Friday, January 19, 2024

War and Rumours of War


Throughout the world, the "Red' movement is reserved for the radical left and its homicidal Communist affiliates. So how, in the strange 'Red State--Blue State' press creation, did the Left avoid being called the 'Red State' groups?

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How did the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity -- 'DEI'--escape being 'DIE'?

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A Japanese author who won one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards for her novel — in which artificial intelligence played a central role — revealed that an AI chatbot wrote part of the book.
Rie Kudan's novel, "The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy" ("Tokyo-to Dojo-to"), took home the Akutagawa Prize on Wednesday, with judges lauding the book as "flawless," according to The Times.
After the ceremony, Kudan admitted that around 5% of her novel had been "quoted verbatim" from sentences generated by ChatGPT.

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War and Rumours of War

There have been some strange news stories in the last few days.

Germany is preparing for Vladimir Putin's forces to attack NATO in 2025, according to leaked secret documents from the German Ministry of Defence. These reveal a step-by-step, 9-stage process on how Russia will escalate the conflict in Ukraine to an all-out war in the next 18 months.

The leaked plans, published by German newspaper Bild, reveal in detail the path to a Third World War with Putin using Belarus as a launching pad for an invasion - as he did in February 2022 for his war in Ukraine.

The secret 'Alliance Defence 2025' document details how Russia will mobilise another 200,000 soldiers in Russia before launching a spring offensive against Ukrainian forces in Spring this year.

By June, amid dwindling Western support and weaponry, Russia would achieve success on the battlefield and make significant advances through Ukraine, according to the leaked documents.

These scenarios are connected to the vulnerability of the Ukraine conflict and, noticeably, the defeat of Biden in the U.S. elections which would, according to the estimates, result in chaos--and possibly some American ambivalence toward NATO.

Curiously, the release of the documents comes just days after Sweden's civil defence minister warned that his country could soon face the prospect of war and urged citizens to join voluntary defence organisations in preparation for a Russian attack. 

As soft as the 'leaked report' is, the Swedes are famously both neutral and serious.

Frankly, this has the appearance of a war game, not a military assessment, and its connection with Biden's election is suspiciously propagandist. But the Swedes are disturbing. And the repetition of rumours can create accidental next steps.

 

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