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Ex Night Owl, Former mil analyst & Intl consultant. Old cat still writing Geopolitics papers or intel analyses for my blog or for my next book.

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Joined November 2021
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Proud and grateful that Ukraine has a friend like you, José. Thank you to you and the entire World Central Kitchen team for the warmth of your dishes and hearts.
As the great people of Oleshky arrived to Ukraine after a long trip @WCKitchen lead by Yuliya is ready with borscht, and many other Ukranian dishes! The route was long: from Oleshky through Crimea to Anapa in Russia, then a flight to Belarus and onward by road into Chernihiv region. After a journey like that, warm, good food matters a great deal. #ChefsForUkraine Proud that the teams were first in Irpin and Bucha, in Kherson….so many special powerful moments! now here…Ukrainians are the best of us!
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مجتبى خامنئي لقادته العسكريين: . الرد على تهديدات العدو دون قيود جغرافية . جميع الأصول التابعة للعدو ستكون ضمن بنك الأهداف الإيرانية . الاستجابة لأي عدوان ستكون فورية وفعالة . نسعى لتشكيل نظام سياسي وأمني جديد في غرب آسيا . استمرار الجهود لتلبية الاحتياجات المعيشية للشعب
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REPEAT AFTER ME — RUSSIA HAS NO PLACE IN SPORTS!
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Зеленський надав звання Героя України Костянтину Власенку, який 491 добу тримав позицію, майже половину цього часу — з важким пораненням і без обох стоп ⬇️ novynarnia.com/2026/10/31/ze…
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🎃 Trick or treat? A russian occupier’s worst nightmare. 📷 Ukrainian SOF 144th Center
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ordered an immediate response to any threat “without geographical limitations,” his office said. Commanders reported a several-fold rise in ammunition and weapons output. clashreport.com/defense/arti…
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Apparently, russians could have stopped the human safari in Kherson at any moment. Murdering civilians with FPV drones was always a choice and russians were choosing to kill. So many people would have been alive if russians didn’t choose to kill them.
"Ukrainian Witness" journalist Viktoriia Hnatiuk reached Antonivka-one of the most dangerous settlements in the Kherson region, located on the bank of the Dnipro River opposite occupied Oleshky. Previously, getting here was virtually impossible due to russian FPV drones. However, during a ceasefire declared to evacuate residents of Oleshky, locals were able to return to their destroyed homes for the first time in a long while to retrieve surviving belongings. Despite the truce, coastal areas remain dangerous due to mines, while Oleshky itself remains under russian occupation on the other side of the Dnipro. While people in Kherson walk the streets, the russians on the opposite bank are quietly conducting rotations and pulling up reinforcements. This silence, a necessary measure to save lives, is also a deadly trap ahead of another russian attempt to cross the Dnipro... People fear what will happen once the ceasefire ends...
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Newsmax journalist Shelby Wilder on the situation in Oleshky: Russia is using this humanitarian operation as a propaganda opportunity. Moscow wants to portray itself as the rescuer of civilians in a city that it occupies, one it has destroyed and plunged into this humanitarian crisis. And we need to be clear, Russia controls what we are going to be allowed to see. Moscow appears to have brought in numerous Russian media compared to just the one American news outlet.
A temporary ceasefire was established in the area of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky (Kherson region). It began at 3:00 a.m. (4:00 a.m. Moscow time). According to estimates by the Ukrainian government, between two and six thousand civilians are trapped there under blockade and are suffering from hunger. Russia's Ministry of Defense stated that in connection with preparations for a "humanitarian operation" in the Oleshky area, it had ceased fire on the Kherson direction and introduced a "silence regime." The Ukrainian command had previously confirmed the agreement on a temporary ceasefire. "The silence regime is being established exclusively for the humanitarian operation: delivery of aid to residents currently in the city and preparation for the free movement of the civilian population from Oleshky," the General Staff said in a statement. "We urge everyone during this period to be especially cautious regarding the information you receive and share... Do not trust unverified reports, and do not spread rumors about the routes, time, and location of the movement of people and humanitarian columns," it noted. The frontline city has been cut off from food and medicine supplies for many months. Earlier, the BBC spoke with residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky who described how they are suffering from malnutrition - including boiling soup from weeds - and how dangerous it is to evacuate the city due to mined roads. Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, who negotiated with Melania Trump on the Ukrainian side, stated that the operation to rescue people in Oleshky is extremely difficult to implement. "As part of our agreement, first – a silence regime will be ensured. Second – humanitarian cargo will be delivered to Oleshky. Third – free movement of the civilian population out of Oleshky will be ensured," he said in a video message on Telegram. Kherson is controlled by Ukraine, while Oleshky was occupied by Russian forces back in 2022. In 2023, most of the city was flooded due to the Russian army's blowing up of the Kakhovka Reservoir dam. Source: BBC Ukraine
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READ!! Zelenskyy confirms our reporting: "But we are asking for decisions that can guarantee the protection of lives not the day after tomorrow or sometime later, but at the very moment the threat is there – when Russia is killing and destroying."
UPDATE!! The U.S. Patriot PAC-3 announcement comes with a major caveat: these are new missiles, with deliveries not expected until after 2030, sources tell me. It does little to address Ukraine’s urgent interceptor shortage ahead of winter 1/3
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“Preferential democracy”
Israel is a preferential democracy. And figuring out how to integrate 2 million Palestinian citizens is critical to a Jewish democratic state. The JL may be bridge too far Gadi. Though look at Bibi’s buddies - Smotrich and Ben Gvir.
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It’s absolutely wrong, on so many levels.
Picture 1: Kids in traditional Russian clothing at the White House, having fun and getting sweets Picture 2: Liza Dmytrieva, a Ukrainian four year old murdered by traditional Russians, in her coffin
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he ben "bon week end" tout de même à vous les copains. je sens qu'il va nous falloir qq tasses de café... mais il fait beau, on va prendre l'air c'est déjà ça de pris... ciao ciao!
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The stand off around Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is about restoring rule of law to an institution which had been politicised by the populist government which lost power in the election of 2023. Its president repeatedly broke the law by steering politically sensitive cases to hand-picked judges. It failed to pass its own budget,
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Dugin and Posobiec are on the same team.
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c'est en train de partir en vrille... (je pourrais en faire 2 pages mais il me semble qu'il y a assez d'infos en ligne disponible pour comprendre la situation). toujours est il que cette tête de con de Nawrocki cherchait la confrontation depuis le premier jour. Putin se régale.
Naćpany zbrodniarz i nacjonalista ruskich interesów Karol Nawrocki, ze swoją kancelarią obłąkanych, siłowo weszli do Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, naruszając jego niezależność. Za tarana robił osobiście Nawrocki, używając siły i doświadczenia z ustawek kibolskich. To kolejna i największa kompromitacja tego bandyty na urzędzie. To zbrodnia zamachu stanu, która następuje po oświadczeniu Kaczyńskiego o wyjściu Polski z Unii Europejskiej. Właśnie rozpoczyna się wojna domowa, którą zaplanował Putin w wersji teorii chaosu, a realizują twórcy współczesnej Targowicy i zdrady: polityczni zdrajcy z PiS i Konfederacji, ruska agentura i Kościół katolicki. Wsparcia agitacyjnego dokonują telewizja antypolskiej propagandy, rosyjskie boty (nie tylko Mateckiego) i KRRiT. Teraz już, kto się cofnie, ten będzie zniszczony. Właśnie za przepowiadanie takiego zbrodniczego scenariusza siedzę dzisiaj na ławie oskarżonych, niby za zniesławienie i znieważenie Nawrockiego. Całkowicie osamotniony, ze wsparciem jedynie kilku przyjaciół i przy dobrym samopoczuciu koalicji oraz mediów. Nie mam satysfakcji ze stwierdzenia – a nie mówiłem i nie pisałem? Teraz albo Karol Nawrocki zostanie usunięty z urzędu i pozostaniemy w rodzinie wartości europejskich, albo wspólnie z Kaczyńskim i Braunem całkowicie zniszczą Donalda Tuska i wrócimy pod but Putina. Innej drogi pokojowej już nie ma. Oby naród zmądrzał. Adam Mazguła #PrawdąWOczy #WPoczuciuOdpowiedzialności #TarczaWolnościSłowa #BronimyKonstytucji #ŻołnierzGorszegoSortu #PrawaCzłowieka #WolnośćSłowa
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Are you kidding? Seriously?
"I think I can say that you were treated reasonably well by some of the people," Trump tells Stephen Hubbard, who was detained for over four years in Russia until he was freed Oct. 21.
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🇻🇪 Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez said the government will offer "non-essential" state assets to private investors or return them to their former owners, reversing nationalizations carried out under Hugo Chávez. The process "is already well advanced," Rodríguez said in a televised address Thursday, without naming which assets. A commission she appointed in April is auditing state holdings in energy, power and mining. Parliament is close to partially privatizing the electricity sector, foreign firms are in talks to buy the country's largest aluminum smelter, and an oil consortium is seeking several industrial plants, Venezuelanalysis reported.
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Jarosław Kaczyński ogłosił właśnie, że Polska powinna zacząć rokowania o warunkach wyjścia z Unii Europejskiej. O taką między innymi stawkę toczy się dziś w Polsce walka. Twarda walka. Nie zamierzam jej przegrać, nawet jeśli nie wszyscy zagrają ze mną.
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