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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦

@drrobthompson.com
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Bluesky’s resident Vietnam War historian. Army University Press historian and documentary maker. Author of _Clear, Hold, and Destroy_—a book about pacification in Phú Yên. All views my own. Слава Україні! Web: www.drrobthompson.com

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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 21/09/2026
Thank you so much for writing this piece, Greg.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 21/09/2026
“The fratricide is nearly all-encompassing.”
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 21/09/2026
Read Herring’s _America’s Longest War_.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 12/09/2026
Haha! Yeah, we’ve all been burned.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 12/09/2026
Smart.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 12/09/2026
Definitely from a Gmail account. Email reads of AI, too.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 12/09/2026
Has anyone else received emails from a book marketer named Josh Matts? I’d like to confirm if this is another scam or not. #skystorians
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 28/08/2026
Trump: I’m not a hydronym, you are!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Again, this is newsworthy, but only because it shows (1) the deeply unpopular President of the United States is badly out of touch with the actual concerns of voters and (2) he is also quite fucking insane.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 27/08/2026
Still Lake Ontario Still Gulf of Mexico Still a pedophile
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The company that literally began as an online bookstore is now in the business of destroying old and rare books.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 17/08/2026
What in the PragerBS is this? A desperate PBS resorting to using a clickbait title to appease historically illiterate overlords while propagating the myth of white enslavement. The Barbary affairs were not in any shape or form comparable to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. #skystorians
Clickbait title from PBS to push the white slavery myth.PBS purposely conflating the capture of American sailors with enslavement.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 17/08/2026
I’m still alive.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 05/07/2026
Sitting on my deck listening to the drone of amateur fireworks. The ever-increasing rumbling and booming makes it seem the Tet Offensive is inching closer my way. Happy 4th.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 10/06/2026
Friends, is this a scam? My intuition says yes, but I’d like to know for sure. The email is clearly full of AI text—no layperson could summarize my niche book otherwise. Anyway, I’m all for promoting my book, but I’m not about to get involved in a scam. #skystorians
Possible scam email, part 1.Possible scam email, part 2.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 08/06/2026
You had Germany and Great Britain in a naval arms race. France seeking the return of Alsace-Lorraine from Germany.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 08/06/2026
Another spark would have set off WWI.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 08/06/2026
Reposting my anti-Ken Burns stuff because someone told me I should be thankful for him. 😵‍💫
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 24/03/2024
Ken Burns is the Michael Bay of documentaries.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 20/07/2025
“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.” With those words you need not contemplate his documentaries further. Ken Burns is a boring story teller at best, a charlatan at worst.
politico.com
What Ken Burns Won’t Say About the American Revolution
On the road with America’s foremost history documentarian in a fractured country.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 07/06/2026
*this
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 07/06/2026
I deal with regularly at work. “Let’s do a podcast and put it on YouTube.”
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 07/06/2026
My guess is people not knowing the difference between an actual podcast and a video.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 07/06/2026
This. 100% this.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 07/06/2026
What the fuck did I just read?
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 28/05/2026
Wanna bet?
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Boo This Man! Meme
ALT: Boo This Man! Meme
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 28/05/2026
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Boo This Man! Meme
ALT: Boo This Man! Meme
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 14/05/2026
And here I just liked him for his takes on the absurd.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 13/05/2026
Until last night, I had no idea that Camus wrote about hedonism (embarrassing oversight, I know), nor that you too were a fan of his work.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 13/05/2026
I feel this. Hugs.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 13/05/2026
@nataliaantonova.bsky.social has me thinking about Camus, again.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 13/05/2026
Presidementia wanting to add a place full of the very people he’s been deporting from the U.S., classic.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 12/05/2026
I’ve updated the meme.
Too effective.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 12/05/2026
I’ve updated the meme.
Too effective.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 06/05/2026
The Germans had won in the east, but hadn’t the time to benefit from Ukrainian grain before the Kaiserschlacht.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 05/05/2026
Boring. What if the Central Powers won WWI is far more intriguing.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 05/05/2026
If only they could read.
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a cartoon of a man holding a briefcase and a newspaper that says ' a ' on it
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a briefcase and a newspaper that says ' a ' on it
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Nikki Dean @doctrinatrix.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I’m just gonna scootch right by ya and… *ope*… slap several people upside the head with this field manual right here. You can read it when I’m done.
The cover of FM 3-99, Airborne and Air Assault Operations, dated March 2015.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 21/04/2026
He probably said this while picking his teeth with a raccoon penis.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 21/04/2026
But for which side? For which side!?
Presidementia at it again.
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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD 🏔️ @saraheminnisphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 19/04/2026
Cool. Unfortunately, I wasn’t sent to conduct the interviews for this film. Still, I could tell he’s quite the character.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 19/04/2026
I imagine his stories are even better when you’re around him that long.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 19/04/2026
Presidementia is doing a fantastic job of making Iran the rational actor in this unnecessary conflict.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 17/04/2026
Drones? Ukraine? Watch. youtu.be/cGNodU7NdwQ?...
youtu.be
SHORAD: The Old Is New Again — The Return of Short Range Air Defense
YouTube video by Army University Press
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 17/04/2026
Dementia
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 17/04/2026
Drones? Ukraine? Watch. youtu.be/cGNodU7NdwQ?...
youtu.be
SHORAD: The Old Is New Again — The Return of Short Range Air Defense
YouTube video by Army University Press
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 17/04/2026
He’s always the stupidest person in the room, no matter what.
I’m with stupid!
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 14/04/2026
It’s the same picture.
Branch Davidian’s David Koresh. MAGA’s Presidementia as Christ.
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