Eric Woods
@erwoods.bsky.social
Escaping the birdsite, once and for all. Russia, sanctions, missiles, drones, and the global arms trade.
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being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
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September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
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What was the Russian summer offensives in Ukraine in about? Did it achieve its goals based on its own merits? What can be expected from the Russian military's actions through the remainder of 2025 and into early 2026?
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The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia
Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026
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September 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
What was the Russian summer offensives in Ukraine in about? Did it achieve its goals based on its own merits? What can be expected from the Russian military's actions through the remainder of 2025 and into early 2026?
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My latest article looking at the results of Russia's summer offensive. I argue the Sumy operation was a bit of a failure given the amount of elite forces involved, but Russia continues making progress in Donetsk Oblast. ridl.io/the-results-...
The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia
Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026
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September 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My latest article looking at the results of Russia's summer offensive. I argue the Sumy operation was a bit of a failure given the amount of elite forces involved, but Russia continues making progress in Donetsk Oblast. ridl.io/the-results-...
The Trump administration is deporting anti-Putin political asylum seekers, where they face the threat of torture or worse... theins.press/en/news/284453
U.S. deports at least 30 people to Russia in a single day, Russian rights activists report
On August 27, the United States deported at least 30 Russian citizens back to Russia, Dmitry Valuyev, president of the group Russian America for Democracy in Russia, told The Insider
theins.press
August 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Trump administration is deporting anti-Putin political asylum seekers, where they face the threat of torture or worse... theins.press/en/news/284453
There is no reason for armed troops to be in the nations capital. Full stop. Panhandlers in DuPont Circle are not a reason to do this. Are we looking at another Kent State?
August 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
There is no reason for armed troops to be in the nations capital. Full stop. Panhandlers in DuPont Circle are not a reason to do this. Are we looking at another Kent State?
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If you are a hostile intelligence agency, you can get more out of a well-aimed rock at the right place and time today than entire Cold War expenditure of the KGB combined.
BREAKING: National Guard troops in D.C. to begin carrying weapons tonight, including rifles, a Defense Department official said.
National Guard troops in DC to begin carrying firearms
A majority of the National Guard troops deployed to DC as part of President Trump's crime crackdown will now carry M17 pistols.
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August 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you are a hostile intelligence agency, you can get more out of a well-aimed rock at the right place and time today than entire Cold War expenditure of the KGB combined.
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It's like a nesting doll of civil-military crises. Just today:
1. Head of DIA fired
2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC
3. Blurring of police + military in DC
4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton
5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights
1. Head of DIA fired
2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC
3. Blurring of police + military in DC
4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton
5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights
Trump says he's willing to deploy the "regular military" to American cities, the adds that "Chicago is next and then we'll help with New York"
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It's like a nesting doll of civil-military crises. Just today:
1. Head of DIA fired
2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC
3. Blurring of police + military in DC
4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton
5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights
1. Head of DIA fired
2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC
3. Blurring of police + military in DC
4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton
5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights
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I'm unhappy to report that Huntington did not tell the military what to do if they were coopted into prosecuting American citizens on American soil
SCOOP: As the National Guard takes over the streets of DC, military officers are now going to be detailed to prosecute civilian criminal cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Military officers shifted to prosecute local D.C. crimes amid Trump takeover
Members of the Judge Advocate General Corps are set to join the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.
www.nbcnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm unhappy to report that Huntington did not tell the military what to do if they were coopted into prosecuting American citizens on American soil
Note to self: start a “the Left is CENSORING me” grift to pay off student loans
This is insane. No wonder the grifters keep grifting.
Since Michael Shellenberger namechecked me in his latest fundraising appeal for his "Civilization Works" grift, I pulled up his 990. Last year, he pulled in $1.6 million to fight the censorship complex that *he made up* -- double what he got the year before.
These scam artists are raking it in.
These scam artists are raking it in.
August 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Note to self: start a “the Left is CENSORING me” grift to pay off student loans
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Putin "won", played Trump in #Alaska?
Fact is, despite the summit hype/optics, the Ukraine war remains a strategic cul de sac for Russia
Putin will it keep going - but he'll make Russia ill-prepared for an increasingly unruly Trumpian world, as I write:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Fact is, despite the summit hype/optics, the Ukraine war remains a strategic cul de sac for Russia
Putin will it keep going - but he'll make Russia ill-prepared for an increasingly unruly Trumpian world, as I write:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Opinion | Putin Should Be Careful What He Wishes For
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Putin "won", played Trump in #Alaska?
Fact is, despite the summit hype/optics, the Ukraine war remains a strategic cul de sac for Russia
Putin will it keep going - but he'll make Russia ill-prepared for an increasingly unruly Trumpian world, as I write:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Fact is, despite the summit hype/optics, the Ukraine war remains a strategic cul de sac for Russia
Putin will it keep going - but he'll make Russia ill-prepared for an increasingly unruly Trumpian world, as I write:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
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Thus, it appears Trump has dropped his earlier demand for an immediate ceasefire before peace talks—a position Ukraine had previously accepted—and now supports negotiations on a lasting peace while fighting continues, a stance the Kremlin has consistently pushed since the last Istanbul talks.
August 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Thus, it appears Trump has dropped his earlier demand for an immediate ceasefire before peace talks—a position Ukraine had previously accepted—and now supports negotiations on a lasting peace while fighting continues, a stance the Kremlin has consistently pushed since the last Istanbul talks.
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Why are universities contemplating closing entire humanities and foreign language programs, you ask? This. This is why.
What? You haven't heard about this existential threat to these subjects across Every. Single. R1. Research. University. in the country?
No, I suspect that you haven't:
What? You haven't heard about this existential threat to these subjects across Every. Single. R1. Research. University. in the country?
No, I suspect that you haven't:
It’s not just FLAS. It’s all the Title VI area studies centers. And dozens of labs & postdocs & research opportunities for undergrads funded by NSF and NIH grants. All gone. But the public won’t be aware of the actual consequences unless our leaders loudly & collectively explain to them the crisis.
Again, you cannot unplug 1/4-1/5 of an R1 university's budget & expect the same quantity or quality of "things" on campus. The math simply doesn't work. And pretending it does & we can uphold our "core values," & not talking loudly & publicly about how it doesn't, is not a strategy. It's madness.
August 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Why are universities contemplating closing entire humanities and foreign language programs, you ask? This. This is why.
What? You haven't heard about this existential threat to these subjects across Every. Single. R1. Research. University. in the country?
No, I suspect that you haven't:
What? You haven't heard about this existential threat to these subjects across Every. Single. R1. Research. University. in the country?
No, I suspect that you haven't:
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This is why I tell people not to look at splotches on the map. They don't tell you if it's a company sized element holding an area or a couple guys on motorcycles who will be dead before the map is updated.
August 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is why I tell people not to look at splotches on the map. They don't tell you if it's a company sized element holding an area or a couple guys on motorcycles who will be dead before the map is updated.
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I see that territorial adjustments that Trump promised are already happening. Best of luck to Lisa Murkowski on Russia's Federation Council
Trump: “I’m going to Russia on Friday to meet with Putin.”
Where?
Where?
August 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I see that territorial adjustments that Trump promised are already happening. Best of luck to Lisa Murkowski on Russia's Federation Council
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Brief BDA of the strike on the Shahed-launching base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk:
Imagery shows 4 destroyed tent-like structures, likely used for storage. No signs of detonation, only burning. Launch rails and large storage facilities are intact. Drone launches appear to be continuing
Imagery shows 4 destroyed tent-like structures, likely used for storage. No signs of detonation, only burning. Launch rails and large storage facilities are intact. Drone launches appear to be continuing
August 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Brief BDA of the strike on the Shahed-launching base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk:
Imagery shows 4 destroyed tent-like structures, likely used for storage. No signs of detonation, only burning. Launch rails and large storage facilities are intact. Drone launches appear to be continuing
Imagery shows 4 destroyed tent-like structures, likely used for storage. No signs of detonation, only burning. Launch rails and large storage facilities are intact. Drone launches appear to be continuing
Proffesor Saunders with the astute take on U.S. foreign policy (as always)
To elaborate a bit on why inviting Putin to Alaska for talks on ending the war without Zelensky (or European allies) represents, among many other things, the death of US diplomacy 🧵1/
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
August 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Proffesor Saunders with the astute take on U.S. foreign policy (as always)
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Sergei Kiriyenko continues to reshape Russia political landscape - now with arrests and searches of regional Communist Party offices.
Kiriyenko aims to fully control the regional elites who still use "special" Russia party system to move things around
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Kiriyenko aims to fully control the regional elites who still use "special" Russia party system to move things around
ridl.io/when-they-ca...
When They Came for the Communists… – Riddle Russia
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political events of the week (August 4−8)
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August 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Sergei Kiriyenko continues to reshape Russia political landscape - now with arrests and searches of regional Communist Party offices.
Kiriyenko aims to fully control the regional elites who still use "special" Russia party system to move things around
ridl.io/when-they-ca...
Kiriyenko aims to fully control the regional elites who still use "special" Russia party system to move things around
ridl.io/when-they-ca...
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Weird! Another badly researched defense article by a different author, but for the same reasons. Again: India hasn't announced a decision to acquire the Su-57 and India was involved in its developed but withdrew after spending ~$300 mil. due to tech and quality issues.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
August 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Weird! Another badly researched defense article by a different author, but for the same reasons. Again: India hasn't announced a decision to acquire the Su-57 and India was involved in its developed but withdrew after spending ~$300 mil. due to tech and quality issues.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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The INF Treaty isn’t just dead; its last remnants are now incinerated and launched into deep space.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Russia ends unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate- and shorter-range missiles — Meduza
Russia is formally abandoning its unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate- and shorter-range missiles. In an official statement from the Foreign Ministry, Moscow said it is reacting to the bui...
meduza.io
August 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The INF Treaty isn’t just dead; its last remnants are now incinerated and launched into deep space.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Dima is going to take this as a win. He did something for once.
August 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Dima is going to take this as a win. He did something for once.
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What happens when he discovers the rest of Medvedev’s tweets?
August 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
What happens when he discovers the rest of Medvedev’s tweets?
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Did India stop buying Russian oil?
Yes and No.
Indian state refiners did reportedly stop buying Russian oil but Indian private refineries did not.
Private refineries account for 60% of Indian purchases of Russia oil.
Yes and No.
Indian state refiners did reportedly stop buying Russian oil but Indian private refineries did not.
Private refineries account for 60% of Indian purchases of Russia oil.
July 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Did India stop buying Russian oil?
Yes and No.
Indian state refiners did reportedly stop buying Russian oil but Indian private refineries did not.
Private refineries account for 60% of Indian purchases of Russia oil.
Yes and No.
Indian state refiners did reportedly stop buying Russian oil but Indian private refineries did not.
Private refineries account for 60% of Indian purchases of Russia oil.