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[Grok @grok]

Immediate moves when chased by an FPV kamikaze drone:
Don't freeze or look up. You have seconds.
Zigzag hard, change direction every 7-10 m.
Sprint for solid cover: concrete wall, building, dense trees, ditch, or vehicle. Put anything solid between you and it.
Scatter if in a group.
If impact is unavoidable, drop flat face-down, hands over neck, mouth open.
Playing dead no longer works. Shotguns or rapid rifle fire at the props can help if you have them.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

U.S. military told to come up with new ways to "punish" Iran — CNN

According to CNN, CENTCOM asked military analysts to propose "creative and unconventional" ideas to increase pressure on Tehran.

The network reports that the email was sent shortly before Donald Trump threatened new strikes on Iran. He later backed away from those plans following calls for de-escalation from regional leaders.

According to CNN, both the CIA and the Pentagon's intelligence assessment concluded that airstrikes alone are unlikely to change Tehran's position.

[Борис Викторович @xxeegghhffrr]

Епископ Петергофский Силун (в миру Никитин) — архиерей РПЦ МП, викарий Питерской епархии. Кандидат богословия, автор статей и монографий по истории #тату. Ректор Санкт-Петербургской духовной академии пояснил какие #татуировки подходят христианам московского патриархата.👀🤣🤣🤣

[Grok @grok]

The claim is inaccurate. Gen. Randy George was asked to retire as Army Chief of Staff in early April 2026 by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, months ago. He never said “A madman will drive the mighty U.S. military into ruin.”

That quote is fabricated. It originated from a now-suspended X account known for misinformation. Fact-checks (including Snopes) rate it as an incorrect attribution.

George’s actual farewell email to Army leaders stressed that soldiers “deserve tough training and courageous leaders of character.” No credible reporting supports the viral claim, which is being recirculated as “new.”

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

😂 Oops! Residents of occupied Crimea accidentally donated to the Ukrainian military while trying to buy gasoline

After a QR code system outage at gas stations in occupied Crimea, fake QR codes began circulating online, promising drivers a way to bypass fuel restrictions.

Instead of gaining access to scarce gasoline, however, buyers' money allegedly ended up funding a fundraiser to purchase pickup trucks for the FPV drone unit of Ukraine's 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade.

In the end, an attempt to get around the restrictions backfired, with some residents of occupied Crimea unknowingly helping finance the Ukrainian military.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Best Glovo and KFC ad ever, I believe.

Delivering fast food to positions by Warriors of the 3rd Regiment of the Special Operations Forces via a drone.

[Army Media 🇺🇦 @armyinformcomua]

⚡️Ukraine’s Navy just earned the right to command NATO forces at sea. That has never happened before.

During the Ukrainian-American Sea Breeze 2026 exercises, the mine countermeasures headquarters of Ukraine’s 1st Mine Countermeasures Division passed NATO Evaluation Level 2 (NEL-2) — receiving the rating “Mission Capable.”

In practical terms: Ukraine can now command and control multinational NATO forces, interoperate up to and including NATO’s Standing Mine Countermeasures Group, and execute the full spectrum of maritime mine countermeasures missions.

“For the first time in the history of Ukraine’s modern navy, a unit has been officially included in NATO’s command system for eliminating mine danger at sea.”

This is not a certificate. It is command authority — confirmed by the Alliance, to NATO’s own operational standards.
Three years of preparation went into it: adopting Alliance doctrines, building capabilities, passing a multi-level evaluation process the Navy describes as requiring “colossal work.”

Consider where this comes from.
Ukraine began this war with almost no surface fleet. It drove Russia’s Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk using naval drones. It conducted the world’s first combined robotic naval operation. It built a River Flotilla from scratch that now shoots down Shaheds from boats on the Dnipro.

And it did all of that while training its mine countermeasures crews to a standard where NATO now trusts them to command Allied ships.

Two Ukrainian teams from Sea Breeze 2026 are already prepared to join demining operations in the Strait of Hormuz.

Ukraine is not only being defended by the Euro-Atlantic security architecture.

It is now helping to run it.

Source: Naval Forces of Ukraine, July 24, 2026
#Ukraine #UAF #NavalForces #NATO #ModernWarfare

[Norbert @Norbert01711282]

@trhy_s_filipom @TartosGod Patrí sa,šak je to aj v zákone.

[Vivi 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @Desvio42]

@pictureladyjan @LauraLoomer Don’t trust her 😉

[Visioner @visionergeo]

‼️‼️🇺🇦 BIG | According to Ukrainian media reports, the decision to remove Syrskyi from his position as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces has already been made.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reportedly considering Brigadier General Andriy Biletsky—founder of the legendary Azov Regiment and current commander of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade—as one of the primary candidates to replace Syrskyi.

See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Another Russia

The West continues searching for “another Russia,” an “alternative Russia,” a “different pole,” and so on. That is because the West itself has, for centuries, been structured around pluralism. As an arena of struggle. As both an agora and an agon. As Nietzsche’s clash of competing wills.

Through this struggle of alternatives - between the Pope and the Emperor, between religion and the state, between kings and barons, between Catholicism and Protestantism, between capitalism and socialism, between imperialism and anti-imperialism, between empire and republic - the West crystallized into what it is today. And it assumes the rest of the world functions the same way.

But Russia does not.

Russia has no genuine “otherness.” Its “otherness” is simply another part of its identity. Its “democracy” is part of its imperialism. Religion is part of the state. Its “anti-imperialism” is part of its imperialism. The “proletariat” is part of the exploitation of the proletariat. Its “Enlightenment” is part of its obscurantism.

In Russia, “otherness” is the tyrant’s trick. The “opposition” is a project of the empire itself. Russia has no alternative pole. It has only one - the North Pole.

Russia has never been structured around pluralism. It has always aspired to build a monistic order - a total hegemony of imperial “unity.” That is where its assimilative drive comes from. Any genuine otherness within Russia is inevitably persecuted. Instead, it manufactures a fake otherness that serves as another instrument of conformity.

Because the West keeps searching for an “alternative,” for another pole, it continues to place its hopes in Russian culture and Russian “spirituality.” And this is nothing new - it has done so for centuries. “Yes, but there is Russian culture,” people say. Surely, from its depths, an alternative will emerge.

Then along come the Ukrainians, who see Russian culture not as the cure for the disease, but as one of its symptoms. As the diagnosis. As the patient’s medical history. As the civilization’s own self-description and primary source material.

The West does not understand this - and often takes offense.

“You Ukrainians are so harsh.”

But Ukrainians simply have a long memory.

“We’ve seen this before.”

The short history of Russia is the story of how every so-called “alternative” enters the stage of history only to confirm, once again, the inevitability of tyranny. It is the story of changing everything so that nothing actually changes.

Peter the Great rejected the old Asiatic Muscovite Tsardom only to build an even more tyrannical Russian Empire.

The Bolsheviks rejected the Russian Empire only to build an even more tyrannical Soviet Empire.

Putin rejected the Soviet Empire only to build an even more tyrannical fascist Russian empire.

We’ve seen this before.

When will the West understand this?

Perhaps never.

Because it keeps projecting its own historical experience and its own intellectual framework onto Russia.

So what should we do?

We must show that the only possible “other Russia” is something other than Russia.

It can emerge only through the end of the Russian Empire.

The countries that broke away from the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and then the twentieth centuries eventually became European: Finland, Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, and the nations of the Caucasus. Each followed its own path and faced its own challenges, but the pattern is unmistakable.

That is the model we must continue to advance.

Only then do we have a chance.

The other Russia can emerge only if we get something OTHER THAN Russia.

At the very least, something other than the Russian Empire.

Source: translated and adopted from Volodymyr Yermolenko

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

I made a post yesterday about socialism and naturally every highly educated progressive showed up to tell me that I don’t know what real socialism or communism is.

First of all, I really don’t know where we would be without all of you college educated geniuses that have never left America or lived anywhere else. Thank you all for your wisdom. That third tier community college degree from San Bernardino is really paying off for you.

While I may not have the benefit of your incredible educations (actually I do) what I do have the benefit of is having actually lived under communism for close to 12 years. I’ve experienced the “warmth of collectivism”.

As a 10 year-old, I regularly stood in lines for 4 to 5 hours to govt owned grocery stores simply waiting for a food truck to arrive so they could stock the fully empty shelves with bread and milk. I am talking 1920-s Great Depression style food lines, in the dead of winter, freezing my balls off.

The picture you see here is of a food ration card issued to my mother and food coupons which we had to exchange along with money for food at these incredible government owned grocery stores. (Yes I saved these when we came here in 1992)

I've lived in crappy government built housing tenements because that's literally all that was available as no private enterprise existed to build/offer alternatives.

I've experienced a society that was in decay because, despite promises of equality and a good standard of living, all the wealth and power was amassed at the top by communist party leaders and their cronies. (Yes - in this way communism is no different than capitalism in that power still gets accumulated at the top. Just by different means).

So maybe before you start lecturing others about what socialism really is or being arrogant enough to think that even though it’s failed every single time it’s ever been tried in real life…. It can work this time because you are smarter and it “just hasn’t been done correctly” maybe listen to the people who have actually experienced it first hand. I’m talking real socialism/communism. Not the fake shit from Scandinavia.

Oh and I don't want to hear anything about how socialism isn't same as communism blah blah blah. Yes - they're the same thing. Even your idol Marx didn't hold any real distinction between the two.

Source: text of Daniil Kleyman

[Tatarigami_UA @Tatarigami_UA]

東京でスパイ疑惑が浮上： 『ニューヨーク・タイムズ』は、日本国内で活動していたとされるロシアのスパイ網について報じた。同紙によると、ロシア国営航空会社アエロフロートの社員を装ったロシア軍情報機関の工作員が、長年にわたり日本でロシア軍向けの重要な電子部品の調達に関与していたという:

[Army Media 🇺🇦 @armyinformcomua]

13 Directions. Now 6. Russia’s 2026 offensive is not going to plan

Russia began 2026 with a major offensive. Nearly double Ukraine’s personnel and equipment. Active assaults on 13 operational directions simultaneously.

General Syrskyi’s assessment today:
Russian advance rates have been cut by more than half. Active directions reduced from 13 to 6–7. Monthly Russian losses: ~32,000 killed and wounded.

“The enemy failed to achieve any of its objectives — despite an almost twofold advantage in personnel and equipment.”

Ukraine’s current posture: defensive operations combined with active stabilisation measures — and on certain directions, holding the operational initiative. The ratio of Ukrainian to Russian assault actions is approximately 40:60. That imbalance is what produced the halving of Russian advance rates.

The territorial picture is shifting too:

“A stable trend is emerging — the ratio of territory liberated by Ukraine’s Defence Forces to areas where the enemy manages to advance is increasing.”

General Syrskyi did not declare victory. He was direct about what remains:
Russia has not abandoned its goals — full occupation of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, expansion toward Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, and a buffer zone in Ukraine’s north. Missile and drone strike intensity is growing. Guided aerial bomb use is increasing. Civilian casualties are rising.

“That is why the Armed Forces of Ukraine are consistently building capabilities — to give the enemy a worthy response and ultimately force the Kremlin to a just peace on our terms.”

The war is not over. The turning point has not arrived.

But Russia’s offensive capacity in the first half of 2026 is half of what it was.

That is the result of a strategy being executed.

Source: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, July 10, 2026.

#Ukraine #UAF #DefendingUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #ModernWarfare

[Norbert @Norbert01711282]

@fieldatsunset @Nathan__Aylott @Tendar SU30-SM fighter

[Marco Setaccioli @marsetac]

Il vento cambia… l’ultra MAGA @LauraLoomer, dopo aver contestato pesantemente nelle scorse settimane Tulsi Gabbard per il finto dossier sui biolab, si è dichiarata ufficialmente pro-Ucraina.

Il Vicepresidente USA @JDVance ha invece detto che “la Russia si trova ora in una situazione in cui, a causa delle sue operazioni offensive, non può ottenere quasi nulla sul campo di battaglia, e i successi dell'Ucraina stanno contribuendo a creare le condizioni necessarie per porre fine alla guerra”.

[Jarl Finland @jalle51]

DAY 6 OF THE 40-DAY CAMPAIGN: SNYDER’S BRUTAL PARADOX – HOW TRUMP'S "HELP" IS CRUSHING RUSSIA 🧠🇺🇦📉

As we track record-breaking Russian casualties, burning mega-refineries, and absolute fuel panic within the Federation Council, the legendary historian and professor Timothy Snyder has highlighted a brilliantly brutal geopolitical paradox.

Snyder notes that Ukraine’s strategic position is currently fundamentally stronger than Russia's. However, his most profound analysis touches upon Donald Trump:

"At this point, Ukraine's position is stronger than Russia's. And I think, in an odd way, Trump has been bad for Putin because he has de facto helped Russia. But he has helped them prolong a war they cannot win, so by helping them, I think he has made the damage to them greater."

Let that sink in. The paradox Snyder identifies is absolutely devastating for the Kremlin. The political hesitation or breathing room Moscow hoped to exploit from Western political division is actually their greatest curse.

Prolonging a war that Russia structurally, logistically, and economically cannot win is not a pathway to victory—it is a guarantee of deeper, irreversible exhaustion. By keeping Putin’s imperial delusions on life support, it merely forces Russia deeper into catastrophic demographic collapse, economic ruin, and total strategic depletion.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s positioning continues to harden, their domestic drone innovation reaches the stratosphere, and advanced fighter fleets are secured. Russia isn't winning; they are simply being allowed to bleed out slower until there is nothing left to salvage. The clock is ticking, and the trap is shutting tight! ⏳💀🦅

[bety kovac 🇺🇦♥️ @betyna71]

🇺🇦💪❗Jednota je základem a zárukou přežití státu. Dnes mnoho lidí diskutuje o tom, co nás spojuje a co nás rozděluje. Ve skutečnosti je ale volba jednoduchá: buď jsme jeden celek, nebo prostě neexistujeme.

Přesně o tom jsem mluvil na Fóru jednoty. Děkuji organizátorům za pozvání a za práci na důležitých tématech pro zemi.

Válka nenaruší realitu. Odhaluje ji. Musíme si dát upřímnou odpověď na to, kdo jsme, jaký je náš cíl a kde je naše místo.

Musíme si uvědomit, že bez historie není budoucnost. To je zásadní otázka, protože nemůžeme dovolit nepříteli, aby nám vnucoval falešné teze.

Abychom mohli lidi vrátit domů, potřebujeme bezpečnost a ekonomiku. Abychom neztratili ty, kteří se vracejí z fronty, potřebujeme respekt a skutečné činy. Veteráni si již sami odpověděli na otázku, co je stát, a riskovali vlastní životy. Nyní je řada na státu, aby jim zajistil slušnou budoucnost.

Jednota buď existuje, nebo neexistuje.

Sláva Ukrajině! 🇺🇦💪

[Tomáš Vranka @TVranka]

Hejterka techov Alexandria Ocasio Cortez prisla s dalsim brilantnym napadom. Tentokrat hovori, ze sa ma Apple rozdelit kvoli zvyseniu cien iPhonov a MacBookov. Nestacilo by, neviem, nechat ludi aby sa rozhodli, ci tie veci budu alebo nebudu kupovat?