Bruno BaKano 🇪🇺💙💛🇺🇦

I can't speak for all other Portuguese, but here's one, and I know more, that would risk nuclear war over many places, including Ukraine!

And yes, I haven't join the fight in Ukraine, there were family restrictions preventing that, but if the call to protect Europe comes I'll answer!

But it appears these are increasing, as well as increase in number of supplied guns (and Ukraine's own production).
Could this mean that Ukraine is at the moment, in regards to artillery, stocking up for the future?

I have seen several claims that around 70% or slightly more of all equipment losses are inflicted by drones nowadays.
In a way this seems to mean that artillery has lost the importante it once had.

So munition supplies is in theory not as critical as before, right?

I say theoretically cause Article 5 was only invoked once, by the US after 11-Sep (aka 9/11) and we don't know for sure how the alliance members would actually act in case of an invasion of one of its members.
But it is in itself a powerful deterrent or a security guarantee

Them joining the EU already makes them part of a defence structure of sorts, I would say.
That is why EU ascension is, IMHO, more crucial than NATO but of course the EU doesn't have a common defence policy at the moment nor is security umbrella in the same way NATO membership theoretically is

To be fair, NATO ascension by Ukraine is, at the moment, a very remote prospect, regardless of who would win in Poland.

Biden didn't want it, Trump for sure won't and there are other leaders in Europe, I'm sure.
Even after the war is over (russia leaves)...

Polish new president is the MAGA-type but the government is not, so there's a bit of a nuance there...

I suppose you refer to the investigation documented in Der Spiegel?
I remember I read it carefully and was not convinced by their work, even though I'm not an expert in any way but there were several inconsistencies forcing them to take assumptions in one direction, IMHO...

In a simplistic way (and making a pop-culture mashed up reference): The Return of the (russian) Empire!

It's not like he's saying anything completely new, but he conciliates ideas/thoughts people have shared about russia and Putler's motivations in a clear, yet powerful, message.

YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen Why Putin believes the war is defensive

"russia needs the war to continue to entertain this mystical idea of russia's greatness"

@anderspucknielsen.dk tells us how the war is actually a defensive imperialistic war: russia is defending their right to be imperialist

Didn't the US approved a weapons' sale after you posted this video? I was under that impression but the truth is we don't know if future sales will be allowed. But to be fair, with him we don't know anything as he might do a 180º at any time and then doing it again later...

Helpful illustration of the US military aid to Ukraine already paid for and in the pipeline. If this continues despite Trump deciding "he is out", it's not terrible for Ukraine. Especially if they (and their European partners) are also allowed to purchase weapons at US manufacturers.

One of skills you gain when spending some time commuting in Japan (trains) is sleeping/dozing standing up; a skill I applied today in the bus here in 🇳🇱 cause I'm very sleepy this morning...

This is not an attack against Neil Young and this beautiful song, but it's just my commentary how many "social justice warriors" have a wrong vision of the world and history and many times exaggerate thus actually hurting the progress, such as people having a toxic view if what being woke is.
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He also wrote "And they build up with their bare hands what we still can't do today"...
Dude, many universities in Europe such as Bologna (🇮🇹), Oxford and Cambridge (🇬🇧), Paris (🇫🇷), Salamanca (🇪🇸) and Coimbra (🇵🇹) already existed when the Aztec civilization started to flourish!
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Also "And the women all were beautiful, and the men stood straight and strong".
Very righteous and honourable people, that knew only good; the Spanish were the crooked ones that brought evil (they acted evil yes, but they didn't bring it into the New World)
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"They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on".
Sure... They offered other people's life in sacrifice not their own, thousands of them during ritual days (although the Spanish for sure exaggerated slot in how many)
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War was never known?!?! How the fuck did they build an empire then?
Hate was a legend? Why did the Tlaxcala and Cempoala helped Cortez defeat the Aztecs? Was it because they loved eachother?
But Neil Young wrote other things
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Many of us have a magically idealised view of the native people that were oppressed long ago and so can make ridiculous claims about the past.
For example, I'm the song "Cortez the Kller", Neil Young wrote this about the Aztec Empire:
"Hate was just a legend
And war was never known"
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I am a very progressive/liberal kind of guy, mainly in what comes to social issues and define myself as woke, in the proper non-toxic meaning of it, as I'm fully aware that many non-white people of this world has been oppressed by the (mostly European) white man, BUT (cont.)
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Ah OK. I understood you meant him cause that was the actual invitation from Zelenskyy (them sending delegations was actually propose by then).
Yes, they most likely will send someone there; it's all a tactic to not do any meaningful ceasefire like others proposed and keep Trump "happy"

I haven't seen confirmation and I have to say, him meeting Zelenskyy is an internal bad PR because he says Zelenskyy is not the legitimate president of 🇺🇦.

But let's see. Of course I only share my opinion (even if written as a certainty) but I would be very surprised if he shows up

This is just an interesting fact I wanted to share; nothing against Haku's cover as they describe it clearly in the video and I also prefer their cover and their video 😉
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YouTube video by SPACE SHOWER MONO NO AWARE "かむかもしかもにどもかも！" (Official Music Video)

But the song is not titled "mono no aware", that's the name of the other band that made the original song "かむかもしかもにどもかも!" ("Kamu kamo shikamo nidomo kamo!" meaning apparently "Bites and bites and bites!”) which has much less views than Haku's cover.
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YouTube video by ハク。 【ハク。Cover企画】MONO NO AWARE "かむかもしかもにどもかも！"

Like many of you, I suppose, I've been seeing this song popping up in many places, with people making other videos using it.
It's very catchy and the ladies from Haku (the band name) look adorable in this simple video.
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No, its just another delaying tactic.
Remember that it was Putin that suggested peace talks in Türkiye, itself another delaying tactic to "circumvent" the ceasefire proposals by the US and European countries (that 🇺🇦 always accepted)

80 years ago (albeit ~12 hours later than this), Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Commander-in-Chief of the German armed forces, signed the unconditional surrender at Karlshorst, Berlin.

It took effect at 23:01 CET on the same day thus ending World War II in Europe.

(Images taken from Wikipedia)

Life is not black & white, a binary system where you are one thing or the other, there are 50 shades of grey plus all the other colours of the palette.
We are the same, as society but also as individuals.

Having said that some really are just 1 colour (unidimensional)

However that is different with people who have conservative views on some topics; I have the same too, like voting that rehabilitation should be the goal of the prison system but believing some criminals should just be shot and that would make the world a better place.