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Russians With Attitude
@RWApodcast
Two Russians telling you how it is; often in armchair war reporter mode. Listen to our show: https://t.co/fze3JjZUBc
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Aug 22 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Sergey Markov, a Kremlin loyalist, United Russia member, and regular Russian TV talking head, was just labeled a foreign agent.

Here he is in Baku, calling Aliyev a "brilliant leader" who "won the war"

Might seem small, but I think this is a GIANT shift in Russian politics: 🧵 Russia is CRAWLING with Azeri political lobbyists. I've talked about this on our podcast many times. Aliyev's little helpers had access everywhere for years.

Markov was one of the most obvious offenders, parroting Baku's line while presenting himself as a Putin loyalist at home. Image
Jul 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The 'Russia hoax' wasn't fake because Trump never met shady oligarchs in Moscow strip clubs — it was fake because it had zero to do with Russia's interests

It served as proxy cover for a far more intimate, untouchable link: Israeli circles - a staple of foreign collusion in US Image Trump’s a greaseball tangled up with oligarchs from everywhere. The only real question is: whose national interests did it all actually serve?

I doubt Trump sniffing crushed Adderall off a Moscow prostie with an Azeri billionaire had much to do with Russia’s civilizational goals Image
Apr 25 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A Ukrainian-born terrorist rented a flat, tracked his neighbor's routine for a month, and left a car full of VOG-17 grenades at the entrance.

The target: Russian General Yaroslav Moskalik.

🧵Who was he — and why was he marked for death? Image
Image Moskalik wasn't a public figure, but he played a key role in Russia's military diplomacy.

In 2015, he was part of the Normandy Format talks on Donbass, shaping the Minsk agreements alongside Lavrov, Ushakov, and Peskov.

He also took part in the Astana talks on the Syrian war. Image
Jul 4, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Russia played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1775, King George III of Great Britain sought the support of Russia to send a 20,000-strong military corps to crush the rebellion in North America.

This corps would consist of combat units from the Russian army and would be led by a British general. Great Britain would pay for the recruitment of the troops and their transportation by ship to North America. The British believed that the Russian troops would guarantee Great Britain success in the upcoming campaign.

However, Russia refused to send any troops and proclaimed "armed neutrality," meaning resistance to British attempts to restrict trade with the rebel colonies at sea. Northern European countries such as Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Prussia supported this policy.Image Catherine's political and military actions helped to further isolate Britain within European politics, ultimately leading to the eventual victory of the young American republic. The proclamation of the Declaration of Armed Neutrality by Russia, which received the official approval of the Continental Congress of the United States in October 1780, had great international significance.

If Catherine the Great had not engaged in political maneuvering with other imperial powers, and instead had chosen to support the British cause, the American Revolution might have turned out differently.Image
May 13, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
An interesting quote by the new Russian Minister of Defence Andrey Belousov: 'By preserving traditional values of the West, which are originally the values of Western Christian European civilization, Russia can become a guardian of these values. This may seem like a paradoxical idea, but it is nonetheless true. Therefore, it is incorrect to say that the West is our enemy.'Image Belousov's father, Rem Belousov, was responsible for developing Kosygin's reforms, the same reforms that could have saved the USSR, but Brezhnev decided against them.

Honestly it's all very white-pilling, friends.
Mar 23, 2024 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Putin is addressing the nation right now The "blood and barbaric" terrorist attack has killed dozens of innocent, peaceful people

He expresses gratitude to ambulance crews, firefighters and rescuers who did everything to save people's lives; condolences to all those who have lost relatives and friends
Jan 15, 2024 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
After the dissolution of the USSR, the US seized the opportunity to re-educate and indoctrinate young and bright students from formerly hostile countries.

A lot of programs were established to "Spread democracy", "Teach post-soviet kids American values" etc Image One of the most successful programs of this kind was FLEX. They literally decided to flex on their enemy's grave. Future Leaders Exchange entailed bringing 15–19 year-old students from the former Eastern Block over to the US to live with a host family and attend US high school Image
Oct 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Going through this new WaPo article on Ukrainian terror attacks inside Russia. Interesting combination of bragging about how great the CIA is but also trying to create distance from what the SBU is actually doing. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/… The CIA are nice guys, unlike the SBU. Training, providing advanced surveillance equipment & intel, supplying explosives, sure! But to press the button... God forbid. “Local excesses”, as they said under Stalin. The world hegemon hides behind the bicolor rag again. How American.
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Oct 23, 2023 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
We started RWA three years ago. Originally, it had nothing to do with any kind of war reporting or snarky political commentary. The purpose of RWA was to make Russian culture & history more accessible to an interested audience; in a way that wouldn't feel like walking through a museum or reading a NYT article. Our audience back then was small but active, and we produced some of our best episodes back when we only had 1% of our current follower count on Twitter. So, as discussed on our last stream, we decided to post some of our older content we'd like to highlight that you may have missed: RUSSIAN VOLUNTEERS, PART I: Russians participating in foreign conflicts in the age of romantic nationalism: the Greek War of Independence, Garibaldi’s invasion, the Balkans, the War between the States. The history of Russian-Boer relations, and the common fight against perfidious Albion.

Sep 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Armenia doesn't want to be friends with Russia because it wants to be friends with Russia's enemies instead. Russia's enemies are coincidentally also allied to Armenia's mortal enemy. People in Artsakh will suffer greatly because of this & Armenia might cease to exist as a state Russia is the only reason there are still Armenians alive in Artsakh
Jun 29, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Women heavily outnumbered men in post-WW2 USSR

Millions of Russian men have sacrificed their lives during Great Patriotic War and it has left a big hole in the male demographics

Male scarcity has reshaped familial/dating markets in Soviet Russia

https://t.co/3ERl4rnsWv
Women were not happy about it at all. They were fiending for a man. Once husband was obtained, they would often forgive him cheating or boozing

One of the reasons why post-soviet girls (try to) look so pretty is caused by recent male scarcity. Excellent genetics too, of course
Jun 6, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
When Russia along with entire post-USSR was in a particularly deplorable state of decline in the 90s and early 00s, many teenagers were joining gopnik gangs. Unlike adult gangs, gopniks were younglins - mostly in the 10-20 age range Nevertheless, those "kids" were mimicking an intricate system of criminal hierarchy, prison slang and outlaw lifestyle of their respected elders - career criminals

Gopnik's main source of income was petty robbery. Bully some kid out of his lunch money, steal someone's flip-phone
May 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The Russian pilots who were captured by the Ukrainian military in March 2022 have finally been exchanged after long negotiations. The Ukrainian side had for the longest time refused to exchange them. The Ukrainians were making outrageous demands and sabotaging the negotiations for over a year. I'm sure the deal was objectively extremely unfavorable. But... 14 months in hell... I don't even care who we had to give up for that. No man left behind
Apr 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Something going boom in Odessa, presumably Shkolny airfield again. It's a major UAV hub for the Ukrainian army. Ukrainian air defences can't deal with the assault.
Apr 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hope it's true and not some April Fools' joke Tornado Battalion was SO bad that even the junta had no choice but to put them in prison. "Mujaheed" was convicted of a vast amount of war crimes during the Donbass War, including the rape of toddlers(!). He and his friends were released by Kiev in the first weeks of the war.
Mar 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Guess we'll see if this is an isolated case or whether things will get hot in Syria again... Has anyone even attempted to explain what US troops are doing in Syria
Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
14 different agreements and memorandums have been signed by Xi Jinping and Putin today, covering a wide range of topics, from science and commerce to industry and media. One of the documents states that both parties are determined to "provide strong mutual support in defending each other's fundamental interests, above all sovereignty, territorial integrity, security, and development"
Mar 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Belarusian and Ukrainia nationalists blame the USSR for "russifying" them, while the Moldovans, on the contrary, blame the USSR for making a separate ethnicity out of them. It's quite funny. Image The abolition of the Moldovan language should be a disturbing precedent for Belarusian and Ukrainian nationalists. It turns out that the universally recognized language of one of the former Soviet Republics can very easily be declared a fiction via political decision.
Mar 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Missile strikes currently occurring across Ukraine. Explosions reported from Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev and other cities, sirens blaring everywhere. Seems to be a pretty large missile attack. Possibly SEAD.
Mar 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
How exactly does one use "human wave" tactics against a numerically superior enemy and also take fewer casualties than him. Also would to see a video of one of these "human wave" attacks. Surely there should be ample footage if it happens constantly?
Mar 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So basically the Georgian parliament has voted for a law that would allow to establish at least a minimum of control over the flow of American money into the country's political system and in response they get called Putin puppets & Euromaidan 2: Electric Boogaloo kicks off >>