakis and others). This is more a propaganda than an independent source.

The Spanish PM is also a close ally of China btw, the country which has been labeled as “decisive enabler” of Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Also, Mr. Sanchez nor the Jacobin mentions that Russia spends 7.1% of its GDP for military (according to SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), and officially ~40% of its annual budget.

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Tankie in full force. Thanks for the usual consideration.

Yeah, you should expect … but that’s not the case. The article is not biased.

No, DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally

There’s an idea floating around that DeepSeek’s well-documented censorship only exists at its application layer but goes away if you run it locally (that means downloading its AI model to your computer). But DeepSeek’s censorship is baked-in, according to a Wired investigation which found that the model is censored on both the application and training levels […]

Addition:

DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds

Clément Delangue, the CEO of AI dev platform Hugging Face, warned about the unintended consequences of Western companies building on top of well-performing, openly licensed Chinese AI.

@Libb@jlai.lu

Just read the article, and don’t engage in whataboutery, or in asking questions that distract from the topic.

There are many such reviews, and all of them point in the same direction.

DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s newest AI model, an updated version of the company’s R1 reasoning model […] might also be less willing to answer contentious questions, in particular questions about topics the Chinese government considers to be controversial […] China’s openly available AI models, including video-generating models such as Magi-1 and Kling, have attracted criticism in the past for censoring topics sensitive to the Chinese government, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre. In December, Clément Delangue, the CEO of AI dev platform Hugging Face, warned about the unintended consequences of Western companies building on top of well-performing, openly licensed Chinese AI.

A second:

Leaked files reveal how China is using AI to erase the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre

More than 230 pages of censorship instructions prepared by Chinese social media platforms were shared by industry insiders with the [independent investigators]. The files reveal deep anxiety among Chinese authorities about the spread of any reference to the most violently suppressed pro-democracy movement in the country’s history […]

There are many more from different, very reliable sources.

Feel free to whatabout further, I won’t respond to such comments anymore.

I don’t see how this solves the censorship and privacy issue. If you search stuff in Chinese, the censorship and privacy issues are even stronger.

The main issue with Deepseek is about censorship and privacy as the review suggests.

Schleswig-Holstein is ditching MS for Linux and Open Source, and let’s hope many others will follow.

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