Dr. Faustus

Renaissance man.

[Dr. Faustus @Small_sam]

@TrueGradient @wartranslated He couldn’t possibly believe any of that, surely?

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@wartranslated Puts the Russian MoD’s casualty claims into perspective.

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@HoracioOli14981 @WeaponScientist Hardliners gotta hardline.

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@Free_ManFreedom @Chandre86817434 @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Because they’re idiots.

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

Historian Stephen Kotkin returns to @UncKnowledge with @P_M_Robinson for another round of five questions, this time on Iran, China, Ukraine, and the future of the American republic.

Kotkin argues that America still possesses unmatched strengths—economic, technological, military, and cultural—but warns that self-inflicted political dysfunction could squander them. He dissects Trump's Iran strategy, explains why China wants Taiwan "for free," argues that Ukraine has already won the sovereignty war against Russia, and delivers a powerful defense of America's founding ideals at a moment when both authoritarian regimes abroad and political extremism at home are testing them.

Sharp, provocative, and deeply informed, this is classic Kotkin: history as a guide to the geopolitical storms of the present. Watch the full conversation here:

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Damn. If only someone had been saying all these years that European countries should unite and at least close the skies over western Ukraine, helping Ukraine shoot down Russian missiles and drones there in order to:

a) relieve pressure on Ukraine’s air defenses in the rest of the country;
thereby guarantee their own security and b) ensure that no Russian drones or missiles cross NATO borders and strike Poland, Romania, or other European countries.

That’s all. Just shoot down flying pieces of metal, electronics, and plastic over Lviv, not even Russian aircraft with pilots at the front!

Why has nobody ever suggested this a million times over the years?

Apparently, it’s much wiser to keep burying your head in the sand and allowing Russian drones to crash into apartment buildings in European countries.

God forbid Putin gets angry and says it’s an ESCALATION!!!

[Dr. Faustus @Small_sam]

@TateTheTalisman @CommunityNotes This is a blatant falsehood.

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@TedMoondust @IMPEACHpedoNOW @SwedishPM @MountainDreami2 Gripens over F-35s would be a massive downgrade.

[Dr. Faustus @Small_sam]

@IMPEACHpedoNOW @SwedishPM @MountainDreami2 In other words, let’s deliberately make Canada weaker to own the red hats?

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@alextushinskiy @Alblogy @wartranslated

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

At the request of the U.S., Ukraine set up its Sky Map air defense system at Prince Sultan Air Base following the Iranian drone attack a U.S. base in Kuwait, which killed six American servicemen, and after another attack destroyed an E-3 Sentry aircraft in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine's TTPs helped the U.S. shoot down Shaheds ($20,000-50,000) without expending expensive munitions such as the Patriot interceptor ($6-$10 million).

[Dr. Faustus @Small_sam]

@Retired_CFO @PhillipsPOBrien Isn’t “5 days ago” a bit too recent to completely rewrite history?

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@paolomossetti @MikelSa88 @michaeldweiss You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Wartime Ukraine still has at least comparable press freedom to Trump’s America.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former press secretary Iuliia Mendel gave an interview to Tucker Carlson, an American conservative political commentator.

In this video, the Kyiv Independent’s Nastia Kasinchuk breaks down all the false claims that Mendel said in her one-and-a-half hour long interview, including the mobilization law in Ukraine, the freedom of speech and her claims about Zelensky himself.

[Dr. Faustus @Small_sam]

@LeonGoudikian @ColbyBadhwar So you think a common operating system magically makes up for insufficient available air defense systems?

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@TheDarkFacts @Kasparov63 Canada is openly courting EU membership (Ukraine’s “stupidity”). I’m yet to notice little green men in Toronto.

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@thechelskikid @Shedintears @_____dig @grok @NotAProjectCFC @dmacook Good day to you too.

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@Shedintears @_____dig @thechelskikid @grok @NotAProjectCFC @dmacook I’m certain the irony of telling a foreign-based fan of a team languishing in mid-table to go “glory hunt” elsewhere is entirely lost on you. Illiterate.

[Dr. Faustus @Small_sam]

@thechelskikid @Shedintears @_____dig @grok @NotAProjectCFC @dmacook 1. Short-term pain for long-term gain
2. A ruined atmosphere is the idea
3. This is precisely the sacrifice being asked of you
4. It costs them in-stadium spending, lowers demand forecast, and hurts club valuation
5. Never been done at a PE-owned club.

Cancelled my subscription.

[Dr. Faustus @Small_sam]

@thechelskikid @Shedintears @_____dig @grok @NotAProjectCFC @dmacook We know the tickets are paid for… perhaps it’s you who’s not listening? A private equity ownership isn’t at all hurt by the “optics” of falling demand? Really?