Israel Archuletta

Polymath • Foreign Affairs Specialist • Strategist • Intelligence Analyst • Historian • Love Diplomacy & Geopolitics, & Ukraine | work @DeptofWar, @AU_SIS grad

[Israel Archuletta @archulettai]

Loved being on the A Team! Where we took care of the victims of AHI attacks #HavanaSyndrome & and were protecting the warfighter. CFT took on where the @ODNIgov & @CIA dropped the ball. Go to 1:15:30 and hear these victims talk about “DoD and the CFT”. @DeptofWar @MarkSZaidEsq #ItstheRussiansStupid #TheRussiansDidIt #MoscowRulesdontapply #Russia #microwaveweapons #DirectedEnergyWeapons @SenatorCollins @SenatorShaheen

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Spicy episode indeed of @TheTeamHousePod . The title, sadly, is spot on. An institution I loved has lost its way. My sixth appearance on the pod, and probably the most important one I’ve done. Fortunately, I’m joined by “Adam,” one of first victims from the Embassy Havana attack. Adam is a hero to so many of us for his relentless advocacy for health care for TBI/PTS, and uncovering the awful cover-up. No one more important in bringing this issue to light. He has been a friend and now life long brother. Finally, thanks @JackMurphyRGR and @dee_takos for your relentless support over the years on this issue. Independent journalists and podcasts like @TheTeamHousePod have done enormous service for Americans who believe in ntl security and public service, but also demand good govt that is accountable. 🫡

[Israel Archuletta @archulettai]

"Get OUT of CRIMEA — to SIBERIA": "MAGYAR'S" final warning to Russians | #UkraineWillWin | Robert #Brovdi, callsign "#Magyar", Commander of Ukraine's @usf_army Unmanned Systems Forces, explained how #drones are changing the course of the war. #Ukraine is systematically isolating occupied #Crimea by destroying the Russian army's fuel, energy, and naval logistics. According to Brovdi, the goal is to deprive the occupiers of their ability to maintain and supply their military forces on the peninsula. He also explained how civilian drones evolved into a strike force, outlined five steps to protect NATO borders, and warned about the future of mass Shahed drone attacks.
https://t.co/5mWd0Cmwwx via @UATV_en
@414magyarbirds @DefenceU @Ukraine @TVPWorld_com @ZelenskyyUa @michaeldweiss @Gerashchenko_en @StateDeptPM @UKRinNATO @intelNewsOrg @professorgerdes @DeptofWar @AU_SIS @DOW_Policy

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

As DNI-Designate Clayton is scheduled to appear before Congress tomorrow for his nomination hearing, it is incumbent that Senators on SSCI press him on getting to the bottom of Havana Syndrome, also known as Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs). The previous DNI correctly rescinded the old intelligence assessments, and it is time for a new one to be drafted, that takes into account a volume of new intelligence plus review of what was previously (and unfortunately) discounted. Pls see my piece in @WarOnTheRocks https://t.co/WThE4daXSS for a suggested way forward. Accountability, Access to Health Care, and Attribution. @MarkSZaidEsq @C__Herridge @michaeldweiss @TomRtweets @SashaIngber @shaneharris @ngameztorres @60Minutes @alexplitsas @wstrobel @Olivia_Gazis @LarryPfeifferDC @RohdeD

[414 Magyar's Birds @414magyarbirds]

Magyar’s poetry update: the shadow fleet is wasting away – and it should disappear as a species.

+11⚓️🔥 on the night of July 14. In just 9 days, USF Birds have hunted down 116 vessels in the Sea of Azov as part of Operation "MoLoCHKa": 5 oil tankers, 5 dry cargo vessels, and 1 tugboat.

The shadow fleet is wasting away – and it should disappear as a species.

A lot of people don't fully understand what's happening around this naval battle. Where did all these tankers come from? What's their mission? And why are the USF Birds hammering them without sinking them, instead turning them into ghost ships drifting at sea? I'll find the time and record a video explaining it all.

For now, here's the short version: PARALYZING russia's feeder fleet – the small and medium 140-meter flat-bottomed "courier" tankers with a deadweight of around 7,000 tons – effectively cripples a major component of russia's shadow fleet. It prevents the export of its "black gold" from river-port oil transshipment bases and loading terminals through the Volga–Don Canal and the Sea of Azov to large tankers. Those larger tankers can't reach the oil terminals or ports because of their draft, so they're forced to load offshore in the Black Sea from these courier tankers, each of them taking on cargo delivered by 12–15 of these little water shuttles.

Burning these worm-camels of the sea – along with the tugboats that keep dragging them around after they've been hit – also limits deliveries of scarce gasoline to Crimea through the shallow bottleneck of the Sea of Azov. That leaves road and rail tankers as the primary supply route – a far more dangerous option, since both remain under the fire control of the Freedom-Loving Ukrainian Bird, whether they move on asphalt or rails.

That turned into quite a sentence, but the curious ones will figure it out. I'll explain the rest more clearly in another video soon. Promise.

Back to work, gentlemen! We've got a hell of a lot to do.

We will stand.
Moscow will fall, MoLoChKa⚓️is in action.
Crimea will be fed back up and rebuilt.

Online scoreboard “PIDRAKHUYKA”
https://t.co/dGuQnteiUl

MAGYAR🇺🇦
14.07.26

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

In just one week, Ukraine destroyed or immobilized 105 russian ships operating in the Azov and Black Seas.

For months, many people asked: Why isn’t Ukraine targeting more russian ships?

The answer may be that Ukraine wasn’t waiting - it was preparing.

What we’re witnessing now looks less like a series of isolated attacks and more like a systematic campaign to cripple russia’s maritime logistics.

Ukraine has dramatically expanded its long-range strike capabilities and drone production. Instead of going after individual targets, it is now hitting entire supply networks: tankers, ferries, cargo vessels, ports, and fuel infrastructure. The objective is not simply to sink ships - it is to make the occupation of Crimea and southern Ukraine increasingly difficult and expensive to sustain.

Over a seven-day period, Ukraine destroyed or immobilized 105 russian ships in the Azov and Black Seas. Even if not every vessel was sunk, disrupting shipping on this scale can have enormous military and economic consequences.

Wars are not won only by destroying armies. They are won by destroying an enemy’s ability to supply, fuel, reinforce, and sustain those armies.

If this campaign continues, it could become one of the most consequential phases of the war.

[DroneBomber @DrnBmbr]

🇺🇦23:15 | 12/07

Approximate flight routes of our UAVs:

🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement;

🔵 Blue arrows — directions of jet-powered UAV movement;

According to Russian sources, around 450 drones were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.

[Prof. Bonk 🇺🇦 Perverse & Unintended Consequences @actfast]

🇷🇺 Russia can't believe Ukraine hit 90 ships this week and closed the Sea of Azov, but it wasn't enough for them to stop the war.

So, 400 Ukrainian Angry Birds are on their way to persuade Russia to end the war. 🇺🇦⬇️🦩

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

For the first time since 2022, Ukraine has a coherent theory of victory. Instead of grinding down the Russian army at huge cost, Kyiv now destroys Russia's capacity to wage war.

It targets the revenue, fuel, and the supply lines that feed the front — Christian Caryl, FP. 1/

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia has increased the scale of its strikes on Zaporizhzhia.

Just today, it hit a swimming pool and a meat processing factory, along with a residential building.

In recent days, Russia has been attacking Zaporizhzhia almost around the clock.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Over the past few days, a lot of important things have happened. In recent days, my attention has been focused on Lukashenko and the activity within the Russian-Belarusian-Chinese triangle.

For the first time after the meeting between Putin and Lukashenko at Valdai, there was neither a joint press conference, nor substantive statements, nor even the traditional demonstrative photo-op. The meeting lasted two days.

Immediately afterwards, Lukashenko urgently traveled to Beijing, and this visit was organized with unprecedented speed for China, where he was personally received by Xi Jinping.

The visit had not been planned or announced in advance. Therefore, it was urgent and important for both sides.

The Chinese leader emphasized support for Belarus’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity. Formally, this is a standard diplomatic formula. But in the current circumstances, it can be read as a signal: Beijing is declaring a protectorate over Belarus and indicating that it has its own interests there. And we know what those interests are - Belarus is a major producer of potash fertilizers, an important logistical hub between Russia and Europe, and part of the overland routes of Chinese trade.

The role of Minsk may be more complex than it appears.

As of now, it looks as though Lukashenko has rejected Putin’s demands to involve Belarus even more deeply in the war with Ukraine and has turned to Beijing for protection.
Time will tell whether these assumptions are correct.

If so, a serious shift in the geopolitical configuration of the region has occurred.
If China takes a more active position regarding Belarus (and Ukraine), I would not rule out that the countries of Central Asia will also listen less to Russia and increasingly turn toward China as the center of their interests.

Meanwhile, after the talks with Lukashenko, Putin made one of the most important statements of recent months. He did not simply reject the Ukrainian proposal for a mutual cessation of long-range strikes. He escalated - declaring the "complete liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya" as his goal. Putin is demonstrating readiness for further escalation and insists that future negotiations must concern not only Ukraine, but the entire system of European security.

Thus, we see that the war is increasingly transcending the framework of a bilateral conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It is becoming a Chinese-Russian tool for reshaping the entire European security system, and its further trajectory depends more and more on Beijing’s strategic calculations.

[Cloooud |🇺🇦 @GloOouD]

😍🔥Night hunting begins: Ukrainian drones and missiles are heading directly to Russia right now

According to preliminary data, over 300 UAVs are in the air

Tomorrow we’ll find out which Russian strategic facility has been destroyed

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Ukraine has launched a combined drone and cruise missile attack into Russia tonight across multiple axes. Russian sources report approximately 370 drones and several missiles of unknown type on the northern route alone. Figures and flight paths remain approximate.

@drnbmbr

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⚡ Zelensky: “An order has been given to act preemptively”

The President of Ukraine has ordered intelligence and the military to carry out preemptive strikes on targets Russia uses to expand the war.

According to him, Russia is moving air defense systems closer to Moscow, Valdai, and the Crimean Bridge, pulling them away from other directions.

Zelensky said that Ukrainian operations, including in Crimea, are carefully calculated.

“If Ukraine receives what we have discussed with partners, we will quickly create conditions in which Russia will be forced to choose peace,” the president said.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Regarding Belarus.

When the full-scale war began, we were hit by missiles that killed children and adults. And Alexander Lukashenko knows this. A large number of missiles were launched from Belarus. Back then, he called, apologized, and said it was out of his control. I don’t believe that, but that’s what he’s already said. Now, Russia will keep pushing him further into this war. Now, he understands that Ukraine will respond.

There’s no need for extra words. There are retransmitters on his communication towers. On his territory, along the two regions bordering Ukraine, there is equipment that adjusts fire on our people. He should remove that equipment. I think a week is enough for him to do that. Because right now, every day, our civilians are being killed, and children are being wounded as a result of this. If he doesn’t do it, we will.

The same goes for his oil-refining sector, for example. We are doing everything so that the Russians don’t have the ability to sell oil and supply diesel and fuel to their army. Today, Belarus is one of the key suppliers for the Russian army. Can this be stopped? I’m sure it’s within his power. And he is the one who controls it.

As for the drone strike on a bus with Belarusian children, everyone has already acknowledged it – international experts and, it seems, even the Russians are admitting it wasn’t our strike. The Russians will resort to all sorts of provocations to drag the Belarusian people into this war. This is one of them.

From the joint press interaction with the President of Honduras, Nasry Asfura. (1/3)

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.

Through this secure platform, allied governments, labs, and defense tech manufacturers gain access to deep technical data, reports, and vulnerabilities. Users can also request physical equipment for testing, significantly shortening the development cycle for countermeasures.

What was meant to be the enemy's secret advantage is being dismantled to defend democracy. Join the platform:
🔗 https://t.co/xoeCfXsIy3

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Ukrainian operatives inside Russia are reportedly acting as forward air controllers, according to a Russian source, using infrared laser beams – invisible to the naked eye – to guide drones to targets. This is likely being done to defeat Russian electronic warfare. ⬇️

[Israel Archuletta @archulettai]

Russia May Launch Oreshnik Missile at Ukraine on Friday, Air Force Warns ▶https://t.co/OMwgW4R0wY
Ukraine’s Air Force warned on Friday that Russia could launch a medium-range ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar test range, urging civilians to heed air raid alerts and seek shelter when sirens sound.
“There is a high probability that the enemy may use a medium-range ballistic missile launched from the Kapustin Yar test range during the day,” the Air Force said in a Telegram statement.
Military journalist Andriy Tsaplienko reported separately that Russia is conducting four-hour drills involving Oreshnik missile launches. The exercises are believed to involve training launches, though he urged the public to remain vigilant.
The warning comes weeks after #Russia unleashed one of its largest aerial assaults of the #war. During the overnight attack on May 24, Russian forces launched 600 drones and 90 missiles, including two #Oreshnik ballistic missiles, according to #Ukrainian officials. @DefenceU @Ukraine @KyivPost @DeptofWar @DOW_Policy

[Israel Archuletta @archulettai]

Wonder if we'll finally get to the attribution effort, effectively, and point to all the evidence of Russian nexus on microwave directed energy attacks against US personnel. #TheRussiansDidIt #ItstheRussiansStupid #MoscowRulesdontapply #Russia #microwaveweapons. @RepRickCrawford points to the 2023 Intelligence Community Assessment flaws on AHI (#HavanaSyndrome) pointing out that @ODNI analysts at the time: Misrepresented and omitted information necessary to understand the quality and reliability of underlying sources of intelligence, limited intelligence collection to maintain an analytic line which relied on absence of evidence.
Multiple independent news outlets and investigative journalists @60Minutes, @InsiderEng, & @michaeldweiss all show in https://t.co/FrGlnCotH9 and https://t.co/sQ1wijKb2R that uncovered evidence showed that “Anomalous Health Incidents,” also known as Havana Syndrome, were likely the result of a directed energy weapon wielded by members of Russian GRU Unit 29155. After two more years of research, that body of evidence has only grown larger and more compelling.
#DirectedEnergyWeapons #RussianGRU #GRU #intelligence
@SenatorCollins
@SenatorShaheen @Mpolymer @SashaIngber @C__Herridge @MarkSZaidEsq
Nonthermal Mechanism of Low-Level Microwave Effect on the Human Brain https://t.co/PLt6t9VuCX
Unveiling the biological effects of radio-frequency and extremely-low frequency electromagnetic fields on the central nervous system performance
https://t.co/cJFYgQXYeD Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation, Extremely-low frequency electromagnetic field, Central nervous system

dielectric polarization triggers small initial changes that produce significant alterations in nonlinear living systems, causing nonthermal effects.
modulation frequency is crucial in microwave effects, with the impact directly dependent on modulation frequency.

[Rep. Rick Crawford @RepRickCrawford]

This is huge news for the AHI victim community, analytic integrity, and for the American people.

These flawed, fraudulent, and manufactured Intelligence Community Assessments (ICA) have caused significant harm to some of our nation’s bravest. ICAs carry a great deal of weight, particularly when declassified as part of a public messaging effort, as was done with the AHI ICA.

The assessment was deliberately manufactured and used to discredit some of our nation’s bravest and impede their access to medical care. As was the case with other high-visibility intelligence assessments, it fell far short of analytic integrity standards. Today’s action by @DNIGabbard is a glimmer of hope for our nation’s intelligence officers, service members, and diplomats stationed around the world who have defended this country in austere locations and subsequently had the nation they served turn its back on them.

Thank you to Director Gabbard for keeping her commitment to this Committee and me, and for her overall willingness to do the right thing. I am incredibly grateful.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

IMPACT JOURNALISM 'Kristi' is one of multiple whistleblowers who came forward to our team about debilitating brain injuries blamed on directed energy attacks.

They successfully challenged the false narrative that directed energy attacks against US government personnel and civilians began in 2016 with a cluster of cases in Cuba, taking the name 'Havana Syndrome.'

Kristi was hit in 2015 while on assignment for DoD.

The starting date for allowable claims under the HAVANA Act is now 2001.

The change brings other civilian federal employees into parity with CIA for a one-time benefit, but it excludes pre-2001 cases like Mike Beck, the late counterintelligence officer.

While there is more to be done on life insurance and workers compensation, they thanked @SenatorShaheen @SenGillibrand