@mediocrepass.bsky.social
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My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".
July 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".
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Remember Kherson human safari?
Well, since Russia wasn't punished, it spread.
KHARKIV on the video. Russian drone strikes a civilian car. On purpose.
Well, since Russia wasn't punished, it spread.
KHARKIV on the video. Russian drone strikes a civilian car. On purpose.
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Remember Kherson human safari?
Well, since Russia wasn't punished, it spread.
KHARKIV on the video. Russian drone strikes a civilian car. On purpose.
Well, since Russia wasn't punished, it spread.
KHARKIV on the video. Russian drone strikes a civilian car. On purpose.
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“Trump has exposed the growing cracks in the U.S.-led international order. But he is not interested in fixing them—quite the opposite. By the time his second term is over, that old order will be irreparably broken.”
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Absent at the Creation?
American strategy and the delusion of a post-Trump restoration.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“Trump has exposed the growing cracks in the U.S.-led international order. But he is not interested in fixing them—quite the opposite. By the time his second term is over, that old order will be irreparably broken.”
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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OTD in 2022 we bombed the crowded Amstor shopping mall in #Kremenchuk, killing 20 civilians.
Hospitals
Theatres
Schools
Kindergartens
Holocaust memorials
Apartment blocks
Grain terminals
Shopping centres
But Russia wants peace
Hospitals
Theatres
Schools
Kindergartens
Holocaust memorials
Apartment blocks
Grain terminals
Shopping centres
But Russia wants peace
June 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
OTD in 2022 we bombed the crowded Amstor shopping mall in #Kremenchuk, killing 20 civilians.
Hospitals
Theatres
Schools
Kindergartens
Holocaust memorials
Apartment blocks
Grain terminals
Shopping centres
But Russia wants peace
Hospitals
Theatres
Schools
Kindergartens
Holocaust memorials
Apartment blocks
Grain terminals
Shopping centres
But Russia wants peace
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The EU desperately needs a counter-sabotage force, this is fucking insane, 2 incidents in 2 days on military facilities related to Ukraine, and you know damn well who stands behind it
June 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The EU desperately needs a counter-sabotage force, this is fucking insane, 2 incidents in 2 days on military facilities related to Ukraine, and you know damn well who stands behind it
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⚡️Russians have attacked a key energy facility in Kherson region.
Attack has caused power outages in a number of towns. People are urged to prepare for a long blackout.
Attack has caused power outages in a number of towns. People are urged to prepare for a long blackout.
June 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
⚡️Russians have attacked a key energy facility in Kherson region.
Attack has caused power outages in a number of towns. People are urged to prepare for a long blackout.
Attack has caused power outages in a number of towns. People are urged to prepare for a long blackout.
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The war took two loved ones from her, and after that, she went to the front herself. “Chaika” is a drone operator with the Stryzh team of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army. She joined the unit this year and has put all plans for civilian life on hold until victory.
📹 Radio Liberty
📹 Radio Liberty
June 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The war took two loved ones from her, and after that, she went to the front herself. “Chaika” is a drone operator with the Stryzh team of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army. She joined the unit this year and has put all plans for civilian life on hold until victory.
📹 Radio Liberty
📹 Radio Liberty
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Russia’s National Welfare Fund is nearly drained, but I suspect Putin’s billion-dollar palaces will be just fine.
June 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Russia’s National Welfare Fund is nearly drained, but I suspect Putin’s billion-dollar palaces will be just fine.
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Your leaders will call our attack on Rheinmetall a "hybrid attack". Because if they called it an "attack" they might be expected to do something about it.
June 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Your leaders will call our attack on Rheinmetall a "hybrid attack". Because if they called it an "attack" they might be expected to do something about it.
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Accusations are confessions
June 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Accusations are confessions
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In Germany, Russian saboteurs set fire to 6 Rheinmetall MAN trucks on the grounds of a military base.
In Erfurt, a group of Russians torched a vehicle lot, believing the equipment was destined for Ukraine.
In Erfurt, a group of Russians torched a vehicle lot, believing the equipment was destined for Ukraine.
June 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In Germany, Russian saboteurs set fire to 6 Rheinmetall MAN trucks on the grounds of a military base.
In Erfurt, a group of Russians torched a vehicle lot, believing the equipment was destined for Ukraine.
In Erfurt, a group of Russians torched a vehicle lot, believing the equipment was destined for Ukraine.
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People on Ukrainian Facebook are actively sharing instructions on how to survive under the rubble. F**k terrorussia.
June 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
People on Ukrainian Facebook are actively sharing instructions on how to survive under the rubble. F**k terrorussia.
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⚡️'Crushing' Russia with sanctions would jeopardize Ukraine peace talks, Rubio says.
"If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire and then who's talking to them?" Rubio said.
"If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire and then who's talking to them?" Rubio said.
'Crushing' Russia with sanctions would jeopardize Ukraine peace talks, Rubio says
"If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire and then who's talking to them?"...
kyivindependent.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
⚡️'Crushing' Russia with sanctions would jeopardize Ukraine peace talks, Rubio says.
"If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire and then who's talking to them?" Rubio said.
"If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire and then who's talking to them?" Rubio said.
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Sometimes it feels like screaming into a void about this would be more efficient, cause in a way, the void will answer
June 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sometimes it feels like screaming into a void about this would be more efficient, cause in a way, the void will answer
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I came home and opened the news.
russia launched a missile attack on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region, striking civilian infrastructure and a passenger train.
At least eleven people were killed, and more than 100 were wounded.
I want the world to know.
russia launched a missile attack on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region, striking civilian infrastructure and a passenger train.
At least eleven people were killed, and more than 100 were wounded.
I want the world to know.
June 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I came home and opened the news.
russia launched a missile attack on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region, striking civilian infrastructure and a passenger train.
At least eleven people were killed, and more than 100 were wounded.
I want the world to know.
russia launched a missile attack on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region, striking civilian infrastructure and a passenger train.
At least eleven people were killed, and more than 100 were wounded.
I want the world to know.
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"How Europe would fill an America-shaped hole in NATO - The likeliest replacement for the U.S. is a grouping of France, the U.K., Germany and Poland, but it would be much more vulnerable than an America-led alliance."
@politico.eu h/t @kostianv.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
@politico.eu h/t @kostianv.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
How Europe would fill an America-shaped hole in NATO
The likeliest replacement for the U.S. is a grouping of France, the U.K., Germany and Poland, but it would be much more vulnerable than an America-led alliance.
www.politico.eu
June 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
"How Europe would fill an America-shaped hole in NATO - The likeliest replacement for the U.S. is a grouping of France, the U.K., Germany and Poland, but it would be much more vulnerable than an America-led alliance."
@politico.eu h/t @kostianv.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
@politico.eu h/t @kostianv.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
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❗️❗️❗️POWERSTATIONS AND STARLINK FOR EOD - SUPER URGENT❗️❗️❗️POSITIONS DESTROYED❗️NEED TO CLOSE TONIGHT❗️
2х EcoFlow Delta Pro 3600
1х Starlink gen 3
REMAINING: $692.38
COLLECTED: $2,531.62 (78.52%)
GOAL: $3,224
DONATE: PayPal.me/RimaFellaria / buymeacoffee.com/rimafellaria / revolut.me/rimanikogosian
2х EcoFlow Delta Pro 3600
1х Starlink gen 3
REMAINING: $692.38
COLLECTED: $2,531.62 (78.52%)
GOAL: $3,224
DONATE: PayPal.me/RimaFellaria / buymeacoffee.com/rimafellaria / revolut.me/rimanikogosian
June 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
❗️❗️❗️POWERSTATIONS AND STARLINK FOR EOD - SUPER URGENT❗️❗️❗️POSITIONS DESTROYED❗️NEED TO CLOSE TONIGHT❗️
2х EcoFlow Delta Pro 3600
1х Starlink gen 3
REMAINING: $692.38
COLLECTED: $2,531.62 (78.52%)
GOAL: $3,224
DONATE: PayPal.me/RimaFellaria / buymeacoffee.com/rimafellaria / revolut.me/rimanikogosian
2х EcoFlow Delta Pro 3600
1х Starlink gen 3
REMAINING: $692.38
COLLECTED: $2,531.62 (78.52%)
GOAL: $3,224
DONATE: PayPal.me/RimaFellaria / buymeacoffee.com/rimafellaria / revolut.me/rimanikogosian
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OTD in 2023 the Wagner mutiny began. I found out that giving a psychopath his own private army of criminals was not a good idea.
I remain a master strategist
I remain a master strategist
June 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
OTD in 2023 the Wagner mutiny began. I found out that giving a psychopath his own private army of criminals was not a good idea.
I remain a master strategist
I remain a master strategist
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I am losing more of my people, and the prayers don’t change that.
More of me people die,
and likes and prayers don’t change that.
When missiles hit your own city,
everything changes
I am not naive.
That is why I am sad
I know my people will continue to die.
Until missiles hit your own city
More of me people die,
and likes and prayers don’t change that.
When missiles hit your own city,
everything changes
I am not naive.
That is why I am sad
I know my people will continue to die.
Until missiles hit your own city
June 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I am losing more of my people, and the prayers don’t change that.
More of me people die,
and likes and prayers don’t change that.
When missiles hit your own city,
everything changes
I am not naive.
That is why I am sad
I know my people will continue to die.
Until missiles hit your own city
More of me people die,
and likes and prayers don’t change that.
When missiles hit your own city,
everything changes
I am not naive.
That is why I am sad
I know my people will continue to die.
Until missiles hit your own city
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Iran's foreign minister is in Moscow to be told what others have already learned. That an alliance with Russia means 1 of 2 things will happen:
-Russia will attack you anyway
-Russia will do nothing while someone else attacks you.
-Russia will attack you anyway
-Russia will do nothing while someone else attacks you.
June 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Iran's foreign minister is in Moscow to be told what others have already learned. That an alliance with Russia means 1 of 2 things will happen:
-Russia will attack you anyway
-Russia will do nothing while someone else attacks you.
-Russia will attack you anyway
-Russia will do nothing while someone else attacks you.
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People often underestimate the Russians, but there is one talent in which they are unsurpassed: they have an innate ability to be unintentionally funny.
June 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
People often underestimate the Russians, but there is one talent in which they are unsurpassed: they have an innate ability to be unintentionally funny.
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Russian casualties: 1,000,000
NATO casualties: 0
Kremlin: “We are fighting this war against NATO”
NATO casualties: 0
Kremlin: “We are fighting this war against NATO”
June 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Russian casualties: 1,000,000
NATO casualties: 0
Kremlin: “We are fighting this war against NATO”
NATO casualties: 0
Kremlin: “We are fighting this war against NATO”
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I have just published my regular update on global conflict and strategic competition. This week, a Pacific-focus with the Trump-Xi call, Chinese spies in Taiwan and a detailed look at Taiwan’s evolving version of Ukraine’s drone wall concept.
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-big-fi...
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-big-fi...
The Big Five - 8 June edition
My regular update on global conflict. This week, a Pacific-focus with the Trump-Xi call, Chinese spies in Taiwan and a detailed look at Taiwan’s evolving version of Ukraine’s drone wall concept.
mickryan.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I have just published my regular update on global conflict and strategic competition. This week, a Pacific-focus with the Trump-Xi call, Chinese spies in Taiwan and a detailed look at Taiwan’s evolving version of Ukraine’s drone wall concept.
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-big-fi...
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-big-fi...
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The governor of Tula confirms that the Azot chemical plant was struck by USVs. Footages show a fire in the facility.
The plant produces chemicals used for the production of artillery shells.
The plant produces chemicals used for the production of artillery shells.
June 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The governor of Tula confirms that the Azot chemical plant was struck by USVs. Footages show a fire in the facility.
The plant produces chemicals used for the production of artillery shells.
The plant produces chemicals used for the production of artillery shells.