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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1/ Russia is reportedly considering proposing a wide-ranging economic partnership with the Trump administration, including joint cooperation to push fossil fuels as an alternative to Chinese and European clean energy solutions, in opposition to curbing climate change. ⬇️
2/ Bloomberg is reporting that Russia has prepared a seven-point memo that includes a return to the dollar settlement system, reversing Putin's by now well-established policy of creating an alternative system insulated from US economic pressure.
3/ The proposals also include joint US-Russian ventures in manufacturing, nuclear energy, oil and LNG extraction, preferential conditions for US companies in Russia to compensate for past losses, cooperation on raw materials, and jointly working against clean energy.
1/ Why does the Russian government appear to be so clueless about the role Telegram plays in military communications? The answer, one warblogger suggests, is that the military leadership doesn't want to admit its failure to provide its own reliable communications solutions. ⬇️
2/ Recent claims by high-ranking officials that Telegram isn't relevant to military communications have prompted howls of outrage and detailed rebuttals from Russian warbloggers, but have also pointed to a deeper problem about what reliance on Telegram (and Starlink) represents.
3/ In both cases, the Russian military has failed abysmally to provide workable solutions. Telegram and Starlink were both adopted so widely because the 'official' alternatives (military messngers and the Yamal satellite constellation) are slow, unreliable and lack key features.
1/ Telegram is deeply embedded into Russian military units' internal communications, providing functionality that MAX, the Russian government's authorised app, doesn't have. A commentary highlights the vast gap that is being opened up by the government's blocking of Telegram. ⬇️
2/ The Two Majors Charitable Foundation writes that without Telegram, information exchange, skills transfer, and moral mobilisation work within the Russian army will be crippled:
3/ "I'd really like to add that for a long time, we've been gathering specialized groups in closed chats, including those focused on engineering and UAVs, to share experiences and build a knowledge base. Almost everyone there is a frontline engineer.
1/ Russia's Federal Customs Service is seeking to prosecute Russian volunteers who are importing reconnaissance drones from China to give to frontline troops. It's the latest chapter in a saga of bureaucratic obstruction that is blocking vital supplies to the Russian army. ⬇️
2/ Much of the army's equipment, and many of its drones, are purchased with private money by volunteer supporters or the soldiers themselves. High-tech equipment such as drones and communications equipment is purchased in China or Central Asia and imported into Russia.
3/ However, the Federal Customs Service has been a major blocker. Increased customs checks on the borders have meant that cargo trucks have suffered delays of days or even weeks, drastically slowing the provision of essential supplies for the Russian army.
1/ Leaked casualty figures from an elite Russian special forces brigade indicate that it has suffered huge losses in Ukraine, equivalent to more than half of its entire roster of personnel. Scores of men are listed as being 'unaccounted for', in other words having deserted. ⬇️
2/ The 10th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade (military unit 51532) is a special forces (spetsnaz) unit under the GRU. It is a 2002 refoundation by Russia of a Soviet-era spetsnaz unit that, ironically, passed to Ukraine when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.
3/ Since the invasion of February 2022, the brigade has been fighting on the Kherson front, which has seen constant and extremely bloody fighting over the islands in the Dnipro river and delta. Russian sources have reported very high casualties.
1/ Russian warbloggers are continuing to provide examples of how Telegram is used for frontline battlefield communications, to refute the claim of presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov that such a thing is "not possible to imagine". ⬇️
2/ Platon Mamadov provides two detailed examples:
"Example number one:
Aerial reconnaissance of Unit N spotted a Ukrainian self-propelled gun in a shelter in the middle of town N."
3/ "Five minutes after the discovery, the target's coordinates and a detailed video were uploaded to a special secret chat group read by all drone operators, scouts, and artillerymen in that sector of the front.