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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 4h

Youtube comment of the day: “Falluhja... One tactical nuke and the problem would have been solved.”

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "well we all know now that saddam was so right about everything what a hero."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "Never knew the French so involved [at Gallipoli]."

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I do find that many of my progressive and leftist friends are, in fact, kind of incapable of considering that my research on war doesn't mean I think it was fun

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "This is a real person. I once saw them and they were real. I support real people making real things."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "i believe the vets not the historians."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "i believe the vets not the historians."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "Canada is not even a real country and doesn't really have a distinct geopolitical stance that differs from the US or impacts globally."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "This is a real person. I once saw them and they were real. I support real people making real things."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looks cool, but I don't see a way of selecting size or colour.

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would wager the person is from the US and has been absorbing recent discourse there as the only thing they have ever heard about Canada.

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "Canada is not even a real country and doesn't really have a distinct geopolitical stance that differs from the US or impacts globally."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "All the horrors which befell Europe & even globally in the 20th Century are a result of French Republicanism."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our full-length treatment of the Soviet-Afghan War: www.youtube.com/watch?v=saFt...

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Soviet War in Afghanistan 1979-1989 (Full Documentary)

YouTube video by Real Time History

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I always like Roman brutal realism in art. So different from our age of the image

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "All the horrors which befell Europe & even globally in the 20th Century are a result of French Republicanism."

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OnThisDay 1946: David Low in the Evening Standard on the Nuremberg Trials verdicts...

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When it's Jonah and the Whale. Every. Single. Week.

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wise words from an Ottoman politician in 1911, when facing an aggressive foreign imperial power:

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Franz Josef, upon learning high-ranking intelligence officer Alfred Redl had spied for Russia: ‘‘So this is the new age? And these are the creatures it produces? In our old days such a thing would have been unthinkable.’’ (Schindler, 2007)

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "you think this garbage spewing propoganda is convincing?"

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "The West did not develop on its own, but was supported by the Manchus and eventually got out of control. [...] If the Ming Dynasty did not fall, the West would have no chance."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "the war against Germany [in 1939] was forced by America."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "the war against Germany [in 1939] was forced by America."

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Slightly out of focus @normandy661944.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

West Country Manoeuvres: Camouflaged Bren Gun Carriers in a Lane, by Edward Ardizzone, 1941. IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1494)

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "you think this garbage spewing propoganda is convincing?"

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In this quiet painting, young domestic servant in wealthy household has interrupted her dusting duties & stands engrossed in reading a book. On the elegant tabletop is a still-life of a stationery box, Asian vases & a porcelain figure (William McGregor Paxton, The House Maid, 1910, NGA, Washington)

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just as a reminder Trump apologists, in the last 9 months Trump has: Threatened to invade Greenland Seized the leader Venezuela Launched a war against Iran without Congressional approval. Any state in the world needs to worry about him. Except Russia of course. Putin is safe.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "Even though this is a podcast you could have spiced it up with some pictures and not just you two talking. Even though I love the subject it is way too boring to finish." NARRATOR: The episode in question has had over 125,000 views

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unpopular opinion Histoire de France : quelqu'un qui serait capable de réciter dans l'ordre tous les rois / présidents depuis les origines, mais sans connaître l'enquête linguistique de 1863 ou les réalités qu'elle illustre, ne connaît et ne comprend en fait rien à la trajectoire historique du pays

carte tirée du livre d'E Weber sur l'enquête linguistique de 1863 montrant un grand nombre de départements non francophones (sud, ouest, est)

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "I watch an episode every night when I get home from work. Jesse: you are an incredible historical sherpa, guiding us through The Past. THANK YOU!"

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Icy Reception: How Rebel Forces Lost Hoth Despite Prepared Defenses and Favorable Terrain

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wise words from an Ottoman politician in 1911, when facing an aggressive foreign imperial power:

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "Listening to this video sounds more like a purple-haired freshman disrupting a classroom than serious history."

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Almost certainly yes.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "Listening to this video sounds more like a purple-haired freshman disrupting a classroom than serious history."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "I did my dissertation on Fall Gelb. If I had handed in the text of this documentary for that assignment I would have never received a degree."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "I did my dissertation on Fall Gelb. If I had handed in the text of this documentary for that assignment I would have never received a degree."

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Youtube comment of the day: "Imagine how much better the world would’ve been without Canada."

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the greatest political cartoons ever drawn is 87 years old today. Rendezvous, by David Low.

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Jesse Alexander @jessealexander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Er glaubt wahrscheinlich, dass die Nazis eh Communisten waren.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jean Veber, ‘The Somme, 20 September 1916’, lithograph, 1916. Source: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Drawing: shell cratered landscape in which five soldiers in a trench watch as one fires a machine gun.

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Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 18/09/2026

S’il y en avait encore quelques-uns qui en doutaient parmi la classe politique française, le sujet de la Russie n’est pas juste l’Ukraine. Mais la démocratie et la sécurité sur tout le continuent européen, c’est aujourd’hui incontestable.

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