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Mar 7, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
This is going to be a short thread on Ukraine's culture in war and it's vendetta with the Russian Army’s 247th Guards Air Assault Regiment.🧵
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I've done three posts on Ukraine's Maidan Color revolution & aftermath, in this one I get into how Ukrainians are wired in dealing with dishonorable enemies.

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Ukraine’s Viking Revival
January 29, 2015 by Trent Telenko
chicagoboyz.net/archives/47214… Clockwise from top --  A mo...
From the link:

"Ukraine is returning to its cultural roots from the Kievan Rus/Viking period, the Cossack period being an extension of that. Community is everything.

These people are at heart Viking berserkers – and we have seen it over and over again on the battlefield
3/ An 1869 drawing representin...
...over the last 9 months. Cornered Ukrainian officers, wounded, surrounded by Russian Spetsnaz, pulling the pins on a string of grenades, to take the enemy with them, which they did on multiple occasions." Ukrainian Defense Ministry ...
I've been expecting the full Viking Berserkergang...and seeing it.

The Russian 247th Guards VDV Air Assault Brigade was pivotal to the Ukrainian loss at Ilovaysk in the 2014-15 fighting.

Thus it was likely involved in the Ilovaysk murder of Ukrainian wounded and POWs.
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The Ukrainian annihilation of that unit in this invasion was preordained.

A Ukrainian reading friend says he sees the phrase "revenge for ..." popping up all of the time in Ukrainian social media.

Then, when it was reported a Su-27s killed two Russian CANDIDs carrying VDV,
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...it was "revenge for the Luhansk Il-76 ambush".

Whatever else happens, Putin will not be able to conquer the entire Ukraine and may not even get to keep the Donbass.

Putin has created a Ukrainian nationalist monster that will hate Russians for both the great famine of
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...the 1930’s under Stalin and now the very raw territorial wound of detached Eastern Ukraine and Crimea.

Ukrainians will work for a 100 years to get all that back, minus anyone who is visibly, culturally, Russian.

The Ukrainians are now fighting a national people's war.
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The Russians are fighting as a classic Oriental despotism whose chief objective is to keep Putin in power, whatever effect this has on Russia’s long term interests.

This Ukrainian Viking Revival will be the defining event of the early 21st Century.

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Jul 17
Yes, the head of the USSS really is gaslighting the heck out of the American public over her agency's incompetence, rather than resigning like she should.

Federal agencies, like Russian propagandists, use a "firehose of falsehoods" to confuse the...

Fed lying two-step🧵
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...audience & fragment any emerging consensus on what should be done. That way none of them get fired.

Incompetence led to negligence that created an opportunity for a nut hearing Ross Perot in his fillings to take a shot.

Admitting either incompetence or negligence...

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...or both is career suicide.

We saw this after 9/11/2001.

We saw it in the Afghan pull out.

We saw it in the Pentagon's prediction Kyiv would fall in 3-to-5 days.

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Jul 17
It's nice to someone at the Economist finally got around to reading Nadin Brzezinski's July 17, 2022 article "Logistics Collapse" about the lack of Russian artillery barrel specialty steel

The death of the Russian God of War🧵
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nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/logistics-coll…

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...or low production capability with that subpar steel.

That we are seeing Russian artillery tube mass burn out now was absolutely predictable years ago.

I was talking about it being a limiting factor in the summer of 2022.

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It was utterly simple beer math that Western Logistical Intelligence seems to have missed, just like it missed the lack of Russian artillery shell pallets & truck bed D-rings.

This is stuff so simple that a retired DCMA quality guy can do it.
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Jul 16
Where we are here because the head of the USSS didn't immediately resign:

"...it’s just a question of active malice at worst vs spiteful incompetence at best."

This will have mid-term effects leading to a new political spoils hiring system for the Federal Civil Service.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion hiring objectives in the Federal Civil Service picks AGAINST professional merit.

That is, D.E.I. is not professional. It is a form of political spoils system.

There is a reason for the meme that DEI stands for "Didn't Earn It."

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The USSS incompetently letting Trump get shot in the head, the failed COVID-19 mandatory vax jab & the disastrous Afghan pullout have destroyed the public's trust in the "Professional Federal Civil Service."

No one was fired for incompetence nor can be.

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Read 4 tweets
Jul 16
>>Chinese PLA: "You need to use forklifts and pallets. There are huge manpower savings and cargo productivity advantages in using them"

>>Russians: "Why? Mobiks are good enough and always more mobiks backs where those came from."

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>>Chinese PLA: Seriously?!?

>>Russians: Seriously, comrade.

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>>Chinese PLA: Do you Russian Army officers know what a pallet or forklift look like?

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Jul 15
The videos of the USSS catastrophic failure during the assassination attempt on former President Trump are beyond control and are utterly toxic for public trust that the Federal government is fair and has institutional competency.

(Image H/T @Peoples_Pundit)
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A public mea culpa would have been the smart play for the USSS bureaucracy.

Instead we are getting the gaslighting that we always see from Feds that are engaged in bureaucratic group narcissism and the institutional failure that groupthink dictates.

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The only reasonable explanation for the current director of the USSS not speaking out about her agency's failure in letting an assassin shoot Former Pres. Trump in the head is that she is busy lawyering up for the FBI investigation...
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Jul 15
A derailed Russian train with the freight car truck thrown out from under the freight cars?

The vast majority of train derailments happen in rail yards where the average train speed is about five MPH/eight KMH.**

Russian railway bearing derailment watch🧵

(**See: ! )
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Having one of these railway car trucks detach from a rail car at five MPH/eight KMH seems a bit...energetic?

Are we seeing now seeing evidence of imported railway bearing wear out issues appearing?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_r…
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Yes, there is a railway war between Ukrainian partisans and intelligence on one side and Russian security on the other.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_war_…
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