natsec nerd 🇺🇸 🤝 🇺🇦

U.S. national security career civil servant watching Russia, China, general defense issues, sanctions, and—when i must—my kids. #NAFO

[natsec nerd 🇺🇸 🤝 🇺🇦 @Natsec_Nerd]

Lt Gen Bauernfeind, please do the right thing on Tuesday. @af_academy

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when is @PrimeVideo gonna figure out their #TNF bandwidth issue. this is a little ridiculous.

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gah! and of course Val!! @ValerieInsinna

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last post #miltwitter & #natsec nerds-pls! jump to threads. one last plea/tag of favs:
@ObiWine_Kenobi (i saw you but bring your handle!)
@LethalityJane
@cpt_blondie
@KeraRolsen
@Iron_Man_Actual
@Rmanning4
@Noahpinion
@HalBrands
@halbritz
@kellymagsamen
@lrozen
@JohnCulver689

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@cpt_blondie @pptsapper @iAmTheWarax @BDHerzinger @TheKimulation @NataliaAntonova @lrozen @ObiWine_Kenobi @KeraRolsen @mgerrydoyle @HopeSeck @hangryvirgo @SheenaGreitens @LethalityJane @kcmunoz_ @youbsanctioned @dantannNYC ++
@SeamusHughes @Rita_Katz @Rmanning4 @tomricks1 @Iron_Man_Actual @EBKania @HopeSeck @Grumpytraveler3 @HagarChemali @RussellHellyer @Kennedy_Ink @McCainJack @KoriSchake @osmastro @BrynnTannehill @ValerieInsinna @KatieZimmerman @lzxdc

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if you want to destroy my Twitter, pull this Thread as i walk away…
#threadapp @Natsec_Nerd 👋 @elonmusk

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#natsec & #miltwitter need a presence in Threads!
cc:
@cpt_blondie @pptsapper @iAmTheWarax @BDHerzinger @TheKimulation @NataliaAntonova @lrozen @ObiWine_Kenobi @KeraRolsen @mgerrydoyle @HopeSeck @hangryvirgo @SheenaGreitens @LethalityJane @kcmunoz_ @youbsanctioned @dantannNYC

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@DadaBaseThought threads.

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@dantannNYC @anders_aslund …for some poutine?!

sorry. i’ll see myself out.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

That’s the flag of Liberia.

[natsec nerd 🇺🇸 🤝 🇺🇦 @Natsec_Nerd]

but then they wouldn’t let us eat them…

[The Intel Crab @IntelCrab]

Chesapeake blue crabs, not bald eagles, should be our national animal.

- a thread, sadly -

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someone funnier them i needs to reboot the old jeff fox worthy bit about redneck indicators but for DC D-bags.
e.g. if you wear aviator sunglasses in the pool loudly proclaiming how often you’re in mcclean then you might be a d-bag.

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@USPacificFleet how are you so bad at this?

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so while July 4th fireworks are a little too close and intense, i kinda welcome the distant less frequent rumble of July 3rd’s…there’s something about those that are strangely comforting.
what does that mean? is it just me? am i weird?
#OddVetFeels

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“Vets know that any tribe, any platoon, that treated itself this way would never survive…vets have gone away, and come back to see w/ fresh eyes, the country they fought for…no wonder they’re depressed…”

this was 7yrs ago.

@sebastianjunger

https://t.co/UgZvchzxvz

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welp. it finally happened. for real life. was at our community pool…

me: oh you’re in the military, what do you do?
them: i’m w/ SF.
me: oh nice; worked w/ a couple really chill ODAs in AFG back in ‘13/14.
them: sorry. ODA?
me:
them: i’m in the Space Force

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@ObiWine_Kenobi i lol’d

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twitter be like…

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@StevenTDennis 🔥

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you guys tried this Microsoft Teams thing? it kinda sucks.