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The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

Samsung: One UI 8.5 Beta startet für Galaxy-S25-Serie
Samsung hat die Beta-Phase für One UI 8.5 auf Basis von Android 16 gestartet. Nutzer der Galaxy-S25-Serie können die Vorabversion ab sofort testen.
https://www.

Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.

Meaningless Raiders field goal leads to brutal bad beat for Broncos' backers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6871610/2025/12/07/nfl-bad-beat-raiders-broncos-spread-betting/

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on
Read to the end for the only place you should go when your wife becomes a sex addict and starts cheating on you with everybody

Never thought I'd ever be on Team Netflix for anything ever but here we are.
Stop watching CBS/Paramount.
▶️ Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-po…

Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”
Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn’t raise the price," Warner chair says.

WhatsApp: Funktion in Beta vereinfacht Schutz vor Cyberangriffen
In der aktuellen Beta-Version des beliebten Messengers Whatsapp können erste Nutzer erweiterte Sicherheitseinstellungen mit einem Klick aktivieren.

WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has "significant" risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/deal

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount's Amended $30 Per Share Bid Over 'Insufficient Value' and 'Lack of Certainty'
The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer "significant costs, risks and uncertainties" compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix.

heise | Bit-Rauschen: Die CPU-Matrix-Rechenwerke kommen
Prozessoren werden noch komplexer: Außer separaten NPUs bekommen auch ihre CPU- und GPU-Kerne Matrix-Einheiten. Ein Linux-Projekt mit Snapdragon X scheitert.
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Samsung's Galaxy XR gets beta support for Google's realistic avatar system for video calls, a Travel Mode, and a built-in PC remote desktop feature (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/samsung-galaxy-xr-android-xr-likeness-beta-travel-mode…

Samsung Galaxy XR Gets Realistic Face-Tracked 'Likeness' Avatars
Samsung Galaxy XR's Android XR now has a Persona-like realistic avatar system for video calls, called Likeness, as well as a Travel Mode and a built-in remote desktop app.