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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 22m
Going after the big one! Slava Ukraini.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 24m
Ignorance is only bliss until reality dumps on you.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 57m
Transport problems aside, at least there should be no shortage of grain. 🙂
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 1h
… while giving him a much needed additional revenue stream in the form of recovered assets.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 1h
Another good attrition day.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 1h
Strategic dynamic sanctions.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 1h
Insulting, demoralising, but at the same time, it must be admitted, efficient.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 14h
You’ll find out in the next two to three weeks.😆
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 14h
Vive la France. Heroyam Slava.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 21h
Eloquently put, but will it move the dial? We shall soon see. As one former dictator put it 85 years ago, “The world will hold its breath.”
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perhaps some more reassuring lies from Gerasimov.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Latvian military needs robust rules of engagement. There is no point having soldiers there if they are just going to stand and watch.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Or, it would seem, their present.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Full circle back to ‘traditional values’?
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t look up.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Karmic excellence.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It could be, in the words of one former general, a damned close run thing.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Russian denial incoming? We can’t say we weren’t warned.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A little less conversation, a little more action, please.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Harsh words. Any action?
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A key question is whether Seoul was duped over or was complicit in the false destination declarations. Shameful if the latter, otherwise procedures need to be tightened. How, for example, is a sanctioned ship allowed to enter port?
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump in 2016 refusing to accept election results if he lost, calling journalists the enemy of the people, Access Hollywood, Stormy Daniels; any of them should have finished him and without deplorable voters, would have. To have elected him a second time is testament to how far America has fallen.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Russians seem to be on the back foot in a number of sectors. October could prove to be another month when there is a net Ukrainian territorial gain.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I doubt the bunker hypochondriac would want to see it get out of Irkutsk.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Given Russia’s reputation for institutional corruption and incompetence, it is to hoped that this outbreak is contained with a greater than normal degree of Russian efficiency.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Those truckers must be getting some serious hazard pay.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And a fact the fake historian in the Kremlin will never be able to come to terms with.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Prediction isn’t necessary, there are too many variables anyway. All that is required is that there be a contingency plan in place for a response to each reasonably foreseeable Kremlin action.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putin’s useful idiot, at it again.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The offer was to every voter if the GOP win. The lie will become apparent later.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is Tuberville more deluded than Trump, or is he just more fundamentally dishonest? I’m never quite sure.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It seems to be more likely than not that Putin does believe the battlefield outcomes that he is touting; that this is the information he is being briefed on through the chain of command. But at some point someone is going to have to tell him the truth. That is the day Putin’s world will crumble.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An occasional incursion - plausible deniability. Five drones - an overt provocation. Time for another strongly worded complaint?
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Carlson is perfect Kremlin useful idiot material. As for Putin, firmly in the ‘might is right’ realpolitik school of international relations.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No fool that Novak.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Their primary role is likely to be to expose themselves to Ukrainian fire so that Ukrainian firing points can be identified. Battlefield life expectancy, 35 minutes.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One could almost suspect that someone with an agenda is keeping it afloat. Ofcom, Ofcom, wherefore art thou, Ofcom?
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Even if they aren’t operationally deployed during their conscription period, they will be placed under enormous pressure to sign up at the end of their compulsory service.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unfortunately, her’s seems to be a minority view among Russian women. If there were tens of millions more like her, the war would be over.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Both can true at the same time.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Contingency plans have probably already been dusted off.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Undersea pipelines from the Caspian fields to Azerbaijan?
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Official explanations vary - Ukraine was about to attack Russia Ukraine has been taken over by Nazis Ukraine was about to join NATO Ukraine was about to launch an offensive into the ‘liberated’ Donbas Ukraine is not a real country But not imperial revanchism and personal legacy, nothing so crude.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the meantime Kazakhs really should find an alternative route for their oil exports.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news in a week of mixed news.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
‘Right, now we’re really going to take the gloves off.’ Heard it before, more than once. Just Russian propaganda being Russian propaganda.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t let poor Tiddles die!
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another of life’s little mysteries.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And Mister Bone Saw (MBS to his friends) knew nothing about it.
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robert500223.bsky.social @robert500223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The corruption goes deep and wide among people who are betting there will never be a day of reckoning.
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