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Russia has lost their illegal War (battles still to be fought) in Ukraine. Russia becomes weaker as a nation everyday they stay in Ukraine. Russia has shown the world that they're not one of the top militaries in the world. The Russian people should demand their sons be sent home
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“How a Twitter Space Helped Fight Russia” check out my latest @WarInstitute podcast episode with @walterlekh about the @walter_report mwi.usma.edu/social-media-a…
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Mariupol still stands! April 28. #SlavaUkraini twitter.com/JominiW/status…
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"...they [Russians] cannot take control of the Donbas without taking control of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk...their odds of success [Russians] very indeterminate...the longer they wait, the stronger the Ukrainian position becomes" #urbanwarfare @KofmanMichael warontherocks.com/2022/04/ukrain…
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The list remains (start at 1:20) “We need…artillery 155mm; artillery shells 152mm...; Multiple Launch Rocket Systems – Grad, Smerch, M142 HIMARS; armored vehicles APC, infantry fighting vehicles; Tanks T-72 or similar; Air Defense Systems S-300s, BUK; military aircrafts." twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/st…
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“The cost of this fight is not cheap, but caving to aggression is going to be more costly if we allow it to happen. We either back Ukrainian people as they defend their country, or we stand by as the Russians continue their atrocities and aggression in Ukraine.” @POTUS
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Yes! He deserves the cover of all magazines. An amazing example of true leadership! twitter.com/TIME/status/15…
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Just a reminder this happened two days ago. I think it’ll be remembered as the high water mark, the moment the free world decided bullies like Putin can’t be allowed. He gets stopped now, in Ukraine & never again is able to invade a sovereign, free nation. They get weaker daily.
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“Everybody understands and nobody regrets it for a moment,” said Antonina Kostuchenko, a retiree, whose living room is now a musty space with waterlines a foot or so up the walls.
“We saved Kyiv!” she said with pride. ❤️❤️
nytimes.com/2022/04/27/wor…
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"more than 500 thousand Ukrainians, including 121,000 children were forcibly transferred to russia’s territory. Such actions of the Russian invaders can be qualified as kidnapping and require a resolute response by the international community..." Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya
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There is no greater love. It does not matter how many times I see videos like these, they always get me. #SlavaUkraini twitter.com/ukraine_world/…
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“When the U.S. military-industrial complex and our manufacturing power backs a country with an endless supply of things like trucks or ammunition, just like it did during World War II, that is a game-changer…” said John Spencer @nationaljournal nationaljournal.com/s/717355/lend-…
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I hope everyone realizes the historic moment of the meeting today in Germany. 40 countries rallied against one. The world is against Putin and Russia. Against the illegal invasion of Ukraine. Against evil. Russia must withdrawal all forces from Ukraine. Now!
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Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff @CNN powerful words. “What’s at stake here is the global international order” he says we created post 1945 to prevent great powers against smaller nations “if Russia is allowed to get away with this, we will see great instability in the world”
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"The Russians are still attacking it [Mariupol] now, but they want to shift their forces north in this feeble attempt to claim the Donbas, but those fighters are still fighting, it's not over, all hope is not lost." my talk with @IsaCNN last night on @cnni #UkraineRussianWar
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Mariupol still stands! April 23. #SlavaUkraini twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/…
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"The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."
- Sir William Francis Butler in Charles George Gordon
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Humbled to hear from my friend @MalcolmNance fighting with the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, that the “Mini-manual for the Urban Defender” is still of value and circulating in Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini johnspenceronline.com/urban-warfare
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"As long as there is a living breathing Ukrainian fighter left in Mariupol, it is not a win for Russia and it is a win for Ukraine." my comments @CNN with @donlemon #UkraineRussiaWar #Mariupol
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IMO Russia will be extremely challenged to achieve its goals in Eastern Ukraine & delusional on ideas about Southern Ukraine. The weapons flowing to Ukraine are huge & oh by the way Russia will be reminded of the intangibles that matter - troop morale, will to fight, & leadership
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Godspeed to the fighters in Mariupol. They will go down in history as an amazing example of resistance, bravery, and skill of an urban defender holding in the face of overwhelming attacks, bombing, and numbers. I still have hope they can be resupplied, breakout. #urbanwarfare
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On #Mariupol Putin's announcement is recognition of defeat. It is a terrible situation, but as long as there are living, breathing, brave Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol, it is not a Russian win. Russians liking shifting forces, priority, assets to other areas. #SlavaUkraini
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Amen to the latest U.S. support to Ukraine. $800 million more in security assistance (to include 144,000 artillery rounds! more drones!) $500 million in economic support, new refugee policies. They are fighting for Ukraine, Europe, Democracy, and Freedom. #SlavaUkraini
Chair of Urban Warfare Studies | Madison Policy Forum | Author of Connected Soldiers / Understanding Urban Warfare