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)
"ULTRA MAGA Patriot💯🇺🇸🇺🇸 Trump 28🇺🇸🇺🇸America First 🇺🇸🇺🇸 #MAGA #WWG1WGA🇺🇸❤️🙏" @WilliamAlbrech, with 16K followers, is yet another lad from Lagos
"Hey everyone, I'm from the United States 🇺🇸💗" says pouting Native American soldierette and merch seller @hannanative to her 102K followers... from Vietnam
Supporting the noble cause of Scottish independence from the lush green hills of Glen Tehran
Uber-Trumper and "MAGA Patriot || Faith ⛪ Family || Freedom & Liberty || America first 🇺🇲🇺🇲 ❤️" @EgoG_01 is, cue shocked face, in Nigeria
You can't get more American than @American, right? Wrong.
Proud American @jassica_76 says she'd love to marry me and has enough money for us to enjoy life in an undisclosed location. There's one catch: it's actually Pakistan.
@jassica_76 BREAKING NEWS: GOD CONFIRMED TO BE AN AMERICAN
@jassica_76 "Voice for Charlie Kirk — Truth. Faith. Freedom. 🇺🇸 Fighting censorship & lies. For the people, for God, for America." Or maybe for the non-EU eastern European country (Macedonia? Russia?) where @CharlieK_news, with 190K followers, is located.
@jassica_76 @CharlieK_news Sexy 'Ukrainian soldier' @MalvalKranivska asks 'her' followers to "stop sending dick pictures for God sake , I’m in a war , you all want helping." Though the real reason is probably because 'he's' a dude in Nigeria.
@theepicmap left a clue
@realfransson, fake Swede, also not the real Filippa Fransson
Slava Nigerian! @tarasalexandre
Hello @ask2Huma, you're actually from Pakistan
@muskan_art5 is worried that she "can’t find 1 man that doesn’t drink alcohol everyday". She's posting from Pakistan, so I'd say the odds aren't bad
Pro-Russian "British" right-wing account @admcollingwood (23.4K followers) and his @MultipolarPod turns out – surprise – to be Russian.
Sultry "American Patriot" @emma_brunette95 (657K followers) says she loves coffee. I hear they do pretty good coffee in the Middle East
@emma_brunette95 Want to be a red-pilled hyper-masculine male? There's an Indian who'll help with that. (@BMasculineBeast – 275K followers, @MasculineBeast – 39.7K, @MasculineEgo_ – 390K, @TheManMakerx – 353K)
@emma_brunette95 @BMasculineBeast @MasculineBeast @MasculineEgo_ @TheManMakerx @jesus and @s8n take their places alongside @TheTweetOfGod as confirmed Americans
@emma_brunette95 @BMasculineBeast @MasculineBeast @MasculineEgo_ @TheManMakerx @jesus @s8n @TheTweetOfGod "Can Black people be racist?" asks @GodlyNations (137.9K followers). Since they're from Africa (Nigeria?) perhaps they could just ask their neighbours
The AfD is "fighting for your [German] family" says smiling supporter "Anna Braun"... from Nigeria
@nativeno11 is proud to wear the uniform of the "US ARAMY" [sic] ... in Vietnam. (Honestly, this one's so fake it's practically insulting.)
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2/ A new paper in the journal International Organization gives a good explanation of Trump's organising principle, which the authors call "neo-royalism" (analogous to roughly 16th century Europe):
3/ "The neo-royalist order centers on an international system structured by a small group of hyper elites, which we term cliques.
1/ The firing of an "odious" Russian general who is notorious for having caused huge casualties by ordering 'banzai charges' is being celebrated by Russian warbloggers. They warn, however, that he is unlikely to be punished for his failures as he is "protected" by his patrons. ⬇️
2/ Sukhrab Sultanovich Akhmedov, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy for Coastal and Ground Forces, is widely reported to have been dismissed in the last few days after several disastrous attacks which produced heavy Russian casualties.
3/ 'Varangian' says that the dismissal – Akhmedov's second during the war so far – is "due to the poorly organised column offensive on Dobropillya on 22 December 2025, which resulted in unnecessary and ineffective losses".
1/ Russian convicts are refusing en masse to join the army, even to serve as officers, according to Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin. He says that nobody believes the Russian Ministry of Defence's promises any more and recruiters are unable to persuade men to go to their deaths. ⬇️
2/ Girkin, a former FSB officer who is currently imprisoned for 'extremism' (i.e. criticising the war effort for being insufficient), writes:
"Today, the military came by to recruit volunteers for the "assault" for officer positions."
3/ "They spoke with me, but again, they simply shrugged their shoulders: recruiting those with "extremist" charges is prohibited. And no one else (except me) has expressed any interest in joining for a long time.
1/ Russian men are reportedly being drugged, trafficked to the army, and married without their knowledge to 'black widows' who get their 'coffin money' compensation payments when they are killed. A story from Samara illustrates what is said to be a growing nationwide racket. ⬇️
2/ Russian warblogger Anastasia Kashevarova highlights what she calls "a black market for trafficking men to the front". She says that the Samara region is a centre for this activity: "People are already being brought in from other regions; this is a whole criminal network."
3/ Kashevarova recounts the story of Ilnar Gabbasov from Bashkiria, who she says became a victim of traffickers while visiting old acquaintances in a Bashkir village. His mother died suddenly during the visit on 16 February 2025.
1/ Ukrainians are said to be funding their war effort by systematically fleecing billions from Russian citizens and businesses through online and phone scams. It's a hidden front of a hybrid war that employs both kinetic means on the battlefield and hacking on the home front. ⬇️
2/ The Russian Telegram channel 'Veterans' Notes' comments that "a full-scale, quiet, and extremely profitable campaign for the enemy has unfolded in the [Russian] rear."
3/ "The scale of financial losses to citizens and the economy from fraudsters has reached the level of a serious threat to national security in the context of the Special Military Operation. This is no longer an epidemic; it is now a way of life.
1/ Russian soldiers are reportedly being punished by being sent into assaults with anti-tank mines strapped to their bodies, made to dig their own graves for complaining, and risk death delivering New Year's Eve alcohol and caviar for their commanders.
2/ Andrei Vladimirovich Shekhovtsev, a member of the Russian 60th Separate motorised rifle brigade (military unit 16871), says that his commanders are systematically abusing, extorting and killing the men under their command.
3/ He says that his evacuation group was ordered on the night of 1 January 2026 to deliver alcohol and red caviar to a command position for a celebration. He refused, citing the danger of Ukrainian attacks. The order was reissued to some Russian drone operators instead.