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Alien Guy
@thealienguy.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Casualties this high are bound to have some serious consequences, keep an eye on Russia in the near future
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Holy shit that's a big one tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Holy shit that's a big one tonight.
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Some countries really just need to lose a war. To shatter a certain idea of how they see themselves, that usually an idea that caused wars, and to then replace it with a different idea of the self as a polity and national identity.
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Some countries really just need to lose a war. To shatter a certain idea of how they see themselves, that usually an idea that caused wars, and to then replace it with a different idea of the self as a polity and national identity.
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It's frustrating how Russia has built this entire myth of invincibility around itself. It lost the Crimean war, a war with Japan in 1905, the first world war, an invasion of Poland in 1920, and in Afghanistan. It won the second world war only with Allied logistical support.
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It's frustrating how Russia has built this entire myth of invincibility around itself. It lost the Crimean war, a war with Japan in 1905, the first world war, an invasion of Poland in 1920, and in Afghanistan. It won the second world war only with Allied logistical support.
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Also, when you lose a war because it became unsustainable and you can't supply/pay your troops, you don't get to keep whatever land they're standing on at that point. Especially when it's a bunch of elderly dudes. You end up going home.
December 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Also, when you lose a war because it became unsustainable and you can't supply/pay your troops, you don't get to keep whatever land they're standing on at that point. Especially when it's a bunch of elderly dudes. You end up going home.
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It's important to keep in mind that great powers in the past made big war preparations and still lost. Russia didn't do that, and based their whole strategy on the delusional idea that Ukrainians would suddenly remember they're russian and give up.
December 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It's important to keep in mind that great powers in the past made big war preparations and still lost. Russia didn't do that, and based their whole strategy on the delusional idea that Ukrainians would suddenly remember they're russian and give up.
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Russia did not plan this to be a long war and they left a lot of the govt out of the loop until it happened. Now the people tasked with maintaining the economy are playing catchup.
December 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Russia did not plan this to be a long war and they left a lot of the govt out of the loop until it happened. Now the people tasked with maintaining the economy are playing catchup.
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They used up nearly all decent soldiers they had. Now it's mostly trash. If they mobilize, more will run like last time. If they want to stop that, they need men to keep them in the country and in the army, and they risk pushback. Every option gets worse.
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
They used up nearly all decent soldiers they had. Now it's mostly trash. If they mobilize, more will run like last time. If they want to stop that, they need men to keep them in the country and in the army, and they risk pushback. Every option gets worse.
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Some seem to think Trump is threatening to scale back support for Ukraine. In fact, Trump stopped support on Day 1 and instead only pressures Ukraine. The aid that continued trickling was Biden era commitments. Intelligence sharing remains, which is important, no doubt, but it hardly counts as aid.
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Some seem to think Trump is threatening to scale back support for Ukraine. In fact, Trump stopped support on Day 1 and instead only pressures Ukraine. The aid that continued trickling was Biden era commitments. Intelligence sharing remains, which is important, no doubt, but it hardly counts as aid.
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These things should get more noticeing. Name an army, in history, were heavy load of logistics is done by soldier self bought civilian vehicles? And while the need is insane, russia downscales truck production because the state doesn't have the money.
1/ The Russian army has to rely on modified civilian vehicles purchased with soldiers' own money, because military trucks are in such short supply. According to a Russian soldier-warblogger, units have to wait between 5 to 12 months to receive trucks. ⬇️
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Looks like a scene from an apocalypse movie — the russians are entering the southern part of Pokrovsk under the cover of morning fog.
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
These things should get more noticeing. Name an army, in history, were heavy load of logistics is done by soldier self bought civilian vehicles? And while the need is insane, russia downscales truck production because the state doesn't have the money.
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1/ The Russian army has to rely on modified civilian vehicles purchased with soldiers' own money, because military trucks are in such short supply. According to a Russian soldier-warblogger, units have to wait between 5 to 12 months to receive trucks. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/rshe...
bsky.app/profile/rshe...
Looks like a scene from an apocalypse movie — the russians are entering the southern part of Pokrovsk under the cover of morning fog.
November 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1/ The Russian army has to rely on modified civilian vehicles purchased with soldiers' own money, because military trucks are in such short supply. According to a Russian soldier-warblogger, units have to wait between 5 to 12 months to receive trucks. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/rshe...
bsky.app/profile/rshe...
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Because the law is only as good as its enforcement mechanism, and the enforcement mechanisms were amenable
December 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Because the law is only as good as its enforcement mechanism, and the enforcement mechanisms were amenable
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The thing is that supply isn't endless and the way they were recruiting enough to make good the losses most of this time was by spending ungodly amounts of money. Now those bonuses are being drastically reduced or cut entirely.
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The thing is that supply isn't endless and the way they were recruiting enough to make good the losses most of this time was by spending ungodly amounts of money. Now those bonuses are being drastically reduced or cut entirely.
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You got it. I was talking with a friend who works in Brussels. Since everyone is making up fake awards to give to Trump these days, a free press award, like a bonesaw coated in cheap plastic gold, may be a fitting European award for him.
Normal questions to ask upon arriving in Istanbul in October 2018.
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
You got it. I was talking with a friend who works in Brussels. Since everyone is making up fake awards to give to Trump these days, a free press award, like a bonesaw coated in cheap plastic gold, may be a fitting European award for him.
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UAF managed to capture a bunch of conscripts in Kursk direction earlier, hence a subsequent massive POW swap after a long hiatus. Conscripts still seem to be precious to the RU govt anyhow.
December 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
UAF managed to capture a bunch of conscripts in Kursk direction earlier, hence a subsequent massive POW swap after a long hiatus. Conscripts still seem to be precious to the RU govt anyhow.
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As to "recruitment" in the relatively wealthy metropolitan areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg, I remember that in 2023 the Russian police raided the last gay bars in those cities, and sent those it arrested to the frontline. So I'd expect "recruitment" there to be things like these again.
December 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As to "recruitment" in the relatively wealthy metropolitan areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg, I remember that in 2023 the Russian police raided the last gay bars in those cities, and sent those it arrested to the frontline. So I'd expect "recruitment" there to be things like these again.
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The Russians already sent conscripts into this war right from the very first day. It was in fact one of the few things where the Russian public complained, and the government had to address it.
There was a silent consensus after the wars in Chechnya that the government will not use conscripts in its wars. If the government were to mobilise youngsters there would be massive upheavals in places that matter i.e. moscow and peterburg.
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Russians already sent conscripts into this war right from the very first day. It was in fact one of the few things where the Russian public complained, and the government had to address it.
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Did you ever notice in post-war pictures of Charles de Gaulle, he always wore a black armband. A popular misconception is that it was to commemorate the war dead. In reality, he had a daughter with downs syndrome, who died in 1948, and who he deeply loved. De Gaulle was a very emotional man.
December 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Did you ever notice in post-war pictures of Charles de Gaulle, he always wore a black armband. A popular misconception is that it was to commemorate the war dead. In reality, he had a daughter with downs syndrome, who died in 1948, and who he deeply loved. De Gaulle was a very emotional man.
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De Gaulle was more of a soldier than a politician, who sort of stumbled into politics. And throughout his life always based his decisions and how he acted more on his experience as a soldier, than any political or ideological reasons.
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
De Gaulle was more of a soldier than a politician, who sort of stumbled into politics. And throughout his life always based his decisions and how he acted more on his experience as a soldier, than any political or ideological reasons.
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Charles de Gaulle had good geopolitical reasons to tell the Americans to fuck off when they tried to push him into persecuting French communists. But his main motivations were emotional. Most French communists were WW2 veterans who served under him. So despite politics, he felt duty bound to them.
December 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Charles de Gaulle had good geopolitical reasons to tell the Americans to fuck off when they tried to push him into persecuting French communists. But his main motivations were emotional. Most French communists were WW2 veterans who served under him. So despite politics, he felt duty bound to them.
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Minsk's latest hybrid tactic: pose as Lithuanian spies, recruit citizens on Telegram, have them launch balloons from Belarus back into Lithuania
The trap? Travel to Belarus and risk KGB detention — while Belarus blames Vilnius for its own attacks ⤵️
🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/10/l...
The trap? Travel to Belarus and risk KGB detention — while Belarus blames Vilnius for its own attacks ⤵️
🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/10/l...
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Minsk's latest hybrid tactic: pose as Lithuanian spies, recruit citizens on Telegram, have them launch balloons from Belarus back into Lithuania
The trap? Travel to Belarus and risk KGB detention — while Belarus blames Vilnius for its own attacks ⤵️
🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/10/l...
The trap? Travel to Belarus and risk KGB detention — while Belarus blames Vilnius for its own attacks ⤵️
🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/10/l...
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I should do a thread on it. But russian use of it prisoners as meatcubes is maccably brilliant. Pure MoD win is 6% add FSINs(russian prisons service) saves. Its billions on billions. Considering skills don't matter only meat waves its 40k levels
Comparing how Ukrainians innovated new types of fast and armoured drone vehicles to evacuate wounded soldiers, with how the Russians rounded up convicts from women's prisons and sent them to the frontline without training, illustrates the enormous difference in value systems at war here.
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I should do a thread on it. But russian use of it prisoners as meatcubes is maccably brilliant. Pure MoD win is 6% add FSINs(russian prisons service) saves. Its billions on billions. Considering skills don't matter only meat waves its 40k levels
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It would be incredibly based if the British air force AWACS flying over the Black Sea gave the Ukrainians the coordinates to hit that Russian tanker.
December 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It would be incredibly based if the British air force AWACS flying over the Black Sea gave the Ukrainians the coordinates to hit that Russian tanker.
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Ukrainian sanctions 🔥
💥🚢A few hours ago, naval kamikaze drones attacked a Russian shadow fleet tanker "DASHAN" IMO 9299666 in the Black Sea that was heading for Novorossiysk.
December 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ukrainian sanctions 🔥
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💥🚢A few hours ago, naval kamikaze drones attacked a Russian shadow fleet tanker "DASHAN" IMO 9299666 in the Black Sea that was heading for Novorossiysk.
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
💥🚢A few hours ago, naval kamikaze drones attacked a Russian shadow fleet tanker "DASHAN" IMO 9299666 in the Black Sea that was heading for Novorossiysk.