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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How is it possible such disgusting creep like this one can make a career in American Media? Is it still the classic "but at least he owns the libs!" thing or something else?
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He is Type E
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
While Ukraine is hitting only military or dual use targets in Russia, Russia purposedly target civilian objects - and they brag about it (but in Russian). Here, they are very happy about bombing McDonald's warehouse. "No burgers, no fries, no nuggets for you!".
A quote from Russian telegram channel "Tvo Majors" expressing joy of bombing Ukrainian McDonald's facility
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In 1962, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had one of their best ideas: what if there's a villain who is also a dictator, so no American hero can touch him because of his diplomatic immunity? At the time, it was considered far fetched and improbable. And here we are in our glorious next century...
Two images: superhero comics cartoon depicting Doctor Doom, a supervillain telling Superman he can't touch him. The other is far right media platform depicting Netanyahu telling Mamdani he can't touch him.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ukraine no longer gets support from the US. Are you able to read a simple graph? From what I heard about your education, it is not obvious in your country. Do you need help reading the attached file?
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dude changed his name to Kremlev ("of Kremlin"). If someone says without a "background check" it's impossible to discover said dude connection to Kremlin, they are either an idiot or another asset "of Kremlin".
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From the same study: Ukrainian answer to simple question, "do you consider yourself a happy person"? Ukraine is now back to its historical peak (December 2021). Notice the temporary bottom in 2017, when they fought Russia completely alone, and the West was still deluded with the "civil war" nonsense
A graph of Ukrainian happiness 2001-2026
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology ran a pool - "Russia will intensify attacks on Ukrainian energy during winter, what to do?" "Keep resisting Russian aggression no matter what" - 77% "Yield to Russian demands even if it leads to Ukrainian defeat" - 12%, "hard to say" - 11%
A pie chart with descriptions in Ukrainian Cyryllic, saying the same as in regular post in English
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you heard of Russian "friend" and sponsor of Donald Jr and you thought "Kremlev? What an odd name!", you're right. He changed it in 2010, possibly to make clear he's representing Kremlin (because that's all that he is ever since he was promoted from petty crime to oligarchy).
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Look at the point 1. I trust you are able to find the word "ceasefire"?
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Germany invaded Poland on 1.9.1939, followed by Soviet Russia on 17.9.1939
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Russian army claimed to capture Svyatohirsk, which was refuted by Ukrainian commander filming himself in the city. Russian blogger Rybar confirms it was a lie - and admits the entire salient on the top right map is now gone, along with all the Russian soldiers who were there.
Screenshot from Russian blogger Rybar writing (in Russian) about "Problems near Lyman - not only in Svyatohirsk (...) We already mentioned that false information arrive from there. So now we have the resolution". They are not happy!
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am moving nothing. Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 was a shock to all of us in Europe as a proof that Russian imperialism is back. Please also check the relevant passage from Wikipedia (attached).
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is funny (at least to me). Nepo Jared wore white sneakers when he arrived to Moscow. At least he wore proper dress shoes to meet Zelensky. Zelensky, on the other hand (or foot?)...
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dear Americans. Why do you elect such people? If his own staffers hate him, you should not vote for him. His staffers just know him better than you. And yes, sure, in EU we also have our share of elected villains but... this guy? He is below the CE security mark, like an obsolete light bulb.
Snippet from CNN headline claiming John Fetterman "blasts disgruntled staffers" for critisising His Fettermaness.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
...and for 3 years, in London. But here's the Paris part:
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Russia never changes - it's alwas Genghis Khan with social media disinformation
A wikipedia quote from a great Russian philosopher Alexander Herzen, who compared his country in 1857 to "Genghis Khan with telegraph". He created an idiom which never lost its relevance when talking about Russia: combination of technological progress with primitive despotism.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Of course he did. It's obvious to anyone who read Dostoyevsky, if you are kind to Russians, they will think you are an idiot. And yet all American politicians repeat the same mistake: "Hey Mr Putin, let's be friends again, I have this reset button for you". They just don't understand Russian soul.
Media headline saying "Putin saw CIA director's Moscow visit as US weakness""
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you can't remember what you said an hour ago, you really should have it checked.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I never thought I would praise #ICE for anything, but deportation of #Milo #Yiannopoulos was certainly a good deed. Although that fokker deserved it to have a bit more humiliating, frightening and degrading.
A news clip where Yiannopoulos complains how humiliating, frightening and degrading was his deportation from USA
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well, it actualy hit a plateau since the full scale invasion started and elections are suspended (higher score = less corruption)
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not just any anarchist. But there was always a faction of those who wrote books like "Anarchist Cookbook", who were actually fascists. Just read this guy before you deep into this "harmless grannies holding harmless sign" bullmarnure (and then block me, like the other tankie).
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You didn't. Read today, it looks like a fascist manifesto. This is what you are defending.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So I hope you saved this post, I did. So far, Russian are super-angry that not only the whole blockade was toothless (because of Romania and Moldova), but it also just ended due to pressure from Turkey. "It's a second day with no attacks on ships going to/from Odesa!", they scream.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Russian blogger Romanov claims this is the second day since Russia stopped attacking ships coming to/from port of Odesa. He speculates that Turkey managed to enforce an informal cease-fire on Black Sea (and is super angry about it). If he's right: so much about "landlocked Ukraine".
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Indeed I got the numbers wrong, it point 52 of "DECLARATIONS annexed to the final Act of the Intergovernmental Conference which adopted the Treaty of Lisbon, signed on 13 December 2007" (a part of the "consolidated treaty"), here is the larger screenshot
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I found you the relevant part of EU treaty (it was first codified in Maastricht, with further amendments)
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can't understand Russia if you don't know the "Third Rome" doctrine. It says that due to the royal marriage of the first tzar with a Byzantine princess, Russia is the legal heir to the Roman empire and as such, it's just entitled to everything, also the town you live in (even if it's in USA).
A snipped from WIkipedia entry on the "Third Rome" doctrine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow,_Third_Rome
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you read Western Russian propagandists, like Diesen/Mearsheimer, you will hear Ukraine is "landlocked", because the port of Odessa is under fire. If you read Russians in Russian, they say it's no biggie, because the Romanian port of Constanta just finished special terminal for Ukraine.
Screenshot from Russian blog "Two Majors" under headline "Romania forms logistic ways for the export of Ukrainian agroproducts", apparently Romanian company "Transport Trade Services" just finished grain terminal specifically for Ukraine
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Russian propagandist Solovyev dismisses rumors about the upcoming mobilization in peculiar way - according to him, Russian masses are too stupid to be mobilized. Nobody in the world is as Russophobic as Russian elites (subtitles by @natalkakyiv.bsky.social )
Screenshot of Solovyev talk show, where he is saying the only job suitable for Russian masses if "pick their teeth with one finger and then pick their ass with the same finger"
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In Krasnodar region, intercepted Ukrainian drone fell on a crowded beach, killing some Russian civilians. While Western cosplayers started to accuse Ukraine of deliberately targeting a tourist resort, this is not what Russian authorities say: they say it was debris from interception
A snippet from the statement of Krasnodar governor saying "debris of a drone" fell on the resort off Arkhipo-Ospinovka (in original Russian)
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My doomscrolling evolved into tatescrolling. I check every morning if the fokkers are still in jail, afraid Trump might want to help them again. So far so good! But the conditions could be a bit worse, if I had a say.
A screenshot from one of the many Twitter accounts run by the infamous Tate brothers criminal organization
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is real Russia: principal of agricultural school saw teenagers riding quads on the school grounds, destroying cultivated fields. He called their parents. They arrived and beaten him, when he fell, they kicked him. He died four days later in hospital
A screenshot from Russian Z-blogger Zergulio telling the same story (in Russian, in Cyryllic)
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A lonely manosphere influencer went to support Andrew Tate in jail only to discover he is the only such idiot in entire New York City
A screenshot from Twitter feed of a manosphere influencer complaining "Not a single person is here besides me, what is going on"?
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Well, Dmitri "Wagner" Utkin, co-founder of the infamous Wagner group, did not owe his nickname to his passion for opera
A photo of topless Dmitri "Wagner" Utkin sporting Nazi tattoos
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Some people are still hoping the mythical moment when Putin "takes the gloves off" will come and change the course of war
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Poor cannibal! Sure, what he did was wrong, but nobody deserves Andrew Tate as a neighbor.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Sorry, "Foreign Policy". Didn't pay for the paywall. Clueless Westerners who think they will just come to Russia with their money to enjoy the "shared values" of "anti-wokeness"... They are just, well, clueless Westerners. Don't need to read how it ends, I know it.
A screenshot from Foreign Policy article about one Leo Hare, a "pious Christian fom Texas", who came to Russia because he hated the woke ideology, and is now homeless with his family, being swindled out by the non-woke Russians
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Many pro-Russian accounts present current missile attacks on Kyiv as "retaliation" for Ukrainian attacks. In reality, Russia is bombing Kyiv from day one. The only thing that changed is that Ukraine is now firing back.
Screenshot from 2022 article on Fox News, displaying residential buildings in Kyiv destroyed by Russian bombing
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A pro-Russian Western idiot on Twitter literally thought Wildberries warehouse is a warehouse storing berries (sometimes even a factory making them). In order to support Russia, you need to know nothing about Russia (and be stupid enough to think berries are made in factory).
A screenshot from Twitter by pro-Russian idiot Ethan Levins, who claims Ukraine attacked "a wild berry facility"
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The person who wrote the attached nonsense seems intellectually incapable of checking wikipedia entries on (a) Ukrainian language, (b) political composition of Ukrainian government, (c) Ukrainian history
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Before Russian invasion of 2014, Donetsk was one of the richest cities in Ukraine. Now they have no water, because invasion destroyed the aqueduct. They started to build a new one, but for 12 yrs nothing happened until today: kleptocrats who stole the money were arrested. Pipes still dry, though.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It seems that Alex Jones still believes the moment when Putin takes the mythical "gloves off" is coming soon. But right after the Rapture, of course.
A screenshot from Alex Jones Twitter claiming Putin is "ready to take the gloves off".
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Russian milblogger Romanov with a brief statement: "Konstantinovka = Kupyansk". Kupyansk was reported as wholly captured to Putin more than once, but it was never true, Russia does not have it until this very day.
Screenshot from Russian blogger Romanov claiming that "Konstantinovka = Kupyansk"
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Twitter propagandist "Big Serge" turned out to be a state employee from Idaho, one Sam Wolkenhauer. Remember, social media accounts claiming to be "Russian" are usually American cosplayers who think it if they call themselves "Sergey" or "Natasha", they appear stronger or sexier.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Glenn Diesen draws arrows to prove Russian victory is near - when Konstantinivka and Lyman fall, it's easy. But arrow (1) goes through cities. When Russians capture Konstantinivka, they will crawl through Druzhkivka for another year. Arrow (2) goes through Holy Mountains. That's just impossible.
A screenshot from Glenn Diesen Twitter with the arrows on the map mentioned in the post.
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pro-Russian propagandists on Xitter are beginning to get it. Yes my dude, there will be no "gloves off", no "flattening of Kyiv", no "destruction of bridges on Dnipro", none of your fantasies from last 4+ yrs. Russia is already trying as hard as they but they can't do much.
Screenshot from Twitter account "Lord Bebo" complaining that Russian only response to Moscow burning will be verbal condemnation from Peskov and "everyone moves on as usual" (he's probably right, btw)
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Glenn Greenwald jumped on the AI-generated slop report on "Ukrainian biolabs", and he's asking: if they were regular labs, why they contained dangerous stuff? Is he playing dumb or he really never saw a scientific laboratory? They always contain hazardous stuff, solvents and gases to begin with.
screenshot from Glenn Greenwald's twitter
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Recent Ukrainian successes can be attributed to one person, Robert "Magyaer" Brovdi. He was promoted chief of unmanned system barely over a year ago. At the time, Russian propaganda was portraying him as a fraudster. Russians who believed it are now dead or at best, stranded without fuel.
Screensot from Russian propaganda channel "Sputnik"
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Eastsplaining @eastsplaining.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Bulgaria stops delivering weapons to Ukraine - does it matter? According to Russian blog "Two Majors", not much. They analyze Bulgarian help and conclude it was mostly obsolete Soviet stuff and ammunition to it (NATO-incompatible). Ukraine needed it in 2022, but no longer (and Bulgaria has no more).
A snippet of Russian blog "Two Majors" in Cyryllic
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