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/ General Vladimir Alexseyev, who was shot yesterday in a Moscow apartment building, may have been secretly visiting his mistress before the attack. Despite a reputation as an uncorrupt officer, he is said to have enjoyed the same luxurious lifestyle as many of his peers. ⬇️
2/ The building where Alekseyev was shot is a fairly ordinary apartment building in Moscow's Shchukino District. Completed in 2022, it has 10 apartments on each floor. Alekseyev was using an apartment on the 24th floor.
3/ According to neighbours, the apartment is occupied by a younger woman with a young child. They say she was seen often with the child, but Alekseyev was only seen rarely. His 'official' wife is in her 60s (he is 64) and their children are in their 30s.
1/ Why has Russia failed so abysmally at providing secure battlefield communications to its troops in Ukraine? The answer, concludes Russian warblogger Oleg Tsarev, is that the military communications budget has been looted for years by corrupt generals and contractors. ⬇️
2/ Tsarev relates the dismal history of Russia's military communications programmes:
"I remember how, at the beginning of the Special Military Operation, all units were buying Motorola radios. There was no other communications."
3/ "Now, Elon Musk has shut down the Starlink terminals our military used in the Special Military Operation, and our communications at the front have been disrupted. I'm talking to military personnel: many say we still have virtually no communications of our own.
1/ The attempted assassination of Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev in Moscow this morning has outraged Russian warbloggers, who regard him as a hero of Russia. They have highlighted his key role and contributions to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. ⬇️
2/ Vladimir Romanov writes:
"An assassination attempt was made on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev [who is known as 'Stepanich'], First Deputy Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian Ministry of Defence."
3/ "An unknown assailant fired several shots into his back in the elevator lobby of a building on Volokolamsk Highway at 7:00 a.m. The assassin fled the scene. Alekseyev was hospitalised.
1/ Russia's battlefield communications are reportedly "in chaos" following the Starlink shutdown. Communications specialists are said to be scrambling to find alternative solutions, while warbloggers advocate torturing Ukrainian PoWs to get their Starlink passwords. ⬇️
2/ Yuri Podolyak writes:
"So, what everyone had long feared, but secretly hoped wouldn't happen until the end of the Special Military Operation has happened. Elon Musk flipped the switch, and 80% of Starlink terminals on the front line went down."
3/ "Moreover, it's highly likely that on our side, this will soon reach 100%, and only Russian ingenuity can attempt to circumvent it. And they will probably circumvent it somehow. But not with a return to 100% functionality as of yesterday morning.
1/ A Russian warblogger explains what the Russian army in Ukraine saw when they were disconnected en masse from Starlink yesterday. ⬇️
2/ "Starlink went down across the theatre of military operations in a rather strange way.
At around 22:00 Moscow time, it was like this:
3/ "– All terminals in the Ukraine theatre of operations are blocked. Both ours and those of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Even from their "white list". All of them.
1/ Russian retailers are cashing in on Elon Musk's mass disabling of the Russian army's Starlink terminals by massively increasing the price of Russian alternatives. One such system has quadrupled in price overnight to over $2,600, but is said to be far inferior to Starlink. ⬇️
2/ 'Combat Reserve' complains that there has been a huge overnight increase in the price being asked for the Yamal 601 system, which uses Gazprom's Yamal satellite constellation. Units are now selling for 200,000 rubles ($2,612) apiece.
3/ Listings on Avito (Russia's answer to eBay) show that until yesterday, Yamal 601 units were being priced at between 45-60,000 rubles. They are however far less capable than Starlink, and Russian soldiers have avoided them in favour of the smaller and faster US-made system.