When an American billionaire offers money to people from relatively poor countries (Serbian average monthly salary $1,329) for riling up and radicalising Americans, it's not surprising that they'll take up the offer
MAGA accounts in South Asia (India?), Nigeria, Eastern Europe and Thailand
"Join our community of America First patriots"... but he's in Europe
The Native American Soul is strong in Bangladesh
@DefiantLs is more like DefiantRs
@KantInEastt supposedly from "London, England" is being a silly Kant
Trump is now President of Macedonia, apparently
Whipping up a MAGA Storm... most likely from Russia
Hot Israeli soldier @Aliya4927 declares: "Israel is my country, I'll defend her till my last breath. Long live Israel and the IDF military"... from Nigeria
"Hello my name is Omar I am from Gaza... I am starving to death" – in India. (This one's particularly scummy as he's asking for donations.)
Fighting for MAGA... from South Asia, most likely India
Constitutionalist,
Patriot 🇺🇸
Ethnically American.
Colonial Stock 1620
... Turkish?
Live from the great state of, err, Sri Lanka
That @americanvoice__ you're hearing, supposedly from Florida ("breaking news. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND TRUMP🇺🇸"), doesn't have a very American accent
Who could have guessed that a self-proclaimed "Torah Jewish Anti-Zionist organization" from New York would turn out to be an engagement farmer from the Philippines
Hard-left anti-Israel posting is evidently quite profitable for @tiberiusfiles from Thailand (180K followers).
@tiberiusfiles Self-proclaimed "Trump Lover ❤️" and female body builder "MAGA Nadine" @femalebodybuil6, with 394K followers, turns out to be a guy from Morocco
@tiberiusfiles @femalebodybuil6 Supposedly Washington DC-based "counter intelligence expert"
@RealMacReport, with 94K followers... is Indian
@tiberiusfiles @femalebodybuil6 @RealMacReport Pro-regime account with 1.4 million followers @IRIran_Military ("respected semi-official media outlet specializing in Iran’s military affairs... with unique access to sources within Iran’s armed forces") is actually some guy LARPing from Canada
@tiberiusfiles @femalebodybuil6 @RealMacReport @IRIran_Military Marching to the beat of the @TRUMP_ARMY_ with its 590K followers... from South Asia
Pro-Putin activist and self-declared Komsomol member @MaryanaNaumove (14K followers) is posting from Ireland Oblast
"Proudly Isreali🇮🇱" (sic) @rivkashira__ loves to throw sexy poses in IDF uniform and proclaims herself "always ready to defend my country"... which turns out to be Nigeria
@AmericanGuyX is actually IndianGuyX
@AmericanGuyX "Professional MAGA Hunter" and ultrafan of Joe Biden @ronxyz00 seems to be a bit embarrassed to be exposed as Kenyan and has deleted his account
@Ronxyz00 These are not the Indians you're looking for
@Ronxyz00 Outspoken Putin fan and Wagner Group supporter @Wagnersfamily is in Russia, surely? Ay, caramba!
"Trump Supporter MAGA Girl" @Maga47Amara modestly declares herself to be not the richest, or the funniest, or the prettiest, or a liberal. But strangely also not owning up to a location in Thailand. See also @Smartgirl2k24, @daria_dankworth and @monika_maga47 (now deleted)
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1/ The Kyiv Independent is reporting that Trump envoy Steve Witkoff is "running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials", cutting out Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in an effort supported by Vice President J.D. Vance. ⬇️
2/ According to sources quoted by the Kyiv Independent, Witkoff is "running a broader operation with [Russian envoy Kirill] Dmitriev, trying to sideline the pro-Ukraine voices in the Trump administration."
3/ An unnamed White House communications official "is seen as "one of Witkoff's people," feeding media talking points favorable to Witkoff and his Russia-friendly approach."
1/ Russian lawyers say that gamers could face up to six years in prison or charges of treason if they stream S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 or wear a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. T-shirt, following the Russian government's designation of its Ukrainian developers as an 'undesirable organisation'. ⬇️
2/ The Russian Prosecutor General's Office added Kyiv-based GSC Game World to its list of 'undesirable organisations' on 18 November. The developer relocated many of its staff to Prague after the full-scale Russian invasion began in February 2022.
3/ Since then, GSC has raised $800,000 for the Ukrainian military via a charity sale of its games and has also encouraged its fans to make donations to Ukrainian military causes. This has been cited by the Prosecutor General's Office in its decision.
1/ Vladimir Putin is reported to be unhappy with the proposed Witkoff-Dimitriev peace plan for Ukraine. "Trump is in a hurry, and Vladimir Vladimirovich is not so much," says a Russian source. ⬇️
2/ The independent Russian news outlet Verstka reports that Russian diplomatic sources and sources close to the Kremlin consider the draft agreement to be "vague, in need of revision, and not fully implementable." They see it as merely a basis for a future agreement.
3/ According to a Russian Foreign Ministry source, the peace plan "is not ready ... in the form in which it is currently being discussed." He says that work still needs to be done on the wording and details.
1/ In 2024, Vladimir Putin created a new programme called 'Time of Heroes' to train Russian soldiers and war veterans to be part of a "new elite" to lead Russia in the future. However, soldiers are finding that they are being declared to be deserters if they enroll in it. ⬇️
2/ The 'Time of Heroes' programme was launched on 1 March 2024 after a speech by Putin in which he declared that participants in the Russian invasion of Ukraine should be given training to occupy leadership positions in the Russian government and state institutions.
3/ The 'heroes' are explicitly supposed to replace the officials who took office during the 1990s, before Putin took power. Commentators have observed that the programme is part of a general militarisation of Russian society and increasing Putin's own control over the state.
1/ Corrupt Russian military recruiters, police officers, local administrations, and – allegedly – drug dealers are said to be conspiring to recruit drug addicts, alcoholics and the mentally disabled to join the army, likely to profit from bounties and recruitment bonuses. ⬇️
2/ Russian warblogger Anastasia Kashevarova has published a denunciation of what she calls "discrediting the army in the rear by its own people." She describes how people who are completely unsuited to military service are ending up in the army:
3/ "Military recruitment offices, local administrations, district police officers, and Roma profit from supplying incapacitated soldiers to the front, and the army ends up cleaning up the mess.
1/ Russian warblogger Roman Alekhin is very upset with @olliecarroll's recent piece in The Economist on infighting between Russian pro-war commentators. Some – including Alekhin – have been declared 'foreign agents' after falling out with the Kremlin. ⬇️
2/ Writing on his Telegram channel, Alekhin complains that the Economist had the cheek to lead the story with his own mugshot:
3/ "Today I was sent a link to The Economist, which placed my photo on its cover with the headline 'Russia’s militant bloggers are clashing with their own regime'"