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Kyle Orton

@kyleworton.bsky.social
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Write about jihadism, security issues, and foreign policy | Also a lot of history and religion.

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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
For those who read Czech, a translation has very kindly been done of the article I wrote on the anniversary of the Soviets crushing Czechoslovakia in 1968: "Socialism Could Never Have a Human Face" (The English is here: www.kyleorton.com/p/socialism-...)
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Socialism Could Never Have a Human Face
On this day in 1968, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia dispelled all illusions that Communism could be reformed.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Thanks!
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It's actually over. Nearly 14 years of daily carnage in Syria, and Bashar al-Asad is gone - from power and possibly from life. An extraordinary event. Baffling. Bewildering. It still doesn't seem real and there's been a handover of power ceremony in Damascus.
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Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Anyone interested in Syria reporting and following of news updates, here is a helpful list to start with: go.bsky.app/TpjA464
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charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
OK -- today is Day 5 of renewed major conflict in #Syria & the frontlines continue to move. Here's a new 🧵 bringing us up to speed:
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Ukrainian forces recently regained lost positions north of Kharkiv. Geolocated footage posted 30 NOV shows Russian forces striking Ukrainian forces in a forested area southeast of Hlyboke (north of Kharkiv City), indicating that Ukrainian forces recently regained tactical positions in the area. 1/3
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My directorial debut The Battle For Kyiv is available online now for 10 more days at the Byline Doc Fest. Byline TV subscribers get free access, otherwise a festival pass is available. byline.tv/docfest/
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Syrian insurgents have broken into Aleppo city, eight years after they were defeated and deported, and twelve years after they first captured part of the city.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Islam is the result of a long process *after* the formation of the Arab Empire in the 630s and 640s. The question is what the Arab creed looked like before that, specifically how it related to Jews. www.kyleorton.com/p/jewish-inf...
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Jewish Influence and the Origins of Islam
A story of collaboration turning into confrontation.
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Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Taliban establish new office to preserve ‘jihadi values’ amu.tv/139353/
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Taliban establish new office to preserve ‘jihadi values’ | Amu TV
The report cautioned that a new generation of militants, potentially “more dangerous” than the current Taliban leadership, might emerge as a result.
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OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Dozens of Storm Shadow cruise missiles have been delivered to Ukraine by the UK in recent weeks, per Bloomberg. The shipments come as Ukraine begins a new strike campaign into Russian territory, with a Storm Shadow raid already hitting a critical Russian command post in Kursk.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We take the small mercies
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hunted, Tortured, Killed. The Grim Fate of Journalists Under Russian Occupation “There are no more Ukrainian media outlets in the territories captured by Russia,” says Nastya Stanko But there are independent journalists who report anonymously—and they are hunted. united24media.com/anti-fake/hu...
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Hunted, Tortured, Killed. The Grim Fate of Journalists Under Russian Occupation
From Crimea to Donetsk, Russian forces hunt journalists. Viktoriia Roshchyna’s death highlights the brutal silencing of free press under Russian occupation.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Guess the disinformation filters on this site are not *that* tight after all. Unless it's a singular exemption that permits people to advocate and justify the rape and slaughter of Jews - which has proven to be a real problem in Left-wing spaces since 7 October 2023.
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Andrew Lebovich @andrewlebovich.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Criminality is the only real use case for crypto, and anyone who says otherwise is lying or delusional.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
U.S. intelligence officials warned American defense companies on Thursday to increase security precautions following several acts of sabotage in Europe that officials have blamed on Russia.
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US intelligence warns defense companies of Russian sabotage threat
U.S. intelligence officials are warning American defense companies to increase their security after a wave of sabotage in Europe blamed on Russia.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
NEW: Lebanese Hezbollah likely fired large numbers of rockets at Israel to pressure the Israeli government during ongoing ceasefire negotiations. Latest on Iran, Israel, and the Middle East w/ @criticalthreats.bsky.social: isw.pub/IranUpdate11... More key takeaways 🔽 🧵(1/6)
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
24 November 1903 | A Czech Jew, Robert Glück, was born in Prague. He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive.
Vintage portrait of a man in a suit with a signed inscription "Robert Glück.
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
reminder of the time john prescott was given a state banquet on a trip to Beijing and then told them it wasn’t as good as Mr Chu’s in Hull (source: hull daily mail)
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This would be a problem for law-based States, even when the Prosecutor is not an accused sexual predator. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The reality here, when you strip away the rhetoric, is that the ICC Prosecutor—based on his own ideology and whims—is claiming the right to remove and imprison democratic leaders when the Prosecutor disagrees with a government's national security policy. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Those of us who opposed the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) root-and-branch have reasons for optimism. The ICC cannot touch Israel's leaders, but this has shown that our worst forecasts about this wretched institution were accurate. Provides a focal point for collective action.
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“I have become a distraction” is a serious contender for a future Strong Message Here episode. It means “I’m bang to rights but I will never, ever admit that”
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
21 November 1929 | A Polish Jewish girl, Sara Brukner, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France. She arrived at Auschwitz on 19 August 1942 in a transport of 997 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 897 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
A girl standing in a room, wearing a white dress, white socks, and black shoes, with a flower in the hair.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Conservative is a reasonable description. "Small-c", as we say - should be noted I'm British, so did not vote in the election.
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Michael Horowitz @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Happy to be on Encyclopedia geopolitica's "2025 Reading list" for my book, Hope and Despair: #Israel's future in the New Middle East You can order your copy here: hurstpublishers.com/book/hope-an... Or on Amazon: amazon.com/Hope-Despair...
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hope this was money laundering. A non-criminal explanation induces too much despair.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.
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Ferdowsi and Company | فردوسی و دوستان @ferdowsiandcompany.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi 👋 Going forward, I will post our interviews here as well as Twitter/X & Instagram🪻
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Did the Qur’an Exist Before Muhammad? www.kyleorton.com/p/did-the-qu...
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Did the Qur’an Exist Before Muhammad?
An intriguing theory with radical implications.
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Kareem Rifai @kareemrifai.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Russia's core propaganda outlets have been nakedly lobbying in favor of Tulsi Gabbard for the past 48 hours.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is not meant as an endorsement of Trump at all. He will be utterly catastrophic for Ukraine.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Islamic State Weighs in on Donald Trump’s Re-election www.kyleorton.com/p/al-naba-46...
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Islamic State Weighs in on Donald Trump’s Re-election
Absolutely everyone has a take on the American election.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Commening on the 18 November Russian attack on Odesa, which killed 8 people, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy connected its timing to a recent diplomatic phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hezbollah attacked UNIFIL today and UNIFIL would not even name Hezbollah: "Even in the 1980s, after being directly…attacked by Hezbollah…UNIFIL did nothing … When it is routinely harassed, restricted, threatened or even attacked by Hezbollah…UNIFIL does not respond." aijac.org.au/featured/uni...
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UNIFIL, the LAF and myths about Lebanese sovereignty - AIJAC
The idea that UNIFIL will suddenly be able to assist the LAF in doing what it has always been inherently incapable of doing, and in the name of an illusory “Government of Lebanon”, recalls that famous...
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cvift.bsky.social @cvift.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"What happened to those strange Soviet front organisations such as the wealthy, spy-infested International Union of Journalists? Or the International Union of Students, which was finally expelled from its hulking concrete headquarters in Prague only in 2006" Cc @kyleworton.bsky.social
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 17/11/2024
Geolocated the #Israeli airstrike on Mar Elias area. This is the second airstrike on central #Beirut today. Coordinates: 33.888769, 35.494380
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
In any objective sense, the Biden administration's handling of Ukraine has been a disastrous disgrace. The only thing that could ever be said for it was that the only viable alternative was far worse, an alternative Biden personally, with his stubbornness, helped open the door to.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Relentless pattern from Biden: > We couldn't possibly > Maybe we could but we have to assess > Assessment still ongoing > Alright then, we can The cost is thousands of Ukrainian lives every time, and in this case it comes with such a short time window (until Trump takes office) it's even worse.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This what Ukraine accomplishes with just 8 F-16's, imagine if they had 100. NATO countries have 4000 of these old planes sitting around collecting dust.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 17/11/2024
Ukraine's international partners have denounced Russia's most recent mass aerial strike launched against the country on Nov. 17.
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'Russia shows it has no intention of ceasing its aggression' — Kyiv's partners condemn Russian mass attack
"As we approach 1000 days since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia shows it has no intention of ceasing its aggression," said Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The morality story of the FBI engaging in racist persecution of Martin Luther King is essentially the reverse of the truth. J. Edgar Hoover protected Dr. King from Southern states—and tried to protect King (and the civil rights movement) from King's missteps. www.kyleorton.com/p/martin-lut...
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Martin Luther King and J. Edgar Hoover
The interaction of the civil rights movement, Communism, and the FBI in the 1960s.
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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The IDF says it has completed a second wave of strikes against Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs a short while ago. The sites hit by fighter jets in Dahiyeh included a weapon depot, a command center, and other Hezbollah infrastructure, according to the military.
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Scholz’s phone call to the Kremlin gives Putin a precious opportunity to lecture and grandstand. Any peace deal must “eliminate the original causes of the conflict,” Putin declared. The original cause of the conflict, of course, is Vladimir Putin.
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Kyle Orton @kyleworton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The common thread for Ukraine and Israel, having to deal with hostile neighbours whose exterminationist visions are eternal: any "ceasefire" or "negotiation" is a pause while these enemies plot how to try again.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
China megaport paves way into Latin America as wary US looks on
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China megaport paves way into Latin America as wary US looks on
A new China-backed megaport in Peru may create whole new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Trafficking ring preyed on victims from Romanian foster homes
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Trafficking ring preyed on victims from Romanian foster homes
Men and women were taken from Romania and forced to work for little pay in Budapest.
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