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DrLeoStrauss

@drleostrauss.bsky.social
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Russia, Asia political, econ, military & intel focus. Applied transnational legal, commercial, policy & natsec experience. RTs = interesting. По Русски 日本語

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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The One Night Stand - Ratcliffe in Moscow - And Aftermath Here, Putin says to DCIA "What the fuck did you say? Fuck, I can't fucking hear you. God damn. What you're doing is too fucking loud". Then Bortnikov, Patrushev, Naryshkin brief VVP the next day as Colby is in Europe pushing US withdrawal.
Putin at Moscow airport struggles to hear DCIA Ratcliffe warning about Russian testing NATO, its losing war as Colby dismantles NATO in the background.Putin asks Bortnikov, Patrushev and Naryshkin what was the point of Ratcliffe Moscow visit.  With Colby on TV at NATO pushing US military withdrawal from Europe.  Putin is told to just wait Americans out because Colby will deliver Europe to Moscow anyway.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves Talks Taking on Putin | History of the Present
How do you stand up to a brutal dictator like Putin (and why can't Trump)? And what's the path forward for NATO?
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Great thread on Soviet and Russian imperialism & Western failure to recognise it for what it is & oppose it accordingly.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Russian emigre/domestic opposition to Putin is a necessary but insufficient step to engage in serious policy dialogue with the West over a post-Putin future. @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social concisely explains why.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Parallels with Putin's 2022 war and Trump's strategic defeat in Iran tempting. And I would agree avec 1 caveat. Putin sees post-1949 European security order, US global position demolished - the real goals of 2022 war, Ukraine as means. Pyrrhic victory? Nihilism? Accidental? Maybe.But achieved.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Homan de-escalation. US political press corp so fundamentally broken and beholden to Trump access dopamine. Homan instigator of cruel family separation policy in Trump I.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE and CBP are a clear and present danger to us all. They must be abolished and reformed. We need lustration eliminating white racial authoritarianism like Germany after 1945. Under any president. And Miller, Noem/Lewandowski, Homan and Bovino et al. must be held accountable.
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ABOLISH ICE (anti-ICE merch in bio) @fed-up-studio.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Criminals. ICE operates like a white supremacist death squad and those complicit need to be held accountable.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
+1. Abolish ICE. Arrest and try Noem, Lewandowski, Homan, Miller and Bovino et al. Truth and Reconciliation. No to white supremacist Death Squads.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump's Davos speech and the end of the American Century. From the Gallery. Volume 🆙. Cheers.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Don’t @ me. Come on. We’re all thinking it.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“President Maduro, you are advised of your right to buy a pardon. If you can not afford a pardon, a Trump Admin crypto advisor will be appointed for you. Any and all statements that you make can and will be used in evaluating your pardon application.”
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
That time of year to review graphics shared from the Gallery in 2025. A few favorites. Very short thread. If one of yours omitted, let me know. First, Trump’s threat of national military occupation of US Blue cities. Mercifully, they failed (so far). To last verse Dylan’s “Hard Rain”. 1/x
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
FBI arrested Zarubina in late Nov. 2025. She served as a spotter for FSB to identify journalists, academics and military personnel for follow up contact. A role similar to that famous Russian Maria Butina played previously. DC based CSIS think tank said to have listed her as a Fellow, etc.
Russian spotter for KGB ZarubinaText from Zarubina to FBI
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Putin has no rational incentive to alter his public maximalist criteria for a peace agreement. The US and West are negotiating with themselves over Ukraine. 🇪🇺 €90 billion loan unwelcome to 🇷🇺 but West/US have done nothing to reverse ground truth favoring Moscow.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
When I was in Moscow during Soviet collapse and Fall, Russian ‘patriots’ raged against Soviet Union in this exact phraseology. Russia made Baltics and Ukraine rich w subsidies. “Russian money for Russians”etc. And same xenophobia against migrants. Many of those today rage against Soviet collapse.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Well yes. Since 2011 at latest. The smug insularity of the Acela Corridor is authoritarianism’s hand maiden.
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François Heisbourg @fheisbourg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Zelensky is manoeuvring smartly: elections? Yes, but security needs to be guaranteed by West. Neutral zones? Great, but US troops needed. Art V style security guarantees? Sure, so NATO can't be written out. Infuriating Putin and Witkoff
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Afghans let the Kabul govt fall. Pompeo and Trump negotiated the US withdrawal date with the Taliban. Biden simply refused to resurge into Afghanistan (wisely). And honored the Trump exit timeline. The Neocon fantasy of nation building there was a mistake from start.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
💯. Trump-Russia coercion on Ukraine is not a Korea peace plan.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Asking the white race and men more broadly to impose consequences for these criminal times is hope over experience. No one really paid for Iraq. Or the Great Financial Crisis. Or Russian election interference. Or Trump I corruption, unnecessary COVID deaths, loan theft. January 6th. And so on.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
“About 70 percent of the weapons and defense-related technology made in Estonia is exported to foreign customers. Last year, the country’s military industry revenues amounted to 500 million euro ($580 million), about €350 million of which was materiel sold overseas.”
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
White race and males broadly least affected by their rejecting liberal democracy as engine of Change: cultural, pol-econ, demographic. Crisis is not considered ideology. But revolt against US as symbol - progress thru linear time. Whites and males least threatened, ambivalent crisis Narrators
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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“Our people poisoned Navalny”: Former FSB officer on surveilling opposition figures and running black ops in Russia and Ukraine
For many years, Russia’s Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism (SZKSBТ), also known as the FSB’s Second Service, has effectively functioned as Russia’s...
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Moscow will reject a ceasefire on current LOC. What Trump proposes anathema to Putin's oft-repeated terms: a) Full RF control of oblasts not currently occupied; b) UA limits its armed forces; c) UA NATO membership barred; d) Moscow veto vote on UA security guarantees; e) Ze/others out of gov etc
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The White House press corps failure to match this level of integrity speaks volumes.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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Boot Camp: Scare Stories
A Kremlin stunt near the Estonian border town of Saatse highlights a much bigger problem: frayed nerves between the two countries.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Do read @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social excellent analysis: Moscow’s protracted war grinds on and its economy exhausts capacity. Putin likely to escalate provocations against Europe to shake its unified aid to Kyiv. Cuba sending combat troops to Ukraine a further sign of Russia’s limits.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Yarvin’s vacant mediocrity isn’t worth bothering about. Laughable narcissism. Thiel, Sacks, Musk, Andreesen, Vance otoh deserve quality time with a Peace and Reconciliation Commission.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The US military - as a whole - is culturally more predisposed to misogynistic white national authoritarianism than many would like to believe. Or claim. Watch this space. Closely.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The full import of Hegseth and Trump comments to US military flag rank sinking in. From FBI to armed forces and IC, the Trump white nationalist regime is determined to use US Power Ministries against the non-Christian nationalists.
White House aide exposed as calling Kash Patel a “douche canoe” while discussing sending 82nd Airborne to invade Portland.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Note: Storm Shadow and SCALP could always strike Russia even without US TERCOM data.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Yes. What makes this CR different is earlier, Schumer made a rational gamble. That SCOTUS ultimately would back the almost unified lower courts rejecting Trump ultra vires acts. By August clear Roberts et al. failed to defend the Constitution. Schumer has many flaws. His bet (prayer?) made sense
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The new State Department head of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs: newrepublic.com/post/200965/...
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Trump Nominee Quietly Deletes Post Calling for Liberal’s Execution
Bookmark this for the next time Republicans say the left is to blame for all political violence in this country.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
*Not* referring to JF, of course. My fear-America may not survive whites, white males in particular. To recognize - and accept - reality. Ironically the most dangerous laggards may not be the Stephen Millers, Homans and MAGA mass. Our challenge isn’t ideological. How do you tell a fish it’s wet?
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
People underestimate how difficult it is to get others to stop hitting "reply all" to an email.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In a nutshell, yes. Except Tim Alberta and Peter Baker et al. will make sure to let everyone know privately and anonymously, they blame Schumer for not resisting Trump.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Agree. No like/respect for Comey. Or website that venerates him, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Bill Barr while claiming to be a leader of the Resistance. Even with their fun projector pranks on Russian embassy in DC. Still, very bad to see.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Exclusive: The Russian Neo-Nazi Behind A Shadowy GRU Recruitment Campaign
What do Russia’s GRU, a neo-Nazi veteran of the Ukraine war, and former far-right soccer fans have in common? They’re linked to an ongoing campaign to recruit saboteurs in the US and Europe. RFE/RL’s ...
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Possibly. My guess this more like Posnan 1943. Gathering everyone together for shared implication/responsibility. Or as Corporal did with just military High Command after Stalingrad. Where Manstein alone voiced potentially oblique comment. Either way, likely creating political group complicity.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Governor @govpritzker.illinois.gov has friends everywhere.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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West won’t take Russian threat seriously until ‘mass casualty event on NATO soil’, ex-Estonian president warns | LBC
Former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves has warned that Europe won’t take the threat from Russia seriously until a ‘mass casualty event’ takes place on NATO soil.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Craig Shirley. The NYT. Jesus Christ. If you know Craig Shirley and Shirley & Bannister, you know.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
What a feckless putz.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
+1
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Yes. But it’s not just Trump. The white racial authoritarian regime. And the white race as a collective whole is incapable of policing itself. Or saving democracy.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
No. The Nexstar affiliates want to do a merger. And need a FCC rule change for approval.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Always was. His 2010 rally on the Mall which drew 500,000 and he couldn't be bothered to call people to vote for democracy. And both sides it. Even when he played beach volley ball at Bethany before Daily Show he was a sanctimoniously snarky poser.
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DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Same. Disney is gone. Hulu is gone. WJLA Channel 7 in DC is blocked. No Marvel, no Disney movies. Buck Fob Iger.
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