There can be only one type of security guarantee, i.e., NATO forces on the ground in Ukraine. To even talk about mere words from Putin or Trump is absurd, given their history of prevarication.
Dalton
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Retired electronics application engineer, software design engineer, IT business owner (retired, Southwest PC Solutions), former musician and recording engineer (Dalton Bentley Music).
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One can only hope this is a new protocol, i.e., blow yourself up but leave everyone else out of the exhibition of nihilistic rage.
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Alchemists succeeded in distilling quicksilver from apparent dirt, so continued for hundreds of years in fruitless effort to convert lead to gold: Similarly, AI workers continue to insist that human intelligence can be understood in digital terms.[1965 Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence; Dreyfus]
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This really disgusts me. Whatever the lack of honor in higher places, Americans must be able to have faith in the honor and courage of our military.
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It would have helped if the highest court in the land preferred rule of law to seeing their pet cultural political agendas executed. Oh well...
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The unstated fact is that anything Trump (or his friend Putin) says is no more than noise, i.e., would not be worth repeating, much less relying on. However, if this can be shoehorned into having committed European/UK forces on the ground in Ukraine for the open-ended future, that would be useful.
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And worse, they end up as CEOs collecting most of the profit of companies as they run them into the ground maximizing short term paper value while shortchanging the public and the workers.
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I would not be cut out for diplomacy, since the engineer in me would balk at interrogating a proven pathological liar for guarantees or anything else (because in engineering and hard science, e.g., physics, the tend to make a habit of using what is true and useful).
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I suggest that humans might have a better chance to create and live in advanced conditions (e.g., without 1% parasites) if they stopped insisting on breeding mindlessly like bacteria. There are far too many people on this planet and it appears more like an overflowing Petri dish at this point.
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Although I agree that the US is exhibiting the usual signs of decay in legalism (and proliferation of lawyers), I would suggest the actual focus of Beijing is on stealing whatever technology is developed in advanced Western nations and then perhaps tuning to economic advantage in production.