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@papermissiles

Ex-US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senior Professional Staff Member, failed think-tanker, sometime nuclear policy expert, perpetual Jayhawk, lifetime Bulgakov fan, and amateur Egyptologist.

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"Moscow Warns Oslo on Svalbard but Suggests 'Deal' with United States on Arctic" - Paul Goble

Published in Eurasia Daily Monitor.
#JamestownFoundation #EurasiaDailyMonitor #EurasiaDigest
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20.03.2025 21:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Akhenaten: The Mysteries of Religious Revolution - ARCE The face of Akhenaten, with characteristic exaggerated features, on an unfinished sculptor’s trial piece from Amarna Photo: The Metropolitan Museum…

It never works for long. Careful. arce.org/resource/akh...

11.03.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Also, true story

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Liberation Zulu.

β€œFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”—Winston Churchill, March 5, 1946.

From Minsk to Maine, an Orange Curtain has descended across the Continent and over the Atlantic.β€”Very Truly Yours, March 5, 2025.

06.03.2025 03:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Russian Telegram channels report a fire at an oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region of Russia, after a drone attack.

It is the larfest supplier of oil products in the south of Russia.

03.03.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 1168 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 3
What The Bullying Of Zelensky Reveals About Trump
What The Bullying Of Zelensky Reveals About Trump YouTube video by Dr Russell Razzaque

What The Bullying Of Zelensky Reveals About Trump
youtu.be/mEWDNNDqbAs

04.03.2025 01:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency A DOGE-driven mass firing of critical nuclear workers sparks alarm and leaves scars, as cost-cutting missteps throughout government rattle lawmakers.

How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

02.03.2025 21:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fix bayonets.

02.03.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Litania Sanctorum: Litany of the Saints (Sung in Latin) - Harmonized Gregorian Chant Choir
Litania Sanctorum: Litany of the Saints (Sung in Latin) - Harmonized Gregorian Chant Choir YouTube video by Neumes and Tunes

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02.03.2025 03:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oro pro beatissimo Pontifice Francisco Primo:

β€œDominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius.” Ps 40:3.

Per Christum Dominum nostrum,
Amen. ☧

02.03.2025 03:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry. Budapest hits for those of us with Eastern European sensibility. Plus Ralph Fiennes and F. Murray Abraham.

01.03.2025 08:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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But **** β€œGlenn.” Whoever the hell he is, got his 3 minutes.

28.02.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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/1. Russians proudly hung portraits of dead Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and other Hezbollah members on a T-14 Armata tank. Most likely somewhere on military training grounds in Russia.

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A shame and a historic low point in US diplomatic history: voting AGAINST a resolution condemning πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί invasion of πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦, voting AGAINST all US Allies (but Hungary) and the UN majority; voting WITH Russia, DPRK, Sudan, Nicaragua, Belarus and a handful of African junta while China and Iran abstained…

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Natan Sharansky: A President’s Words Saved Me in the Gulag Reagan was our lifeline in the Soviet Union. Trump’s rhetoric betrays Russia’s freedom fighters.

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22.02.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ukraine did not misuse or lose half of the aid the United States has provided.

Ukraine repeatedly invited Putin to negotiate in early 2022. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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It’s not that advancedβ€”the swearing. He’s using known words in a very parochially British idiom. Which is very rewarding.

22.02.2025 13:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Art of The Deal
The Art of The Deal YouTube video by Jonathan Pie

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22.02.2025 03:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian forces over 83 years to capture the remaining 80 percent of Ukraine, assuming that they can sustain massive personnel losses indefinitely. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

21.02.2025 20:32 πŸ‘ 566 πŸ” 165 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 13

Amazing that the Vice President has the time. Meh. The vice presidency?β€”β€œ[It] is not worth a bucket of warm spit!”—VP John Nance Garner.

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Trump makes war not peace. Rewarding territorial aggrandizement will promote, foster and encourage wider war, not only in Europe. It is the specific duty and Constitutional obligation of all patriots and professionals to abandon and oppose Trump in the supreme national interest.

20.02.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, history has nothing on me, and I don’t take as long. 🀬

19.02.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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La victoire de @corentinbr.bsky.social est totale

19.02.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Western reporting suggests that the United States intends to ease sanctions on Belarus. Russia uses Belarus as a staging ground for its military against Ukraine and NATO and as a critical tool in its sanctions evasion schemes. (1/3)
isw.pub/UkrWar021625

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Russians use tree branches as improvised defense against drones. t.me/aerobomber_u...

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