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Russia in one single picture

Future historians will struggle to explain how a democratic system could produce outcomes so at odds with what the electorate actually wanted.

Here is a bit of realism to piss on delulu Western simps of all things Soviet. There. Soviet kitchen in Slalinka.

lol 😂 This kind of SOFT 🇷🇺 propaganda works by dressing up nostalgia in harmless, cozy aesthetics—“just a sweet old Soviet kitchen,” they say. But it’s a lie, carefully crafted to whitewash a brutal reality. 1st, most Soviet citizens didn’t have charming private kitchens.

Having so much fun making this new podcast reviewing new history books and recommending classics, fact and fiction, with the brilliant historian Roger Moorhouse 🇺🇦. Find us on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. The History Book Buffs.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, that your friend's cat is a duck & that all 3 'ducks' are Russophobic ducks paid to be crisis actors, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆

Tonight’s film - one of my favourites.

Putin is mocking President Donald J. Trump

1 June 1939. The Royal Navy submarine HMS Thetis, built in Birkenhead, sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay after a carbon monoxide leak. It was carrying 103 men, twice the number it was designed to hold. A total of 99 crew were killed.

Published #OTD in 1969, "Fire from Heaven" the first part of Mary Renault's brilliant trilogy about the life of Alexander the Great. Have you read it?

Oh goody!! 🔥 👏

Killing the Archer is always better than trying to knock down the Arrows! 💪

We've reached the point where Ukraine needs to consider very hard whether it's willing to extend a Ukrainian security guarantee to NATO.

NATO is supposed to defend Europe from the aggressive Moscow empire but only the Armed Forces of Ukraine actually do that. NATO desperately needs Ukraine as a member.

No doubt remains that Ukrainian intelligence now ranks among the most effective active intelligence services in the world. This operation — meticulously planned, relying on deception, infiltration, and technological precision was superbly executed. One might even say: they did it

This whole caper demonstrates something beyond Ukraine’s ingenuity in military and intelligence operations: as American support and influence diminishes, Kyiv’s autonomy rises. No more asking permission or begging forgiveness. The special services will be successfully hunting

Hi All, Well I released my weekend update a few hours ago, and the Ukrainians turned around and launched what is arguably the most successful operation of the war--so I updated it with all the information I could get. Russian strategic airpower received a mighty blow.

For fuck’s sake, can someone at the fucking Guardian NOT write a pro-Kremlin headline? The Russians have launched daily attacks on Ukrainian cities for 3 years, and recently have been doing this on a massive scale — hundreds of drones and missiles — and this fucking excuse for a

Perhaps the most significant strike against a Russian Air Force since the opening day of Barbarossa on 22 June 1941.

Did you say “Thank you” even once, JD Vance?