Russia has always exerted their influence this way. This method became particularly prominent in the communist era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Source: I’m a Pole and my grandfather was Lt Col of the Security Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Service_(Poland)
He told me useful idiots were a lot better in disseminating propaganda than dedicated agents or the illegals.
I think this goes well beyond gullibility
This is the only comment here that recognizes the real problem instead of resorting to childish name calling
jeez, you must be fun to be around. I’d say it’s the OP who dodged the bullet with you in their team lol
I just regained some respect for this country
Yup, you have to be childishly naive to believe the Israelis were surprised. It just perfectly played into their hand.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
At this point if you treat anything they say seriously it speaks volumes about you.
Bark bark bark
People in the comments attacking AfD voters as racists and rightly. However, no one wakes up one day and decide to be a racist from now on. There are reasons why these extremists gain political support and they draw it from a pool of people of which some wouldn’t even consider voting for them a few years ago. This shift reflects a social sentiment that everyone seems to be ignoring.
I mean LLMs can and will produce completely nonsensical outputs. It’s less of AI and more like a bad text prediction
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No one takes them seriously, they just bark. Here’s a hilarious wiki article on all the red lines Russia set in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lines_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
Given how Ursula and others unconditionally bend over for them I think that’s not going to happen.
I’m getting down-voted for suggesting border protection is a nuanced issue. What a reddit moment.
I still think there are scenarios where brutal is the right way. For Poland, Russia is an existential threat. What they’ve been doing for a while is piggybacking on the increased immigrant traffic between Belarus and Poland and inject their people to stir shit and makes things worse. If Poland indiscriminately let every undocumented immigrant in we’d be at risk of serious internal issues, sabotages, espionage etc. I will probably get down-voted into oblivion for this opinion but it’s 2024 so maybe I’m stuck in the 80s mentally.
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-soldier-dies-after-clash-with-migrants-on-belarus-border/
There was a large group of Chechen men who didn’t really look like they were fleeing from anything. All big dudes with evident military backgrounds. It’s just scary when you have a neighbour like this.
Just a nitpick from a cosmology aficionado. According to many physicists time doesn’t really exist, it’s just an emergent property of heat and laws of thermodynamics. Imagine a clock, its hands moving because there is energy stored in the clock’s mechanisms. Now, if you suddenly drop temperature to absolute zero then atoms in this clock and everywhere around it stop “vibrating” and everything just stops. You will be unable to perceive the flow of time because the system you find yourself in is completely static, there’s no change occuring in it. This doesn’t apply to relativity, if you’re interested so it looks like we are yet to discover the nature of time.
I’m 45yo, grew up in Poland. I will never forget walking with my father near Polish-Czechoslovakian border when he said to not get too close to the border or I get shot. No one thought it was racist or bigoted to defend your borders against people who try to cross it illegally. It’s interesting how drastically this has changed. I still can’t say if it’s for the better or worse because both approaches have risks and benefits.
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Please explain how this video is ignorant
As a Pole, this is only a small sample of what Russians are capable of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
They don’t belong in civilised world