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Wednesday, July, 31, 2013
Favourite SF Authors: H.G. Wells
This is the first of my Favourite SF Authors postings, and who better than the author who started it all for me, the man dubbed the "father of science fiction", H.G. Wells.
The first time I saw George Pal's film adaption of The Time Machine (1960) on television was probably the first event in my life which I can definitely point to and say without a doubt that "this was when I became a science fiction fan". I was only about five, maybe six years old at most, and that one film turned me into a crazy time-travel fanatic. A couple of years later, as a direct result of being a fan of the film, I read the original novel, which was the first time I had ever read a proper SF book. These two events (plus a growing obsession with Doctor Who) changed my life forever, and I've been an obsessive SF fan ever since.
Wells wasn't the first SF author by any means. Jules Verne and others had walked that road before him. Nor was he even the most highly-regarded among his contemporaries while he was writing. But he has outlived them all, and has been by far the most enduring and influential upon successive generations of SF writers and readers. Most of the contemporary authors who were once regarded as highly as or more highly than Wells are now no longer so well known, and many of them have faded into obscurity altogether. But Wells has stayed right at the top for all these years.
What was it that made him so important? I'd argue strongly that Wells was the first to seriously cover so many of the SF themes that we take for granted these days, writing about them as SF, as opposed to fantasy. Sure, maybe Verne had done it to a lesser extent, but his scientific explorations were almost always more concerned with the technological gadgetry (submarines, flying machines, "rockets" fired to the moon out of enormous cannons, etc) rather than true exploration of SF themes, and most of his stories were pure fantasies. In contrast, Wells examined a far, far wider range of real SF themes and how they relate to human society, and on a much deeper level.
Time travel? Wells did the first "proper" story (using a time machine, not dreams or other fantasy devices), in The Time Machine, which was also a sly but strong criticism of class differences within British society. Interplanetary invasion? War of the Worlds, which doubled as a strong swipe at the British Empire and imperialism in general. Genetic engineering and the morality of biological tinkering on humans? The Island of Doctor Moreau. Invisibility and the corruption of the corruptible who attain and abuse "absolute power"? The Invisible Man. Lunar exploration and anti-gravity, with more examination of society and class structure? First Men in the Moon. Accelerated time? "The New Accelerator". The list goes on and on.
The really remarkable thing was that Wells was writing about many of these themes well over a century ago, which is something that I find almost unbelievable. Others had written about travelling to the moon or through time before Wells did. But these previous efforts fell squarely into the "fantasy" camp (travelling through time in dreams, going to the moon in balloons, or pulled by birds, etc). Wells was the first to write about them in a way that could be termed even remotely as "real" science fiction, both philosophically and in the way he explained them in a "scientific" way. And he also wrote about many other SF themes that no writers before him had ever explored. Many of these fundamental SF themes have now been done to death over more recent decades by countless other SF authors. But Wells was the first to imagine most of these themes and write great SF stories around them.
So many of the modern core themes in SF stemmed from the work of this one man, that I don't think we can really conceive how differently the genre would've developed if he'd never existed. I think that it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was the single most important figure in science fiction literature's history, although there have been any number of other great writers who've challenged him for that position. But, in so many areas, Wells was the first to write about so many things, that I'd have to grant him "pole position".
The rest, good as they were, followed in his giant shadow.
Posted in Science Fiction Reader
Tagged First Men in the Moon (novel 1901), George Pal, H. G. Wells, Interplanetary Invasion, Jules Verne, Lunar Exploration, The Invisible Man (novel 1897), The Island of Doctor Moreau (novel 1896), The New Accelerator (short story 1901), The Time Machine (film 1960), The Time Machine (novella 1895), Time Travel, War of the Worlds (novel 1898)
Thursday, July, 25, 2013
Classic British Telefantasy: My Top Ten Favourites (Part Two)
Here's the second part of my rambling list of favourite Classic British Telefantasy series:
At Number Four is Sapphire and Steel, one of the strangest telefantasy series ever. Short on budget, hence relatively scarce (but effective) special effects, but oozing with quality writing, and oppressive, frightening mood and terror, this was a truly classic sci-fantasy series, featuring two of the most charismatic and mysterious central characters in telefantasy history, Sapphire (played by Joanna Lumley) and Steel (played by David McCallum). The sheer mystery, the fact that nobody ever found out who or what the main characters really were, where they came from, or what the hell was actually happening most of the time, added greatly to the attraction of the show. The fact that Sapphire and Steel was rarely repeated on television also added to the effect, as all we had to go on for many years were our fading memories. Luckily the series has been made available in recent years, firstly on VHS video, and then on DVD. And even more fortunately, it definitely lives up to our fond memories of the show.
At Number Three, it's UFO, by far my favourite of the Gerry Anderson shows, not a stone's throw from the top of my list of favourite British telefantasy series. First airing in 1970, and set in the not so far off future of 1980, the gorgeous hardware, the aliens, sexy women (those gorgeous moonbase babes – Gay Ellis, oh my poor heart!), and interesting characters were a huge attraction for a young boy like me. From an adult perspective, that totally kitsch, retro futuristic feel (unintended at the time, of course), gives UFO an undeniable charm that allows the series to still hold up really well today. The complex alternate-universe 1980-that-never-was, combining a mix-mash of styles from 1970 and the imagined future "1980" (which actually feels more mid- or late-21st Century) give it a retro but also an undefinable "sometime just a few years from now" feel which makes the show work even in 2013, although its version of a 1980 "future" is actually thirty-three years in our past.
At Number Two, it's Quatermass. If there's any British telefantasy that might give Doctor Who a run for it's money, it has to be Quatermass. The original Quatermass serials were well before my time (I wasn't born until 1960, and those serials appeared in 1953, 1955 and 1958), although I really enjoyed the three film versions and the 1979 Quatermass serial featuring John Mills as the Professor. Reading a number of excellent Quatermass articles in various telefantasy fanzines during the 1980s really fired up my interest in the original 1950s serials. I was also fortunate, at some point during the early 1980s, to come upon three books containing the scripts/teleplays of all three original 1950s serials (complete with nice b&w photos). I was hooked on the original serials even more by that time, and, just to complete the circle, soon afterwards I also bought the novelization of the 1979 serial. I was now a hardcore fan of Quatermass in all its forms, both serials and films.
A few years later, I was absolutely elated to get my hands on the VHS video release of the third (and the best of the three) 1950s serial, Quatermass and the Pit, and finally got to see what all the hype was about. I'd always loved the 1967 film version of Quatermass and the Pit, but the original serial absolutely blew my mind. It was way, way better than the film, and remains, to this day, my favourite ever single piece of British telefantasy. If the first two serials had been as good as the third (only two episodes of the first serial still exist), Quatermass might've made it to the Number One spot in my list. I was doubly delighted, about ten years ago, to get my hands on the excellent three-DVD release of The Quatermass Collection, featuring the beautifully restored Quatermass and the Pit, the entire (unrestored) Quatermass II, and the two surviving episodes of the Quatermass Experiment. This remarkable DVD set is an absolute treasure, and any British telefantasy fan worth their reputation should have a copy of this in their collections.
And finally, at Number One, it's Doctor Who, just about my favourite telefantasy series of all time. I've been watching Doctor Who since I was five or six years old, way back in the mid-1960s. I like the modern version of Doctor Who, but not as much as the classic 1963-1989 series. I love the classic 1960s Hartnell and Troughton b&w stories, but my favourite Doctor Who eras were the Jon Pertwee years and the first half of Tom Baker's run on the show. In my opinion, the Tom Baker/Philip Hinchcliffe years were, without a shadow of a doubt, the best ever in the show's history. This show had (and still has) so much history, continuity and detail. The Doctor(s) and the Tardis, travelling anywhere in time and space, Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Sutekh the Destroyer, Omega, the Master, the list goes on and on and on, spanning the alphabet, from Autons to Zarbi, Doctor Who is immense. It was a huge part of my growing up process from early childhood right up into adulthood and to the present day (I'm now 52), this is the British telefantasy series (indeed THE telefantasy series, British or not) that has had the biggest effect on my life.
And just outside the Top Ten, in no particular order:
The Avengers – I quite enjoyed the weekly exploits of John Steed and Emma Peel, and later Tara King (I was too young to remember the earlier stories with Cathy Gale). Emma and Tara were certainly extremely easy on the eyes, and those two ladies absolutely kicked ass each and every week. The series was extremely psychedelic (hey, it was the Sixties!) and was overly camp at times. I was never a fan of the camp thing (hated it, actually), a major reason why I didn't enjoy the show quite as much as other UK telefantasy shows. I also quite liked The New Avengers, although it only occasionally crossed into telefantasy from its primary action adventure format. But it was worth watching for Joanna Lumley, playing Purdey, another gorgeous yet kick-ass Avengers female.
The Champions – enjoyable super-spy hokum in which three super-powered agents save the world each and every week from mad scientists and other menaces. I quite enjoyed this, although, with the exception of a handful of episodes, there was very little real sci-fi in the series, other than the agents showing their weekly portion of super strength, super speed or telepathy. I mostly liked it for the great theme tune and the epitome of eye candy provided by the absolutely gorgeous Alexandra Bastedo (who played Sharon McCready), who was, as far as I'm concerned, one of the most beautiful women ever in the history of telefantasy.
Thunderbirds – loved the hardware, but, unlike Captain Scarlet, most of the stories themselves were not sci-fi enough for my tastes, even at that early age. Also, and despite my liking for Captain Scarlet, I was never really a fan of those damned puppets. I hate those wooden actors! I always preferred the live-action Gerry Anderson series.
That's about it for the more famous British telefantasy series. At some point in the future, I'll be devoting one or more blog posts to other, more obscure British telefantasy, particularly series aimed at children. My own memories of most of these are very incomplete and vague, so I've been buying a few of the more recommended classic children's sci-fi series on DVD from Amazon UK. So far, I've got my hands on the entire original series of The Tomorrow People, Timeslip, Sky, Children of the Stones, The Owl Service, The Demon Headmaster and the 1980s version of Tom's Midnight Garden. I think I'll nab a few more series so I can post a reasonably comprehensive blog review.
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Tagged Autons, Avengers (tv series), Captain Scarlet, Cathy Gale, Children of the Stones, Cybermen, Daleks, David McCallum, Doctor Who (Old), Emma Peel, Ice Warriors, Joanna Lumley, John Mills, John Steed, Omega, Purdey, Quatermass, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, Sapphire and Steel, Sharon McCready, Sky, Sutekh, Tara King, The Champions, The Demon Headmaster, The Master, The New Avengers, The Owl Service, The Tomorrow People, Thunderbirds, Timeslip, Tom's Midnight Garden, UFO, Zarbi


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Elie Tahari Takes $70M Loan on 88 University Place to Make Way for WeWork
By Damian Ghigliotty October 23, 2015 2:18 pm
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Richard Mack and Peter Sotoloff, the powers behind the new direct lending platform Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies, wrapped up their fourth big debt deal in the past few weeks.
The New York-based lenders provided a $70 million floating-rate loan on 88 University Place in Union Square, in a deal brokered by Mission Capital Advisors, to fund capital improvements on the 11-story office building, Commercial Observer can first report.
An investment group led by the fashion designer Elie Tahari purchased the 94,000-square-foot property between East 11th and East 12th Streets from Himmel + Meringoff Properties for $70 million in July, city records show. The 110-year-old office building contains 10 floors of loft office space and ground floor retail.
The new owners recently signed a lease with the shared workspace behemoth WeWork to occupy eight floors. WeWork is expected to eventually occupy all of the building's office space, according to Mission Capital Managing Director Jonathan More, who worked on the debt deal
Prior to WeWork's arrival, Mr. Tahari and his associates plan to use the proceeds from the MRECS loan to invest in new lobby entranceways, new elevator cabs, mechanical upgrades, HVAC upgrades and common area improvements.
"88 University Place is a rare blend of coveted loft space with terrific building bones in an exceptional location within Manhattan's Greenwich Village," said Mr. More, who helped arrange the financing alongside Mission Capital's Ari Hirt and Jamie Matheny.
"This unique combination of property, locale and value-add afforded us the ability to secure very competitive capital and terms from a seasoned capital provider in Mack Real Estate," the mortgage broker added.
Last month, MRECS tapped the New York fund manager Almanac Realty Investors to invest $262 million in equity for a new mortgage real estate investment trust known as Claros Mortgage Trust.
Messrs. Mack and Sotoloff recently closed a $200 million loan with Kuafu Properties for its purchase of 143-161 East 60th Street on the Upper East Side through the Claros mortgage REIT.
The lenders also provided a $51 million loan to Lincoln Property Company and Alcion Ventures for their conversion of a six–story warehouse at 1300 Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, as CO first reported.
Messrs. Mack and Sotoloff were not immediately available for comment.
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Posted By: Tunahan Karakison: November 16, 2022 In: Gaming, NewsNo Comments
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I haven't finished with the Artist Partners AP2 brochure/catalogue/thingy, not yet. There's a large chunk of its content that I've been ignoring so far, and that's the sheer number of foreign designers who are represented in the book. Designers like Savignac, for example.
Or Andre Francois.
Now in itself, that's perhaps not so surprising – it's good for Artist Partners and good for the designers. But it leads to a couple of interesting thoughts. The first is that these renowned designers are clearly working for UK agencies and firms as well as in their own country, which I didn't know. These two images above aren't the only examples, the book contains plenty more in black and white.
Here's Francois working for Mazda, Gillette and Taylor Walkers Ale.
Then Jean Colin for WH Smith and Nestle, as well as in French.
I haven't turned up any examples of these designs anywhere else, even though all three artists are highly collectable, which once again shows how much our view of these graphics is based on the very partial sample of what has survived.
On top of this, it is also surprising just how many foreign designers there are in AP2. On top of those who mainly lived and worked abroad, (and the AP book also includes Herbert Leupin, Donald Brun and Saul Bass), several more of those represented are emigres who came over as a result of the war – designers like Hans Unger and George Him.
There's also Heinz Kurth, who gets a double-page spread in the book and may well belong in this category too.
He also did the really excellent photography illustration that I've illustrated before (currently pinging its way round the web thanks to Martin Klasch)
But I can't seem to find out anything more about his story and whether he actually worked in Britain or not – I'm guessing he did from the AP images, which are pretty much all British. He did also do this.
which does rather suggest he was based in the UK, and which you could buy if you wanted for just £100, a bit of a bargain if you ask me.
Which leads me to a further, bigger conclusion, about just how much modernism really was a foreign import in Britain. But that's another thought for another post, not least because there are a few books I need to read before I stick my opinions on the line. If you've got anything to say on this, please do let me know.
Modern or British?
AP, again
Find me an artist. From 1953 please
Modern British Collecting
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paul rennie says:
I have a feeling that the link here is through AGI.
Not sure about HK though.
Alliance Graphique was established as an association and network of European designers after WW2. There's a big book about it all. I'll check it when I have a moment.
You should just ask Artist Partners – they're friendly.
Just checking my history of AGI. Although AGI seems quite continental, London was involved almost from the start. In 1952, there was Assembly in London and, in 1956, an exhibition designed by Henrion and organised by Havinden. I suspect that this is where AP recruited Francois, Savignac, Jean Colin and their other "Europeans."
Francois turns up again in the 1960s, designing Penguins for Facetti.
I checked Heinz Kurth and he turns up in Modern Publicity from about 1956 onwards. First with illustration and then with illustration and photography. By the 1960s he's a straight advertising photographer of the Brian Duffy type.
Thanks for that, it's good to have the extra info. Shame in a way that Heinz Kurth didn't keep going with the graphics as well, I do rather like that Norman Wisdom poster.
Rolf Kleppe says:
You want to know more about the artist Heinz Kurth?
If yes, please send me a mail and You are welcome to ask more specifically.
Heinz Kurth was my father – my mother and Heinz Kurt were divorced in 1949 – my mother was a norwegian and after the divorce she went (together with me as a 3 year old toddler) by boat (steam-boat! named Atle Jarl – my very first memorys at all starts on that journey in february in a fierce winterstorm in the North Sea to Norway.
Heinz Kurth emigrated thereafter to England, and stayed there (London) for the rest of his life.
I visited him in summer 1969 and in Chrismas/New Year 1979/1980 in London, where he was living from the beginning of the 50'ies to mid eighties (1986), when he passed away.
Kind Regards from Rolf Kleppe/Denmark
P.S. I was born in 1946 (lived in Norway since 1951) and moved with my family in 1964 to Denmark, where I have lived since.
P.P.S. I certainly DO recognize some of the pictures – they are very typically Heinz Kurth.
He wrote and illustrated a lot of books:Tides, our Greenhouse, Food on a Grill, Print Techniqes, a book on sailships plus aprox. a number more.
In 1969 he had just started out making sculptures – at the same time he made commercial things like brochures on many things (like frigi-daires) – for the food on the table, as he said.
Dear Rolf,
Thank you so much for getting in touch, that's brilliant to be able to put a bit of biography to the designs, which are great. If you have any of his designs, I'd love to see a picture of them.
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Q: Sort a vector of objects I'm working with a simple c++ program, with this class:
(I'm a very beginner programmer)
class Car{
private:
    string newBrand;
    int newMileage;
    int newYear;
    double newPrice;

(i didn't post the public classes)
bool sortByName(Car &CarVector)
{
    return CarVector.getBrand() < CarVector.getBrand();
}

Main:
int main(){

    vector<Car> CarVector;
    ReadFile(CarVector);
    ListCar(CarVector);

    return 0;
}

LIst Car Functions, when i call the function "sort", to order my vector of objects by name:
void ListCar(vector<Car>&CarVector){

    int i, op;
    system("CLS");

    sort(CarVector.begin(), CarVector.end(), sortByName);

    cout << "MENU::CAR LIST BY NAME" << endl;
    cout << ":Brand: \t:Mileage: \t:Year: \t\t:Price:" << endl;

    for(i=0; i<CarVector.size();i++)
    {
        cout << CarVector[i].getBrand() << " \t\t";
        cout << CarVector[i].getMileage() << " \t\t";
        cout << CarVector[i].getYear() << " \t\t";
        cout << CarVector[i].getPrice() << " \t\t";
        cout << endl;
    }

    do
    {
    cout << endl << "1.Back: ";
    cin >> op;
    }while(op!=1);
}

I think that this program is supposed to work. Can you help me finding the error?
Best regards

A: In your compare function, you need to use two parameters: it should compare these objects with each other. Also, that's independent of any vector (it operates on elements of your vector), so you shouldn't name the arguments like that to avoid confusion.
So the function could look like this:
bool sortByName(Car &a, Car &b)
{
    return a.getBrand() < b.getBrand();
}

Additionally, it's a good choice (but not always required) to add const to parameteres passed by reference in order to indicate that the function body doesn't modify them:
bool sortByName(const Car &a, const Car &b)
{
    return a.getBrand() < b.getBrand();
}

But then it's necessary to put const at the end of the signature of the function Car::getBrand() in order to indicate that that function won't modify the object it operates on. This is called const-correctness. As mentioned before, that process is not always required (like when using std::sort) but it's a good style to have const-correctness.
Or you can use a lambda if your compiler supports it (you need to enable C++11 support):
std::sort(CarVector.begin(), CarVector.end(), [](const Car &a, const Car &b){
    return a.getBrand() < b.getBrand();
});

Note that if you're going to compare cars always by name, it makes sense to implement an operator< for your class. When doing that, you don't need to specify a compare function in the call to std::sort, as those objects are then simply compared like a < b instead of yourFunction(a, b).

A: bool sortByName(Car &CarVector1,Car &CarVector2)
{
    return CarVector1.getBrand() < CarVector2.getBrand();
}

use this sortByName

A: You have to pass two Car Objects in sortByName method to compare two Objects as :
bool sortByName(Car &C1,Car &C2)
{
    return C1.getBrand() < C2.getBrand();
}

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THOUSAND OAKS - A man whose alleged stalking campaign inundated his victim with thousands of text messages, hundreds of phone calls, multiple hacks into online accounts and surreptitious observation of the woman's personal life was arrested last week in Thousand Oaks outside the victim's home, authorities said.
The arrest of 33-year-old Raul Plancarte-Hernandez on suspicion of felony stalking culminated a monthlong investigation by the Thousand Oaks Police Department, officials said, and came after the woman had made every effort to avoid the man, including moving to another city.
The victim, a 38-year-old Thousand Oaks resident, had briefly dated Plancarte-Hernandez in 2016, police said. After she ended the relationship, she allegedly started to get phone calls and texts from him "during all hours of the day and night," according to the department. Plancarte-Hernandez is from North Hills in the San Fernando Valley.
The woman's attempts to stop the cyberstalking failed, authorities said. When she blocked his number, he circumvented the block using smartphone applications that allowed him to call and text her from different numbers.
Over the next year and a half, Plancarte-Hernandez called the victim about 300 times and sent about 4,000 text messages, authorities allege. He also hacked into her social media sites, her PayPal and iCloud accounts and her cellphone and made changes to the accounts, police said.
The victim changed her cellphone number, email address, Apple ID and other forms of electronic identity, but Plancarte-Hernandez was still able to make contact via cellphone and email, authorities said.
The woman further tried to escape the stalking by moving from Moorpark to Thousand Oaks, authorities said, but he found her in the new location.
Plancarte-Hernandez sent threatening text messages that included current events in the victim's life he could have known about only if he was nearby and watching the victim, police said.
Around 11:30 a.m. June 7, Thousand Oaks police detectives allegedly saw Plancarte-Hernandez sitting in a vehicle parked directly in front of the victim's home. He had parked among other vehicles on the street and concealed himself by putting sun shades in the windows, according to police. He was "actively stalking the victim and sending her unwanted text messages" at the time, authorities alleged.
Plancarte-Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of felony stalking and made an initial court appearance Monday. As of Tuesday night, he remained in Ventura County jail with bail set at $100,000, jail records showed.


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Why should America be the world's policeman when Turkey is next door?
I want to thank Aylin Kocaman for the inspiration for this article. While I don't agree with everything in her Assad; night watchman in an empty field piece, which has the added value of being published in Arabic, she has raised important questions in my mind. What should Turkey do about her neighbour Syria and how should we react should they do it?
It seems the world alternately condemns America for taking on the role of International Policeman and demands that they do. The article claims that America, which proposed solution packages of a few items for Syria and was uncertain over "should we or should we not arm the opposition", could of course have quickly put an end to Assad's wickedness had it so wished. Could it really, or would Syria quickly become another Iraq-Afghanistan quagmire with America as the villain?
It would seem that America may have been quietly arming the opposition with left-over weapons from Gaddafi, using Turkey as a conduit, anyway. Some analysts would have us believe that the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi was directly related. However as neither Turkey nor America will admit it (possibly because 70% of Americans oppose sending arms to Syria) we will have to consider it an intriguing conspiracy theory and proceed on the basis that America (or is that Obama?) is still deciding.
Kocaman proposed three possible reasons for American reluctance:
Obama's adoption of the Neocon strategy of "Leave them to fight it out so we can relax,"
His adoption of the policy of "Withdrawal from the Middle East," much favored by intellectuals in America,
Reluctance for his country to engage in new involvements because of the ongoing economic crisis in America.
I would propose a fourth. America can't make up its mind about who is wearing the white hat.
America is deeply unconvinced that the Sunni opposition in Syria will be any less anti-American than Assad. It is deeply concerned, as are the various minorities such as the Kurds, Christians, Druse and most importantly the Assad's own Alawites, that a majority Sunni victory will lead to short-term massacres and long-term persecution. It is deeply concerned that a 'victory' in Syria could lead to further international complication, with Iran on one side and Turkey whose longest border is with Syria on the other.
Turkey and Syria have a long list of disputes such as self annexation of the Hatay Province (formerly Sanjak of Alexanderetta) to Turkey in 1939, water disputes resulting from the Southeastern Anatolia Project, and Syria's support for the Kurdistan Worker's Party (abbreviated as PKK) and Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (abbreviated as ASALA) which have been recognised as a terrorist organisation by NATO, EU, and many other countries. While relations had warmed with the Assad regime, until suspended due to the war, there is no certainty they would remain thawed with his successor. As I said complications.
A role for Turkey? Should they?
Turkey has ample legal justification to send in its military. There is the issue of refugees/ asylum-seekers coming across the border. Apparently Turkey officially describes them as guests. There is the issue of the bus attack on November 21, 2011 when two buses carrying Turkish pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia came under fire from Syrian soldiers. There is the Syrian fire across the Syria-Turkey border injuring and killing Turkish civilians. There is the shooting down of a Turkish Air Force RF-4E reconnaissance jet near the Turkish-Syrian border. There are accusations of arms smuggling across Turkish airspace. There are the two car bombs that were exploded, on 11 May 2013, in the town of Reyhanlı, Hatay Province, Turkey. This attack was the deadliest single act of terrorism to occur on Turkish soil.
My point here is not to be comprehensive. I probably missed some incidents and new ones are bound to emerge. My point is that should Turkey decide to intervene they have ample justification. In addition the moral justification is self-evident – to halt the carnage that has killed at least 100,000 in the last two years.
Turkey recognised the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, commonly named the Syrian National Coalition as Sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people on 15 November 2012.
Could they?
Turkish airforce
Is there any doubt that the modern Turkish military, armed with American weapons and tacit N.A.T.O. support would cut through Turkey like a knife through butter?† The official Syrian military would be no match (they are barely containing the much poorer armed and trained rebels) and I would speculate that in return for an amnesty and a reasonable peace proposal much of that army might desert. The opposition, receiving their arms and finances through Turkey shouldn't be too difficult to persuade.
Arab solidarity?????
National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces
Will any Arab state openly oppose Turkey against Iran? That whole Sunni/Shiite thing comes into play, again. Not that the Arabs had any reason to love the Ottoman but Turkey has one huge advantage that America has not. It is a Muslim country.
The Assad regime might talk about Arab unity but that has never stopped them interfering with the domestic affairs of their neighbours. Payback time has come. Already Saudi Arabia and Qatar are helping the rebels in the only way they can, with money – but that still carries a great deal of weight.
On an individual level Jordan, as always, will back both sides and claim to have always supported the winner. Lebanon? It can't help but be pleased to see Hezbollah's patron and regional bully taken down.
I suspect for many reasons the Arab League, as an organisation, will be very happy to see the Assad bullies fall. Like the European Union they may not help and may be forced to say some politically correct things, out of the side of their mouths, but I doubt if they will do anything serious to oppose.
On the other hand, the Ottomans ruled the Arabs, with an iron hand, for 500 years. Would the Arabs be prepared and happy to drop centuries of resentment to save the lives of further tens of thousands of their Arab brothers? Would they assist militarily and in world forums? The experience of Arab disunity, broken alliances and wars during the last century leaves that question wide open.
Erdoğan even exudes an image of the future Caliph to some Arabs. It may sound frivolous, but this is the reality in the Arab and the wider Islamic world. Even In Turkey, while campaigning next to mosques following the Friday prayers, he is also seen by some as a sort of return to the Ottoman Caliphate.
Turkey's goal is to enhance its regional power and seek economic dominance, not create a brotherhood of Turks and Arabs holding hands.
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Bahrein, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia have given diplomatic recognition to the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. The Arab League gave it Syria's chair.
Europe – playing with themselves on the fence
Speculating once again I don't think Europe will be a problem. Since having spectacularly failed to prevent atrocities in Bosnia the European Union is reduced to masturbating when ever a genuine human rights crisis arises. While individual states, such as France, may take the initiative as they did in Chad, as a group nothing decisive is likely. They may be very pleased to have someone else take on the responsibility, especially if that somebody else is not America.
Going even further. How likely is it that Europe would stab Turkey in the back, by for example refusing their airspace to military supplies, as they have done for Israel? N.A.T.O could (almost) legitimately claim they were assisting a member under attack. Even if the cowards, fearful of a Muslim/Arab/Iranian response on their own territory might feel obliged to halfheartedly criticise they wouldn't do much more.
France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg now accept the Syrian National Council as Syria's legitimate government.
Russia – always the spoiler
Turkey doesn't actually have a border with Russia being separated by the Black Sea and Georgia but they do have interests in common. Turkey has a foreign policy of Zero Problems with their neighbours and no doubt Russia would like to keep it that way.
Russia has become Turkey's top trading partner mainly in Russia's favour. According to commentator Mehmet Ali Birand, The level of economic and political relations is such that neither Turkey can forgo Russia, nor Russia Turkey…the future of Assad is nothing.
Without doubt the Russians must be wondering if they backed the losing horse in Assad. While they would oppose American intervention on principle that isn't necessarily the case with Turkey. In exchange for guarantees that their exist privileges, such as the return to the recently abandoned naval base in Tartus, Russia could cooperate. it would put them, at a very least, on a better footing with the new Sunni administration should Assad fall.
Israel reacts?
Ottoman soldiers memorial, Beer Sheva
Not so long ago, my feelings are that Israel would have supported any military action by ally Turkey. If it didn't support it, Israel would have been quiet about it. Now I'm not so sure. Abuse and the Mavi Marmara go a long way in building distrust.
Not that Turkey would necessarily welcome open Israeli support. It is a given in Arab politics that the simplest way to attack an opponent is to accuse him of collaborating with the Zionists or even being Jewish. Bashar Assad has been accused of being Jewish and in return his supporters accuse the Syrian opposition as being controlled by Zionists. Even the Arab League becomes a Zionist tool in this analysis. An alternate theory is that somehow Israel is responsible for the entire civil war. Google Zionist plot in Syria and see how many hits you get.
Does anyone really believe the my-enemy-is-a-Zionist libel? Surely opposing claims of hidden Jewish grandfathers cancel each other out? By accusing your opponent of being Jewish/Zionist (somehow the mantra that criticism of Israel is not antisemitism is always ignored in Arabic) you turn even the mildest support into treason. Any Israeli connection, however marginal, could turn pragmatic support of Turkey's intervention, to the slaughter, into treason.
On the other hand quiet or even secret cooperation between Turkey and Israel, even with a denial that no one believes, would be essential for a quick, low casualty, Turkish victory. The last thing Turkey needs is a clash between the two hi-tech forces. At a minimum, they will have to exchange friend-or-foe identification codes. Also, Israel has intelligence eyes and ears on Mt. Hermon into Syria. That's an asset no Turkish general will want to forego, particularly when they push southwards.
Another issue may well be Israel's acceptance of refugees/fleeing fighters caused by the Turkish action. There is a historical precedent for this. When King Hussein finally lost patience with the Palestinian undermining of pro-Western regime he took action in what the Palestinians named Black September. Seventy-two Palestinians who were afraid of the Jordanian soldiers chose to undertake the most humiliating action possible for them: They fled to the West Bank and surrendered to IDF soldiers.
What would Israel do if the thousands of defeated soldiers and their families appeared on its doorstep? For that matter what would Jordan and Iraq do?
There is the additional and not less important factor of face-saving. In 2009, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan insulted Israel's President Peres then left the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Returning to an open military cooperation, even without Israel firing a shot, will be difficult to explain. The famous, You killed people. And I think that it is very wrong statement gained Erdoğan great credit with the Arabs. Going to war in an Arab country may lose it.
The United States also gave diplomatic recognition to the Syrian National Council in 2012; Assad has been a constant thorn in America's side and is directly supported by foe Iran and Turkey is an important NATO ally. American arms have been promised although depending to whom you are talking they have yet to reach the rebels or have been arriving for months.
US support in a Turkish intervention should be a no-brainer. It would have been with anyone other than Barak Obama as P.O.T.U.S.
Questions for the day after?
Turkey polices her own citizens *
Let's assume a quick Turkish victory. • Would Syria quickly become another Iraq-Afghanistan quagmire with Turkey as the villain?
What would Turkey do to avoid repeating the American experience? America turned Iraq into a 'democracy' but, to a large extent due to Syria encouraging and arming a violent opposition, couldn't leave.
The attempts I've seen to install democracy in short periods of time where there is no history and no roots have failed. ."
Marine General Anthony Zinni (retired) Head of U.S. Central Command 1997 to 2000
Democratising probably will not be enough or would an imposed Turkish model suit better?
Should Iran take over the spoiler role in Syria or the country be split into warring enclaves Turkey would have its own problems leaving.
• Will Turkish methods of policing the peace be any more effective than American ones? If we judge by the means used domestically to neutralise criticism they could be brutal. That is not a criticism. Perhaps brutality would be the answer in a society that expects brutality?
Some might respond that the coalition in Iraq is equally or more brutal in attempting to suppress the insurgency. My answer is that death through a drone strike and death through rifle bullet from a soldier close enough to see the whites of his eyes are qualitatively and psychologically different. That obviously doesn't matter to the deceased but may be crucial in influencing the survivors.
• Will Turkey be willing and able protect the Syrian minority groups from a Sunni majority, especially one possibly dominated by radical Islamists? Some analysts contend that clever manipulation of the fears of these groups was the glue that kept the Alawite government (itself a minority group) in power.
When one looks at some of these groups the situation becomes very complicated. The Alawites who control the regime and hold most of the highest positions are officially Shiite Muslim. However there are some who say they are not Muslim, at all, but a heretic breakaway sect. Turkey is a Sunni state; the majority of the Syrian rebels are Sunni as are the majority of Muslims, worldwide. While Turkey probably wouldn't take an official stand on the centuries old Sunni-Shiite rift the situation on the ground could be quite different.
Even if disciplined Turkish soldiers don't take an active part in attacks against the Alawites would they necessarily take an active part in defending them?
Syria was known to have supported terrorists operating against Turkey such as the Kurdistan Workers' Party, commonly known as the PKK and Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). The Assad regime was quite capable of ensuring they didn't operate against Syria or Syria's interests. That restriction is gone.
Kurds who make up about 9% of Syria's population (approximately 2 million people) and have established areas of control on the Turkish border. Turkey has frequently crossed over the Iraqi border to attack the PKK there. Would Syria be any different?
Apparently the al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organizations, al-Nusra Front (ANF) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)†† have been laying siege on the Kurdish towns and villages; killing, kidnapping, and torturing hundreds of innocent Kurdish civilians, including women and children. Moreover, it has been reported that the al-Qaeda affiliated clerics have issued fatwas (religious edict), to permit the murder, rape, looting, and torture of the Kurdish civilians. Today they are arguably allies. Tomorrow they could be a threat to the prospect of a democratic Syria and to the stability of the Middle East.
Armenians pose a similar problem although their numbers are smaller at an estimated 100,000. Many are descendants of those who fled wars and persecutions involving the Ottoman predecessors of Turkey. Here I have deliberately avoided referring to the Armenian Genocide because of the continuing Turkish position that it did not take place. It's not necessary to take a stand on it. Turkish Armenian relations are strained either way.
There are no formal diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia which may have served to moderate the issue and Turkey supports Turkic Azerbaijan over the Nagarno-Karabakh conflict.
Although the ASALA group has not engaged in militant activity since an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Turkish ambassador to Hungary in 1991 the threats made by the Armenian terrorist group over Syria are a possible taste of things to come.
Christians in Syria make up about 10% of the population. They form one of the longest established Christian communities of the world. Under the Assads conditions were relatively benign as Syria does not profess a state religion, and does not officially favor any religion over another. Christians served in some government positions and in the army. In the current conflict their stance has generally ranged from neutrality to supporting the Assad government. An Assad defeat leaves open the possibility of revenge attacks.
Some fear that they will suffer the same consequences as the Christians of Iraq and Egypt if the government is overthrown. Would a Turkey considering designating May 29th, the fall of Christian Constantinople to Ottoman Turkish Sultan, Mohammed (Mehmet) II as a Turkish national holiday protect them more than their counterparts in Iraq and Egypt?
• The most important question for the 'day after' and the last one: What would be Turkey's exit strategy? Feel free to insert your own solution.
Just a thought to be considered. Syria's basic problem may well be that it is a collection of warring groups lacking a national identity. It actually required dictators like the Assads to keep it together. What would happen if Turkey offered Syria, by referendum, to join Turkey in a federation arrangement? Send your answers in a comment.
From Aylin
Assad; night watchman in an empty field, Aylin Kocaman, Asharq al Awsat (translated), 03 August 2013
Turkey, Syria and Autonomous Region, Aylin Kocaman, Asharq al Awsat (translated), 27 July 2013
A Perspective from Turkey
Perspectives –Political analysis and commentary from Turkey, Heinrich Böll Stiftung. published quarterly
A Perspective from the Arabs
Reality check: Turco-Arab Relations, Ali Suleiman, Kalimat – Winter 12, Issue 4, p.18
A Perspective from the Kurds
The Syrian Kurds: A Key Element in the Syrian Conflict, Delovan Barwari, Huffington Post, 14 August 2013
† Completely off on a tangent. The Syrians have been making butter using a vessel made from goatskin for a churn, for centuries.
‡ Wikimedia
* Original source unknown
†† AKA Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
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the young mother, escaped from Mauritanian slavery, who lost her. The novel was inspired by interviews with former slaves and anti-slavery activists in both Morocco and Mauritania. As a Hellman Fellow, Townsend will return to Morocco in order to spend time in Marrakech and points south, interviewing the sub-Saharan migrants who have escaped precarious situations to build new lives in the kingdom of Morocco.


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local mod	= DBM:NewMod(2015, "DBM-Argus", nil, 959)
local L		= mod:GetLocalizedStrings()

mod:SetRevision(("$Revision: 17471 $"):sub(12, -3))
mod:SetCreatureID(124719)
--mod:SetEncounterID(1952)--Does not have one
--mod:SetReCombatTime(20)
mod:SetZone()
--mod:SetMinSyncRevision(11969)

mod:RegisterCombat("combat_yell", L.Pull)
mod:SetWipeTime(90)

mod:RegisterEventsInCombat(
	"SPELL_CAST_START 247731 247733",
	"SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS 247739",
	"SPELL_AURA_APPLIED 247742",
	"SPELL_AURA_APPLIED_DOSE 247742"
)

local warnDrain					= mod:NewStackAnnounce(247742, 2, nil, false, 2)
local warnFelBreath				= mod:NewSpellAnnounce(247731, 2)

local specWarnDrain				= mod:NewSpecialWarningStack(247742, nil, 6, nil, nil, 1, 2)--Tanking
local specWarnDrainTaunt		= mod:NewSpecialWarningTaunt(247742, nil, nil, nil, 1, 2)--Not tanking and clear
local specWarnStomp				= mod:NewSpecialWarningSpell(247733, nil, nil, nil, 2, 2)
--local specWarnGTFO			= mod:NewSpecialWarningGTFO(238028, nil, nil, nil, 1, 2)

local timerDrainCD				= mod:NewCDTimer(15.9, 247739, nil, "Melee", nil, 5, nil, DBM_CORE_TANK_ICON)--15-20
local timerFelBreathCD			= mod:NewCDTimer(13.4, 247731, nil, nil, nil, 3)
local timerStompCD				= mod:NewCDTimer(14.6, 247733, nil, nil, nil, 2, nil, DBM_CORE_HEALER_ICON)--15-35?

mod:AddReadyCheckOption(49196, false)
mod:AddRangeFrameOption(8, 247739)--Mainly to ensure tanks are far enough from eachother. any dumb melee don't matter.

local tankFilter
do
	tankFilter = function(uId)
		if mod:IsTanking(uId) then
			return true
		end
	end
end

function mod:OnCombatStart(delay, yellTriggered)
	if yellTriggered then

	end
	if self.Options.RangeFrame and self:IsTank() then
		DBM.RangeCheck:Show(8, tankFilter)
	end
end

function mod:OnCombatEnd()
	if self.Options.RangeFrame then
		DBM.RangeCheck:Hide()
	end
end

function mod:SPELL_CAST_START(args)
	local spellId = args.spellId
	if spellId == 247731 then
		warnFelBreath:Show()
		timerFelBreathCD:Start()
	elseif spellId == 247733 then
		specWarnStomp:Show()
		specWarnStomp:Play("carefly")
		timerStompCD:Start()
	end
end

function mod:SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS(args)
	local spellId = args.spellId
	if spellId == 247739 then
		timerDrainCD:Start()
	end
end

function mod:SPELL_AURA_APPLIED(args)
	local spellId = args.spellId
	if spellId == 247742 then
		local uId = DBM:GetRaidUnitId(args.destName)
		if self:IsTanking(uId) then
			local amount = args.amount or 1
			if amount >= 6 then--Fine Tune
				if args:IsPlayer() then--At this point the other tank SHOULD be clear.
					specWarnDrain:Show(amount)
					specWarnDrain:Play("stackhigh")
				else--Taunt as soon as stacks are clear, regardless of stack count.
					if not UnitIsDeadOrGhost("player") and not DBM:UnitDebuff("player", args.spellName) and self:AntiSpam(1.5, 1) then
						specWarnDrainTaunt:Show(args.destName)
						specWarnDrainTaunt:Play("tauntboss")
					else
						warnDrain:Cancel()
						warnDrain:Schedule(1.25, args.destName, amount)
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end
mod.SPELL_AURA_APPLIED_DOSE = mod.SPELL_AURA_APPLIED

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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MCNLive – dystrybucja Linuksa uruchamiana z płyty CD lub pamięci USB.

Bazuje na Mandriva Linux. Jest zaprojektowana w wersji LiveCD dla komputerów typu desktop i laptopów. System zawiera wszystkie potrzebne do prawidłowej pracy programy: aplikacje internetowe, oprogramowanie biurowe, narzędzia sieciowe, oprogramowanie multimedialne. Tak jak każda inna dystrybucja Linuksa, MCNLive automatycznie wykrywa sprzęt, dzięki czemu nie jest konieczna ręczna konfiguracja każdego urządzenia.

Linki zewnętrzne
 Strona domowa dystrybucji

Dystrybucje Linuksa

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


I have been a fan of transformers ever since I was a little boy, and to this day, it's one of my favorit franchises, ever...but, that doesn't mean the franchise is perfect. It has its fair share of problems that may membagi, split many people. However, if there's anything that both fan and non-fans can agree with, is that Michael Bay's transformers film are awful.
Plot: After freeing a hybrid rubah, fox girl, Nick and his friends most gabung the Autobots to battle a looming threat.


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How to join wood beams
By: Keith Dooley
How to Build a Floating Platform Bed
How to Make a Frame for a Hoist
How to notch a wood beam
How to fix the roof trusses to a wall plate
How to design flitch beams
Michael Blann/Digital Vision/Getty Images
When building structures or adding on to a structure, sometimes you must connect wood beams together to increase height. Connecting them together incorrectly could cause instability or a weak beam that cannot withstand any extra weight, and may result in an unsafe structure. There are two fairly easy ways to connect the beams and maintain their strength as if they were actually one solid piece of wood. One is for light construction and the other for more substantial construction.
Joining plate
Lay the beams down end to end.
Set down a joining plate so that it is located with one-half of its length on each beam. The plate has rows of holes all over it.
Drill wood screws into the holes in the plate. The length of the screws will depend on the size of the beams.
Flip the beams over once the holes are all filled. Place the plate side down.
Put another plate on this side of the beam and line it up as you did in Step 2. Next, push the plate a little off from the other plate so that the holes on it do not line up exactly with the ones on the other side.
Drill screws into all the holes in the second plate as well. The beams are now connected.
Locate the middle point of the end of the beam.
Draw a line down the length of the beam at the midpoint. Draw the line for 20 cm (8 inches), and then draw it out to the left edge of the beam. Repeat the process with the second beam.
Use a handsaw to cut out the drawn section of the beams. When you are done, the end of the wood will have a notch cut out of it.
Place the two beams together so that the notches fit together like a puzzle piece. One of them will have to be flipped over for them to fit together.
Drill wood screws into the sections of beams that are now together so that the screws go through one notch and into the other. The size of the screws depends on the width of the beams, but they must be long enough to go almost all the way through both notches so that they secure them tightly together. If the beams aren't going to be exposed, consider using bolts instead. After inserting screws in one side, flip the beams over and repeat the process on the other side.
Hammer Zone: Extending a privacy fence with wood lattice panels
For beams that need to be joined at a right angle, you can use a right-angled metal joining plate in the same way as a flat one.
Using joining plates to connect beams together is for light construction only, such as adding height to a fence. It is not for building structures or decking, unless it is approved by a building inspector.
Keith Dooley has a degree in outdoor education and sports management. He has worked as an assistant athletic director, head coach and assistant coach in various sports including football, softball and golf. Dooley has worked for various websites in the past, contributing instructional articles on a wide variety of topics.


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Q: Best Recommendation for Capturing Video in a Meteor App on iOS devices I ran into this problem in Safari where it appears that WebRTC is not fully supported.  So when I call
navigator.webkitGetuserMedia()

I get an undefined error.
So my question to the community is what is the best way to write a Meteor app that captures Video on a mobile device and saves it on the said device.
If you have done this, I would appreciate it very much if you could share with me and the community how you went about this.

A: Specific Answer
The modern API is: navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia(constraints). See the docs here.
In the past, I've been unsuccessful with getUserMedia on iOS, but according to this post it can be done on iOS 11.
As for saving it, you can write to the browser's file system, but that API is only supported in Chrome. If you want to write to the camera roll, you'd need native code in the mix.
General Advice
I've spent several years of my life dealing with recording, uploading, and processing video using meteor. If you are doing anything more than trivial web recording, these observations may save you some time:

*

*Chrome (on everything but iOS) has the best API for web recording. If you can require chrome for recording, that's ideal. Firefox is a close second, only because it doesn't support the file system API.

*If you need to record and upload long videos on iOS, build a native app. Don't consider any kind of hybrid - that's a serious trap. The number of corner cases and things you need to check is pretty astounding, and the only way to get over those hurdles is with native code.


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The West cannot concede an inch to Vladimir Putin: Marcus Kolga in the Globe and Mail
If Canada, the United States and our allies genuinely wish to champion our shared democratic values, that battle must begin by defending aspiring democracies like Ukraine, writes Marcus Kolga in the Globe and Mail.
By Marcus Kolga, December 22, 2021
While world leaders gathered virtually this month to discuss the surge of authoritarianism in recent years, Ukraine is focused on defending its sovereignty and territory against more than 100,000 troops and heavy weapons that Russian President Vladimir Putin has mobilized along its borders.
While questions abound over whether this invasion-sized force will attack, Kremlin-supported separatists have already been shelling and firing at positions inside Ukraine every day, helping to advance Mr. Putin's goal of transforming Ukraine into a compliant, autocratic vassal state like Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus. Despite these efforts, Ukraine has withstood the Kremlin's intimidation since 2014, when Russian forces invaded and illegally annexed Crimea.
Over the past 20 years, Mr. Putin has also demonstrated that diplomacy – in the form of concessions, deals or outright appeasement – only emboldens his authoritarian ambitions at home and neo-imperialism abroad. Costs in the form of sectoral and personal sanctions against the oligarchs who enable Mr. Putin and the projects they profit from, such as the Nord Stream gas pipeline, are immediate measures that can be taken to build long-term credible deterrence. Additional support in the form of military training and the supply of defensive weapons to Ukraine would also force Mr. Putin to recalculate the risk of invading his neighbour.
However, recent reports about Western leaders making potential concessions to Mr. Putin have raised concerns in Eastern European capitals and Ukraine. The U.S. is reportedly set to "press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy within its eastern Donbas region," which would represent a victory for Mr. Putin: Any autonomy granted to parts of occupied Donbas would be quickly exploited by Moscow to annex that territory.
Meanwhile, General Wayne Eyre, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff, said Canada will not deploy any additional troops to Ukraine, based on concerns about how additional Canadian troops might be perceived by the Kremlin. He made his comments after Mr. Putin's warning that any new deployment by Western allies to support Ukraine would cross a "red line." Canada's position could risk demonstrating to Moscow that geopolitical thuggery works.
A proposed high-level meeting between Russia and select members of NATO about the future of the transatlantic alliance has raised further concerns. It's not clear whether Canada, which is leading NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence mission in Latvia and has 200 military trainers in Ukraine, was invited to participate.
Estonian Prime Minster Kaja Kallas recently had to remind allies that "Russia must also not be given any say in how NATO organizes the defence of its territory." Meanwhile, former Lithuanian foreign and defence minister Linas Linkevicius warned that Russia's intentions "are well-known, they were always trying to split, divide, marginalize, so that's nothing new."
And indeed, last Friday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent two lists of security demands to the United States and NATO, which included a Russian veto on NATO expansion and the removal of all NATO infrastructure from Central and Eastern Europe. While Mr. Putin knows that most of his demands will be unacceptable, his actual intent may be to spur dissent within the alliance – and in the worst case, exploit the rejection of his demands as a pretext for war.
"Mr. Putin already invaded Ukraine once. To deter him requires a meaningful demonstration of support for Ukrainian sovereignty and immediate sanctions on the oligarchs who enable him," Garry Kasparov, a Russian opposition leader and the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, told me. "Appeasement and negotiation only encourage Putin, and signals to him that threats and confrontation work."
He added: "Canada has a tool to immediately deter Putin in the form of Magnitsky sanctions, and there are some very high-profile Kremlin oligarchs whose Canadian assets should be targeted."
Mr. Putin needs to create a perpetual Cold War-style conflict in order for his government to remain relevant – both for Russian voters and geopolitically abroad. The post-Cold War triumph of freedom and democracy over Soviet totalitarianism was a victory for the millions held captive by Soviet occupation and repression; for Mr. Putin, however, the collapse of the Soviet Empire was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in the 20th century."
His ultimate aim is the restoration of Russia's Soviet-era imperial status and the defeat of Western liberal democracy – starting in Ukraine.
If Canada, the United States and our allies genuinely wish to champion our shared democratic values, that battle must begin by defending aspiring democracies like Ukraine. Only talking about democracy won't cut it. Like any schoolyard bully, if we give Mr. Putin an inch, he will take miles. He will only stop once he's confronted with significant and painful consequences for his actions.
Marcus Kolga is the founder of DisinfoWatch and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
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