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In discussion w/ Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of Lviv, Ukraine. The Steel Porcupine is my second film on the Ukraine-Russia conflct. A cinematic experience. Free.

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The Steel Porcupine -- Official Trailer.
"An unforgettable cinematic experience that exposes Russia's campaign of extermination in Ukraine, the Ukrainian people's spirt to resist and prevail and the world's response. A Masterpiece."

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UK has, was, and is leading the way.

For those who are not aware, The Monarch's Christmas Speech, this year The King's Christmas Speech, is an annual tradition in which the monarch speaks directly to the public. Support for Ukraine in this manner is symbolic, sincere, and significant.

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Merry Christmas, 2025! Carol of the Bells from two years ago, and still relevant...

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Sound on LOUD:

Christmas Greetings from wartime Ukraine.

Presenting for the first time an excerpt from the upcoming film To The Zero Line.

Real life during four seasons. Christmas is happening.

The spirit is strong, unbroken, in the fight for their lives.

See the film all at once or in episodes. Streaming free. Url will be tweeted next week.

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@mobbs_mentality The social media world is like a script for a movie where people write it, other's erase lines, insert their own, on and on.

So here's a bit of reality. Chuck Pfarrer, former US Navy SEAL keeping score on last night's aerial attack:

https://t.co/mQL2awcUL8

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DEFENDERS: My friend @bayraktar_1love breaks down UKR’s air defense victories during the night of 6 DEC. UKR radar units detected and tracked 704 aerial incoming threats:
•51 missiles (including 17 ballistic)
•653 UAVs of various types, including 300 Shaheds
•3 Kh-47M2 Kinzhals
•34 cruise missiles (Kh-101/Iskander-K/Kalibr)
•14 ballistic missiles (Iskander-M/KN-23).
The sore:
•615 aerial targets shot down or suppressed (85%)
•585 attack UAVs (Shahed, Geran, and others) (94%)
•29 cruise missiles (Kh-101/Iskander-K/Kalibr) (76%)
•1 ballistic missile (Iskander-M/KN-23)

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@ZelenskyyUa @SteveWitkoff @jaredkushner @rustem_umerov Steel Porcupine.

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I believe this was a strategic miscalculation by the USA. Trade has always been part of the calculus in the negotiations, and Europe had attempted to move towards providing revenue to USA companies. Europe and Israel manufacture almost every weapons system they need for Europe equal to kr just good enough to do the job. So what does USA do? It became an unreliable seller. BATNA is available to thr Europeans. Which makes trade with Russia more lucrative to some parties in the USA than trade with Europe. The art of the deal, based on leverage and power of one party over another is severely limited when the other side has alternstives aka BATNA.

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The fundamentals:
1) Ukraine's terms for Victory: Rubio articulates some very key points.

2) Russia's war aims.

These basic concepts should be front of mind during "talks".

Russia's goal, for 100 years, has been to have Ukraine without Ukrainians. What should Ukraine agree to?

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The world leaders (is that the right word) will go down in infamy and are accomplishes to murder. Those who act now, can redeem themselves as heros. Those who dither will become this century's Neville Chamberlains, but worse. Chamberlain did not yet see what was to become. He was a fool to facilitate its coming. These bunch see it all in plain site happening and they are not stopping it, making them collaborators, or they can become heros. History is being written now -- for all time.

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@SergiyKyslytsya @StefanishynaO It is nice to see you smiling.

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@MichaelBur22262 Thanks, Michael. It’s wild that so many people — even in the White House — still have no real sense of what this war is at its core. But many of us do. The Steel Porcupine breaks it down in 37 minutes.

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@JPLindsley Russia must be stopped. The European leaders, everybody sees it now.

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@SergiyKyslytsya The Ukrainian team performed magnificently under immense pressure in the past few days. Equally important to the men and women on the ground in battle, the diplomatic corp is often invisible, and never more than these past few days, cherished.

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@mobbs_mentality Meaghan. Thank you for asking all the right questions. You're damn good posting a few words with a question mark.

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@ZelenskyyUa https://t.co/Hm0rxaYz6s

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Bill Clinton: “I feel terrible” convincing Ukraine to disarm their nuclear. “None of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons.”

A scene from The Steel Porcupine -- the movie. Streaming free.

A must see for decision makers of today. It’s about where the conflict is now in 2025. With an introduction by Nate Vance, former US marine who fought three years for Ukraine.

Experience this extraordinary 37 minute film yourself, and you’ll never see the Russian-Ukraine conflict the same way again. It’s raw. The political, military and personal.

The mentality in Ukraine, Russia, and the geopolitics. Informative and emotional, it traces the Russian national project—over 100 years of genocidal onslaughts to take land and erase the people—and the Ukrainian will to prevail that endures to this day. The atrocities: murder, rape, the abduction of children. Trump. Putin. Zelensky. NATO. The EU. The will of Ukrainians to prevail remains as fierce as ever—a fight to defend their heritage, and the right to be free. From the creators of To The Zero Line. Profile has url for free viewing.

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@20gimsack Segi. Many people think about numbers in war and life. And talk impersonally. Even podcasters. Not you. You look deeper at things, and see the human side, too. It means a lot to me that you see that in my art.

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@beer4brekkie @FreeUkraine91 He hasn't been blocked.

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@Martin_Runs @20gimsack @toonie_tuesday Pompey fella. Thanks for the shoutout. Segi is one of the best podcast mates I've come across, a thoughtful conversationalist.

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@JPLindsley JP. Thank you for the graphic clarity of Russia's campaign to erase with bombs Christian churches across Ukraine. Of course I know about it. This graphic is worth a thousand words.

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@frontlinekit The Russian goal: To have Ukrainians without Ukrainians.

These methods together, mechanisms of its genocidal/eliminationist campaign, the Russian national project going back 100 years becomes obvious.

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@willthiel A person could get rich betting on your analysis.

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@ChuckPfarrer Congratulations Chuck and Alan. Your maps and insights help me understand what I would not be able to understand without you.