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Michael MacKay

@mhmck

Mar 2

For 8 years since #RussiaInvadedUkraine most "experts" studied American and German intelligence reports about Russian capabilities. These assessment were hopelessly wrong.

I've been reading accurate Ukrainian intel. I expected the Russian army to be the piece of crap it is.

The Ukrainians are far better at human intelligence than the Americans and Germans are when it comes to the Russian regime of state terrorism.

They knew all about corruption in the Russian officer corps. Theft of matériel is so massive little of it makes it to front-line units.

I would laugh out loud each time mainstream news media in the U.S. put out a "breaking" story about something the Pentagon said, which turned out to be something the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had said several years earlier.

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Michael MacKay

@mhmck

Mar 2

Amazing news. Ukraine's 95th Brigade entered the city of Horlivka in Donetsk region and is fighting Russian occupation forces there. Horlivka was taken by the Russian invaders in the first year of the war, 2014-15.

Liberating Horlivka would give a big morale boost to Ukrainians.

Horlivka is a vulnerable position of Russian invasion/occupation forces in Donbas. Able to launch their attack from the north and the west, Ukrainian forces can envelop the city and cut it off from Debaltseve to the east and Donetsk to the south.

Prisoners of war captured by Ukrainian forces in the first hours of the raid were conscripts – local people with no military training who were forced into the fake "DPR" only in the last few weeks.

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Michael MacKay

@mhmck

Mar 2

The fear Americans have of nuclear war is skillfully amplified by Russian psychological warfare. This active measure by the Putin regime is so powerful it takes away the greatest asset the United States has – its military superiority – while Russia invades Ukraine.

There's another benefit to the Russians from their attack on the psyche of Americans. Because they expect to see a great, nuclear-armed power – the "former Soviet Union" – Americans could not see the clapped-out remnant of an empire the Russian Federation had actually become.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014 didn't register with most Americans. It didn't fit with the prejudice that had been fostered in them about Russia.

Russia was revealed to be a regime of state terrorism when it shot down MH17 in 2014. But most people ignored the facts.

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Michael MacKay

@mhmck

Feb 28

Hungary refuses to allow weapons to transit its territory to go to Ukraine. The Orbán regime, a proxy for the Putin regime, is complicit in war crimes being committed by aggressor Russia.

Hungary must be expelled from NATO now.

Ukraine must be admitted to NATO now.

I've tracked the alignment of the Orbán regime with the Putin regime since #RussiaInvadedUkraine in 2014.

Hungary advances its imperialist ambitions in Zakarpattia, Ukraine by exploiting the Hungarian-speaking minority there.

Hungary blocks Ukraine-NATO and Ukraine-EU meetings.

Hungarians are not the same as the Orbán regime. Belarusians are certainly not the same as the Lukashenka regime.

But the current leadership of Hungary and Belarus determines how those states behave. It's not good, when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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