It’s possible, but its fall has been imminently predicted for more than a year. All it means is that Russia would gain another pile of rubble, at a cost of thousands of lives, before having to repeat… (View Post)

Russia has fought a very stupid war. Three and a half years after Operation Barbarossa started, the Red Army was closing on Berlin. Three and a half years after the SMO began, Russia has advanced 20 … (View Post)

I just did an AI Overview google search on the performance of the Spanish army in the Peninsular War - and got quite a neat summary of my own thesis on the subject. (View Post)

AI has no originality, no capacity to think critically, no ability to discern truth from falsehood, no capacity to research primary sources, and it relies heavily upon there being a lot of accurate w… (View Post)

It’s bizarre that a government with 410 seats should be a lame duck, after just 18 months. (View Post)