Tom R

Work in progress

[Sahel Alerte @SahelAlerte]

Un mercenaire étrangère et un mercenaire locale.

@aeowinpact essaye d'identifier le mercenaire étranger, le locale c'est pas la peine

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

UN experts find Boeing 727s linked to a US military contractor’s network transported mercenaries, weapons, and drones for Sudan’s RSF, the paramilitary force accused of genocide in Darfur - Reuters

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Deep cut here by the Reuters team on who exactly is supplying Sudan's genocidal RSF with weapons and mercenaries. Turns out a former Green Beret, now based in Singapore, is running the supply lines. JSOC fingerprints everywhere.

[Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin]

This should be an interesting read! @EmilyZFeng

[DailyAFC @DailyAFC]

Marquinhos comforts Brazil teammate, Gabriel after he missed his penalty in the shootout… ❤️

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

New @hrw report finds that Colombian contractors transited through two UAE military bases before deploying to #Sudan's Darfur to fight alongside the Rapid Support Forces, including during the RSF's brutal takeover of El Fasher.

https://t.co/M6V0nVUp2l

🧵on the findings👇

[Daily Nation @NationAfrica]

Kenya among countries still caught up in Russia’s expanding mercenary drive https://t.co/uFnLH7bkrP

[Laurent Cesari @CesariLaurent1]

Les K-SMP : les discrètes sociétés militaires privées sud-coréennes https://t.co/lFQjWvvilR

[Tom R @thomasBel007]

https://t.co/o3e0rqjglf

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Ukrainian forces have released the interrogation of a Kenyan mercenary who fought on the Russian side and was captured in the Kupiansk direction.

The Kenyan said he was tricked into signing a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, after which they simply threw him into an assault.

When asked what he saw when they sent him to his death, he replied:

“Dead bodies of Russian soldiers.”

[Tom R @thomasBel007]

https://t.co/qYfxY0ZGy6

[Christopher Faulkner @C_Faulkner_UCF]

I have a new piece with @MoreSecurityInt via @WarInstitute on how the war in Ukraine will reshape the global market for force. We suggest that the conflict is producing a generation of military technologists whose skills, we argue, will easily travel: https://t.co/YQprCDHykP
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[Stop Wagner @stopwagnergroup]

🧵1/4 #Cameroon has officially acknowledged the deaths of 16 of its nationals who were fighting alongside #Russia in #Ukraine. They were described as "military contractors" operating in what Moscow calls a "special military operation". The list was provided by Russian authorities, with no details on how they died.

[Sahel Alerte @SahelAlerte]

#Kidal
la fumée s’élève du camp de l’armée malienne et des mercenaires russes de l’Africa Corps après une opération militaire menée par l’armée azawadienne à l’aide de drones kamikazes et de tirs d'obus.

Selon des sources du Front de libération de l’Azawad, l’attaque aurait fait un grand nombre de morts et de blessés dans les rangs de l’armée malienne et des mercenaires de l’Africa Corps, ainsi que d’importantes pertes matérielles.

De son côté, l’armée malienne n’a pas encore réagi officiellement à cette attaque violente.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Blackwater founder Erik Prince deployed a private security force to operate drones and help Democratic Republic of Congo's army secure the strategic city of Uvira against Rwanda-backed rebels, four people briefed on the mission said. https://t.co/Wja3Oq2jW0

[Philip Obaji Jr. @PhilipObaji]

Torture and Forced Disappearances: Inside Russian Wagner Group’s Secret Prisons, where abuse and torture are carried out with total impunity, in Mali
https://t.co/xLTHrwYDKq

[Tom R @thomasBel007]

https://t.co/wbtta6J8pW

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

«Look how many disposables are here» — a Russian soldier says about Africans in the Russian army.

Russians use mercenaries from other countries for deadly assaults in which no one survives.