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Thread of Threads.
I like to share threads about history (usually military/geopolitical in nature), so I will index them here. I am not a “historian” just a guy who reads a lot.
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Shoutout to this Kuwait airlines plane opting to drive straight home directly through the Iranian air strike. I love this pilot. Ice in his veins.
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I’m pretty sure the SEAL secret to falling asleep fast is just being really tired from many hours of intense exertion.
How the Navy Seal fall asleep within 2 minutes.
• No pills.
• No cold shower.
• No bluelight blocking glasses.
The 4-7-8 Method (backed by science):
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PSA: under no circumstances should you commit suicide via self immolation in an attempt to protest somebody else’s war.
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“So you’re telling me that Caesar built a second wall around his siege camp?”
“Yes Tucker! Did you even look at the maps I sent you?”
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These maps are always dumb, the Mongols never actually ruled all of that space with a contiguous and coherent administration. One of these was a coherent administrative unit, the other is a theoretical maximum non-simultaneous extent of a tributary system.
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The USA got to play on easy mode - the Midwest plains are some of the best agricultural land on earth, and then America worked its way to the coast and found *another* edenic breadbasket in the California Central Valley.
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This is what the Romans were talking about when they wrote about the warriors of Germania being the most gigantic and physically powerful men they’d ever seen
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This sort of thing would be unthinkable in America. Most American streets haven’t been cleaned since the 1960’s.
A somewhat surreal sight in Rostov as street cleaners continue on their Saturday morning duties.
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Ukrainian S-300 missile misfired and landed in Poland - will the west tolerate this act of aggression by Kiev?
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My four year old son Theodosius just looked up from his lunch and asked me, "Father, why did the Emperor divide his forces at Manzikert if his scouts had not yet located the main Turkish force? Was it lunacy or hubris?"
Amal Clooney reveals her son, 5, drew picture of prison and said 'Putin should be here'
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Only one man can negotiate a lasting peace between the French government and the rioters.
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It’s the anniversary of the Romanian Revolution, which means it’s time to revisit one of the hardest pictures ever taken.
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Think about the fact that Putin got indicted by the International Criminal Court for evacuating children out of active combat zones, but Israel basically has a blank check to bomb civilian areas with impunity.
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Honestly it’s really funny watching the Ukrainian side instantly pivot from “Wagner was destroyed with mass casualties in Bakhmut” to “Wagner is powerful enough to topple the Russian state.”
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- Film about a second American Civil War
- Texas and California are on the same team
- Journalists are the protagonists
Hahaha
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Reports are coming in that none other than Uncle Sasha has negotiated a settlement with Wagner!
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This guy appears to be married and own a home while doing about six hours of work per day, and people are acting as if this is some unimaginably horrible existence.
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Friends, a May 9 thread about the scale of Soviet losses in World War Two.
You cannot understand why Victory Day is the most significant secular holiday in Russia without getting a sense of just how much the Soviet Union lost in the Nazi-Soviet War. (1/N)
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An Assyrian bishop gets stabbed on live-stream and the journos run an article about him being a “notorious anti-vaxxer.”
We really don’t have the language required to accurately convey how evil journalists are. Repulsive. Remember what Kierkegaard said…
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Using the phrase “scorched earth” for the most precise strike you’ll ever see on a vital comms node.
Russia just struck the TV tower in Kharkiv, messing with Ukrainian digital signal. It's their scorched-earth tactic in action, déjà vu from spring 2022
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Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army’s 322nd Motor Rifle division, which was formed in 1941 in Nizhny Novgorod with a founding cadre that was 90% ethnic Russian. The division’s commander was General Pyotr Zubov, an ethic Russian born in Latvia.
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I suppose events in Gaza and Israel will show everyone how ridiculous it was to accuse Russia of genocide and targeting civilians. More civilians will die there in a couple of weeks than have been killed in 20 months of fighting in Ukraine.
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The presidents of America and Russia both have mental issues. Biden has dementia and Putin has History-Obsessive Autism (he’s just like me.)
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Democracy is residents of cities voting to literally release wolves into rural areas against the objections of the people who live there.
In 2020, Colorado voters passed Prop 114, which led to today's introduction of wolves in Colorado.
The below map shows the counties that voted for wolves (green), and the counties that voted against wolves (red).
#copolitics
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Zelensky is calling for preemptive nuclear strikes on Russia - and by extension, a full nuclear exchange that would kill hundreds of millions - and they are still going to give him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Remember when Ukraine claimed it had annihilated the VDV at Gostomel, so a CNN reporter drove out to take a look and found the Russians just chilling on the perimeter.
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I know America gets clowned for not being on the Metric system, but Fahrenheit is definitely better than Celsius.
Fahrenheit tells you what percent hot you will be. 70 degrees = 70% hot etc, and anything over 100% is too hot. It's the perfect temperature scale.
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You can tell the recruitment crisis is getting truly severe because they ditched the "LGBTQIA+ Marines for Equality" advertising and made something with Call of Duty aesthetics to try and lure bible belt kids back in.
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The irony of dressing as Zelensky specifically for the purpose of begging for free stuff.
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A Thread on Blitzkrieg Myth
Popular histories of World War Two love to talk about a German strategy known as "Blitzkrieg" - supposedly an innovative, high speed, overwhelming attack, responsible for their early successes.
Only one problem: Blitzkrieg isn't real. (1)
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Prigozhin says they are turning around and going back to Ukraine. Amazing.
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Dead for almost 80 years and he’s still the main character.
JUST IN - Israeli UN delegation wears Nazi-era "Yellow Stars" at UNSC.
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This is just pathetic.
“Navalny’s last words were “Ride with Biden. Never Trump. Wakanda Forever” just before Putler killed him with a KGB death punch.”
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Calling Dugin Putin’s “war mastermind” and “spiritual guide” is a great example of how completely detached western sources are from the way Russia’s political system actually works.
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Imagine someone blew up the child of one of the top columnists at the New York Times or Vox, just because they were perceived as the foremost ideologies of the neoliberal Obama-Biden regime.
That’s what just happened in Russia. It’s not a military action, it’s just terrorism.
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Thread: Operation Barbarossa
The Nazi-Soviet War was the largest land war ever fought, and the results shaped world affairs even to the present day. The German invasion of the USSR in 1941 - Operation Barbarossa - is therefore among the most important campaigns in history. (1)
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The people who performed the worst over the last 24 hours were exactly who you’d expect.
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A close up of a destroyed Leopard and several Bradleys.
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Unbelievable - the Boeing quality control manager who tried to blow the whistle on the company's shoddy manufacturing and corner cutting has conveniently committed "suicide" in the middle of his deposition.
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Last night Russia hit shipping infrastructure in Reni, literally right across the Danube from Romania. Russian precision is good enough to attack targets 500 meters from a NATO country, yet we’re asked to believe that they blindly lob these missiles at residential areas.
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The funniest thing about the Hague issuing an arrest warrant for Putin is that neither the USA, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, or Belarus are party to the ICC - nobody involved in the conflict is under obligation here.
Just another case of Europeans pretending they have power.
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Elon has implemented a "Ukraine state-affiliated media" tag. Outstanding.
⚡️ Another Monday morning starts with air alerts almost all over Ukraine and explosions in Kyiv and other cities. It is reported about 40 missiles are over the country now.
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Russia is striking at will all across Ukraine every night, while Ukraine struggles to capture a few villages in the grey zone. The capability overmatch is ridiculous and someday it will seem like a joke that people thought Ukraine could win this war.
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The Wagner saga was so confusing to westerners because life of greatness is no longer imaginable to most. We presume that men must be objects of political forces and historical script; never subjects acting freely in time and space, open to consequences. Such vitality is alien.
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Ukraine presented "proof" that they shot down a Kinzhal, hoping perhaps that people will fail a basic shape recognition test.
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Putin deploys secret Russian weapons - concrete and engineers!
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Ukrainian troops brazenly posting video of their ethnic cleansing program. Good. Let the west be without excuse.
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Was something going on in 1944, or were they bombing Estonia for fun? Seeking clarity on this.
Today, 80 years ago
#Tallinn
🇪🇪 was devastated by the March bombings, which destroyed a quarter of the city overnight.
Up to 300 Russian aircrafts were bombing us & their primary targets were residential districts & cultural landmarks.
Russian playbook is the same today in 🇺🇦
🧵
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I’m seeing people suggesting that Trump getting his Twitter back could get us all killed. Boy, with stakes that high, you’d think he spent a whole day falsely claiming that Russia launched a missile strike on a NATO member.
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Bakhmut has been fully taken. Prigozhin confirms it is 100% under Russian control.
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Americans are so beat down that they have to experience political wins vicariously through Argentina.
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Imagine watching the US Navy’s performance in the Red Sea and still believing that they will contest the South China Sea.
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From “Russia is losing” to “nobody can beat Russia.”
Phew
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People will read histories of wars like WW1 and say “My God, how could they let it go on like that, why didn’t they make peace” when here in our own time anyone who suggests that Ukraine should just give up the Donbas and make a deal is accused of being on the Kremlin’s payroll.
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The obsession of Ukrainians and their supporters with posting gore and gloating over dead bodies is indeed a strong indicator of their moral standing in the conflict.
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Armenia might be the most geopolitically inept country in the world. It’s rejecting Russian protection in favor of the west, completely unable to read the cards and realize that the west will *never* choose them over Azerbaijan. Total Azeri victory.
BREAKING:
Armenia is now considering applying to join the European Union.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan delivered the news today.
Armenia’s relationship with Russia has been deteriorating swiftly in recent weeks.
🇦🇲🇪🇺
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People will, with a straight face, claim that Russia is an authoritarian dystopia as things like this happen in western countries with increasing regularity.
Police in the UK arrested an autistic girl for telling a policewoman she looks like a lesbian which is a “homophobic public order offense”
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Desert Storm saw the United States at the height of its powers dismantle a 2nd tier, technologically overmatched Iraqi Army. There is, simply, no comparison or relevance to a war with Iran. Different time, different weight class. Americans need to understand this.
Coming Soon once again to a Middle Eastern Country near you...
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Texas makes a stand on immigration, so the White House retaliates by blocking their LNG exports.
Perfectly normal, functioning, healthy political system at work.
FULL STATEMENT: And it's official. The White House announces a "temporary pause" on pending approvals of American LNG export terminals.
The statement is below, and links here to the comuniqué itself: and a White House factsheet:
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The Ukrainians withdrew from
Marinka. Incredible.
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They hate Bukele because he is proof that malaise and rot are a choice and can be overturned by will. It is not even a matter of resources - El Salvador's wealth is only a fraction of America's. What matters is only the will to act.
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So in the last 24 hours Ukraine claimed to capture a town (they can’t tell us which one for “security reasons”), raised the age limit for conscription to 70, and bombed their own POWs. All very standard stuff for an army that is winning.
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An Indian and a Pakistani are fighting to partition Britain. Total Anglo defeat has been achieved - congratulations to my Punjabi friends on your complete victory over the Empire.
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The airport is the end state of the west in miniature. A stifling security bureaucracy that provides dubious safety benefits and is little more than a thinly veiled jobs program, overpriced snacks and a food court staffed by immigrants, long delays and malfunctioning equipment.
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Thread: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO's doctrinal reversal
Ever since the Ukrainians began their counteroffensive in the south, a theme has emerged; namely, that the Russians are fighting in a manner eerily similar to that dictated by NATO's late cold-war doctrine. (1)
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Shooting down the Chinese balloon after it’s traversed the entire continental USA is exactly the nonsensical sort of solution that you’d expect from Washington at this point.
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While the Ukrainian government claims that Russia bombed a playground, their telegram channels are melting down over the damage done to the SBU. What happened in Kiev was not a terror bombing - it was a decapitation strike against the security services.
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The heritage population no longer finds it worthwhile to have children or fight in the armed forces - instead of trying to grapple with this fact (which amounts to a civilization-scale existential crisis), just bring in foreign axillaries.
Where have I seen this before?
Senator Dick Durbin wants to make it possible for illegal immigrants to join the US military: "Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force? They can't reach their quotas each month. They can't find enough people to join."
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The ridiculous American myth that the French have a penchant for cowardice and surrender is historically unfounded, a slander against the millions of French warriors who have fought with exemplary bravery through the ages, and a bizarre insult against America’s very first ally.
Chaos In France As Rival Protesters Keep Trying To Surrender To Each Other
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On the anniversary of Russia’s first tranche of annexations in the former borders of Soviet Ukraine, I am once again tapping the sign.
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Don’t trust anybody who already has a take about the terror attack in Moscow when it’s literally still happening.
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“Referendums held under military occupation are illegitimate.”
Okay, well that’s rough news for the German and Japanese constitutional systems.
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This reminds me a lot of when they told us that Bin Laden was living in an intricate fortress under a remote peak in the Hindu Kush, like some sort of Dwarf warlord from Middle Earth, when in reality he was just chilling in a house in Pakistan, watching Tom and Jerry.
IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari revealed today that Hamas' main operation is based under the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
#Hamasisisis
#Gaza
#TheRealImage
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Tucker is way off, here. Dropping the bombs on Japan was the only option. I know that’s an unpopular view in this day but it’s the truth.
🚨 Tucker Carlson on the atomic bombs
"My 'side' has spent the last 80 years defending the dropping of nuclear bombs on civilians...like, are you joking? If you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil."
-Tucker Carlson
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It’s hilarious that one of the first things the allies did with the Nuremberg defendants was give them IQ tests.
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Israel going for the triple crown, hitting a foreign embassy, food aid workers, and a hospital all in one day. We're six months into this war and the trajectory continues to go one direction only.
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It’s over
I am on my total despair arc
Ridley Scott on shooting a sequence where Napoleon’s cannons fire at the Pyramids.
“I don’t know if he did that, but it was a fast way of saying he took Egypt.”
(Source: )
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The Russians seem to have broken the fortified industrial sector on the southeastern approach to Avdiivka. They’re rolling right over it.
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Putin taught Tucker about the acquisition of the Black Sea littoral in the Turko-Russian Wars. Iconic stuff.
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This is an unguided antitank weapon. Even assuming you know how to use it, shooting down a drone with this would be essentially impossible. Hopefully this is just a propagandistic photoshoot and they aren't actually having women fire unguided rockets in the city.
My friend from Kyiv (born in Donetsk), a speech therapist. On her way to take down drones.
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The Crimean Khanate routinely kidnapped Eastern Europeans and sold many hundreds of thousands of them into slavery. Then the bear grew strong. Now Crimea is Russian.
The population in Crimea:
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95% of Crimean Tatars
0% of russians
21th century:
10% of Crimean Tatars
70>% of russians
Don’t let russia fool you.
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Ukraine is really doing everything they can to create an escalation at the nuclear plant in Energodar. Very dangerous situation right now.
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Reporter: "Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?
Biden: "Well, when you say working, are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they gonna continue? Yes."
It's perfect. This is the entire depth of the strategic thinking.
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Look, I hate to ruin everyone's fun, but the idea that Wagner is just going to waltz up to Moscow tonight is ridiculous not least because it's literally a 13 hour drive from Rostov at freeway speeds.
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Call me crazy, but I’m highly skeptical that A) extraterrestrial spacecraft could be shot down with ease by extant military tech, and B) that the government would be telling us about it.
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Zelensky dramatically signed an application for expedited NATO membership and was publicly snubbed in a matter of hours. Absolutely brutal.
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Pretty much nothing Prigozhin says has ever corresponded to reality. Remember when he threatened to pull Wagner out of Bakhmut, and then they captured the city about a week later?
Until he gets arrested, I just assume everything he says is pro-wrestling political theater.
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Imagine being a Ukrainian, watching Finland get into NATO almost overnight while your country gets used as an anti-Russian kamikaze. Do you think it has sunk in that they’re being used?
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Thread: Tank Production and Industrial Strategy
The Soviet Union out-built Nazi Germany in tanks by a two to one margin. The Soviets built some 98,000 tanks between 1941 and 1945, compared to about 44,000 built by the Germans.
This fact is actually very odd. (1)
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This quote is maybe one of the greatest in history because Goebbels didn’t actually say it. The fact that everyone thinks he did is proof that it’s true.
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Every public figure who calls for an end to online anonymity does so because they got flamed beyond belief in the replies.
Nikki Haley: "Every person on social media should be verified by their name" because of "national security."
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Ukraine has opened the gates at the Dnieper dam upstream of Nova Kakhovka. Doing what they can to intensify the flooding.
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I think it’s time for the United States to begin arming and training moderate French on the ground.
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I just listened to an interview that Dr. Mearsheimer did with Lex Fridman - Mearsheimer spends the whole time trying to explain how structural factors and geopolitical interests drive events, and Fridman keeps saying that it's about personal relationships between leaders. Crazy.
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Neither Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu nor Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov are named as clients or associates in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein court documents.
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The Nova Kakhovka dam will follow the same pattern as the bombing of Nordstream and the murder of Darya Dugina - a consensus will be instantly formed in western media and officialdom that Russia is responsible, and then a few months from now they will quietly change the story.
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