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Investigation finds Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside a nursing home, "effectively making the building a target," and separatist fighters gave assistance to patients and...
The war in Ukraine and the regional divergence in Russia 1. It will be a long war 2. Hostilities can be localised or interrupted with ceasefires. Doesn't matter. The fighting wil...
Thread: The Russo-Japanese War In 1904, Russia and Japan fought a war over Korea and China. This was a large conflict that threatened to shape the future of east Asia for centurie...
Did you know? The Kalinga War was one of the largest and deadliest battles in Indian history. The Kalinga War was fought in ancient India between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka an...
Thread: ▪️Why the Russians will have to occupy the entirety of Ukraine — but won’t annex all of it. ▪️Why the Zelensky goons will fight to the last Ukrainian — before they flee t...
No. Once the war is over hundreds of thousands of veterans gonna return to Russia. Previously most of them expected 20-30 thousand per month as a private. Now they are used to 200-...
1/ Being a Russian soldier in Ukraine isn't fun. The food is lousy, you're living in squalid conditions, you're constantly being shot at and most of your unit is already dead or wo...
#Shayk_Adullah_Azzam was once asked in Afghanistan if the Jihad of some Afghan Mujahideen, who at the time fought against the communist Russians, was accepted.Because some of them...
Since I’m still seeing claims about the possibility of NATO expansion to include Ukraine being a cause of (justification for) Russia’s invasion, I thought it might be worth doing a...
Finally got to see Kohala bridge yesterday. It was from around here that the first wave of Pakistani irregulars entered Kashmir on October 22nd 1947. It was from here that the...
🧵Observations on the Ukraine War 2022-06-28 I've watched a LOT of drone footage from this war. I've seen, from a bird's eye view, the construction and logic of the field fortifica...
Ukraine War/Battle of the Donbas update. Sorry I have not done this for 3 weeks, but actually had a break and went to Sicily and have been trying to catch up with loads since. Howe...
"A warning for everyone watching the [🇷🇺-🇺🇦 war] to brace for a protracted, sanguinary conflict.” My piece in the @washingtonpost offers the data underpinning that claim. Let's e...
🇺🇦 ‘We really didn’t expect Putin to invade... it was a huge shock.’ London-based food writer @Olia_Hercules on Putin's 'tsarist ambitions', raising £1 million for her homeland –...
We live in a world where if U disagree w/ mainstream media & warmongers leaders - who sanction entire populations around the globe (#Venezuela, #Iran, #Cuba, #Syria, #Lebanon, #Rus...
'1914-1918 - 10,000,000 died, and for what?' — Soviet poster published in 1929 showing a skeleton-soldier looming over a colossal pile of corpses, with billowing cannons and a tank...
Major operations of US military searching the WMD in Iraq: Op 1 - A US soldier looking for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in onion drawer of kitchen, somewhere in Baghdad. htt...
How did Dracula get his nickname? The name "dracul" meant dragon and originated from the Order of the Dragon, founded in 1408 by King of Hungary Sigismund of Luxembourg (future Ho...
Two months ago I said that the fight for the Donbas would have little bearing on the outcome of the war Now as that fight moves into its attritional phase, Putin's evolving strate...
Maharaja Gulab Singh once captured around 5000 rebeIs, instead of finishing them off right there, he sk*nned the chiefs, half sk*nned others and sent them back to their villages. A...
Since Julian Assange is being extradited, I'm posting a thread of few clips where he exposed the brutal war crimes of US military in Iraq. 1: American gunship helicopter opening...
#Russia warned #Lithuania - that announced that all Russian goods transit will be banned to #Kaliningrad - that its move is considered a violation of long-standing treaties and a p...
The forest of the impaled! In 1462 Vlad Țepeș erected a literal "forest of the impaled" -20,000 stakes with carcasses of impaled people!- to terrify the Ottoman enemies who had in...
Hi Everyone, As Russian forces approach Slavyansk I think it is a good time to revisit the 2014 battle. I am going to evaluate Colonel Igor Girkin aka Strelkov, as a commander dur...
