Just in case. I’m re-upping the Story Thread I’ve been keeping track of involving the PLAAF’s & PLAN’s recruitment of Fighter Pilots from Western Countries to bolster the capabilities and experience in their Air Forces that originally started months ago. Here are the details 🧵:
Eric Greitens having an affair is one thing. People will focus on that first. It’s the fact he threatened to use revenge porn against the woman to keep it quiet that’s the most damning part of this story.
Senator Lamar Alexander holds the seat of the Late Howard Baker, he who declared, “What did the President know, and when did he know it?”
Lamar just took a Proverbial Crap all over that seat on his way out the door in a shameful display of moral cowardice.
Damn your Legacy.
I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the U.S. Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable offense.1/15
@Der_Parrot
I mean Shoigu had the deadline to register all soldiers in PMCs and supplement them to the MoD by July 5th. Something was gonna happen, we just didn’t know what.
@PigLazer
“Oh the weather is terrible, no one would launch an invasion in this. I’m going to celebrate my Wife’s Birthday!” Erwin Rommel, builder of the Atlantic Wall, week of 6/6/1944.
@JuliaDavisNews
They’re probably just saying it to make their viewers feel better after getting stuck in traffic on that bridge. Glad we could give them something to feel good about after that airfield blew up and ruined all those Russian vacations on the Black Sea.
Head of RT Margarita Simonyan Belts Out Old Soviet Song in Cringey Push for More Troops
To terrorize the audiences into volunteering to join the fight, Simonyan claimed that the West wants to enslave Russians and turn them into "yahoos."
@JuliaDavisNews
The Russian Karen makes a point…wait-he’s named Karen? Like the guy taking the realist opinion on the propaganda state network is named Karen?
BREAKING
The Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar tonight.
This was first reported by media outlets controlled by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.
@RadioFreeTom
@GregoryBTrotte1
@brikeilarcnn
Oh how scandalous that the Presidential Marine Detail was used in frame, unlike the last guy who held the RNC convention at the White House and used some scrub in fatigues (that just happened to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) to clear protesters from a square for a Bible Shot.
@PreetBharara
Here, I’ll add another angle to have it make sense. Yevgeni Prigozhin, the guy who controlled the 🇷🇺 Troll Farm that interfered in 2016 US election is leading his army of war-criminal mercenaries in an armed revolt/potential coup against Vladimir Putin’s Generals in the Kremlin.
@sentdefender
Pavlohrad is home to the PMZ Mechanical Plant that has been disassembling Soviet ICBMs since the Budapest Memorandum. That included R-36/SS-18 Liquid Fuel and SS-20/22/24 Solid Fuel storage. Highly toxic. That’s not S-300s.
It’s nice, but this was from the War in 2014. Leonid Gozman was arrested multiple times by Putin’s Government for anti-war statements in 2022 and forced to leave the country for Berlin late last year after leaving prison. He was one of the signers of this:
@JuliaDavisNews
@XSovietNews
Well, at least it’s not like Russia has a history of ill-equipped troops mutinying and causing the populace that’s held down by a police state to target, assassinate, or attempt to overthrow corrupt aristocracy and totalitarian rulers or something….
@ianbremmer
What looks worse 6 months from now:
The economic bubble in China, the energy crisis in Europe, the political crisis in America, the food crisis caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, or the mystery box of eventual overlooked disasters caused by climate change?
@JuliaDavisNews
Man it’s weird. It’s almost like Russian Propagandists picked up on the idea of telling its audience that being indebted to China is bad for Russian hegemony or something….
It’s amazing how many Russian Thermite Weapon attacks on Ukrainians over the last calendar year are being recycled by other accounts to say their Israeli Attacks on Palestinians.
Since that’s becoming a thing, wait until they find out about these videos from the Wagner Group!
@yashar
I get the defense he would try to make for his client saying he can’t differentiate, but c’mon, I’m an Aspie and I never attempted to overthrow the government. Selective Media Exposure is not a symptom of Mental Illness, but not being able to ever admit when you’re wrong might...
@reshetz
I may have a Historical background, but sometimes I’ll never understand the continued need for some Russians to refer to Ukraine as “Little Russia” when Serbia has been right there the whole time.
@karaswisher
@gtconway3d
“GREATEST THEFT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. RIGGED. STOLEN. 75 MILLION PEOPLE.”
UberEats Driver: “Sir, I’m just dropping off your McDonalds?”
@UkraineRussia2
Gripen and F-16.
Gripens are designed to be used on normal roads in Sweden in the event of loss of runways.
F-16 are standard issue starting point.
So, uh, Couple Things about this…
1) The carrier group at 11 seconds in is actually the US Navy 6th Fleet scene from the 2017 Movie American Assassin.
2) The destroyer at 1:09 is not only an 🇺🇸 AB-Class, its number 151 means its the USS Nathan James from TNT’s The Last Ship.
@AndrewPerpetua
It all rides on Melitopol, basically.
Happened in the Civil War, World War 2, and now. You aren’t going to Crimea without controlling Melitopol.
But the Crimean Campaign of 1921 is basically what that’ll feel like without paratroopers or amphibious landings-Minus the Cavalry.
@JuliaDavisNews
I’m not surprised they would use this line of attack considering it’s a variant of what was used at AIPAC and right wing groups during the election.
Also, can someone explain why RUSSIA1’s prime set design look like the pundit version of The Weakest Link?
@Osinttechnical
It says something about the corruption and modernization failure in the Russian Military that we’ve seen this happen against Russian Armor since Desert Storm and they still haven’t adequately changed or adapted an easily exploited flaw in protecting the gap of a tank turret…
@AVindman
We should just send the Ukrainians everything at this rate. Javelins, Abrams, Paladins, Leopards, LeClercs, “We can’t let you officially join NATO yet, but here’s the whole arsenal. Keep going!”
Seems pretty clear now that at the very least Hamas was over exaggerating what caused the Hospital blast to suit their own political and strategic objectives. How many embassies got attacked last night because of slanted announcement reported out without fact-checking first?
@RadioFreeTom
Does your Society Have:
A) Vault-Tec
B) A Self-Sustainable Space Colony
C) A GECK
D) A Time Machine/Stargate/Dimensional Gateway
E) None of the Above
If your answer is E, congratulations you live in Real Life, and there is no such thing as a winning in a Nuclear Apocalypse.
State Duma Defense Committee's head Andrey Kartapolov told a disappointed propagandist Vladimir Solovyov that aside from not having enough uniforms and equipment for its forces, Russia may not have enough munitions to destroy all of Ukraine's infrastructure.
@s_webber
“As your AG, I take the troubling results in Pennsylvania seriously...”
“I’m deeply concerned about the ruling in Ziccareli v. Allegheny County Board of Elections, as we all are Eric, BUT DID WE RESIGN YADI YET OR NOT?”
I don’t know what destroying a Russian Cathedral, built by Russians, rebuilt after it was destroyed by Stalin, and carrying the remains of Russian Imperial Prince/Governor/Field Marshall Mikhail Vorontsov has to do with “Preserving Russian Culture” but you do you, Putin, I guess.
Odesa’s main Orthodox cathedral. Established in 1794, destroyed by Stalin in 1936, rebuilt under an independent Ukraine and destroyed again by Putin in 2023. One of several historical parts of central Odesa, a UNESCO world heritage site, hit by Russian missiles strikes today.
@AltHistoryHub
@Der_Parrot
Yeah pretty sure Germans were like “What’s the point of weapons deliveries when we’re dealing with a new government in a month?”
Instead of, “We’ll supply this weapon system, maybe, later, probably not, whatever keeps the gas on. Hey maybe let Putin keep half Ukraine for peace?”
@KateGoesTech
“Russian in its purest form, then?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Descended from the Tsars?”
“Yes.”
“Princes of Novgorod?”
“Yes.”
“The sons of Rurik dynasty?”
“Yes.”
“Of even Rurik himself?”
“Yes, of course.”
“So you’re saying you’re also a Swedish war criminal, then?”
“😶”
“🫤”
@elonmusk
@RenataKonkoly
For a guy who owns Tesla and Starlink, you seem to have little grasp of the concept of Battlefield Tech, Training, and Logistics. 🫤
11/11/1918 WWI ends.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is Null & Void.
The Russian Empire has Collapsed into Chaos:
Forces gather on the Don & Siberia.
Lenin flees to Moscow.
New Nations Rise.
🇺🇦 on the brink.
Allies decide in Versailles.
Welcome to 1919.
@vodk_anon
Lockheed bought the Yak-141 for about $400 million in the 1990’s to get the test data and technical specs for research purposes, but yeah, it’s not exactly a copy or overtly similar because of say…INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT.
@MichaelWarbur17
And gave Mel Brook’s one of the greatest moments in Blazing Saddles lore by suing the studio saying the gag violated her privacy rights, which was referenced in the film itself.
@RadioFreeTom
At least you didn’t tell them about how you have seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion…
China’s balloon has been the most captivating Balloon story in American Media since the Balloon Boy Hoax of 2009 and the most American freak out of a round communist object flying over head since Sputnik.
It’s both a National Security Risk, and yet also stupid at the same time.
@JasonKander
Wasn’t
@GovAbbott
the same guy who sent the Texas guard to observe the actual military during training exercises because he thought Obama might attempt a coup via Marshall Law?
Life comes at you fast...
Does the Pope not know that Catherine the Great annexed the Crimean Khanate, initiated the Pale of Settlement, destroyed the Zaporizhzhian Cossack Sich and Host, and Erased Poland from the Goddamn Map until 1920?
Amid Russia’s imperial war on Ukraine, Pope Francis tells Russians to be inspired by their legacy as heirs of “the Great Russia of Peter the Great and Catherine II, of that Great Russian Empire, enlightened, of so much culture and so much humanity.” (1/4)
New Idea: We get a bunch of Historians and Nerds together to make a Vivek Q&A, then take the answers and make it a new game:
“Vivek’s History or Guy on Shrooms?”
@ianbremmer
@EurasiaGroup
*14 year old self holds dice in one hand and a copy of Tom Clancy’s Bear and the Dragon in the other*
C’mon baby, Daddy needs a new Mongolia!
Reminder that while Junior Senator-Elect
@Eric_Schmitt
is celebrating his deposition of Dr. Fauci before he ditches the job for his new seat in DC, the Agape Boarding School IS STILL OPEN.
It's confirmed - Missouri child sodomy and slavery installation AGAPE is a for-profit *network* of child traffickers and rapists that stretches from California to Florida.
And
@Eric_Schmitt
wouldn't prosecute them.
@berlin_bridge
@SamRamani2
The State of Missouri herby Annexes Southwestern Illinois for itself. Let’s face it, they’re all Cardinals fans already anyway, outside of Chicago, no one is really going to care that much.
Just throwing this out. Maybe now that
#BagelGate
happened, the rest of America knows that the real name for Panera is St. Louis Bread Co. has been St. Louis Bread Co. & always wil be St. Louis Bread Co.
Your Panera is from STL. YOU’VE BEEN EATING OUR BAGELS THE WHOLE TIME.
A statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the
#Soviet
Cheka (secret police), has been unveiled in Moscow at the headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service (
#SVR
). It is a slightly smaller version of the statue that stood on Lubyanka Square from 1958 to 1991.