Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺
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Orthodox Christian. Posting about military history. "War Nemets."
Joined March 2022
Thread of Threads. I like to share threads about history (usually military/geopolitical in nature), so I will index them here. I am not a “historian” just a guy who reads a lot.
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I’m sure withholding reward money through administrative technicalities is a great way to encourage the public to help with future high profile manhunts.
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The haka is cringe and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
Here's a better angle that shows the @Maori_Party performing the haka right up in David Seymour's face. He looks shit scared.
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Shoutout to this Kuwait airlines plane opting to drive straight home directly through the Iranian air strike. I love this pilot. Ice in his veins.
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Revolutionary Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967. “The life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
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America was biologically necessary because this specimen was always buried in the European genome, unable to flourish in the cramped confines of the old continent. European exploration can be seen as a biological drive to find the conditions where this beast could emerge.
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The sitting President of the United States just withdrew from the election via a screenshot on x dot com without a press conference or any other verification.
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“It’s called Samsara, folks. It’s like a big wheel, but very sad and very tragic. And it’s continuous, folks. It just keeps going, with the rebirth, and other sad things. We can’t have it, you know. We have to break free, folks. And we’re breaking free very strongly, actually.”
There appears to be a new softness to Donald Trump, with people who've talked him describing him with words like "existential," "serene," "emotional" and even "spiritual."
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I’m pretty sure the SEAL secret to falling asleep fast is just being really tired from many hours of intense exertion.
How the Navy Seal fall asleep within 2 minutes. • No pills. • No cold shower. • No bluelight blocking glasses. The 4-7-8 Method (backed by science):
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Libertarians: “Real libertarianism has never been tried.”. Communists: “Real communism has never been tried.”. Fascists:
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There's no proof that Lyme is an escaped bioweapon, it just happens to have been first identified in Lyme, CT, which is right across the Long Island Sound from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, where the US was studying insect-dispersed bioweapons during the Cold War.
Bennet: Did you say that Lyme disease is a is highly likely a materially engineered bioweapon? . RFK JR: I probably did say that.
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Germany going back to strip mining Lignite (possibly the most environmentally destructive energy source on earth) because they got spooked off Nuclear is one of the most intense, farcical, cartoonish self-owns of our time.
Germans hate themselves so much they made a giant machine to eat their entire country.
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Tom Homan has powerful medieval yeoman farmer physiognomy. This is the guy who used to grab ruffians by the backs of their shirts and throw them into the pig pen because they were talking too bawdy in the tavern, where he was trying to eat a roast chicken and a block of cheese.
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PSA: under no circumstances should you commit suicide via self immolation in an attempt to protest somebody else’s war.
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“So you’re telling me that Caesar built a second wall around his siege camp?”. “Yes Tucker! Did you even look at the maps I sent you?”
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I will always love Skorzeny because his main motivation was literally just doing insane spy and commando stuff. He worked for Hitler, Franco, Peron, Nasser, and then Israel - his ultimate allegiance was to whomever would let him do cool missions.
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These maps are always dumb, the Mongols never actually ruled all of that space with a contiguous and coherent administration. One of these was a coherent administrative unit, the other is a theoretical maximum non-simultaneous extent of a tributary system.
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"There are 70 million people in the United States that don't care about anything substantive and will vote for the candidate that pumps out trendy dance videos." . A really excellent argument *against* democracy. Thank you.
For the millionth time, Gen Z does not care about policy. They care about trends. This is like the 4th Kamala trend on tik tok in under 2 weeks-you 👏🏻 should 👏🏻 be 👏🏻 worried.
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The end of The Dark Knight Rises when Alfred sees Bruce in the cafe
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The USA got to play on easy mode - the Midwest plains are some of the best agricultural land on earth, and then America worked its way to the coast and found *another* edenic breadbasket in the California Central Valley.
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This is what the Romans were talking about when they wrote about the warriors of Germania being the most gigantic and physically powerful men they’d ever seen.
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This sort of thing would be unthinkable in America. Most American streets haven’t been cleaned since the 1960’s.
A somewhat surreal sight in Rostov as street cleaners continue on their Saturday morning duties.
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Ukrainian S-300 missile misfired and landed in Poland - will the west tolerate this act of aggression by Kiev?.
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If you’re a guy in your early 20s, buy a Saddam watch. Go into debt if you have to.
If you’re a guy in your early 20s, buy a Rolex. Go into debt if you have to.
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My four year old son Theodosius just looked up from his lunch and asked me, "Father, why did the Emperor divide his forces at Manzikert if his scouts had not yet located the main Turkish force? Was it lunacy or hubris?".
Amal Clooney reveals her son, 5, drew picture of prison and said 'Putin should be here'
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The IDF had an entire company neutralized (75 casualties) in an incursion into Lebanon, and the US Navy fired an entire years' worth SM-3 interceptors yesterday trying to help Israeli air defense with the Iranian barrage. Westerners are not ready for the scale of the next war.
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Only one man can negotiate a lasting peace between the French government and the rioters.
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It’s the anniversary of the Romanian Revolution, which means it’s time to revisit one of the hardest pictures ever taken.
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Friends, a May 9 thread about the scale of Soviet losses in World War Two. You cannot understand why Victory Day is the most significant secular holiday in Russia without getting a sense of just how much the Soviet Union lost in the Nazi-Soviet War. (1/N)
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Think about the fact that Putin got indicted by the International Criminal Court for evacuating children out of active combat zones, but Israel basically has a blank check to bomb civilian areas with impunity.
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All the democracy enjoyers with the 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼 bio flags are very excited about a major city being overrun by islamists.
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Honestly it’s really funny watching the Ukrainian side instantly pivot from “Wagner was destroyed with mass casualties in Bakhmut” to “Wagner is powerful enough to topple the Russian state.”.
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- Film about a second American Civil War .- Texas and California are on the same team .- Journalists are the protagonists . Hahaha.
In this land, anything is possible. Welcome to Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR. In theaters and @IMAX April 26.
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Reports are coming in that none other than Uncle Sasha has negotiated a settlement with Wagner!
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This guy appears to be married and own a home while doing about six hours of work per day, and people are acting as if this is some unimaginably horrible existence.
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“Dad, I love you, I’m so honored to stand behind you.”. “Snoooooore…. Baron…. Snoooore…. My tall boy…. snoooore…. the tallest…… snooooooore.”
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An Assyrian bishop gets stabbed on live-stream and the journos run an article about him being a “notorious anti-vaxxer.”. We really don’t have the language required to accurately convey how evil journalists are. Repulsive. Remember what Kierkegaard said…
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Using the phrase “scorched earth” for the most precise strike you’ll ever see on a vital comms node.
Russia just struck the TV tower in Kharkiv, messing with Ukrainian digital signal. It's their scorched-earth tactic in action, déjà vu from spring 2022
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Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army’s 322nd Motor Rifle division, which was formed in 1941 in Nizhny Novgorod with a founding cadre that was 90% ethnic Russian. The division’s commander was General Pyotr Zubov, an ethic Russian born in Latvia.
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Putin has, to this point:. 1) Annexed Crimea .2) Launched a ground war in Ukraine .3) Held plebiscites to annex Ukrainian territory .4) Conducted a mobilization to sustain the ground war .5) Launched an ICBM at Ukraine . And people still think he's all talk, no action.
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I suppose events in Gaza and Israel will show everyone how ridiculous it was to accuse Russia of genocide and targeting civilians. More civilians will die there in a couple of weeks than have been killed in 20 months of fighting in Ukraine.
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That effete menswear guy should analyze Saddam’s outfits. He won’t because he’s a coward, far too nebbish to admit that Saddam was a style icon.
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The presidents of America and Russia both have mental issues. Biden has dementia and Putin has History-Obsessive Autism (he’s just like me.).
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Pretending 100 years later that Trotsky had drip is really funny, considering one of the main reasons that Stalin was able to consolidate power so easily was literally just that Trotsky was such an insufferable nerd that the entire revolutionary ruling circle hated him.
Leon Trotsky. Colorized film clips from the Russian Revolution.
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Zelensky is calling for preemptive nuclear strikes on Russia - and by extension, a full nuclear exchange that would kill hundreds of millions - and they are still going to give him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Democracy is residents of cities voting to literally release wolves into rural areas against the objections of the people who live there.
In 2020, Colorado voters passed Prop 114, which led to today's introduction of wolves in Colorado. The below map shows the counties that voted for wolves (green), and the counties that voted against wolves (red). #copolitics .
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I know America gets clowned for not being on the Metric system, but Fahrenheit is definitely better than Celsius. Fahrenheit tells you what percent hot you will be. 70 degrees = 70% hot etc, and anything over 100% is too hot. It's the perfect temperature scale.
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Wow, according to this cool animation Russia wouldn’t fire back in the event of a full nuclear exchange. This changes everything!.
If Russia uses a nuclear weapon against a NATO country, then this is what will happen to Russia in response. About 45 million Russians will be vaporized in the first hour. Not much of a life remaining for the other 100 million. Maybe the people of Russia should stop supporting
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Remember when Ukraine claimed it had annihilated the VDV at Gostomel, so a CNN reporter drove out to take a look and found the Russians just chilling on the perimeter.
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You can tell the recruitment crisis is getting truly severe because they ditched the "LGBTQIA+ Marines for Equality" advertising and made something with Call of Duty aesthetics to try and lure bible belt kids back in.
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The irony of dressing as Zelensky specifically for the purpose of begging for free stuff.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s daughter wore a dress in the colors of Ukraine’s flag and his son wore a Zelensky costume.
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The Finns fought very bravely and the initial Soviet assault was entirely incompetent, and yet the Soviets ended up winning and taking more territory than they had initially asked for. History isn’t as cut and dry as Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star.
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A Thread on Blitzkrieg Myth . Popular histories of World War Two love to talk about a German strategy known as "Blitzkrieg" - supposedly an innovative, high speed, overwhelming attack, responsible for their early successes. Only one problem: Blitzkrieg isn't real. (1)
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Potentially dangerous situation evolving. A Ukrainian kamikaze plane was shot down in the Murmansk region. Absolutely no way this was launched from Ukraine. If it came from Finland, strap in.
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We should start a counter-ritual where we pay homage to the Arch of Titus and remember his triumph over the Judean rebellion.
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Prigozhin says they are turning around and going back to Ukraine. Amazing.
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Calling Dugin Putin’s “war mastermind” and “spiritual guide” is a great example of how completely detached western sources are from the way Russia’s political system actually works.
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Dead for almost 80 years and he’s still the main character.
JUST IN - Israeli UN delegation wears Nazi-era "Yellow Stars" at UNSC.
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This is just pathetic. “Navalny’s last words were “Ride with Biden. Never Trump. Wakanda Forever” just before Putler killed him with a KGB death punch.”
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Melania looks like she’s about to say “rattle ‘em, boys” while a squad of goons in trench coats spray down a room with Tommy Guns
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Imagine someone blew up the child of one of the top columnists at the New York Times or Vox, just because they were perceived as the foremost ideologies of the neoliberal Obama-Biden regime. That’s what just happened in Russia. It’s not a military action, it’s just terrorism.
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If Israel really did just kill Nasrallah, it’s time for the Iranian coalition to make some hard decisions. The whole “axis of resistance” thing gets really tiresome when all you do is suffer an endless sequence of unanswered humiliations.
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Thread: Operation Barbarossa. The Nazi-Soviet War was the largest land war ever fought, and the results shaped world affairs even to the present day. The German invasion of the USSR in 1941 - Operation Barbarossa - is therefore among the most important campaigns in history. (1)
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The people who performed the worst over the last 24 hours were exactly who you’d expect.
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When Trump invades Canada, the key will be rapid advances in the opening 48 hours to take advantage of Canada's odd force disposition. The country's political and economic center of gravity is the urban corridor from Toronto to Montreal, but a significant share of the Canadian
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A close up of a destroyed Leopard and several Bradleys.
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In the Viking era, Scandinavia was so rural that Old Norse didn't have a word for "town" or "city." They used the word "garðr" which meant "place" or "enclosed area" like a farm. Their name for Constantinople was "Miklagarðr" which basically just meant "the big place.".
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They made the meme real
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Last night Russia hit shipping infrastructure in Reni, literally right across the Danube from Romania. Russian precision is good enough to attack targets 500 meters from a NATO country, yet we’re asked to believe that they blindly lob these missiles at residential areas.
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Unbelievable - the Boeing quality control manager who tried to blow the whistle on the company's shoddy manufacturing and corner cutting has conveniently committed "suicide" in the middle of his deposition.
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The funniest thing about the Hague issuing an arrest warrant for Putin is that neither the USA, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, or Belarus are party to the ICC - nobody involved in the conflict is under obligation here. Just another case of Europeans pretending they have power.
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Elon has implemented a "Ukraine state-affiliated media" tag. Outstanding.
⚡️ Another Monday morning starts with air alerts almost all over Ukraine and explosions in Kyiv and other cities. It is reported about 40 missiles are over the country now.
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The Churchill discourse is interesting. Churchill was, by any measure, a disaster for Britain - his blood was up for the Germans and he was willing to exhaust Britain’s final energies to defeat them, even if it meant losing the empire and ceding the earth to the USSR and America.
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Russia is striking at will all across Ukraine every night, while Ukraine struggles to capture a few villages in the grey zone. The capability overmatch is ridiculous and someday it will seem like a joke that people thought Ukraine could win this war.
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My wife watching in horror as I launch into a rant about the Battle of Agincourt at dinner with her parents
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The Wagner saga was so confusing to westerners because life of greatness is no longer imaginable to most. We presume that men must be objects of political forces and historical script; never subjects acting freely in time and space, open to consequences. Such vitality is alien.
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Ukraine presented "proof" that they shot down a Kinzhal, hoping perhaps that people will fail a basic shape recognition test.
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Putin deploys secret Russian weapons - concrete and engineers!
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I get called a “Russian asset” for posting maps and writing articles about the war in Ukraine, while people from Ukraine’s foreign legion are literally trying to assassinate American presidents. Curious.
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It’s really funny that two years on the GDPcels haven’t figured out that a service economy doesn’t make things.
North Korea supplies the russian Federation with about 3 million shells annually. 3,000,000 shells, every year. It was this figure that allowed the russian Federation to achieve stable success and capture Ugledar. North Korea's GDP is $25.8 billion. Europe's GDP is $19.35.
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Russia forces are in the city centers of Kupyansk, Chasiv Yar, and Kurakhove. Incredible.
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Ukrainian troops brazenly posting video of their ethnic cleansing program. Good. Let the west be without excuse.
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I’m seeing people suggesting that Trump getting his Twitter back could get us all killed. Boy, with stakes that high, you’d think he spent a whole day falsely claiming that Russia launched a missile strike on a NATO member.
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Was something going on in 1944, or were they bombing Estonia for fun? Seeking clarity on this.
Today, 80 years ago #Tallinn 🇪🇪 was devastated by the March bombings, which destroyed a quarter of the city overnight. Up to 300 Russian aircrafts were bombing us & their primary targets were residential districts & cultural landmarks. Russian playbook is the same today in 🇺🇦.🧵
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Bakhmut has been fully taken. Prigozhin confirms it is 100% under Russian control.
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Americans are so beat down that they have to experience political wins vicariously through Argentina.
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Imagine watching the US Navy’s performance in the Red Sea and still believing that they will contest the South China Sea.
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From “Russia is losing” to “nobody can beat Russia.”. Phew
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The obsession of Ukrainians and their supporters with posting gore and gloating over dead bodies is indeed a strong indicator of their moral standing in the conflict.
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People will read histories of wars like WW1 and say “My God, how could they let it go on like that, why didn’t they make peace” when here in our own time anyone who suggests that Ukraine should just give up the Donbas and make a deal is accused of being on the Kremlin’s payroll.
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