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Merry Christmas to all the soldiers around the world not with their loved ones, but rather standing guard or fighting so I can be with mine.
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Russia is a threat to global security. It is a state that allows its uniformed soldiers to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, kidnapping, rape, torture w/no state accountability. They are a terrorist regime with a nuclear weapon. They will only stop, if forced.
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If it is a street you still need to use. Build a S pattern obstacle that still slows a vehicle down. Think police check point (which you could set up if you wanted to catch saboteurs before military reach your location)
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Russia invades a sovereign nation to fully annex/subjugate 40+ million breaking the fundamental principle of the UN Charter. Russia commits massive war crimes & genocide in Ukraine while the world watches. But @nytimes calls Ukraine's fight for freedom "hard-line." Disgusting!
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You are not a sniper, but you can put fear in their hearts if they think there are snipers everywhere. Again take care of yourselves to be able to resist. Drink water. 3 days without water and you won't be able to fight. More later.
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What does Russia have to show for 6 months of an illegal war in sovereign, democratic, free Ukraine? Just a list of strategic failures. A review/🧵
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Do NOT stand in the open and shoot or throw anything (to include molotov cocktail) at a Russian soldier or vehicles. Shoot from windows, behind cars, around alleyway corners. Build positions (concrete best) to fire from.
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His speech was not Churchillian, it was Zelenskillian. It was excellent. twitter.com/SpencerGuard/s…
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Again, your survival to fight is important so think hard about where you will shoot from. Elevated positions down long streets. Shoot and run. Ambushes. Aim for the windows and doors of non-armor vehicles. Soldiers in open. One of the greatest fears of a soldier is a sniper.
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You must prepare for the Russians to start using artillery to help their troops. Make sure the places you choose to shoot from are strong. If in a building, make holes in the walls so you can shoot from and bigger ones to move to other rooms or buildings. You must survive.
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The battle of #Kyiv is coming. Ukrainians must never stop preparing the defense: blocking all roads/alleys/doors/windows, setting up caches/fighting positions, putting holes in walls 2 move between bldgs & shoot thru, digging, & being ready to both get underground/ready to fight!
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Once you have obstacles (never stop building). I really mean thousands of barriers/obstacles. You can decided places to fight. Places to shoot from or ambush any soldier or vehicle that stops or slows down at your obstacles.
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For god sake will the U.S. send Ukraine ATACMs already?! How many massive Russian terror attacks on Ukrainian civilians will it take to send them what they need to defend themselves? Send tanks, IFVs, planes, ATACMs (a lot of them), air defenses, anything we can! #ArmUkraineNow
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I speak for no organization. As a person, a human, I strongly believe we (the west) can & should do more to help #Ukriane fight Russia. They are fighting for us. Dying for us. Children, pregnant women. I understand the escalation concerns/constraints, but we can/must do more, NOW
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"Every day Putin continues this war, Russia becomes weaker, and it will take years - decades - to repair. Putin has not had a single victory. He will go down in history as one of the worst leaders of a state in modern times." @dagbladet dagbladet.no/nyheter/histor…
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Form into groups. Ideally 3 to 5 and decided where to shoot at Russians from. You get to decide. Best if coordinated with another group and using your obstacles to slow something and shoot at from concealed and protected positions.
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God damn it that is powerful. This is what I felt when I visited Ukraine to study the battle of Kyiv. A country united, a people fighting for each other, their families, their freedom. twitter.com/Jbond069/statu…
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Just to be clear, there is no military purpose to fire a thermobaric rocket (aka vacuum/flame bomb which sucks the oxygen out of the air, room, lungs & replaces with fire) into any dense urban area. If done it should be rapidly investigated as a war crime. forbes.com/sites/nicholas…
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So Russia can launch > 80 missiles & Iranian drones at Kyiv playgrounds, apartment bldgs, civilians freely & the U.S. won’t publicly give Ukraine rockets (ATACMS) to help defend their land, inside Ukraine, because we are scared of what Putin will do? Stop the appeasement!
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"There's only one guaranteed way you can have peace: surrender...every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement.!" 58 years ago today, Ronald Reagan “A Time for Choosing.” The world cannot appease Putin. Ukraine fights for us. We must #ArmUkraineNow
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Putin is our generation's Hitler. We (the free world) either help Ukraine defeat his aggression now or pay a major price in the near future. Appeasement has never worked with evil men. #ArmUkraineNow
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Putin IS our generation’s Hitler. There is good and evil. The Russian military has waged an evil campaign of genocide, rape, torture, mutilation, kidnapping, & mass executions of civilians in Ukraine. Don’t be on the wrong side of history. Remember Bucha & Izyum. #ArmUkraineNow
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.@ZelenskyyUa & #Ukriane is teaching the world what military leaders have known for centuries. Soldiers don't fight for dictators or when forced, coerced, or paid to. They fight for a cause, for their families, and for each other. Ukraine has the will & power. They will prevail.
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Thanks @amnesty for giving me an example to show others what happens when people are disconnected from the realities of war, know little about warfare. Conclusion "Ukraine military should stay and die in the open fields and wooded areas." Shame on you. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Chair of Urban Warfare Studies | Madison Policy Forum | Author of Connected Soldiers / Understanding Urban Warfare