UPDATE THREAD: I had a chance to go through more of Putin's speech today... HOLY SH!T!
It's even crazier than I first thought.
Putin appeared to have gone after Russian oligarchs in what may come to be known as his "Night of the Long Knives" speech.
Full Quotes Below: Image
(2) "On those who make money here, in our country, but live there [the West] and "live" not even in the geographical sense, but in their thoughts, in their consciousness, which is enslaved."
(3) "I don't condemn at all those who have a villa in Miami or on the French Riviera, who cannot do without foie gras, oysters, or so-called 'gender freedoms'. That is absolutely not the problem."
(4) "But, I repeat, the problem is that many of these people are mentally there, not here, not with our people, not with Russia. This is, in their opinion - in their opinion - a sign of belonging to a higher caste, to a higher race."
(5) "Such people are ready to sell their mother, just to be allowed to sit in the hallway of this highest caste. They want to be like it, But they don't understand that this so-called upper caste needs them only as expendable material to cause maximum damage to our people."
(6) "The collective West is trying to split our society by speculating on military losses, on the socio-economic consequences of sanctions, to provoke civil confrontation in Russia and, using its 'fifth column', it seeks to achieve its goal - The destruction of Russia."
(7) "But any people, and moreover the Russian people, can always distinguish the *true patriots* from the scum and traitors, and simply spit them out, like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouth, spit them out on the floor."
(8) "I am convinced that this natural and *NECESSARY SELF-CLEANSING OF SOCIETY* will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to meet any challenge."
(9) "The so-called collective West and its fifth column are used to measuring everything and everyone by themselves. They believe that everything is sold and everything is bought, so they think we will break down and retreat. But they do not know our history and people well."

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Mar 16
UPDATE: Putin emerged from Führerbunker today to give a fiery speech to Russian cabinet members, while looking like an angry drunk.
Some highlights:
*Tactics of military operation are fully justified and doing everything to avoid losses among the civilian population.
(2) * "To avoid bloodshed, the Kyiv authorities were asked not to engage in hostilities, but simply to withdraw their troops from Donbas. They didn't want to. Well, it's their decision."

*Compared the West to Nazi Germany pre-WWII
* Sanctions are acts of "economic aggression," "economic war" and "barbaric and aggressive."

*Ridiculous claims about the Pentagon’s biolabs in Ukraine and secret development of coronavirus weapons aimed at Russia.

*The West is an “empire of lies”
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Mar 16
This is a good question. Similar, questions were repeatedly raised about the infamous “40-mile long column.” Ability is only one aspect of military strategic thinking.
The most important aspect, especially in defensive actions is timing or when to best
(2) employ your offensive capabilities.

For Russia to attempt an amphibious landing without support of their eastern ground forces would be suicide. Now perhaps, Russia is about to pull a Leeroy Jenkins. In that case, as Sun Tzu said,
(3) “Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake.”

Instead, it’s more likely Russia moved up those naval forces in hopes it would cause Ukraine to pull additional troops toward Odesa, helping open up a path around Mykolaiv or to try and ferret Ukraine’s defensive
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Mar 15
THREAD 🧵: Years ago I taught a class for the Southeast Intelligence Network on how foreign military propaganda portrays the US military.
Amongst saying the US military was filled with homosexuals and women, the dominate theme of Russian military propaganda was that the US
(2) military was "soft" because US troops required extensive logistics and supply lines to deploy into combat.
Here is an actual Russian meme I used in my PowerPoint. The Russian text reads:
"Private US Army in a war zone - Private Army of the Russian Federation in a combat.
(3) "One of these needs to be fed, dressed, armed, paid, etc. While the other, its enough to give an order to 'move out' and he fulfills it at any cost."

So while #Russia is currently experiencing catastrophic supply issues in its invasion of #Ukraine, for years the Russian
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Mar 14
VIDEO: This happened tonight on Russia's main evening propaganda show on Channel One.
The woman is #MarinaOvsyannikova an employee of Channel One. Her sign reads: "No War. Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”
She has since been arrested by Russian police.
(2) However, Marina published the following message prior to her live protest: Image
(3) The original video the preceding statement was translated from.
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Mar 13
UPDATE 🧵(1/5): Russia conducted a number of early morning air strikes in western #Ukraine, hitting the #Yavoriv training Center near the border with Poland.
Yavoriv is where US troops, namely from the Florida Army National Guard were training with Ukrainian forces just…
(2/5) before the war. So far, there are no reports of fatalities or injuries as result of the strikes.

Because Yavoriv is such a prominent fixed military target, it is unlikely that Ukraine had many, if any, meaningful military equipment at the training center. Ultimately,
(3/5) further suggesting Russia has exceptionally poor real-time ISTAR capabilities.

Defense officials tell me that the Ukrainian intelligence services have increased monitoring of civil communications, as it is likely that Russia’s primary ISTAR right now is coming from
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Mar 12
I’ve been covering Russia and Putin for years. One of the things that often surprises casual observers the most is to find out, Putin is actually a really little fella.
He’s like 5’6-5’7 and 150lbs.
They stage photos - like putting him on a small horse- to make him look
(2) like he’s actually bigger than he is. Or he doesn’t stand close to other foreign leaders. Like this photo op with his bestie the Butcher of Syria Bashar al-Assad.
(3) I however don’t think it is fair to say that Putin has Napoleon syndrome.
At least Napoleon actually led his armies into battle.
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