The attempt to add amendments to HR 8035 exposed the pro-Putin Fifth Column in Congress. 12 congresspersons submitted 24 amendments that were based on or were pure Kremlin propaganda.

Say hello to the US House of Representatives Fifth Column.

🧵1/14 Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia led with 10 of the 24. She touched on almost every Kremlin talking point and submitted at least 13 additional amendments.

Nazis, Christian persecution, biolabs which not even the Kremlin pushes anymore, Transcarpatha, Zelenskyy legitimacy

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Three questions.

1) Does the Geneva Conventions/International Humanitarian Law consider oil refineries a civilian target?

2) Does established US Military doctrine consider refineries civilian targets?

3) Has The Hague or the UN ever considered the question?

A 🧵 1/11

https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1778071989749489684

The @ICRC is the keeper of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and is assigned by the Geneva Conventions as the international watchdog. IHL is published online, with the doctrine of dozens of miliaries and previous case law. Here is the link.

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ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-i…

The amount of disinformation circulating on TikTok about Israel-Hamas is astounding.

We're also seeing clear signs of paid disinformation campaigns that started between October 15 and 20 that are well-funded and sophisticated.

A very short 🧵

1/8 Troll farms and "oppositional marketing firms" will hack, create and store, and buy real social media accounts to use for their purposes. Yes, there is a secondary market for people who decide they don't want their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., and sell them.

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A 🧵 about Rybar and the info they share.

Let's talk about the fall of Rybar as a semi-reliable information source for the Russia-Ukraine War.

And to be clear.

Friends! #NAFO! Countrymen! Lend me your ears! For I have come to bury Rybar, not to praise them.

1/12 First, who is behind Rybar? Mikhail Zvinchuk, "former" Russian Defense Ministry press service officer, and Denis Shchukin are the founders.

Both are believed to be tied to the FSB.

Rybar's operating budget is estimated to be $20K USD a month.

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I read the news in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic so you don't have to. Local news is a combination of brain damaging Russian propaganda, the same type of new that happens in your home town, and sometimes military intelligence between the lines.

1/13 Tap water has always been an issue in the Donbas back to Soviet times. The region is surprisingly dry despite what you see on the map. When Russia started its war of aggression in 2014, the Siverskyi Donets-Donbas Canal was cut off.

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I read the local news sources in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic, so you don't have to. Some of it is brain-damaging Russian propaganda. Some of it is what you would read in your local news. And some of it provides hidden military intelligence.

A shortish 🧵

1/7 Residents of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic are complaining as the price of gas/diesel is skyrocketing, and supply is tight. They don't have shortages, but a station might be out of fuel one day, then another the next.

The Ministry of Coal & Energy was interviewed.

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A 🧵

The threat at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Last week we sounded the alarm on Twitter and the daily Situation Report that while the overall chance of an intentional accident at ZNPP is low, current threats should be taken very seriously

1/21 ZNPP has 6 Soviet-era designed VVER-1000 nuclear reactors and is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe

It can produce 5700 MW of power, and the reactors were commissioned between 1985 and 1996, Reactor 6 is the newest

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There is another impact of the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam - shipping - specifically cargo traffic on the Dnipro River

There are several benefits to moving cargo via boat on riverways versus trucks and trains, one big one, it's cheaper

1/7 In 2021, approximately 11 million tonnes of cargo was transported on the Dnipro River

The top three cargos were

1) Building materials
2) Grains
3) Metal and metal products

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A 🧵

The issues of Russian sustainment, supply, and logistics are well documented

This is the KPTM-3 landmine dispenser used to remotely deploy a PTM-3 antitank mines

Russia is using these by the tens of thousands, but there is a new problem at the front

Batteries

1/7 The PTM-3 antitank mine is a shaped HE charge and can be programmed to autodestruct

It is deployed by a man-portable system, Grad and Smerch rockets, UMZ minelayer, or VSM-1 helicopter dispensing system

Each one has a battery

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Misinformation/Disinformation Alert

Sloppy journalism is causing a fake story about Javelins and AT-4 antitank weapons in Ukraine ending up in Mexico to spread

This is false

No Javelins

ATGM and RPG have been used by Mexican cartels for 15+ years

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france24.com/en/20090727-sw…

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1664312872703344648

These weapons are coming from two sources; the United States, where drugs are sometimes exchanged for small arms and other weapons

Latin American and South American nations littered with old US ordnance

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npr.org/2023/04/21/117…

france24.com/en/20090727-sw…

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Pro-Ukrainian channel Crimean Wind, which also posted this video almost 9 hours ago and has been posting all day long this is "real" and this is "fake" on pics and videos - is saying Ivan Khurs is back in port

https://twitter.com/MalcontentmentT/status/1662046263314112514

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But the weather doesn't match!

Yes it does - moving on

But Gikrin said!

Girkin didn't say. Gikrin shared a Telegram post from the Maritime Power of State Telegram channel

We originally were going to include this in the SITRPEP and stripped it out after further review

A 🧵

The situation with @PeImeniPusha aka Donbass Devushka goes further than her not being a Ukrainian from Luhansk

Allegedly a woman from Oak Harbor, WA USA

Donbass Devuskha appears to be a US Navy Clerk who was just discharged and allegedly shared Teixeria stolen docs

1/7 Others have identified her name, and recent court filing to change her name, and identified her alleged connections to a tropical fish business - being intentionally vague so as not to dox, Donbass Devushka deleted her LinkedIn and Facebook, but the Internet is forever

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March 29, 2022 - this day in history Russia-Ukraine War 🧵1/4

🟣🇷🇺Dep Defense Minister Fomin announces🇷🇺"fundamentally" scaling back military operations in central/northern🇺🇦
🟣🇷🇺Sergei Shoigu says phase one of🇷🇺operations is complete & new objective is "liberating Donbas" March 29, 2022 - this day in history Russia-Ukraine War 🧵2/4

🟣🇷🇺spokesperson Peskov says☢threats only if "threat of existence"
🟣🇷🇺Kalibr cruise missile his admin building in Mykolaiv, 46 killed/wounded
🟣🇷🇺heavily shells areas north of Hostomel to support retreat from Kyiv

March 28, 2022 - this day in history Russia-Ukraine War 🧵1/4

🟣🇷🇺forces blow up bridges in five villages east and northeast of Chernihiv as the 🇷🇺 retreat starts
🟣Red Cross delivers 60 tons of aid to Kharkiv
🟣🇺🇦resestablishes supply line between Poltava and Sumy March 28, 2022 - this day in history Russia-Ukraine War 🧵2/4

🟣🇷🇺supply line from Sumy region to Kyiv region attacked along the southern flank
🟣🇷🇺 continues attacks on Izyum
🟣🇺🇦🇷🇺 fighting in Mariupol city center
🟣🇫🇷Macron criticizes 🇺🇸Biden for calling Putin "a butcher"

March 27, 2022 - this day in history Russia-Ukraine War 🧵1/4

🟣🇷🇺forces withdraw from Slavutych 1 day after its capture
🟣🇺🇦liberates Boromyla (Sumy)
🟣🇺🇦counteroffensive in Husarivka (Kharkiv)
🟣🇺🇦Pres Zelenskky tells 🇺🇦troops in Mariupol they can withdraw. but they refuse March 27 2022 - this day in history Russia-Ukraine War 🧵2/4

🟣🇷🇺falsely claims Rubizhne captured (again)
🟣🇺🇦liberates Lukyanivka & Rudnytske (Kyiv)
🟣🇺🇦liberates Irpin (Kyiv)
🟣🇷🇺shells Borodyanka (Kyiv), indicating they've been pushed out
🟣🇺🇦reaches Orane, near Chernobyl EZ

Bryansk "attack" a 🧵

Videos are circulating of "troops" in the Bryansk villages of Sushany and Liubechane

Some digging found this picture of Denis “WhiteRex” Kapustin - who organized the RDK in Ukraine in August 2022, claiming to be in Bryansk

1/7 The RDK or Russian Volunteer Corps is not part of the Ukrainian military or part of the UKR Russian Legion (which is former Russian POWs fighting for Ukraine)

The Russian Legion is not affiliated with the Russian Imperial Legion (RIM) or the RUS BARS-13 Russia Legion

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A 🧵The IAEA released an update on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which seems to have fallen off the collective radar

TL;DR - not great - not terrible - but increasing concerns

1/10 A 🧵Situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

On 15DEC22 Russian occupiers closed the "road of life" between Vasylivka and Kamyanske

The last rotation for the IAEA happened on 13JAN23

Russians launched an offensive on Kamyanske on 22JAN23

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iaea.org/newscenter/pre…

A 🧵

Watched an older Spanish documentary about submarine warfare in World War II

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes

In 1939, the US established a 200 to 300-nautical mile North American neutrality zone after Germany invaded Poland

1/14 May 1940 Dunkirk

Jul 1940 Battle of Britain starts

Sep 1940 US gave Britain 50 obsolete destroyers to fight German subs and got 99-year leases in the Caribbean/Atlantic

The WW1 destroyers were in deplorable condition, and initially, only 30 could be brought into service

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Exactly this

A 🧵about what we're being told about the situation in Bakhmut by people who are in Bakhmut without violating OPSEC - absolutely NOT directed at @AndrewPerpetua, who is doing tremendous work

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https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1602109652048674816

On 05DEC22, after a report that General Sergey Surovikin was destroyed in a video meeting with President Putin after the drone strikes on Russian airbases, including one just 100 km from Moscow, we assessed Surovikin would go "all-in" somewhere, he needs a W

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A 🧵on Putin's grip on Russia slipping and why you should be watching Kadyrov and Prigozhin - carefully

For those not paying attention to the Kremlin chessboard, there is a lot of positioning going on between Kadyrov vs Shoigu and Prigozhin vs Putin

1/23 Kadyrov and Prigozhin going after Col. General Alexander Lapin was likely a coordinated effort

Lapin's strategy led to the capture of the Luhansk Oblast in July, and was awarded the honor of Hero of Russia by Putin on July 3; he wasn't a scrub

2/23

A 🧵 on software development and what will go wrong if Elon Musk clears the engineering house

Twitter was founded in 2006, which means its code base is 16 years old, which means somewhere, there is a Milton Waddams who knows the ins and outs of the bowels of the code

1/7 During my corporate life, I worked for software companies and PC manufacturers in their software organizations

The "hey, you can't delete that old code because" isn't written down - I don't know any company that writes it all down, it's in the brains of devs

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