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Daniel Asher in solidarity πŸ—½πŸ€œπŸ€›πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸš«πŸ‘‘ Profile picture
@alastgleaming
Oct 25, 2024 β€’ 12 tweets β€’ 4 min read β€’ Read on X
Check this out! Here's one of the finest efforts to take down russian drones over Ukraine out there:

"'DroneFall' by the numbers πŸ€“πŸ”’

Our project is already 2.5 months old, or 79 days. Today we share with you our numbers and remind you what it's all about 🫢"
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"During this period, we have provided 16 units with everything they need to effectively hunt down enemy UAVs: pickup trucks, interceptor drones and related equipment.

The total value of the aid we have provided so far is UAH 39,581,680 ($958,960 USD) βœ…"
"The military has already converted this amount into 157 downed reconnaissance drones of various types worth the equivalent of ~405 million UAH πŸ”₯"

[Ed.: That's $9,809,702 USD of downed ru drones! There's that sweet 10x cost-effectiveness again. πŸ”₯🀟]
"But the project still needs your help, as our goal is 1000 downed UAVs, and at least 13 new units are waiting for their cars and drones to join the 'DroneFall'.

So please donate here:" (Discussion below)
"So please donate here: "

Translation ends here. I want to pick up here and help other westerners understand how worthwhile it is to navigate the hurdles to donating to Come Back Alive.

Obviously, most of us can't donate via Monobank.bit.ly/3WxEy7X
Yet Come Back Alive is Ukraine's #1 private foundation for supporting ZSU. It's been solid since 2014. They have gone above and beyond what most of us think of as a πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ charity.

You can see this at , and more in the 2022 Annual Report in their archives.savelife.in.ua/en/annual-repo…
Many westerners will be blocked from donating through banking networks, because Come Back Alive is authorized to buy arms directly for ZSU. I've seen others encounter this issue at events which had people donate to Ukrainian charities for admission.

Still, find a way.
Find a way, because if we squeeze this issue into monetary terms, military aid is approximately 10x more cost-effective than hospitalization or refugee aid or reconstruction. They are directly taking on the horrors of war at the source - russia's war machine.
Try your available methods in order of preference.

I've long had to use ETH to donate to Come Back Alive. They now support TRC20, a currency tethered to the dollar, which counters the volatile valuation of USD to ETH and all the resulting confusion.
savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/#…
It's been some time since I had the chance to volunteer for Come Back Alive, but it will always be something I'm proud of, apart from any of the messiness, toxic competitiveness, and slander that's plagued western support.

I'll keep supporting them of my own accord.
@BackAndAlive are the gold standard for helping ZSU. They are able to take defender's needs from a big-picture, end-to-end design perspective.

Keep them at the top of your list, along with official unit fundraisers and advocacy to our officials for our government's aid. πŸ«ΆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
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Daniel Asher in solidarity πŸ—½πŸ€œπŸ€›πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸš«πŸ‘‘ Profile picture
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Tearing down the "divine right of kings" - a team effort!

While French thinkers were 🀯 over free 🌎 indigenous societies, they also talked with Cossacks who had elected leaders - in 1648. Ukraine's Orlyk devised a constitution with separation of powers in 1710. Fascinating πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡
This means that the US Constitution came from a rebellion against "divine right" and monarchic power, and Ukraine's Orlyk was absolutely part of this conversation.

Through Montesquieu, Ukraine was no further than one degree of separation from the US's founding inspirations.
There's an overlap between Ukrainians and the First Nations of the Americas:

They're deep-rooted and indigenous.
They had societies founded on freedom, persuasion, and responsibility to the whole.
Their attitudes towards kings blew Europe's minds.
pbs.org/native-america…
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Daniel Asher in solidarity πŸ—½πŸ€œπŸ€›πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸš«πŸ‘‘ Profile picture
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I've seen some stupid lies before, but damn.

You can never keep too many receipts with GL. They change their stories completely, and their cult doesn't notice or doesn't care.

Reality on the ground for the locals?
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The video in question. You can clearly see there's a huge logo visible from the street. See, I found this video memorable because GL was falsely claiming authority to arrest its critics in Ukraine.
Units can't arrest critics under Ukrainian martial law, much less an NGO.

A unit, GL is not. HUR made that clear.

Pay attention to dates. GL doesn't get to retcon times they claimed to be in Budanov's chain of command during the very timeframe HUR said Mamuka had no contract. Image
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Daniel Asher in solidarity πŸ—½πŸ€œπŸ€›πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸš«πŸ‘‘ Profile picture
Jun 10
Again? Again.

Same cluster, same behavior. They attack legit orgs and volunteers to keep their LARP $ going.

They threaten critics with death/SA, then impersonate them (the three yyy account was fake) to sow chaos.

There's no bottom.
x.com/NormandeBrigad… x.com/LvivNightingal…Image
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I've seen their behavior since 2022, when they attacked @UK4UA's efforts which saved a defender's leg. "NurseAnna" lied about her involvement, patient consent, deleted/rebooted her threads with moved goalposts.

BBC/Suspilne sank that ship. Grudges much?
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Daniel Asher in solidarity πŸ—½πŸ€œπŸ€›πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸš«πŸ‘‘ Profile picture
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New initiative from @BackAndAlive just dropped!

"If you still don't know how 'Let's ground the enemy' works - it's okay! The dog's down to explain it to you.

This project is a shield for those who hold the sky. It's air defense, for air defense. The dog can confirm."
@BackAndAlive @BackAndAlive is cool like this. Their thinking is big-picture and end to end, because they were founded by Ukraine's veterans and have been at this for 11 years.

Just look at the success they've had with "Dronefall"...
@BackAndAlive For the equivalent of $6 million USD, they've shot down 1,546 russian drones. That's 676 Zalas, 511 Supercams, 182 Orlans, 177 others (you saw that Lancet some weeks ago, right??)

That's less than $4K per drone on average! Image
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Though I suggest we be wary that Grok will be increasingly poisoned as a source, just this moment, I tip my hat.

It's done a great job of putting words to how the principles of how to support Ukraine connect to what I learned from standing with other marginalized people. Image
I endorse this message.

I prompted Grok to look at three threads: Jim Crow-style voter suppression, black rights to armed self-defense, and Edmund Ruffin, and asked Grok how this would influence my support of Ukraine.

The interconnects were too good not to share. Image
The three threads:
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AI is no oracle. What it does do well is look for what fills in the gaps between known realities.

I appreciate how Grok found the "why" between the "what" I'd take as a given.
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Mar 8
This explainer has some solid points, @Greg_Palast, and helps to explain many of russia's excuses for war. I deeply value your work on US progressive issues. There are really solid points on how russia is aggressively attacking Ukraine's historic identity and autonomy.

Most simply and urgently: "Kyiv" not "Kiev", for the same reason we take down Confederate flags and monuments. Those spellings are a russian way of asserting imperialist ownership and historic revisionism.

I heartily recommend this thread by a respected Ukrainian author in Britain: x.com/komarnyckyj/st…

I can condense other things I've learned among Ukrainians thus:

Values are the biggest reason for russia's determination to destroy Ukraine, but Putin lied a bit there. It's not russian values versus western so much as russian versus Ukraine's. He lied because the war is founded on a genocidal premise that Ukraine doesn't exist.

It's russia's traditional values vs Ukraine's are, not so much the west's. It is the vertical power of russia's tsars and their nihilistic servile death cult, versus Ukraine's horizontal hromada, a democratic and even somewhat anarchistic co-operative view which values individuals and their choices.
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Left out: Gogol was Ukrainian, and the troika description wasn't a compliment.
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