yogthos

I expect Zelensky is going to be out of power before the end of the year now that US is calling for elections.

Right, any sort of a partisan movement requires support from the general public, and I just can't see that happening. Another thing to consider is that Ukraine may simply cease to exist as a state. Russia will absorb friendly and neutral territories in the east, while Hungary, Poland, and Romania will grab the ones in the west. That seems like an increasingly likely scenario.

They will keep trying for sure, but notice what's happening in imperialist countries domestically. The political system is becoming increasingly unstable, and it's only gonna keep getting worse because underlying contradictions aren't being addressed. Trying to double down on more imperialism will only destabilize the imperial core further. The whole thing is fundamentally unsustainable. They can do a lot of harm in the near term to be sure, but there's no future for them.

Yeah, I recall reading that Russia banned them.

Right, most of these people are cowards who force others to fight for them. I expect most of them will flee to Europe once it becomes clear that the war is lost. Also, once the army collapses, Russia will very much do purges the same way they did with Germany after WW2. There's already a blueprint for this.

truer words have never been spoken

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that would be a sight to see

To add to that, most Ukrainians who hated Russia enough to fight are dead now.

At this point it's highly likely that Ukraine will simply cease to exist as a state. I expect that it's just going to get carved up between Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary.

The actual question is whether Russia is open to doing that given that they already control most mineral rich territories. And I think it's obvious what the answer to that question is.

They're claiming that DeepSeek used their API for distillation, and to be fair DeepSeek hasn't denied this. Whether they did or not really doesn't matter in my opinion. Watching OpenAI complain that a company did to them precisely what they themselves have been doing to everyone else is the hilarious part here. And amusingly, if they tried to go after DeepSeek legally in the US then they'd create precedent for everyone whose content they scraped to go after them.