Jill Sargent Russell, PhD
@jsargentr.bsky.social
Military Historian
-NatSec & Strategy
-Logistics
-Geopol Risk
-Urban Warfare
-LOGPOWER
-Rapid Analysis
Ukraine Adventure: https://www.patreon.com/TheAdventurousHistorian?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/
-NatSec & Strategy
-Logistics
-Geopol Risk
-Urban Warfare
-LOGPOWER
-Rapid Analysis
Ukraine Adventure: https://www.patreon.com/TheAdventurousHistorian?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/
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If you've spent 20, 30, 40 years in roles that were grounded in assumptions about the US and US-Europe relations, adjusting to the fact that the world that gave birth to and sustained your professional self is gone, is incredibly hard. Denial is often more appealing than reality.
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you've spent 20, 30, 40 years in roles that were grounded in assumptions about the US and US-Europe relations, adjusting to the fact that the world that gave birth to and sustained your professional self is gone, is incredibly hard. Denial is often more appealing than reality.
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Ukrainian hackers disrupting mail services in temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine
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Hackers knock out systems at Moscow-run postal operator in occupied Ukraine
Donbas Post, which operates in the Russian-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, said the incident affected its corporate network, web platform and email systems. The company had restricted access ...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ukrainian hackers disrupting mail services in temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine
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Kyiv is slowly coming back to life after the night’s attack.
My beautiful phoenix.
My beautiful phoenix.
November 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Kyiv is slowly coming back to life after the night’s attack.
My beautiful phoenix.
My beautiful phoenix.
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Ukraine's 100th Mechanized Brigade Cursed Empire unit destroyed Russian logistics on the Kostiantynivka front including five motorcycles, six vehicles, four soldiers, a truck, a tank and a quad bike, the brigade reported.
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Ukraine's 100th Mechanized Brigade Cursed Empire unit destroyed Russian logistics on the Kostiantynivka front including five motorcycles, six vehicles, four soldiers, a truck, a tank and a quad bike, the brigade reported.
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And not one officer balked.
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
And not one officer balked.
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He called it the DoD not DoW. Interesting.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
He called it the DoD not DoW. Interesting.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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We recorded our first single-digit temperatures of the fall this morning as snow begins to accumulate across southern Wisconsin.
There’s a long day of snow ahead of us, so don‘t feel underwhelmed by the amount of snow you have so far.
There’s a long day of snow ahead of us, so don‘t feel underwhelmed by the amount of snow you have so far.
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We recorded our first single-digit temperatures of the fall this morning as snow begins to accumulate across southern Wisconsin.
There’s a long day of snow ahead of us, so don‘t feel underwhelmed by the amount of snow you have so far.
There’s a long day of snow ahead of us, so don‘t feel underwhelmed by the amount of snow you have so far.
Act of war.
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety reut.rs/4a4K6PN
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.
reut.rs
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Act of war.
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“.. What started as a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing grew to 650 seats. Next, he wanted a 999-seat ballroom, then room for 1,350.” 🤡
@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
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@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
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November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“.. What started as a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing grew to 650 seats. Next, he wanted a 999-seat ballroom, then room for 1,350.” 🤡
@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
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Really can't overstate how problematic robotaxis become at scale:
"Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."
"Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Really can't overstate how problematic robotaxis become at scale:
"Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."
"Urban traffic is constrained by the fact that getting around by car either requires (expensively) paying someone else to drive or (inconveniently) driving oneself. Without such constraints the result could be brutal gridlock."
And not one officer balked.
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
And not one officer balked.
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No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
Do you ever get the feeling that the administration is playing offense for one side in a drug cartel war?
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Do you ever get the feeling that the administration is playing offense for one side in a drug cartel war?
Every American worker is the product of immigration, you flag fetishizing freaks.
But thank God for the immigrant women willing to take the job of marrying Trump men.
But thank God for the immigrant women willing to take the job of marrying Trump men.
Unrestrained migration has had devastating consequences for the American Worker.
Wages dropped, jobs for native-born Workers disappeared, and many Americans were robbed of their chance to achieve the American Dream.
President Trump is bringing this to an end—and fighting for the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Wages dropped, jobs for native-born Workers disappeared, and many Americans were robbed of their chance to achieve the American Dream.
President Trump is bringing this to an end—and fighting for the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Every American worker is the product of immigration, you flag fetishizing freaks.
But thank God for the immigrant women willing to take the job of marrying Trump men.
But thank God for the immigrant women willing to take the job of marrying Trump men.
FEWER, ffs.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
FEWER, ffs.
How do you malign the Thanksgiving meal to the armed forces?
Dumb as rocks.
And I really like turkey.
Dumb as rocks.
And I really like turkey.
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
How do you malign the Thanksgiving meal to the armed forces?
Dumb as rocks.
And I really like turkey.
Dumb as rocks.
And I really like turkey.
Angry Terminal Major wreaks murderous havoc.
I’m starting to get the sense that it was a bad idea to put a deeply insecure, sexual assaulting Fox News host with a drinking problem and a crusader tattoo who said he was into war crimes in charge of the military.
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Angry Terminal Major wreaks murderous havoc.
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That's the "profession" debate ended.
The American officer corps needs a hard reckoning.
The American officer corps needs a hard reckoning.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
That's the "profession" debate ended.
The American officer corps needs a hard reckoning.
The American officer corps needs a hard reckoning.
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putin celebrated Witkoff's visit to moscow with another terrorist attack on 🇺🇦Kyiv.
Missiles and drones are attacking homes where people are sleeping. Residential buildings are being destroyed, there are
dead and injured civilians.
Source: x.com/den_kazansky...
Missiles and drones are attacking homes where people are sleeping. Residential buildings are being destroyed, there are
dead and injured civilians.
Source: x.com/den_kazansky...
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
putin celebrated Witkoff's visit to moscow with another terrorist attack on 🇺🇦Kyiv.
Missiles and drones are attacking homes where people are sleeping. Residential buildings are being destroyed, there are
dead and injured civilians.
Source: x.com/den_kazansky...
Missiles and drones are attacking homes where people are sleeping. Residential buildings are being destroyed, there are
dead and injured civilians.
Source: x.com/den_kazansky...
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@telegraph.co.uk have generally been excellent on Russia's invasion, but this is a headline that belongs in the 19th century. The US president can't "hand" Ukraine's land to the Russian president, however much he wants to. Trump can only take a position on US recognition, nothing else.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@telegraph.co.uk have generally been excellent on Russia's invasion, but this is a headline that belongs in the 19th century. The US president can't "hand" Ukraine's land to the Russian president, however much he wants to. Trump can only take a position on US recognition, nothing else.
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Greetings from Kyiv.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Greetings from Kyiv.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
Just a quick note for those who care.
We’re fine.
The view from the window is still the same, luckily.
A loud night of drones and missiles is over.
Sadly, there are casualties and damage in the city.
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Read a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president
Putin Advisers Discuss Plans for Dealing With Trump: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Read a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president
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👀 I'm going to the front, — Yermak
I was disgraced, and my dignity was not protected, despite the fact that I have been in Kyiv since February 24, 2022. Therefore, I do not want to create problems for Zelensky — I am going to the front.
I was disgraced, and my dignity was not protected, despite the fact that I have been in Kyiv since February 24, 2022. Therefore, I do not want to create problems for Zelensky — I am going to the front.
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
👀 I'm going to the front, — Yermak
I was disgraced, and my dignity was not protected, despite the fact that I have been in Kyiv since February 24, 2022. Therefore, I do not want to create problems for Zelensky — I am going to the front.
I was disgraced, and my dignity was not protected, despite the fact that I have been in Kyiv since February 24, 2022. Therefore, I do not want to create problems for Zelensky — I am going to the front.
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Monitoring group Exilenova+ also reports smoke visible near Orsk oil refinery area.
November 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Monitoring group Exilenova+ also reports smoke visible near Orsk oil refinery area.