High effort every time, all the time.
Mainly following the 🇺🇦 conflict. Engaged in the occasional OSINT Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
MALR 🇺🇸
-The World Lacks Nuance
The Day After…
(is when I wrote most of this, o well, at least before the Term)
As predicted, Trump 👑. No mobilization on the Left & extreme misinfo fueled radicalization / influence manipulation (domestic+foreign) on the Right. What does it Mean/Consequences?
The Good & Bad🧵
We continue to apply Ukrainian long-range sanctions against Russian military facilities and the oil industry. In particular, last night Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingos struck a military plant in Cheboksary that supplies the occupier’s army with components for drones and missiles. I thank the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their precision! The Kuibyshev oil refinery in the Samara region was also hit last night. The distance from the frontline is more than 900 kilometers. I am grateful to the warriors of the Special Operations Forces, the Unmanned Systems Forces, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. The entirely just responses of the Security Service of Ukraine also reached two oil infrastructure facilities in the Vladimir region, at a distance of 700 kilometers. I thank everyone who fights and works for Ukraine!
@GZsgallos2007 I remember the days when we only got to see Russian launched cruise missiles (maybe with the occasional foreign provided SCALP/StormShadow)
An extraordinary incident: a Russian soldier approached a downed Ukrainian FPV drone, gathered some of its debris, tossed it back into the fire and knelt down right next to it to watch it burn.
There are STRONG arguments to be made for assets apart of today’s hybrid warfare paradigm & analysing their destructive impact. Currently the West's free speech & free info dissemination is an EXPLOIT being leveraged for WARFARE w/existing destruction already beyond comprehension
Ok, fellas, we see all your tags and we get it.
But.
Being a shitty person doesn't make someone a legitimate military target under international law. Climbing on a tank for internet clout isn't enough to become a combatant.
Do something that actually qualifies — then we can talk. Until then, we'll keep our drones for real military targets 😉
Captured by Anduril's network of 400 telescopes deployed around the globe:
The second stage of the Falcon Heavy launch of ViaSat 3-F3 performing a routine thrust event. This produced a spiraled-shaped plume effect, a nominal part of operations for a successful launch of Viasat's latest satellite.
@ZacksJerryRig@PTrubey This is sadly an L for you. Plenty of videos like the likes of @DJSnM doing the math.
But none the less, its a crazy ambitious idea for an unknown market when it can be implemented at scale
@pohodwarf@PuckFupett69 it isn't great usage but im really fighting the character limit over here 😄
I often rewrite a tweet dozens of times to try to get it to fit, sometimes the meaning gets lost trying to cut things off on the edges
@PuckFupett69 if we do it I would understand why, tit for tat, they fight dirty & there is no virtue in losing when they get to destroy the country/world, but I am worried about the impact it will have on all of us when we go down this road, have this be normalized, lose sight of the high road
Russian channels are once again proudly sharing footage of civilians being hunted by drones in Kherson.
The world needs to see what is happening in Kherson and other frontline cities every day.
No, sweetie.
Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.
Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.
Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.
Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.
Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.
We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.
It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.
And then you arrived.
And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.
You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.
You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.
You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.
You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."
You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.
It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.
And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.
This is Iryna, she was only 18.
Yesterday, she passed away after a week-long battle for her life, succumbing to severe injuries sustained during the russian attack on Kyiv on June 2nd🕯
Iryna was a sophomore, studying psychology at Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University.
Russia killed her for being Ukrainian.
Hey @hasanthehun,
We’re well aware of your highly researched views and would be happy to facilitate a debate between you and @TheOmniLiberal.
Digital Ground Game has raised over $250,000+ for canvassing and voter outreach. If you’re willing to demonstrate that Steven is wrong, we’ll dedicate one of our future canvassing events to a candidate or cause of your choosing.
The debate would be moderated and judged by five independent experts drawn from historians, political scientists, and economists with no personal investment in either participant.
We’re asking for nothing in return. The stakes are low. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
To make things as comfortable as possible, you’re welcome to choose from topics you’ve discussed extensively:
• Israel/Palestine
• Capitalism vs. centralized economic systems
A thinker with decades of research behind his positions shouldn’t have any trouble securing a free win which will help to advance his political agenda!
Horrifying moment of russian drone strike on bus stop in Zaporizhzhia‼️
At least 2 people killed, at least 15 reported injured.
Bastards! Bloody terrorists!
A Chornomorsk resident caught a russian "Shahed" drone strike on his own apartment building on video 🤯
Wow, don't film attacks like this, its extremely dangerous!