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[KIU ✪ Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 @KilledInUkraine]

I canceled my subscription to X — it’s pointless if Elmo doesn’t like the content, the account is invisible even with a subscription. Many pro-Ukrainian accounts are experiencing this.
Fortunately, this profile isn’t the source of income. Still, it’s not pleasant to spend so much time on a project whose results never reach people...

[nikisamo @nikisamo]

@NoContextBrits

[CP24 @CP24]

Seagulls could be the reason swimmers leave the beach with diarrhea or nausea. Here is why https://t.co/lpYVDZnFyM

[lizzie @ancientsaltdepo]

i think people from the US officially lost their right to being smug and mock chinas authoritarian surveillance state the past decade or so

you have AI flock cameras, palantir, massive surveillance state, being slave to billionaires, cant even touch a pool of water

[414 Magyar's Birds @414magyarbirds]

Now that russia has effectively turned into one giant traffic jam of cars with empty fuel tanks, it’s worth remembering the propaganda videos it was producing back in 2022.

Back then, russians – who are still being granted visas by Europe – mocked Europeans and laughed at the suffering of Ukrainians, predicting a Stone Age for Ukraine and horse-drawn transport for Europe.

Today, social media is full of videos of russians sitting in kilometer-long queues, recording themselves and saying they have no idea why this is happening.

Bullies getting exactly what they wished upon others – what a pathetic sight.

Hey worms. Hang in there. You still have many surprises ahead. This is only the beginning. Everything you wished on others will come back to you in full.

Thanks to the Ukrainian OSINT team ExileNova for bringing this video back into the spotlight https://t.co/OblRMKGPLE

[nikisamo @nikisamo]

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[DroneBomber @DrnBmbr]

🇺🇦23:35 | 24/06

Approximate flight routes of our UAVs:

🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement;

🟢 Green arrows — directions of cruise missile movement;

According to Russian sources, around 330 drones and several missiles were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.

[Aram Shabanian @ShabanianAram]

Sorta stunning to see @Chase boot me off their banking systems for posting on Facebook about their role in laundering Epstein's money. I guess the child rape pockets run deep.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Meme-pool

[nikisamo @nikisamo]

ненавижу "русский мир"

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

This is the 'liberation' that Russia brings to Donetsk. This video is from the village of Vodyanske where all of the citizens homes have been destroyed and even the Orthodox church was heavily damaged.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

moscow today. hard to find a bigger strategic mistake since the wall came down than putin deciding to invade ukraine.

[Fráňa Šrámek @FranaSram_ek]

Dobrou noc! 🤣

[пан шаміль @vsheredeha]

глибинний, расово-аполітичний представник сибірського пролетаріату Серьога впевнено крутив кермо своєї захеканої Лади, прориваючись крізь спекотне марево кримського літа 2026 року.

у його абсолютно порожній, незамутненій думками голові панувало відчуття тотального...

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Once again, for those in the back, Israel will do everything it can to blow up any peace deal between the US and Iran. It doesn't matter how favorable or unfavorable it is.

Netanyahu needs perpetual war to keep Likud in power and himself out of prison.

[nikisamo @nikisamo]

hmmmm....

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

>renames it to the Department of War
>names himself the Secretary of War
>fights one war
>loses

[Jakub Janovsky @Rebel44CZ]

All according to the plan...

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

Sanctions disrupted parts of Russia’s state media ecosystem. The Kremlin responded by investing more heavily in alternative channels, including online personalities. 

Propaganda may arrive as a travel vlog, making Kremlin talking points feel more relatable while being financed by Russian state-linked companies. 

Alexandra Jost is one example.

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

Iconic.

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

This is a very strange war, probably one of the strangest I've ever studied or witnessed.

Off the top of my head I can name about 20 glaring strangeness — about Ukraine and about Russia alike — that defy any reasonable explanation.

Most of those strangeness will have to wait until the war is over, but one — about Russia — I'll go ahead and name.

Russia's death toll is approaching half a million, and by the time you read this, it may have already reached or surpassed that mark.

Losses can sometimes be justified if they yield dividends — but that's not the case with today's Russia or the war it's waging.

I genuinely cannot understand why, after the failed take Kyiv, Russian leadership decided to grind its army year after year, head-on, into Ukraine's most fortified and defended lines.

History has rarely, if ever, seen anything like it — a massive army taken and methodically, year after year, smashed against a wall for minimal gain.

Someone might push back: Ukraine, too, attacked head-on into the most fortified positions in 2023.

True — but after getting burned, Ukrainians drew lessons. What followed was the Kursk operation (a change of direction), robotization, a search for new military solutions.

And before that came the Kharkiv offensive, the defense of Kyiv, the liberation of Kherson through bridge-cutting and encirclement — and much more.

Ukraine's strangeness lies elsewhere — but certainly not in operational art. There they've demonstrated what any cat knows: touch fire once, don't touch it again.

And don't blame Soviet-era generals — even Soviet generals understood and could apply not just the ABC's of military art but higher concepts as well.

But forget the generals — even stranger is why the army itself goes along with it.

Fine, the soldiers — they're terrified, ground down, and cowed. But what about junior and mid-level officers?

Don't questions occur to them — elementary, basic questions — that with a front and theater stretching over 3,000 km, with directions that are either poorly defended or vulnerable, choosing again and again, year after year, the most heavily fortified theater and axis is, to put it mildly, a deliberate strategy to destroy your own army?

The Ukrainians have been slowly falling back all these years, methodically building new lines while simultaneously destroying and grinding down the Russian army.

Looking at that half-million dead, the thought creeps in — the one some Z-bloggers themselves have written about: that this isn't a war, it's a human sacrifice.

Calling it a war in any genuine sense is indeed difficult — because what Russia is doing is simply not how things are done, even when you're Soviet-trained and don't know how to fight.

Because if a man picks up a sword and starts stabbing himself with it — piercing his own hands and feet — you wouldn't say: well, he just doesn't know how to fence — Soviets, you understand...

A lot of lyrical prose has been written about this, and even more clever arguments and attempts to explain it rationally — but all of it misses the point.

The Kremlin is hundreds of people if you count only the very top, and thousands if you include the rest of the apparatus — plus the General Staff, plus senior and junior officers — that's tens of thousands of people.

And not one of them had the basic thought that you cannot smash an army to pieces and burn hundreds of thousands of men alive, head-on, directly into the enemy's fortifications?

The only case we've seen where someone tried to break out of this sacrificial meat grinder was Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group.

How that ended is well known — but what's not clear is why everyone else is fine with all of this.

And this isn't about humanism — it's about basic utilitarianism. You need an army, an economy, equipment — especially if you have ambitions.

And Russia has them.

But Russia is hurtling toward the abyss and shows no sign of stopping — and fine, the leadership are idiots — but why is everyone else okay with it?

History knows many wars — successful and unsuccessful, justified and not, long and bloody, fast and short — but the war the Kremlin is waging today is not just stupid, senseless, and bloody. It is also profoundly strange.

[Angus Reid Institute @angusreidorg]

Regarding comments from the Ontario Premier about our recent approval survey:
https://t.co/q9uV6HJBi4