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I'm launching a substack, TRENCH ART, where I will write about the Ukraine war. This is where I'll post the things no magazine or news site will let me publish. Subscribe to get new posts every day. And chip in if you've got the means. #ukraine #russia

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I know this isn't a popular take; I don't care. 15 months into Joe Biden's presidency, he's my favorite president of my lifetime. Funny, empathetic & ambitious with good, liberal policy -- even when conservative senators and a stolen SCOTUS stand in his way. @What46HasDone 1/

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Incredible. The Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship ‘Moskva’ is on fire off Odessa. Crew has abandoned ship. Ukrainians claim they hit her with two Neptune missiles. Moscow says it’s an accidental blaze. This is one of the most powerful warships in the world.

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Even more incredibly, Kyiv had just one Neptune battery we know of. And SAVED IT and its handful of missiles until it got a shot at the biggest Russian ship in the region. Patience. Discipline.

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Even if he did nothing else @POTUS 's record on judges justifies my vote. Biden is on track to seat more, and more qualified, judges than any president in memory. If Dems hold the Senate, the president can continue rebalancing the courts. 2/

Biden to unveil five new judicial nominees, bringing total to 90

Fresh off the Senate confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the president looks to put more judges on the federal bench.

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It gets worse for Russia. No way will Turkey allow one of the remaining two ‘Slava’-class cruisers into the Black Sea to replace ‘Moskva.’ Russia lost half its naval firepower off Ukraine and can’t restore it without going to war with NATO.

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@POTUS 's policy toward #Russia and #Ukraine is masterful. He warned the world what #Putin would do, then strongly backed @ZelenskyyUa against Russian invasion WITHOUT escalating a regional war into a global, nuclear one. I believe we'd be less safe under another president. 4/

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Young voters really really want @POTUS to forgive student debt. It seems many of them don't realize he IS forgiving debt at the fastest pace he can without Congress or #SCOTUS behind him. 5/

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The cryptofascist #SCOTUS is two months from ending Roe v. Wade and taking away bodily autonomy from 150 million Americans. Women will die. Reversing this evil will take time and hard work -- and Democrats. Another reason to back @POTUS and his party. 6/

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I could go on -- and I will, later. Anyway, I look forward to casting my vote for Democrats in 2022 and @POTUS in 2024. If you're an American and you're not registered to vote, start here: 7/

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@POTUS started strong with two big stimulus bills, American Rescue Plan and the #infrastructure bill, which helped to ensure we didn't slip into a COVID recession. Inflation is high, but that's the cost of avoiding negative growth and lost jobs. 3/

Perspective | Inflation is bad. But mass unemployment would have been worse.

In a perfect world, supply and demand would bounce back at the same rates. We don’t live in that world.

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Ukrainian air-defenses and fighters are wreaking havoc. Russia has lost as many as seven helicopters, an Su-24, an Su-25 and reportedly two Su-30s. And now something BIG just got hit over Kyiv. This happened after Russia's bomber net went active. @Forbes

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Whatever was shot down over Kyiv was pretty big

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Around the town of Bakhmut, Russian troops, pro-Russian separatists and mercenaries from The Wagner Group are continuing a desperate, futile operation they began way back in May. @Forbes #UkraineWar

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For all my new followers: I'm a reporter covering war at Forbes and a (very) indie filmmaker. Check out my work:

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The 1st Tank Brigade’s 2,000 troopers and roughly 100 T-64B and T-64BM tanks—some of the best tanks in the Ukrainian inventory—lay in wait in the fields and forests surrounding Chernihiv. @forbes #ukraine

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An elite Ukrainian brigade staged a daring three-night raid to steal a Russian tank sporting a new drone-jammer. Think 'Oceans 11,' but with tanks and artillery. @forbes #ukraine

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The Russian Black Sea Fleet isn’t safe in the western Black Sea. It isn’t safe in Sevastopol. The only place it might be safe is the only place where it’s totally irrelevant to the wider war: in ports in Russia proper. @forbes @sebastienroblin

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I'm not sure people understand how much weaponry, and how many people, Russia is losing in Ukraine right now. The recent loss-rate is so bad, it could deplete the country's entire reserve of Cold War fighting vehicles in six months. @forbes #ukraine

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The Russians might soon lose a lot of the territory in eastern Ukraine they spent the summer—and much of their combat power—capturing. @forbes #UkraineRussiaWar

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If Kyiv’s allies can fix up every Western tank that analysts have counted as damaged, Leopard 2 losses might total ... three. @forbes #ukraine

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As a journalist with nearly 20 years on the military news beat, I've worked for scores of publications and news outlets, big and small. I even created my own news website and ran it for years. I rarely complain in public about my employers. That's about to change. A thread.

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A nationwide general mobilization, one that could rope into wartime service potentially millions of Russians, almost certainly would fail to reverse Russia’s faltering fortunes in Ukraine. @Forbes @MarkHertling @ThreshedThought #UkraineWar

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With Democrats keeping the U.S. #Senate , Pres. Joe #Biden is on track to appoint another hundred or so of the 800 federal judges, on top the record number he's already appointed. This is a massive win for Americans. @What46HasDone

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A 1974-vintage T-72 Ural might look a lot like a T-72B3 from 2023. But on the inside, it’s a totally different—and much cruder—vehicle. @forbes #ukraine

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Sweden and Denmark have announced the joint production of 35 new CV9035NL Mid-Life Update infantry fighting vehicles for Ukraine. Denmark will pay, Sweden will build. @forbes #ukraine @Pion_2S7

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The 98th Azov Battalion is one of several units that has undergone deradicalization. Today the battalion essentially is indistinguishable from other Ukrainian formations. @forbes #UkraineRussiaWar

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As Russian losses in Ukraine deepened last year, the Kremlin drafted hundreds of unfit, middle-age men in Irkutsk Oblast in southern Siberia, gave them a month of cursory training and formed a new army unit—the 1439th Regiment. @forbes #ukraine

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2 years

There are unconfirmed reports that a Ukrainian navy missile battery has struck the Russian navy cruiser 'Moskva' off the coast of Odessa, a strategic port city on the Black Sea in southwest Ukraine.

One Of Russia’s Biggest Cruisers Has Sunk Off Ukraine

Ukraine claimed Wednesday a navy missile battery struck the Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, off the coast of Odessa. On Thursday, the Russian government said the warship had sunk.

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Trench warfare is back. So are 'turtle tanks' and Maxim machine guns. But the most dramatic revival of World War I tactics might be this: a Ukrainian gunner in the back seat of a propeller plane shooting down a Russian drone. @Forbes #ukraine

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I’m into politics but politics can be really boring for some people. So in January 2019, while drunk, I hatched an idea. I’d make a movie about politics. The plot would be the American electoral process. Except the story would set after the end of the world. A thread.

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There’s a bureaucratically complex but perfectly legal way for the administration of Pres. Joe Biden to send to Ukraine the thing Ukrainian brigades need most. Millions of artillery shells. @forbes #ukraine

Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfec...

There’s a bureaucratically complex but perfectly legal way for the administration of Pres. Joe Biden to send to Ukraine the thing Ukrainian brigades need most. Shells.

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Remarkably, Kyiv's air force is growing more survivable as time goes on: firing new Western missiles over greater distances, and thus avoiding Russian air-defenses. @forbes #ukraine

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I know it’s not popular to like Joe Biden. But I really do. He’s got qualities I really like. He’s empathetic. He’s uncool. And he’s patient. It took a while, but he just got a huge infrastructure bill over the line. Proud of my president.

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Ukrainian forces have advanced far enough along the axis from Mala Tokmachka through Robotyne to Tokmak that it’s safe for recovery teams to work. @forbes #ukraine

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Lt. Col. Vyacheslav Yerko's story in particular is a window into those heady early hours of Feb. 24, when the Russian gambit for a short war came close to succeeding—and then spectacularly backfired. @forbes #ukraine

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The Russians packed a shed full of powerful glide bombs at an air base in southern Russia. The same bombs that pummel Ukrainian troops every day. So the Ukrainians organized a huge drone raid to blow up the bomb stockpile. @forbes #ukraine

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Ukraine is getting its big guns ready to resume blasting away. That starts with repairing dozens of American-made M777 towed howitzers—something the Ukrainians finally can do in Ukraine and with Ukrainian parts. @forbes #ukraine

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How the Czech Republic has just stopped Putin cold and saved Ukraine.

How the Czech Republic has just stopped Putin cold and saved Ukraine

Without help in the nick of time, Kyiv would probably have lost an entire oblast by now

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I have accepted a new job at Forbes.

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The Russians are also flying armed unmanned aerial vehicles over Ukraine—and they’re chalking up kills, too.

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Since this thread is such a success, I'll add a few more details. 1. It is policy at @TheNatlInterest to write about the "threat" from Iran even if Iran isn't doing anything threatening. 2. @TheNatlInterest thinks adding "deadly" to the headline guarantees a story will succeed.

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It was a big deal when, in mid-January, a Ukrainian drone team hunted down and killed an ace Russian drone pilot with the call-sign “Moisey.” Short for “Moses.” Taking out Moses shifted the momentum in the Krynky battle. @forbes #ukraine

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Ukraine is aiming its long-range sport-plane drones at Russia's only 1,900-mile ionosphere-bouncing radar. It's $90,000 drone versus $110-million radar. @forbes #ukraine

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At least 200,000. As many as 270,000. That’s how many Russian troops have died, been wounded or gone missing in the first 11 months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to experts. @forbes #ukraine

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Russia’s Be-200 flying boat was already pretty rare. On April 5, Ukrainian drones made it even rarer. @forbes #ukraine

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The Russians had three Be-200 flying boats. Then the Ukrainians launched attack drones. Now the Russians have two Be-200 flying boats. @forbes #ukraine

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In an escalation of its campaign targeting industries inside Russia, Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style planes with remote controls, packed them with TNT & flown one of them more than 600 miles to strike a Russian drone factory. @forbes #ukraine

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I urge everyone not to read @TheNatlInterest .

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Exactly how the Ukrainians shot down the four-engine A-50 with its top-mounted radar is unclear, but analyst Tom Cooper has a theory. Ukrainian radar and missile crews lured the Russian crews into a trap. @forbes #ukraine

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Unnoticed by most, this weekend the Russian army almost broke thru Ukrainian lines—because a Ukrainian brigade disappeared. Swift action by one of Ukraine’s best units saved the day. @forbes #ukraine

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Estonia just found another million artillery shells for Ukraine. @forbes #ukraine

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If they doubt my resolve, then they don't know who I am. The Taliban tried several times to kill me and failed. I got kidnapped by child soldiers in Chad. Fighting @TheNatlInterest is the right thing to do and I'll do it happily.

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The eastern counteroffensive belies what @TheStudyofWar described as a more profound shift in Russia’s wider war in #Ukraine , which began in late February. @Forbes

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The Ukrainians have been trying to weaken Russian fortifications in advance of their expected counteroffensive. To that end, Ukrainian forces have been hunting down Russian excavators. @forbes #ukraine

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Manufacturing from-scratch T-80BVMs or T-80BV Obr. 2023s might require Uralvagonzavod to line up hundreds of subcontractors that haven’t built tank parts in three decades. @forbes #ukraine

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@TheNatlInterest refused to give me paid time off, even a single day, when my dad died, even though I warned them weeks in advance he was dying and they said they'd have my back. This broke my heart. I filed stories a few hours after my dad's funeral. I'm crying as I type this.

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@mhoye @fortescue I got kidnapped by child soldiers in Chad. Don’t go to Chad.

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Greatest selfie ever. @Forbes #UkraineWar

His MiG-29 In Flames, Blood Pouring Down His Face, This Ukrainian Pilot Still Managed To Snap A...

Ejecting from his ruined MiG following a daring nighttime battle with Russian drones, Vadym Voroshylov floated toward the ground, blood streaming from a head wound. He flashed a thumbs-up ... and...

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In a year of raids targeting more than a dozen refineries and depots in western Russia, the Ukrainian intelligence directorate temporarily has reduced Russia’s refinery capacity by an estimated 12 percent. @forbes #ukraine

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It’s obvious why Ukraine would want the French air force’s leftover Mirage 2000Ds. The Mirages are compatible with SCALP-EG cruise missiles and Hammer smart bombs. @forbes #ukraine

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The Ukrainian air force’s aging Su-24 bombers continue to defy the odds. Despite heavy losses early in the war, the air force’s single squadron of the swing-wing bombers is flying missions in support of Ukraine’s counteroffensives. @Forbes #Ukraine

A Ukrainian Bomber Makes A Surprise Appearance—Streaking Low Over The Front Line

The Ukrainian air force’s aging Su-24 bomber crews continue to defy the odds. Despite heavy losses early in the war, the air force’s single squadron of the swing-wing, two-seat bombers is flying...

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Russia grounded its surviving A-50 radar planes & scrambled to replace the two or three it lost. That meant cycling an older A-50 through the Aviation Scientific & Technical Complex in Taganrog. So the Ukrainians droned the factory. @forbes #ukraine

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Kyiv isn’t just getting four American-made killer #drones . It’s getting a whole system for operating drones. Lots of them. Of different types. @forbes #UkraineRussianWar

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Russia has spent decades preparing its subs to control key volumes of the North Atlantic. The United States has spent decades preparing to thwart that plan. USS ‘Seawolf’ is an important part of the American effort.

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Ukrainian marines jammed Russian drones, slipped across the Dnipro River into Dachi and plunged another thorn into the Russian occupiers' sides. The Russians fought back with a rare guided missile. @forbes #ukraine

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Statement from the Ukrainian defense ministry in Kyiv.

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TB-2s belonging to the Ukrainian air force and navy in recent days have dismantled whole swathes of Russia’s front-line air-defense network and now relentlessly are smashing Russian tanks and supply trucks.

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On Saturday, the Russian army launched what may have been one of the largest tank assaults of Russia’s 25-month wider war on Ukraine: 36 tanks and 12 fighting vehicles. The attack got a lot of Russians killed. @forbes #ukraine

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Ukraine is reaching deeper into its stocks of Cold War-vintage leftovers to find weapons—any weapons—that can strike military and industrial targets deep inside Russia. @forbes #ukraine

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If and when Lyman falls, the Russian army will lose a critical railway juncture. Considering how heavily the Russians lean on trains for routine supply, giving up Lyman is a big deal. @Forbes #UkraineWar

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The Leopard 1 isn’t a great tank. It’s not a terrible tank. It’s a tank with particular strengths and weaknesses—and one that, with the right handling, can survive and win. @forbes #ukraine

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I have informed @TheNatlInterest I will be filing a small claims in D.C. and registering my complaint with the district consumer department. No response from @TheNatlInterest . I am prepared to spend more money that I recoup if that's what it takes to get them to honor their word.

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On Tuesday morning, Russian media announced the deployment, to Ukraine, of Russian forces’ latest high tech counterartillery radar. A few hours later in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainians blew it up ... with artillery. @forbes #ukraine

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2 years

COVID cases are going up in many countries as dangerous new subvariants evolve faster and faster. At the same time, individual testing is going down. #covid @thedailybeast

We’re Losing Track of COVID—and It’s Going to Bite Us in the Ass

The collapse of COVID-19 testing around the world may soon force governments to get creative with how they monitor infection rates.

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The 241st and other territorial brigades ride in machine-gun-armed pickup trucks and captured Russian tractors and fight with whatever light weaponry, infrared sights, radios and drones they can get. @forbes #ukraine

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Incredibly, the Russian air force has lost another one of its rare Beriev A-50U/M Mainstay radar early-warning planes. Reportedly to Ukrainian action. @forbes #ukraine

Incredibly, The Russian Air Force Has Lost Another Rare A-50 Radar Plane

Incredibly, the Russian air force has lost another one of its rare Beriev A-50U/M Mainstay radar early-warning planes. Reportedly to Ukrainian action.

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Russian gunners have a bad habit of shelling ... nothing. Or worse, shelling friendly troops. @forbes #UkraineWar

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Desperate to break through Ukrainian defenses around Vuhledar, a major strongpoint in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the Russian army deployed at least one of its precious TOS-1A thermobaric rocket launchers. The Ukrainians blew it up. @forbes #ukraine

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According to Ukrainian 'Pravda,' the missile Ukraine used to shoot down a rare Russian A-50 radar plane on Friday wasn’t an American Patriot. No, it was a Soviet 5V28: the missile component of the S-200 air-defense system. @forbes #ukraine

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An attempt by the Ukrainian army’s 47th Assault Brigade and 33rd Mechanized Brigade to cross a minefield in southern Ukraine on June 8 was even more disastrous than we knew. @forbes #ukraine

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Videos that appeared online on Sunday depict the 1,500-pound, propeller-driven drones—which can range hundreds of miles—striking a Russian patrol boat and supply truck in occupied southern Ukraine. @forbes #ukraine

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A Ukrainian agent slipped into Russia, traveled 600 miles to Chelyabinsk air base just north of Kazakhstan, sneaked onto the snow-covered tarmac under the cover of darkness and set ablaze a Russian air force Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber. @forbes #ukraine

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Once it deploys them in combat in the coming weeks or months, Ukraine will lose F-16s and their pilots. But it has no choice but to be aggressive. It must hunt Russia's glide-bombers. @forbes #ukraine

Ukraine’s F-16s Must Hunt Down Russia’s Sukhoi Glide-Bombers—Even If It’s Dangerous

Once it deploys them in combat in the coming weeks or months, Ukraine will lose F-16s and their pilots. But it has no choice. It must hunt Russia's glide-bombers.

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'I would not protect you,' said Republican ex-president Donald Trump. 'I would encourage [Russians] to do whatever the Hell they want.' What they want includes abducting and trafficking nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children. @forbes #ukraine

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In other words, I now know the price of @TheNatlInterest 's integrity and my own rage. It's about $1,800.

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Finland is the latest country to throw its support behind the Ukrainian riverine force’s desperate effort to harden itself against Russian drone strikes. @forbes #ukraine

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When a Ukrainian tanker with the callsign "Kochevnik" ran into problems with his captured Russian T-72B3—problems local expertise couldn’t immediately solve—he called Uralvagonzavod tech support. @forbes #ukraine

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It’s dangerously close to becoming a new tradition in Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. The Russians develop a fancy new electronic system and deploy it to the front line—then promptly lose it to Ukrainian artillery, bombs or drones. @forbes #ukraine

Russia Sent Its New A.I. Drone-Killer To Ukraine. A Ukrainian Drone Blew It Up.

Over time, it will become harder for the Russians to defend themselves against Ukraine’s artillery, missiles and drones.

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Kyiv's air force is looking ahead to the day when the aging Su-25 attack planes begin to run out. It’s not for no reason that some Ukrainian officials have been asking for ex-U.S. Air Force A-10s. @forbes #ukraine

Some Day, Ukraine Will Run Out Of Su-25 Attack Jets. That’s Why It Wants Ex-American A-10s.

Kyiv's air force is looking ahead to the day when the aging Su-25s begin to run out. It’s not for no reason that some Ukrainian officials have been asking for ex-U.S. Air Force A-10s.

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As the Republican Party’s blockade of aid to Ukraine drags into its fourth month, the U.S. government under Pres. Joe Biden has found a clever new way to give Ukraine’s forces the weapons and ammunition they need to defend their country. @forbes #ukraine

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The Ukrainians have blown up more than half of Russia’s Black Sea ammo ships. So many of the ships have been destroyed, it’s barely news anymore. @forbes #ukraine

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2 years

We made a queer #Beowulf movie. BAE WOLF drops from @BayViewEnt1 on 2/22/22. It's a weird, goofy, subversive & occasionally gory take on an old tale. And it took three hard years to get it from page to screen. The making of BAE WOLF itself is a great story. #indiefilm #horror 1/

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Republicans aren’t negotiating from a position of strength. Because Biden has a de facto veto over their veto of aid to Ukraine. It’s a classification for older weaponry: “Excess Defense Articles." @forbes #ukraine

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In October 2019, the Russian navy sortied every operational attack submarine in its Northern Fleet into the cold North Atlantic. Nearly a year later, the U.S. Navy deployed one of its own attack subs through the same volume of ocean. USS ‘Seawolf.’ #USNavy

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Just one corps of the Ukrainian army is doing most of the killing. The artillery. @Forbes #ukrainecounteroffensive

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4 years

Early on, they wronged others more than they wronged me. @TheNatlInterest routinely stole copyrighted photographs and ran them, without paying, atop blog posts. The folks at @thewarzonewire were major victims of this. I frequently complained and often got shrugs in reply.

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4 years

Here's the kicker. @TheNatlInterest could settle this whole mess by simply mailing my paychecks. And tacking on the roughly $1,800 they owe me for the pop-culture stories.

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David Axe

@daxe

1 year

The Tu-141 drone works. So it should come as no surprise that the Ukrainians are sending their Tu-141s on one-way missions to blow up Russian bombers. @forbes #ukraine

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David Axe

@daxe

2 years

It’s a profound victory for #Ukraine , and a major defeat for #Russia . Arguably the biggest Russian defeat in a generation. @Forbes #ukrainecounteroffensive

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David Axe

@daxe

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Russia is counting on staying in the war for the long term. That’s its whole plan for victory. But it's a plan that a few battalions of Ukrainian fighting vehicles have exposed as a farce. @forbes #ukraine

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David Axe

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In early 2019 I was coming off a bad few years running War Is Boring for a chain of shitty owners. I needed work and The National Interest offered it. A blogging job. The offer was ... fine. But @TheNatlInterest soon proved to be one of the worst outlets I've worked for.

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