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A strategic mistake by Turkey. This is unlikely to stop Finland and Sweden joining NATO. Political posturing? A mistake either way. twitter.com/AFP/status/152…
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My personal opinion is that @POTUS should go to visit @ZelenskyyUa in Kyiv. It would send a huge message to the world and Russia. It is unfortunate to hear today that there are "no plans for Biden to go to Ukraine." Hopeful that will change!
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Ukraine has called for a media/news blackout around Kherson. Russians evacuating civilians (their inserted Russian collaborators/proxies) Lots of things happening. Good news hopefully coming. 🤞 #Kherson youtube.com/watch?v=c2uhHQ…
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A military is only as strong as the will of their soldiers!
“Russia Now Has a Second Frontline Set Up Just to Kill Its Deserters: Intel”
Russian soldier on leaked call said: "If someone runs back, we snuff them out."
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The #AzovstaI defenders in #Marioupol did the impossible. They tied down insane number of Russians, they saved countless lives. They are legends and I’m hopeful there was a deal for their assured safety. Already one of the most remarkable urban & underground battles in history. twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/…
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Let's go! Russia is trying to upset the rules based global international order and is committing genocide on a sovereign nation/member state as a sitting member of the UN Security Council. What is the use of the @UN if the charter is not defended and enforced?
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Strategic Failure 5 - Militarily, Russia will require decades to recover from loses just up to today. 80,000 Russians have been killed, wounded, captured, gone missing or have deserted in Ukraine. Billions worth of military equip, sophisticated technology, missiles, gone.
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Breaking News. Fighting on the outskirts of Lysychansk. The liberation of Lysychansk would be another major win for the Ukraine. Godspeed to the Ukrainian military forces! twitter.com/MriyaReport/st…
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Strategic Failure 3 - Of Putin's many goals, to include erasing Ukraine, is the revival of Soviet glory, Russian strength, and weakening of European powers. Now, NATO will add roughly 800 miles of borders to Russia and has a renewed purpose, cohesion, clarity.
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"Russia is deporting and putting up for adoption thousands of Ukrainian children." 🤬🤬 Stop the genocide. #ArmUkraineNow to end the war soon. Send #ATACMSforUkraine already. Send them everything. twitter.com/AP/status/1582…
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Friends of mine. Ones I trust. Need help. Give if you can. twitter.com/ferlain/status…
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Strategic Failure 2 - By not being able to militarily accomplish their goal in Ukraine with the second "most powerful" military in the world, Russia has shown the rest of the world that their military is not as powerful, proficient, capable, ready as many believed.
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It was a mistake to remove them. It is the right thing to fix that mistake. Make it permanent. cnn.com/2022/05/20/pol…
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90% of a city of 100,000 destroyed is not a strategy, it's Russians using war crimes as a method of warfare. Russians didn't change their tactics, they implemented their doctrine which calls for heavy artillery in advance of troops. #ArmUkraineNow reuters.com/world/europe/r…
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Mariupol still stands! twitter.com/DefenceU/statu…
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An excellent thread on the legal errors (basically every accusation) of Amnesty International's garbage report about the Ukrainian military and combat in urban areas published today. twitter.com/olesya_on/stat…
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This is criminal! I research war. I use these videos to study and then write about battles others don’t. I use these videos, like those @RALee85 catalogues. And then I go there, like I did for Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020. This is history being erased. Stop it @POTUS twitter.com/KyivIndependen…
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After events like today I'm even more proud for having written a book to help Ukrainians fight evil Russians soldiers. Translated into Ukrainian, distributed by the Ministry of Defense, and published/distributed across the country 100,000+ #SlavaUkraini johnspenceronline.com/urban-warfare
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The price to support Ukraine with weapons & aid now is a fraction of the price the U.S. & the rest of the free world would have to pay if Russia was to succeed in Putin's strategy of invading sovereign neighbors, growing in strength to do more. Putin would not stop at Ukraine.
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An excellent article @TheStudyofWar I 100% agree. The U.S. "must help Ukraine liberate its territories and people through a large-scale counteroffensive or risk facing the same challenge with the same escalation risks under worse conditions in the future." understandingwar.org/backgrounder/t…
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My thoughts on the sinking of the Moskva @BBCWorld @bbcworldservice Russia's flagship in Black Sea fleet, slava class cruiser, key to intelligence & air defenses for the Russian ships. IMO this is as big as (well just big) stopping Russians from taking Kyiv.
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Ukraine drawing closer to full implementation of their offensive to liberate Kherson. Godspeed to those Ukrainian fighters and for the safety of the civilians inside. #SlavaUkraini twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/s…
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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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“We know they’re lying, they know they’re lying, they know that we know they’re lying, we also know that they know that we know they’re lying, but they STILL LIE.”
Quote attributed to Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chair of Urban Warfare Studies | Madison Policy Forum | Author of Connected Soldiers / Understanding Urban Warfare