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1/ A leaked letter exposes secret Russian video talks with China’s Ministry of Defence.

The subject: training Chinese paratroopers for a Taiwan assault.

Do you want to know what they’re cooking? 🧵⤵️ Image
2/ Now, notably this letter was from 2021.

Before Russia’s full-scale f-up in Ukraine.

Was China trusting Moscow’s bravado to help it take Taiwan?

Has Ukraine's resistance protected Taiwan? ⤵️
3/ The leaked letter arranges video talks on a closed network. Definitely not Zoom, lol.

Subject: Sword 208—an airborne assault project.

Participants: Russia’s Rosoboronexport, China’s Defence Ministry, and the Nanjing Institute of Electronics. ⤵️
4/ Another letter from Beijing confirms the Russian letter.

Russia provides the tech.
China provides the troops.

Together: rehearsing a Taiwan assault. ⤵️
5/ This isn’t speculation.

These are signed business letters.

Moscow and Beijing, coordinating invasion plans behind closed channels. ⤵️
6/ Now, we also know such training and collaboration has continued through to 2025. So the threat is there. It seems Ukraine has been the only firewall preventing complete Moscow-Beijing cooperation on taking Taiwan.

Details via @blackmoon_group

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1/ Yesterday, the White House was the stage set of the most important reality show on Earth.

Here’s the key idea from EACH foreign leader in the room—you won’t find this anywhere else ... 🧵⤵️ Image
2/ @realDonaldTrump won the presidency because he understands optics.

He favors talks in front of cameras so Americans see what’s at stake.

Yesterday, key European leaders—including Zelenskyy—were speaking not just to Trump, but to America. ⤵️ Image
3/ Like the nine in Tolkien’s Fellowship, nine leaders, Trump included, gathered in the White House.

The clear message: NATO or not, Ukraine—whose fight has made everyone else safer—must have Article-5-style defense guarantees.

From Italy to Finland, here’s what they said ⤵️ Image
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Aug 19
1/ This device spots landmines in real time—before they blow you up—and works even if Starlink doesn't.

Here's how four Ukrainian veteran friends solved a deadly problem 🧵⤵️ Image
2/ Mines + hidden explosives litter Ukraine’s lush fields and forests. Every step can be a death trap.

So four friends built BLUE EYES—a portable AI that flags threats even offline.

And now Denmark 🇩🇰 just backed them with €2.4M.

Here's the scoop, via @DefenderMediaUA: ⤵️ Image
3/ Why's it so valuable?

BLUE EYES is portable—carried in a bag or mounted on a drone.

It’s trained on Europe’s largest dataset of explosive devices.

It processes video locally on its own hardware (“edge processing”), so it keeps working even if GPS or internet is gone. ⤵️ Image
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Aug 18
1/ The six things Russia is TERRIFIED Zelenskyy will say to Trump today ... 🧵⤵️ Image
2/ 1️⃣ “Mr. Trump, they’ve tried to kill both you & me—with bullets & missiles.

"Why?

"Because we actually listen to and respect the people. This is why the Global War Machine hates you and me.” ⤵️
3/ 2️⃣ "Ukraine is STOPPING the Russian War Machine. Together, America, Ukraine, and Free Europe will END forever wars." ⤵️
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Aug 17
1/ 🧵 A wounded Ukrainian warrior texted me today about the Alaska summit.

His first words surprised me:

“It takes tremendous personal courage to do what Trump did in Alaska.”

Here’s what else he wants Americans to hear. 🧵⤵️ Image
2/ My friend "Matviy," wounded in battle and now creating mil-tech solutions, texted me today:

"Joe, I want to share with you my reflections on the Alaska summit and what I’d tell Trump if I had the chance."

Here are his full thoughts, which I hope @realDonaldTrump reads: ⤵️ Image
3/ "It takes tremendous personal courage to do what Trump did in Alaska.

"He put his political capital at risk and set his ego aside to meet one of the most disliked and toxic political figures of today with one goal in mind—to save lives and stop the war. ⤵️ Image
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Aug 17
1/ 🚨 Before meeting Trump on Monday, Zelenskyy must understand one thing:

He's entering the most consequential reality show ever—the Oval Office Optics.

And I’ve got a trick to share—one I learned from America’s master of political theater 🧵⤵️ Image
2/ My late mentor Roger Ailes—the man who staged Nixon’s broadcast to the Moon, got Reagan elected, and built Fox News—taught me:

Whoever understands the mood, controls the nation.

Trump has mastered the craft of understanding the American mood.

🎥Russell Crowe as Ailes⤵️
3/ Optics rule in America. We’re the Hollywood nation.

Lacking deep cultural roots, we turn politics into folklore—in a paranoid style:

Democrats: “Russia got Trump elected.”
Republicans: “Biden backs Ukraine for Hunter’s profit.”

Both false. Both powerful. ⤵️
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Aug 15
1/ Defense contractors spend billions of dollars and years building anti-drone systems.

A Ukrainian startup went from founding to combat success in 7 months.

The difference?

They stopped trying to build silver bullets. Here's what they did instead 🧵⤵️ Image
2/ Meet MaXon Systems:

Founded in January, hunting Russo-Iranian Shahed drones by August.

They just proved their system works in combat—and raised $300K to scale it.

This 7-month-old startup knows what billion-dollar defense contractors don't.

cc: @FedorovMykhailo⤵️ Image
3/ First lesson: One perfect system takes forever to build.

So MaXon didn't build one system. They solved five smaller problems ⤵️
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