Accept the results. I wish the GOP had done better, they didn't. Fin.... My own home state of #Arkansas did its duty. Both @JohnBoozman and @RepFrenchHill won re-election by crushing double digit margins so those votes for #Ukraine are safe. They also show that voting for
victims of the #GenocideOfUkrainians is a safe play in D.C. Next up is @SenTomCotton but his vote is safe as well. He really doesn't like Russia lol. To my fellow Americans, the 24 Presidential season has officially started, but can we please dial down the rhetoric? the country
is split almost 50/50 so not all Lefties are evil and not all Rightwingers are fascists, not even close to a plurality in either party. Don't believe the competing media narratives that the other side is coming to get you. At least part of those narratives is influenced by Russia
and Prigozhin who recently admitted that he has, is and will meddle in US politics. Speaking of voting however, Russia keeps forgetting that Ukraine has a vote. 2 major battles recently and Russian losses now exceed 77K dead. We could see 80K by the end of the week.
Besides the dead, the losses in equipment are also extensive. I have seen multiple videos of destroyed tanks, APC's, trucks and artillery systems. Sadly, Russia does not respect the result of "the elections" in Ukraine in any sense of the word. Not the vote to turn towards the
West before Yanukovych, not the elections after he fled, and certainly not the high velocity ballots being sent down range since Feb 24th. So despite the massive numbers of Russian dead, Putin keeps trying to kill more Ukrainians and leave those who still live in an ever worse
state. It is evil in every sense of the word. Winter is coming and it will be bad for Ukrainians. Iranian missiles coming in will make things worse on the home front but won't give Russia any ability to take more Ukraine. Now its just scorched earth via deep strikes as a means of
revenge for daring to say NO to being colonized by an empire that should have broken up decades ago. Along side the unending terror attacks on civilians Russian proxies are pushing negotiations. Putin wants a frozen conflict and so his lackeys are rather honest when they point
out that ending Russian strikes are civilian targets and critical infrastructure requires Ukrainian capitulation. What I don't think they understand is that Ukraine knows she can't quit, too many millions are already in bondage and unless Russia is defeated any peace will only be
pause. Thus then gives us our marching orders. Give to the charities you trust to help them carry Ukraine through the winter. @MriyaAid, @U24_gov_ua, @UkraineAidOps, @3xR_team and others are on the side of the angels. Lend your support to politicians who support Ukraine.
Join #NAFO and become a #FELLA and help the @georgian_legion legion crush Russians on the battlefield as we fight Russian trolls and dis-info online. Stay informed, sources like @MriyaReport will help keep you up to date so you can take what you learn into other areas of your
life and help build support for Ukraine outside of the twittersphere. I have convinced several people in my own circle to support Ukraine. Not because I wowed them with facts and figures. Most people are not as wonky as me and their eyes would simply glaze over. What won them
over was my passion. They saw how much I cared and because I mattered to them it made them receptive to Ukraine and cut through the BS propaganda the other side is pushing. Finally find some Ukrainian voices and promote them. I've been kind of lax on that lately so my apologies
For months now I have been saying the #Ukrainians would use a bite and hold strategy taking bits here and there until the Russian Army collapsed. Ahh, feels good to be right. The Russian's have lost the Battle of Kherson, though mopping up will likely take some days as stragglers
deserters and dead enders get captured, pocketed and annihilated. I always dismissed the idea that Ukraine would launch sweeping blitzkrieg style armored thrusts. That kind of army requires years and a lot of safe space to build, things Ukraine did not have. Ukraine used what she
have and what she was given masterfully. Now granted I am a nobody. Yet my line was the same as retired general officers (western) and even a few Russians. People with actual formal training (I never got past Spc-4 or bachelors) and educations that reach Ph.D level reading if not
So maybe #Russia is going to retreat from Kherson. Assuming they are, they have some issues that I hope the #Ukrainians can cash in on. When the #Russian's retreated from #Kyiv they were able to do it in fairly good-ish order. #Ukraine was still lacking in artillery and most of
her forces were still in the JFO area of the Donbass. At the same time much of Russia's initial combat power was still intact. Mud was the biggest issue. They we get to Kharkiv. That was a rout and had Ukraine had a western style army with all the bells and whistles that retreat
would not have ended short of the Russian border or Black Sea Coast. Now with even less combat pwoer than in Kharkiv, with an army that has been gutted by loss, infected with malcontent mobliks, abandoned by its officers the Russian army is supposed to cross a massive river at
I was in the birb jail all day. Got brigaded so someone is reading my essays. Short one today. To my fellow Americans, treat the election results as you want the other side to treat them. If you can still vote, vote Ukraine.
This morning I wake up to Medvedev claiming Russia is fighting Satan. I think the translation forgot the word "with" in there somewhere. I jest but not really, but the whole the "west" is Satan/satanism trope is actually kinda cool for a history lover like myself. I mean ever
since 9-11 we kind of expect calls to holy war from the most radical parts of Sunni Islam. The Shia Clerics in Iran have been saying it since I was a child, but for an at least semi-European state to say it: woo doggy. There is some history there.
When the Fins for example were the Swede's favorite shock troops there used to be a Russian prayer that translated as basically, " Dear God, save us from the Terrible Finns". Now how did a duchy 900km from Karelia learn to fear the Finns? Because The Blob was already expanding.
I pointed out yesterday that if #Ukrainian claims are true, #Russia is losing a brigade's worth of troops a day now. 800-1000 dead and x2 (my estimate based on shitty Russian medical support) wounded, missing, captured and deserted. This will add up to about a corps's worth
of troops removed from the Russian OOB every 10-15 days. That is not sustainable not even if many of the troops are in fact (and likely) dragooned Ukrainians. Russia set out to mobilize 300,000 men. The current loss rate will exhaust that cadre by December. Given how poorly the
first mobilization went, the chances of a second are poor. The next wave of reinforcements Russia can look forward too is the spring cadre of kids reaching their majority and subject to conscription. There is some room here if Russia can find some efficiency they could increase
Hubris, such an interesting word, and something we are all subject to fall victim too. famously there is Russia's hubris that they could take Kyiv in 3 days.... America laughed in "Afghani" at that one. Both Russia and America fell into the same trap. How do you beat a people who
don't want to be beaten. The US tried propping up existing tribal structures and singing kumbaya with high explosive chorus. We all saw how that went. Russia has been trying a much more ancient approach. A combination of kill the #Ukrainians by the bushel load, use mass rape,
looting, and destruction to turn the land in to wasteland, and mass deportation and destruction of cultural touch stones to pour acid on the whole idea of #Ukraine as something distinct from the empire. Months ago, I wrote an essay pointing out that the #GenocideOfUkrainians is