Janans

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

To anyone who takes russia's side and says they are "liberating russian speakers"

Look, just look, THIS is what russian liberation looks like, THIS is the ruskie mir (russian world)

All they know is death.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Germany's Army Chief Lieutenant General Christian Freuding:

The tank must become a kind of command and control center — a kind of mothership.

A mothership for ground robots, for commanding and controlling unmanned systems.

But on the other hand, you need something like a tank for one-to-one situations.

You need both the capability to fight over long or medium distance, and the capability for direct fire, for duel situations.

On the modern battlefield, we will see AI-supported drones — and we need the soldier with his rifle and bayonet.

[Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @AdrianP_doc]

"All my neighbours murdered and persecuted my ancestors and stole MY land.

I did absolutely nothing bad. I deserve an appology."

Us Eastern Europeans should leave this shit behind and focus on our real, common enemy.

The fucking Russians.

[Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555]

Based on the three known impacts at Titan-Barrikady plant, this is what the known damage is as well as remaining areas of approximate impact locations.

Red shading is observable damage from the image below.

Orange circles are where FP-5s were observed coming down at or near.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Ukraine's SOF took out a Russian mobile fire group tasked with protecting fuel trucks from drones on the logistics route to occupied Crimea.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

As it was in the 1990's, when economic and social collapse was to the extreme that Russians were literally dying in the streets from drinking cologne BUT STILL allocated resources to invade Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Chechnya (twice) and Georgia, today in Ufa, amid the ongoing catastrophes, Russians staged a parade with a fake nuclear missile that read "TO WASHINGTON".

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

“They are killing enormous numbers of civilians…they are targeting one, two, three enemy combatants and in the process killing huge numbers of civilians. @piersmorgan Piers a few minutes later – “If you can’t say exactly how many civilians have been killed in Gaza, what you say about numbers is bull.”

Dear @piersmorgan I tried to explain to you where numbers in the Gaza war (or any war) are going to come from "simply.” But let me type it out so you have a record of it instead of the interruptions and the tactic of just asking the same question over and over while I explain how the numbers work. The same numbers by the way that you used minutes before to criticize Israel and constantly repeat or have guests on that repeat, or more often state not even Hamas numbers but false numbers about xx civilians, xx women, xx children, xx percentages that go beyond Hamas's actual list of casualties.

First, let me correct you again (like I did to start the segment) by providing you my actual quotes:

1 - "Israel and the IDF have implemented more measures (sometimes quoted as precautions) to prevent civilian harm in urban warfare than any military in history,"

That is testable against urban warfare history of any similar situation (mostly attack of defended urban terrain). Israel civilian harm mitigation measure have included advance notification (flyers, phone calls, text messages, voicemails, drones with speakers, tv, radio, social media), safe corridors to include improving roads used for safe corridors in the middle of the war, roof knocking (notifying all residents of a building in advance for evacuations and then using non-penetrating low-yield munitions on top of the building before then waiting to strike), over daily multi-hour pauses in fighting (over 400 days of the 800 days of fighting) to allow civilian evacuations and aid movement, establishing a one-star commanded civilian harm mitigation cell that created a real time civilian presence (using cell phone presence, drones, satellite images, etc.) software reflected on all combat operating systems, handing out their own military maps to the entire population (to include the enemy) and then communicating the location of IDF operations, areas to avoid or further evacuate, using major call outs of buildings and neighborhoods, restrictive rules of engagement based on likely civilian presence, rigorous fires processes and legal reviews that often ended in calling mission off out of civilian harm estimates. Many of these measures have never been attempted, by any military.

2 - "Israel has a lower civilian to combatant ratio than any similar context (war or battle) in the history of urban warfare.” After acknowledging the lack of comparative cases (size of enemy forces (which I asked you about, you don't know), tunnels, density, strategy, tactics, prevention of civilian evacuations) but still doing the simple analysis, in order to provide the evidence for this statement I use the same numbers you and your frequent guests push to condemn Israel. But here:

Q: How do you estimate the number of civilians deaths?

A: Take the number the Hamas Gaza Health Ministry reports (despite that it includes any death in Gaza for any reason or cause (Israel/Hamas/Other terrorists) and has been well documented with inaccuracies (even having to be updated by Hamas of natural deaths, incomplete entries, false entries) and subtract the Israel stated combatant deaths.

The Hamas Gaza Health Ministry claims roughly 72,000 deaths in Gaza. The IDF says it has killed about 25,000-26,000 combatants, a number also reported by President Trump in October 2025. If you subtract 25,000 from 72,000, even using Hamas’s number at face value, you get roughly 47,000 non-combatant deaths, or a bit less than a 2:1 ratio. If you were modest to adjust for natural deaths and Hamas-caused deaths, is likely closer to 35,000–40,000 non-combatant deaths versus 25,000 combatants killed, which puts the ratio closer to 1.5:1.

If you compare 2:1 or 1.5:1 to any numbers we have (in many cases we don’t have) for wars, urban centric wars, contested urban battles they will be some of the lowest ratios (in some cases lowest by far) ever seen despite none of those wars or battles had the context of Gaza. For example:

World War II – 70 million civilians, 20 million combatants, 3.5:1
Korean War – 2.5 million civilians, 90,000 combatants, 27:1
Iraq War – 280-300,000 civilians, 150-200,000 combatants, 1.4:1 to 2:1

But wait, the Gaza numbers are usually aggregated numbers for the entire war, any death ever reported in Gaza.

But if you disaggregate the numbers to specific battles like Rafah, Khan Yunis, Gaza City 2025 for comparison you get different numbers. Based on modest numbers from the Battle of Rafah, the civilian to combatant ratio would be more like 1:100 due to multiple operational variables like the success of civilian evacuations.

Major urban battles (modest comparison of battles with any like variables).

Mosul – 10,000 civilians. Combatant unknown but total estimate in battle 5,000 – 2:1
Manila – 100,000 civilians. Combatants 17,000 – 6:1
Seoul – Unknown/no record of civilian but very likely high ratio based on histories
Mariupol – Unknown/mass graves, estimate 20-22,000 civilians, 3-8,000 combatants - 2.5:1 to 7.3:1

I actually use this discussion about numbers or quote about ratio sparingly despite how many times it has been attribute to me because I know the complexity of casualty counting especially in urban centric wars with combatants that violate the law of war and do not distinguish themselves (uniforms/marking) making determining a body found (if there is a body) or a name reported (such as methods in Gaza) and then classifying that person as was participating in the hostilities (combatant) or not (noncombatant) is beyond just difficult and should always be viewed as questionable. In Mosul, a year after the battle there was not only no agreed upon casualty number, but the Mayor of the city also said there were 40,000 civilian deaths. These numbers are always messy, political, susceptible to manipulation by the different organizations involved.

My point has always been that numbers of casualty reporting in Gaza doesn’t paint the story people routinely push. Actually, the opposite.

Urban warfare is inherently and historically costly against civilians and the infrastructure. All wars involve noncombatant death. The moral, legal requirement is to do proportionality assessments and take feasible steps to prevent excessive civilian harm.

So, using your logic Piers, if you can’t state how many combatants were killed (by Israel, Hamas, terrorist rockets, other terrorists in power struggles) … you can’t say (or allow your guests to say) Israel has killed a “large number of civilians” or “killed a disproportionate number of civilians” like you did in this very interveiw.

You can't spend years saying Israel is killing enormous numbers of civilians and then tell me nobody can estimate civilian deaths so ratios aren't valid. Those two positions can't both be true.

If casualty estimates are reliable enough to accuse Israel, then they're also reliable enough to examine civilian-to-combatant ratios. If they aren't, then they shouldn't be used selectively only when they support one conclusion.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Putin really cracking down on the slaves just before pitchtork season.

[Tochnyi @tochnyi]

🧵If Ukraine struck 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 part of the Barikady factory complex, it is significant.
This morning's FP-5 'Flamingo' strike on the JSC "FNVTS 'Titan-Barikady' plant in Volgograd highlights a critical vulnerability in Russia’s supply chain for its long-range missile capabilities. 1/11

[Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪 @DerekPederson3]

Legalizing maladaptive behaviors just for the fuck of it is one of the worst things about libertarianism.

People do not necessarily make good choices when you leave them to their own devices.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

TG channel Exilenova obtained excellent footages from the struck missile plant in Volgograd, Russia. It shows the FP-5 „Flamingo“ missile precisely hitting the roof of the missile factory. The result is also documented in a foto showing that the entire main hall has been obliterated.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Have writing assignments in class with pen and paper with no digital gear allowed. You get clear results and students do the work and learn. Universities need to make a hard shift in this direction now.
https://t.co/IE2wdHn7NL

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Why does no one care?

In Africa, Arab Muslims are enslaving black African Christians.

The media, progressives, Palestinian protesters, the UN, and even the Pope remain silent.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Wait what???
Arabs are enslaving Christian black people in Africa in 2026???

This isn't some movie set in 1026, right???

WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF …

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Here we go again. J.D. Vance and this administration are working to rewrite history right in front of you.

First it was the 2020 election fraud claims. All false.

Next the January 6th riot on our Capital. They told you it was basically a love fest. A peaceful crowd. Nothing serious.

Now it is Watergate.

Let me tell you exactly what happened with Watergate, because the facts matter and people forget them.

Nixon and his aides ran a criminal cover-up of the 1972 Watergate break-in. They obstructed justice. They paid hush money to the burglars to keep them quiet. They pointed the CIA and the FBI at the investigation and tried to shut it down. They used the power of the presidency to go after their political enemies.

And when Congress sent subpoenas looking for the truth, they stonewalled. People went to prison for this. Real people, at the very top. Former Attorney General John Mitchell. Chief of staff H.R. Haldeman. Domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman. All three convicted in 1975 for their roles in the conspiracy. Nixon walked. He never stood trial because Gerald Ford pardoned him.

It did not stop with those three. The list runs long. White House counsel John Dean. Special counsel Charles Colson. Deputy campaign director Jeb Magruder. Operatives G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, and James McCord. The five burglars who broke in: Bernard Barker, Virgilio González, Eugenio Martínez, Frank Sturgis, and McCord. Plumbers member Egil Krogh. Nixon's personal attorney Herbert Kalmbach. Appointments secretary Dwight Chapin. Campaign aide Fred LaRue. And that is not even all of them. Roughly forty people were convicted in connection with the scandal.

Read the above again, then stop and let all of this sink in.

The Vice President of the United States just waved off the biggest presidential corruption scandal in American history as a blip on the news cycle.

And this is how it works. When you call a crime a speedbump, you train people to stop seeing it as a crime. When you turn the people who got convicted into victims, you make the next cover-up easier to run. That is the goal. That is exactly why they do it.

That is not a renaissance. That is not a hoax. That is a record.

Do not let them paper over it. You know what happened. Say it out loud, and keep saying it.

I just did.

The ball’s in your court.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

🌲Afghanistan aims to plant millions of trees

Under the shade of recently planted poplars in northeastern Afghanistan, Char Bagh's villagers are rediscovering the value of trees after years of wartime deforestation.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

A book I’m excited to see. I have learned a great deal about the history and politics of health from @_S_Silverstein.
https://t.co/qS72QtKPZY

[Sara Silverstein @_S_Silverstein]

I’m delighted to be reading proofs of my book: “For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health.” Do you ever wonder about how our politics of health took shape? Then this book is for you
https://t.co/iJRoAM7uHL
Related essay I wrote
https://t.co/iD72YLoXh5

[Clash Report @clashreport]

BIG: Russia's fuel crisis spreads to nearly all 89 regions.

Fuel shortages have now affected the vast majority of Russia's 89 regions, prompting many to cap per-customer purchases and ban filling jerrycans.

The causes:
Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries disrupting processing
Scheduled refinery maintenance.

Panic-buying driven by news of attacks, price hikes, and shortages elsewhere.

Seasonal summer demand spikes.

The situation is far worse in Crimea and the occupied territories (DNR, LNR, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson), where shortages stem from strikes on logistics rather than refining.

Fuel simply isn't reaching consumers, or arrives late and in smaller volumes.

[Пан Пачковский @Q0MT6pFmbVqynsM]

Битва за бензин.

Свердловская обл.
Рэмбо Первая кровь.