Pierre Pronchery

Entrepreneur, IT-Security Consultant, Open Source enthusiast, FreeBSD & NetBSD Foundations, OSDev hobbyist, Future Internet
Find me at @khorben.bsky.social.

[Pierre Pronchery @khorben]

while true; do make || break; sleep 8; done

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

The pardons for the investigators are the right move, for once.

If you think MAGA isn’t planning on going full Nazi, you don’t study MAGA.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

I wanted to be wrong about Merrick Garland.

I just knew I wasn't.

I wish more people had listened to me and others instead of telling us Garland had a "master plan" and "justice is slow" "This isn't a Law and Order episode Don"

They still have not admitted they were wrong.

[Le Monde @lemondefr]

Le Monde fait le choix d’interrompre la publication de ses contenus sur X, tant que ce réseau social fonctionnera ainsi. Voici pourquoi 👇

https://t.co/O7G5NBkik5

[Adam @RMEChief]

@kaitlancollins What could they have done that would warrant the need for a pardon?

This just sets up Trump to do the same thing for his family.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Expectedly, Vivek became the first to leave Trump's inner circle due to 'frictions.' The real reason, of course, was his tone-deaf post about H-1B visas and the 'American spirit'.

Expect much more of this in the near future.

[Rick ☆ @RickChapterTwo]

Trump just confessed that Elon manipulated the 'vote-counting' computers in Pennsylvania to make sure he won. And in another clip he states that the election was rigged so that he would be president for the World Cup and Olympics in '26 and '28.

Afterwards, Elon tried to give a speech but could barely get anything out because of his stuttering. As if he was really stressed. Maybe about going to prison for life. And just for the record, JD Vance didn't speak at all at this rally.

I'm not posting the clips here, but it would be hard to throw anything on Twitter and not hit one of them. They're everywhere.

I've done my best to not be a conspiracy theorist but when the man confesses, I have a good reason to speak up. Now I have to wait and see what my country does tomorrow. This is what you call The Big Suck.

[Rinne78🌻🌻🌻 корінна @Rinne2527]

Crimea Is Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

We're going to find out in a few months that Musk used Starlink to hack the "vote-counting" computers, aren't we?

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Dr. King said it best

#MLKDay

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

@StratcomCentre Zelensky destroyed Fridman in that interview.

It's understandable that now, at a safe distance, he tries to take juvenile revenge.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

A president’s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one.

[Forces Spéciales Françaises 🌟 @Fs_francaises_]

Le 2 septembre 2011, Franck Robin a été grièvement blessé "pour 23 grammes d'or", lorsqu'il était à l'AGIGN.

Alors que l’assaillant tente de récupérer un quad, il ouvre le feu. Il riposte et tue son assaillant ; lui est touché à la moelle épinière et ne remarchera jamais plus.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

It seems that right as Russia is finally feeling the pain of war, economy collapsing, oil industry being destroyed, casualties accelerating, public support for war collapsing, Trump will save Putin like Putin saved Trump pn so many occasions.

Forcing Ukraine to stop fighting now assures decades of war as Russians will now re-arm for a much wider war 2 years from now, going after the Baltics, Moldova and the rest of Ukraine, soon annexing Belarus, on and on.

Disaster for the free world.

[Forces Spéciales Françaises 🌟 @Fs_francaises_]

Le 20 janvier 2012, Fabien Willm
est mortellement blessé par un taliban infiltré dans l'armée Afghane.

Homme de certitude, marié et père d'un garçon, il a été jusqu'au bout de son engagement au service de ses compatriotes avec dynamisme et passion.

Ne jamais oublier. 🖤

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Everything Trump is about to do on the border was included in Republicans' border bill, a full YEAR ago

Which Democrats suddenly backed - and then Trump killed

So he could use it as an issue - and claim all the credit

Trump took border security hostage - to serve himself

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Now that the Biden admin is leaving the stage, it's time to say what needs to be said.

It is 100% true that without U.S. aid, Ukraine as we know it would not have been around by now. And it would have been occupied, partitioned, annexed by Russia, subjected to "filtration actions" (yes, that involves torture chambers, incarceration camps, and mass graves), and become the scene of an indefinitely long guerrilla war.

And we are forever thankful for that.

But - let me suggest an all-encompassing answer on why Biden's policy towards Russia's war in Ukraine is sadly a major setback and a painful scar on Biden's legacy.

The Biden administration thought it could outsmart the laws of history.

They thought they could go the easy way about the largest European war of aggression since WWII.

Without a doubt, the Biden administration did everything possible to dissuade Putin from invading Ukraine through persuasion and diplomacy before February 24.

The Kremlin blatantly disregarded these humiliating pleas and launched the war, as it was solely focused on war and the rapid subjugation of Ukraine from the very beginning.

The massive heroism of the Ukrainian army and the sensational defeat of Russia near Kyiv in 2022 presented the entire free world and the Biden administration with an extraordinary historical opportunity to repel and contain new large-scale aggression in Europe—without a single shot fired by the U.S. or NATO troops.

However, instead of fully arming Ukraine alongside European allies to ensure the decisive defeat of the Russian aggressor, Washington recoiled at the prospect of Putin's defeat and his incessant nuclear threats, choosing instead the path of self-restraint and "escalation management."

They never wanted any conflict with Russia, and they decided that instead of helping Ukraine undermine the aggressor's very ability to fight a large-scale war, they chose to impose myriads of unfathomable limitations of the Ukrainian acquiring and the use of U.S. aid — in a bid to very painfully slowly lift those limitations and grabble a moment to "bring Putin to reason" and make him stop ASAP and return to business as usual.

There was never a good reason to try and please Putin's "feelings" and "red lines" and make Ukraine beg for every single weapon type, only to eventually provide them at least a year too late when the situation in Ukraine became desperate again.

There was never a good reason to listen to Putin's daily nuclear threats and spend months and years vehemently denying the possibility of Ukraine getting ATACMS missiles, PATRIOT systems, armored vehicles, advanced radars, or F-16 jets (which greatly affected the European aid, too) for the sake of avoiding "major escalation," only to see that such procrastination only encourages and emboldens the aggressor.

There was never any rationality in trying to please Putin and bring him back to reason by holding Ukraine back from striking key military targets inside Russian territory, only to eventually see that this doesn't work with Putin and lift limitations years too late.

There was never a good reason to wait until the final days of Biden's presidency to finally impose crushing sanctions on Russia's financial system and oil trade, which have been badly needed for years.

Appeasement and attempts to weasel an easy way out did not end well in 1938-39, and they don't work now. You can't reason with the unreasonable, and there is never a moment when the aggressor stops and says, "Okay, I've had enough; I'm leaving you alone; I now see I was being unreasonable."

The Biden administration's reluctance and attempts to outsmart how history works seriously undermined the U.S. investment in helping Ukraine bring about a just peace.

It gave Vladimir Putin over two years to recover from 2022's failure, reshape and mobilize its military, ramp up military production, adapt to international sanctions, unfold the wartime economy, and find allies among fellow rogue regimes.

It stripped the Biden admin of what could have been one of the greatest foreign policy wins since the end of the Cold War.

Moreover, this brought us to a place where various grifters, demagogues, and Kremlin-paid loudmouths raise their voices, spitting on Ukraine, spreading hateful disinformation, and openly propagating the elimination of Ukraine as a nation.

Going the easy way never works out well.

One can hope that the next U.S. administration will learn from those mistakes and stop trying to outsmart history at its own peril, but that's poor naive me.

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[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🛳️🚫🇹🇷 Turkey has arrested "Bloom" vessel, which was transporting drones and ammunition to Russia under the flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis, - Krymskyi Veter

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

During the campaign Elon Musk said "Anything can be hacked," and "If Trump doesn't win, I'm going to prison." Yesterday, Trump said Elon was "so good with the vote counting computers."

And nobody in the media or the Democratic party is asking a damned thing about it.

[Intermarium 24 @intermarium24]

'Made in Ukraine under fire'

🇺🇦 A powerful symbol of resilience and courage.