Saturday, June 03, 2023

3: Mars

3: Ukraine

Taiwan war would be ‘devastating,’ warns US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he criticizes China at Shangri-La security summit
'Absolutely stunning': Matthew Chance reacts to Wagner leader's threat to Putin's military
‘We will succeed’: Zelenskiy says Ukraine ready to launch counteroffensive Ukraine’s president hints at concern over a possible Trump return in 2024 in Wall Street Journal interview ........ “To be honest, it can go a variety of ways, completely different. But we are going to do it, and we are ready,” Zelenskiy said, after months of troop training and significant arms donations from the west. ....... Ukraine has readied 12 brigades, an estimated 60,000 troops, to spearhead an attack it hopes to show it can force the Russian invaders, who total about 300,000, from its territory, some of which has been occupied since 2014. ........ Ukraine has been promised $37bn in military aid from the US, including Himars rocket launchers, making it the largest single western military supporter. Britain, the second largest contributor, has pledged £4.6bn and Germany €4.2bn. ......... The Ukrainian leader also said he did not understand how Trump thought he could end the war in 24 hours, not least because he had not brought an end to the simmering conflict that followed Russia’s seizure of Crimea and occupation by separatists of parts of the eastern Donbas in 2014. .

Scientists ‘stunned’ by mysterious structures found in the Milky Way These one-dimensional cosmic threads are hundreds of horizontal or radial filaments — slender, elongated bodies of luminous gas that potentially originated a few million years ago when outflow from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, interacted with surrounding materials ....... The filaments are relatively short in length, each measuring 5 to 10 light-years.

Feud Between Top Putin Allies Spills Out Into Open



Google's Top Result for "Johannes Vermeer" Is an AI Knockoff of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" Google is inserting AI into art history. .