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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD

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Military Historian National Security and Strategy Logistics Geopolitical Risk Urban Warfare Ask me about LOGPOWER. Better than average insights/running analysis, and a bit different than many. At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · Jun 7

Logistics and Strategies of the Ukraine War.

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Logistics and Strategy in the Russo-Ukraine War: The Allies and Ukraine, with a side glance at Russia

Sinews of War

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe we don't need either. But the overwhelming majority is White Men, and nobody thought or bragged she was the second coming of progressive Jesus.

And until you understand patriarchal capture, shut the fuck up about White Women.

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 9h

How's Fetterman working out?

Maybe we don't need yet more White Men "progressives" foisted upon us.

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Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social · 13h

Representative-elect Grijalva DOES NOT WANT "pomp-and-circumstance."

Since her victory weeks ago, she has been VERY clear that all she wants is for Speaker Johnson to swear her in so she can sign the Epstein petition and begin serving Arizona's 7th District.

Americans are sick of the excuses.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 11h

Italian Neighbors. It is sweetly funny, an Englishman beholding the world of quotidian life in Italy. The Prosecco chapter alone is worth it.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 13h

I went Gallic and gowl rhymes with owl.

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 13h

No, come on, English pronunciation "rules" are bonkers! It took my American English brain forever to accept that gaol is pronounced like jail. What the flock?!

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 15h

News organizations saying "no" to SecDef RePete Failure is good.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 16h

Does anyone know, or is this a gif or gif dilemma? (Hard G is correct for gif, by the way...don't argue with me. 🤣🤣🤣)

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 17h

(Am I supposed to read that as English Jill or like a fish breathing apparatus?)

I'll give it a try some time. Maybe for the second draft of the memoir. 😜

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 16h

🤣

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 17h

(Am I supposed to read that as English Jill or like a fish breathing apparatus?)

I'll give it a try some time. Maybe for the second draft of the memoir. 😜

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 18h

Announce your most embarrassing font secret: I like Courier. Especially for drafting. It's so very easy on the eyes. And it relieves me of choice confusion, being soooooo basic, it's like a non-choice. It's just letters, nothing fancy.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 18h

She is an amazing speaker.

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 18h

...not familiar with how out of whack our media environment is, how much harder it is for Democrats instead of Republicans. There is no world where any Democrat expects zero criticism. But we are much harder on liberals than conservatives.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 18h

...criticize Biden" - it was, stop blaming Biden for shit out of his control (Israel, Afghanistan), and maybe give him credit for the monumental achievements of his administration. But nobody, NOBODY, would ever say that Democrats demand lockstep support. That is just not true. You are clearly...

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 18h

It was the dumbest thing ever done, and it happened because the White Men got scared of Madame President, and I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM. Tom FUCKING Nichols and his "walks into the sea" bullshit.

"Just vote for the old guy." They couldn't. So they ruined everything.

And nobody ever said "don't...

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 19h

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh! Fatal ambition!"

or

"Things quickly got slightly out of hand."

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

"Post you from a different era" is middle-aged Bluesky code for "lemme see you when you were hot"

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 19h

No, it's not lighthearted, it feeds into the bullshit about Democrats. And I'm sick of listening to it. I'm sick of people running down the only side fighting. Because the reason that happens is the same reason that Clinton and Harris were rejected - we are a disgustingly racist and sexist country.

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 19h

USE INK TO UNDERLINE AND NOTATE.

(Yes, Callum, I'm trolling you even when you aren't listening. 🤣)

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 19h

This is so very diminishing of Russia, and that is good.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20h

NATO Secretary Rutte on Russian incursions into EU airspace:

If a plane would pose a threat,we have the authorities to do,if necessary,the ultimate.But if the plane is not posing a threat,we are not going to shoot it down.Then we’ll gently guide it outside
We’re so much stronger than the Russians

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 19h

I am going to open an account on X just to troll LinkedIn. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck them.

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German Foreign Office @germany.diplo.de · 20h

German and Romanian fighter jets recently took off together to intercept a Russian drone. This shows: within #NATO we stand in solidarity – and we do not tolerate violations of our member states’ sovereignty. @aussenminister.diplo.de in Bucharest 🇷🇴 1/4

Foreign Minister Wadephul and his Romanian counterpart Toiu in Bucharest.
(C) Photothek / Kira Hofmann

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 19h

But don't come in my mentions with this nonsense again, it just tells me you aren't paying good attention.

Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 19h

Do you mean to tell me you aren't moved by Jeffries? Crockett? Was Harris not to your liking?

Maybe stop watching the damned news, listening to pundits (mostly white men who are assholes about Dems, because they have to share power with women and minorities), and influencers who want Dems to fail.

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