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Eric Woods

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Escaping the birdsite, once and for all. Russia, sanctions, missiles, drones, and the global arms trade.

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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At one point I imaged hitting the Pechersk-Lavra would be such a humiliating self-own for the regime they'd actually feel some level of shame. But I see that it was *spins wheel* - a Patriot missile!
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Putin claims that 700,000 are fighting in on the Russian side in Ukraine. No way for Russia to do anything much more than nibble slowly forward with these numbers. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8737173?...
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Путин: группировка ВС РФ в зоне СВО превышает 700 тыс. человек
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Great to know we are the junior partner in the relationship.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
fwiw at the tempo of a high intensity air campaign everyone involved will be out of remotely useful targets one way or the other in under 2 weeks
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 24/02/2026
A salient point here: Baunov says Russia's demands are modeled on the 1960 Cyprus arrangement, in which Greece, Turkey, and UK were named guarantors with the right of armed intervention. (Turkey exercised that right in 1974, annexing a third of the island.) In other words, no Korea-style DMZ.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
So I guess our question now is which members of the Admin weren’t emailing Epstein?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Is this Pervii Kanal? The insane grandfather is going to turn Canada into an adversary.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Turning your closest cultural and economic partner into an enemy has been suicidal for Russia. Surely this will turn out well. When do we start hearing “For eight years the fascist Carney government has been bombing innocent English speakers in Alberta”?
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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The power outages and freezing conditions in Ukraine right now are insane. Greenland news and war “coverage fatigue” not giving it the presence in headlines it deserves. The humanitarian impact is absolutely staggering.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sorokin is so difficult, but so rewarding! Day of the Oprichnik is one of the funniest (and darkest) novels I’ve ever read. I recommend using the Max Lawton translations
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Deploying essentially all of your available resources to terrorize one city at a time, in a very large country with many big cities scattered across a continent, is not a sound strategy for regime consolidation.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026
i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Oh it’s deadly serious, but where is the political leadership organizing against this absolutely suicidal course of action?
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Haha fair play
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
There are a few U.S. companies actually testing a reverse-engineered Shahed! (I assume it costs 10x the original)
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
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Anton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
What was the Russian summer offensives in Ukraine in about? Did it achieve its goals based on its own merits? What can be expected from the Russian military's actions through the remainder of 2025 and into early 2026? @erwoods.bsky.social for ridl.io ridl.io/the-results-...
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The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia
Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
My latest article looking at the results of Russia's summer offensive. I argue the Sumy operation was a bit of a failure given the amount of elite forces involved, but Russia continues making progress in Donetsk Oblast. ridl.io/the-results-...
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The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia
Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The Trump administration is deporting anti-Putin political asylum seekers, where they face the threat of torture or worse... theins.press/en/news/284453
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U.S. deports at least 30 people to Russia in a single day, Russian rights activists report
On August 27, the United States deported at least 30 Russian citizens back to Russia, Dmitry Valuyev, president of the group Russian America for Democracy in Russia, told The Insider
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
There is no reason for armed troops to be in the nations capital. Full stop. Panhandlers in DuPont Circle are not a reason to do this. Are we looking at another Kent State?
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
If you are a hostile intelligence agency, you can get more out of a well-aimed rock at the right place and time today than entire Cold War expenditure of the KGB combined.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I don’t know if I want these people trying to tackle doctrine and force structure questions 😂 more importantly, is that Hell Let Loose?
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
clap
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It's like a nesting doll of civil-military crises. Just today: 1. Head of DIA fired 2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC 3. Blurring of police + military in DC 4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton 5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Note to self: start a “the Left is CENSORING me” grift to pay off student loans
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This is a global exercise is stroking one man’s tiny ego. The substance is that Trump thinks there is substance.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
king doggo
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Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Putin "won", played Trump in #Alaska? Fact is, despite the summit hype/optics, the Ukraine war remains a strategic cul de sac for Russia Putin will it keep going - but he'll make Russia ill-prepared for an increasingly unruly Trumpian world, as I write: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
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Opinion | Putin Should Be Careful What He Wishes For
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thus, it appears Trump has dropped his earlier demand for an immediate ceasefire before peace talks—a position Ukraine had previously accepted—and now supports negotiations on a lasting peace while fighting continues, a stance the Kremlin has consistently pushed since the last Istanbul talks.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Why are universities contemplating closing entire humanities and foreign language programs, you ask? This. This is why. What? You haven't heard about this existential threat to these subjects across Every. Single. R1. Research. University. in the country? No, I suspect that you haven't:
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SK Media @spaghettikozak.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This is why I tell people not to look at splotches on the map. They don't tell you if it's a company sized element holding an area or a couple guys on motorcycles who will be dead before the map is updated.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
the drone ai thing is buzzword marketing to get tens of millions of dollars in DoD contracts.
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I see that territorial adjustments that Trump promised are already happening. Best of luck to Lisa Murkowski on Russia's Federation Council
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
it’s quite the approach to export controls…
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Brief BDA of the strike on the Shahed-launching base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk: Imagery shows 4 destroyed tent-like structures, likely used for storage. No signs of detonation, only burning. Launch rails and large storage facilities are intact. Drone launches appear to be continuing
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Proffesor Saunders with the astute take on U.S. foreign policy (as always)
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Anton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Sergei Kiriyenko continues to reshape Russia political landscape - now with arrests and searches of regional Communist Party offices. Kiriyenko aims to fully control the regional elites who still use "special" Russia party system to move things around ridl.io/when-they-ca...
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When They Came for the Communists… – Riddle Russia
Andrey Pertsev sums up the political events of the week (August 4−8)
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I think “pure improvisation” is the official grand strategy of the U.S. for the next 3.5-7.5 years.
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
India souring on Sukhoi and wanting to indigenize their own aircraft production is well documented in Russian and in English. Is this people trying to spin out articles quickly, or what?
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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Weird! Another badly researched defense article by a different author, but for the same reasons. Again: India hasn't announced a decision to acquire the Su-57 and India was involved in its developed but withdrew after spending ~$300 mil. due to tech and quality issues. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Eric Woods @erwoods.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Oh dear…
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 04/08/2025
The INF Treaty isn’t just dead; its last remnants are now incinerated and launched into deep space. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
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Russia ends unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate- and shorter-range missiles — Meduza
Russia is formally abandoning its unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate- and shorter-range missiles. In an official statement from the Foreign Ministry, Moscow said it is reacting to the bui...
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