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Dan Kaszeta, FRHistS, Legal Juggernaut 🇱🇹 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Dan Kaszeta, FRHistS, Legal Juggernaut 🇱🇹 🇺🇦
@DanKaszeta
Author. National security and CBRN expert. "King of Nerve Agent Twitter" Ex US Army and USSS. Liveryman of London. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 dual citizen, Anglican, #NAFO.
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Jul 23, 2024 • 22 tweets • 2 min read
Having witnessed 3 presidential campaigns close up (I was at the White House for both the Clinton and Bush jr), I actually have some observations and tactical advice for VP Harris…. 1. Make Trump tired. Wear him out. A guy like that gets even dumber and makes bigger mistakes.
Jul 21, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For a country so obsessed with firearms, a lot of US self-confessed gun enthusiasts are getting a lot of basic facts wrong 5.56mm bullets fired from AR-15/M-16- type rifles (or any rifle) do not “tumble” in flight. If they didn’t they wouldn’t be accurate.
Jul 14, 2024 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
I used to work for the USSS. I knew countersniper guys but worked in a different niche specialist role. A lot of the commentary right now ranges from unhelpful to actively harmful. Contrary to popular legend, the USSS has finite resources. There will be a lot of probing, some of it necessary and some of it ridiculous or hopelessly biased.
Jul 9, 2024 • 32 tweets • 4 min read
@davedisasterman @DrFrancisYoung Ok. My Lithuanian forebears have this moonshine/poteen stuff distilled from mead. It’s called Žalgiris. It’s 75% alcohol Image @davedisasterman @DrFrancisYoung I’d spent 2 weeks on a White House/USSS advanced party, having used my pidgin Lithuanian and ancestry to ease no end of minor liaison frictions.
Jun 13, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Occasionally, when I'm doing research for my next book, I discover a villain or a hero. Today's hero is Doctor Balys Matulionis. Image Dr. Matulionis was a physician in Lithuania, and spent 20 years in the Lithuanian army as a medical doctor. The Soviets put him in prison in 1940, and he got let out when they retreated in 1941. He did a lot to keep the Lithuanian medical sector functional under Nazi occupation.
May 16, 2024 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
Historically, the Russian/Soviet state oppressed and killed allies with nearly as much vigor as it did enemies. When the Soviets re-occupied the Baltic States in 1944-1945, they arrested the people who had been opposing the Nazis on the basis that such people are troublesome
Mar 27, 2024 • 50 tweets • 7 min read
Nazi Germany was the first nation to develop and mass production nerve agents as a weapon. However, as with anything to do with Hitler and Nazis, a bunch of ill-informed people have been pronouncing nonsense. Some of it out of ignorance, some from malice.

A thread First problematic thing- the use of the phrase "Nerve gas". The nerve agents we are talking about are not gases. They are, in fact, liquids. Using the phrase "nerve gas" kind of marks you out as not knowing the basic concepts.
Mar 26, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
75 years ago, much of it this week 75 years ago, 22 members of my extended family were sent off into captivity by the Soviet Union. Image 21 of the 22 were sent to Siberia. The 22nd was sent to Kazakhstan. The youngest were 5 years old. Some tankie is going to tell me a 5 year old was a Nazi collaborator
Feb 28, 2024 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Let me tell you a few stories about how stupid this "London has no go zones" has become over the years. I think it was 2019. I was visiting Arizona, where I grew up. I went to a craft beer place near where I grew up. I ordered a beer and started talking to people.
Dec 18, 2023 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
Let me see if I can explain this. Underground bunkers have not been the way to try to survive a US-USSR/Russian nuclear war since the late 1970s. At some point in the 1970s, Soviet nuclear targeting got better due to satellite reconnaissance. At about the same time that the accuracy on their ICBMs and SLBMs went from Km to m.
Oct 26, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This likely disinformation story ruined my evening last night and I'm not going to spread it. It's got a huge amount of problems. Image First, it's a clickbait headline that way overstates what the article actually says. Let's start with what the article actually claims.

It's reporting what some groups expect, not some stunning revelation from Washington. Image
Oct 25, 2023 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
OK. A few days ago, I promised a bit of a thread on alleged chloropicrin incidents in the Russia / Ukraine conflict. Chloropicrin is a nasty irritant chemical with uses in industry but is broadly speaking both a failed tear gas agent and a failed chemical warfare agent.
Oct 1, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Many of you have been supportive of me on my occasional Sunday gigs helping out homeless/destitute asylum seekers and refugees at St Martin in the Fields @smitf_london We call this ministry our “Sunday International Group”
Aug 2, 2023 • 57 tweets • 10 min read
OK. Here's a Captain Dan military history post on Chemical Warfare and Chemical Weapons in the Second World War. Image Now, some of you will say, "but Dan! Chemical warfare was a world war 1 thing, not a world war 2 thing" and as a broad sweeping generalisation, you mostly have a point. Mostly.
Jun 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The thing about my legal case on #Blacklisting is that nobody knows how deep or wide the problem is. The UK Cabinet Office claims to not know. I hope that my court case will force some disclosure of this dark and sinister policy and just how widespread the problem is. Because we're clearly at the "they can't do anything well" stage, the UK government broke the first role of blacklisting. They told me I was blacklisted. In writing.
Jun 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Help me raise funds for my legal case against the UK government's sinister blacklisting policy. Sadly, seeking justice in the UK is not free. My excellent legal team at @LeighDay_Law has taken my case but I need to crowdfund this valuable effort.

crowdjustice.com/case/dan-kasze… In case you are curious, funds to Crowd Justice don't come to me. They go to my legal effort. You can see how it works here: crowdjustice.com/how-it-works/
Jun 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It is me. I’m launching legal action Watch this space. My crowdfunding effort for the not-inconsiderable legal expenses will go live in about 90 mins.
Jun 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Watch this space. Tomorrow I will call upon you for help in calling down some cosmic hellfire onto some injustice I’m blessed and cursed to be in a position to challenge the UK government’s sinister war on criticism and campaign to cut itself off from even free outside expertise,
Jun 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Update: No, I’ve not deleted any tweets based on the UK government’s strong objections to my social media. They’ve not been specific. I’m a private citizen. If the UK government can object to my social media accounts they can do it to you too.
Jun 16, 2023 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Once more, from the top, as an unbroken thread.

"NAFO: The Saga"
#NAFO #NAFOfellas Image Image
Jun 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For me it’s a dead tie between the Beretta M12, the 1979 Pontiac I destroyed ramming shit at the JFK SW School at Bragg, or the pipe bomb I made at Eglin that broke the rules All three have their merits