Gatis Smagars

[Gatis Smagars @GatisSmagars]

@ByronMBader I love how your 'model' considers playing against actual NHL players and all-NHL teams, such as the US Olympic team or the World Championship team, completely irrelevant, despite Šmits scoring at a 0.50 PPG rate in both of these tournaments.

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@NHLPR Viktor Tikhonov, as the name suggests, is russian.

[The Defence Blog @Defence_blog]

France reportedly chose a Latvian drone-killer called BLAZE to protect its forces — after beating out competitors in a rigorous French military evaluation. First units arrive within weeks. France will also build them locally.

https://t.co/k4xlm8pt3c

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@NickBurns @ViljamsMauhuds Try sešpadsmitdaļfināls.

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@oplatsen Rēzekne does not have a russian majority.

The only such city is Daugavpils, a part of which is not even in Latgale.

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@BrianMcDonaldIE They don't need to reliably redirect anything. They need to redirect <5% of them.

To neutralize a swarming attack of 100s of Ukrainian drones, you would need to reliable redirect every single one.

Yet only about 90% are intercepted or jammed.

90>5.

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@BrianMcDonaldIE It's a combination of a couple of different factors. Ukraine is sending its drones alongside the NW edge of Russia.

Konigsberg, St. Petersburg and the border areas have a high saturation of EW assets.

The drones get jammed/spoofed.

They absolutely do that in St. Petersburg.

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@Janamaja @e_zvirgzdins @mansLMT https://t.co/p13H3obhsL

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@ottbrocj You do know that a war of independence is fought when a nation is not independent, right? So, in all likelihood, subdued by an empire. Weren't you guys in a similar pickle at one point?

Usually you don't get freedom as a gift.

I guess you did not get that lesson.

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@gareth_hayles @WarMonitor3 Once you remove the 'high alert' and realize that positioning Canadian forces in multiple training areas around the country has taken deliberate, planned, methodical work and hundreds of millions of euros in investments spanning a decade, what's left of the original post?

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@willnme2014 @WarMonitor3 No one outside of this random OSINT account on X has labeled it that way.

It's just attention farming.

This post should be brought down.

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@willnme2014 @WarMonitor3 A 10-year-long process involving the construction of one of the largest military training camps in this part of the world from scratch and a planned positioning of said forces in said training area qualifies as placing the Canadian brigade on high alert?

It's a blatant lie.

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@gareth_hayles @WarMonitor3 No, it was not.

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@WarMonitor3 You're spreading misinformation.

There is no high alert.

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@R9_Fury @legal0ve @TheEconomist Rosstat no longer publishes any demographic data since early 2025.

Surely, due to 'notably positive' trends.

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@andrewmichta What maneuver?

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@CrasimirVtori @wezmehcave @BrianMcDonaldIE It's much more complex than that.

But, for the sake of mapping out cultural regions of Europe, what matters is that Baltic Germans were autonomous within Latvia and Estonia and continued to rule until late 19th century, maintaining continuity with Central/Northern Europe.

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@ToFollowBrights @BrianMcDonaldIE The russians really have a limited soundboard. Are they not feeding you some newer soundbites? Anything about chihuahuas on your list there, buddy?

Also, that preconceived notion of wanting to be like someone else is so archetypically russian as well.

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@wezmehcave @BrianMcDonaldIE Lutheranism shaped our entire way of life - our holidays, interior design, sense of style, the Lutheran work ethic, a general reserve and understatement.

The list goes on. :-)