Yay, internet issues. I get to write an essay with my thumb. So this may be a bit shorter than usual. Once again my home state of #Arkansas is doing good by #Ukraine. Last night more Russian stuff joined the growing collection of space junk that Roscosmos will claim as high tech
Military satellites. Never mind the bits of burned orc that burned up not in... #HIMARs may go down as one of the few game changers that actually changed the game. It obviously has the Russians spooked. To keep word from getting out Russia sealing off Crimes, and of course
Posting the obligatory videos that show it wasn't actually missiles provided through an aid package @JohnBoozman@SenTomCotton@RepFrenchHill all voted for. Nope instead of lend lease and Ukrainian skill at arms it's a bunch of brown skinned ethnic minorities. Where have we seen
That card played before? The level of causal racism in the world's first and only surviving colonial empire is typical and typically disgusting. It's also telling. Russia is looking for internal scape goats outside of easy to blame generals. This combined with the protests
Outside the US embassy may be foretelling a change in Russian internal narrative from, "we are winning" to, "we would have won but...". Again, where have we seen a "stab in the back" narrative? Be on the look out for more worn out tropes bring trotted out to prep the Russian
public for defeat near Kherson and the end of offensive ambitions in the Donbass. Sadly, given the buildup of missile forces in Belarus this may presage and even more brutal war on the cities in Ukraine's interior. Plus rockeaters like the @georgian_legion will still have to go
in and physically eject the fascist invaders from the land they have stolen. If you want to support them then join us because #NAFOexpansion is non-negotiable and we are always recruiting more #Fellas. But even when the Russians get kicked out there are going to be problems.
First is the actual kicking out part is going to silence and main a lot of Ukrainians. Listen to them now why you can and donate to @MriyaAid who is doing a tourniquet drive again to bring more of them home alive. If you don't have any that you follow @MriyaReport is a great
place to meet some. Also on that space we were talking about the other elephant in the room. The millions of stolen people including half a million children. Forcible deportation and state sanctioned mass-kidnapping are also worn-out imperial tropes Russia can't seem to move past
Which is not surprising given the near feudal way Russian society is structured. So that's it for today, be on the lookout for more narrative aimed at an internal Russian audience and keep pushing Ukraine in your circles. Slava Ukraini!
Imagine if you would a US politician coming out and saying, "No mercy for X population"! The internet would melt down, there would be boycotts, investigations, demands for resignations, marches... twitter bans...
Anyone think that will happen here? Of course not. Twitter can ban Trump but not Russian, Chinese or Iranian politicians and diplomats. The only recourse Ukraine will have is too soundly beat Russia and liberate her territory and people. That requires people like us dedicated to
contacting people like @JohnBoozman@SenTomCotton and @RepFrenchHill and telling them to continue to support @POTUS as he sends arms to Ukraine. In fact, Amb U's tweet was in response to a message about such aid is my case in point. Western aid is wrecking Russian military might
@TableTopBill and @Pendolino70S so some quick research into #warhammer40000 and woo doggy... To start the biggest differences between #battletech and 40K is the sheer amount of hand-wavium 40K needs. It is far more fantasy than sci-fi. Psychics, aliens, magic it has it all.
BT on the other hand is very human focused, there are no aliens that threaten humanity and the only semi-intelligent life forms found are 2 species of caveman like humanoid "pinkies" and a bird like primitive society that can only be reached accidentally by misjump with no way
back to human space. The factions of the Inner Sphere are thus not divided between species, but between vast star spanning empires. Although admittedly biased, I prefer BT because there is so much less hand-wavium. You can trace Humanities journey to the stars directly back to
So yesterday was a really bad day for Russia. The number of smoking accidents hit a new high and Roscosmos is rapidly becoming the biggest employer of Russian veterans, though admittedly it's just piece work, a piece over here, some pieces over there, a bunch of pieces way up
there... Russian depots, command centers and airfields are all about to be added to the #ICUN Redlist. I jest, sorry to the World Conservation Congress you guys are fighting the hard fight to save animal life and your red list is an invaluable tool. I can only imagine the horror
show being unleashed on the natural areas of Ukraine right now. Speaking of horrors... Video proof that Russia is using Zaporizhzhya NPP as a depot/hostage to protect assets from Ukrainian strikes.
In what has to be one of history's greatest examples of missing the forest for the trees, Russians have been protesting outside the US embassy in Moscow complaining that US weapons are wounding and maiming Russians.
The fact that the Russians have to be in Ukraine to be killed and maimed seems to have been completely missed. Though in truth it's just another example of Russian imperial/colonialism as a mindset that has filtered down to the lowest levels of society. They presume the
right to act as they see fit anywhere they can because only nations able to act where and how they want are truly sovereign and all others are either prizes to be won or vassals to be defended from other sovereign states. I would not at all be surprised if Russian maps only
So we are now 172 days into a #GenocideOfUkrainians What keeps you going and dedicated, what do you do to recharge, what spirit animates you? What is something on your bucket list? Four really complex questions I will try to answer about myself. First, I made a promise to use my
ability to write to tag my leaders @JohnBoozman@SenTomCotton@RepFrenchHill every day to let them know I want them to support Ukraine. It is my biggest gift to Ukraine. At this point I think I have written more articles on the war than any journalist outside of Ukraine. It is
an admittedly weird record I never saw myself achieving. At this point though it's pretty self-sustaining. I spend time on twitter listening to different voices, often listening on @MriyaReport to find inspiration for the next day's essay. Which brings up question number
Is Prigozhin dead? Dude has lives like a cat so I won't be surprised if he emerges alive, but man can I dream until he does. I never thought the world would have another Himmler but here we are. The W Orchestra or Wagner Group as they are often called in the West is supposedly a
PMC. In reality they are state controlled shock troops and international terrorists. They have been active in Africa, Syria and of course Ukraine. In Africa they are often used at cross purposes to their stated mission. Brought in to stop an insurgency, they instead engage in
levels of brutality to make the situation worse and thus create governmental dependence on Russia. Plus, in the chaos they will engage in wholesale looting. In the Darfur region of Sudan, Wagner is engaged in wholesale looting of the country's gold mines. Previously in Syria they