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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Sep 11

There’s a lot more to Russia’s drone incursion into Poland than first meets the eye.

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What Everyone Missed About Russia’s Attack on Poland

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ukraine keeps tricking Russia - and Russia keeps falling for it. Short term? Russia loses men and materiel. Long term? Russia loses something much more important - their confidence to exploit legitimate battlefield opportunities, leaving them psychologically paralyzed.

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Ukraine Just Outsmarted Russia in the Most Embarrassing Way

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Predicted this months ago.

Ukraine knows the value of its data to training the AI weapons of the future.

They don’t have to give that to the west for free - especially to countries like the U.S. if we keep insulting and gaslighting them for defending themselves.

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Ukraine sees 'priceless' digital battlefield data trove as key to West's support

Ukraine is looking at how to share battlefield data with allies, the country's deputy prime minister said, calling the vast trove of stored information one of Kyiv's "cards" to strengthen its position as it negotiates support from friendly countries.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ukraine’s recent actions against Russia could be much more significant than most people realize.

It might look like “more of the same” to the untrained eye, but to me it looks like a decisive shift and a targeted strategy.

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Ukraine is Actively Exploiting Russia’s BIGGEST Weakness

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 25

When Hitler decided to openly rearm Germany, he knew he was gambling with sanctions.

Had sanctions been applied, Germany’s position would have been hopeless. World War II never would have happened.

Instead, the western world decided “not to provoke Germany.”

History repeats itself.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 16

Much is made of Ukraine’s manpower shortage.

Few mention that Ukraine has levers to pull that they haven’t pulled yet.

They can lower the conscription age from 25 to 18 - the “normal” age in most western countries.

That they haven’t done so yet shows they aren’t as desperate as is said.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only way he CAN help end the war is to put more pressure on Russia. Talks with Russia will generate media, but they won’t generate results.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 16

The current media cycle on Ukraine has repeated itself many times.

“Trump wants peace. He says it’s close. Nothing actually happens.”

No surprise.

I said it a year ago - Trump CAN’T end the war, because the U.S. does NOT have any leverage to force Ukraine to do anything. We are quick to forget.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 16

If Trump is serious about ending the war in Ukraine, he needs to apply the sanctions he threatened against Russia…the same way he ripped away military support from Ukraine the moment a conversation didn’t go “his way.”

Otherwise he is once again being fooled by the mere words of Vladimir Putin.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 9

Everyone is nervous about how the war will go, but the reality is that Ukraine is simply repeating thousands of years of military history.

We are witnessing history in the making. When we look back, the conclusion will seem obvious the whole time.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 9

By agreeing to meet with Trump to try to avoid his sanctions, Putin has inadvertently revealed that he IS VERY worried about them.

It’s VITAL that Trump presses that advantage rather than caving in to Russia’s demands.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 9

In Ukraine, conventional weapons are losing relevance in favor of drone warfare.

Yet Europe and the U.S. continue to stockpile conventional munitions for a war that may or may not ever happen.

It would be better to send more to Ukraine now while they still have a punch.

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Russia CAN’T Afford a Second Front — So Why Are They Putting Troops on NATO's Borders?

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks John. Appreciate the article. I wouldn’t call myself “post-theological”, to be clear. I think that the morality of Christianity actually flows out of a good theology - a good understanding of who God is :)

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 4

People keep saying there are “nuclear tensions.” That plays right into Russia’s hands. They’ve been threatening nuclear war for YEARS and nothing happens.

Trump “positioning” nuclear subs isn’t sending a message to Russia. The subs were already accounted for. It’s about looking strong at home.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 4

Russians: “Ukraine isn’t able to siege Crimea, Paul. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Meanwhile, Ukrainians:

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Ukraine says it destroyed one Russian military jet, damaged four in Crimea

Ukraine's domestic security service said on Monday that it destroyed one Russian jet fighter and damaged four other military aircraft during an overnight drone strike on Russian-occupied Crimea.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 2

These are good developments. I just wish people would have listened sooner.

I’ve been called every name possible by people on the right, for trying to encourage the right to do exactly what they’re finally starting to do now.

We wasted a lot of lives playing politics.

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After Trump’s Ukraine pivot, Senate panel moves to fund more military aid — The Washington Post

Bipartisan groups in Congress are attempting to preserve a weapons procurement program for Ukraine that the Trump administration proposed eliminating.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 2

China’s military doctrine is based on misdirection - and for two decades they have been gesturing wildly at Taiwan so everyone would see.

What happens when you put two and two together, and combine a Russian war in the west with intense historical grievances in the east?

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Why China Won’t Help Russia Win This War

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 2

Russia failed to read the 33 strategies of war.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 2

Big milestone today! Thanks to all
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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Russia’s naval base WAS damaged by the tsunami. A pier snapped in half.

That’s just the apparent damage we can see from satellite, but it confirms large waves did hit the base and cause damage…likely much more extensive than we can know.

Any ships at dock would have been slammed into piers.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 1

Not only can Crimea be sieged, it IS being sieged.

But because it looks different than a lot of people expect, many have missed the significance of what’s happened there.

More than that, even the Russian military has already pulled back from Crimea in many important ways

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The Siege of Crimea Has Already Begun…but nobody’s talking about it

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Aug 1

I always invite Russian trolls to poke actual holes in my discussions.

They never do.

The best they can say is “This is delusional propaganda” or “Take your meds” or “Go back to the asylum”…without ever clarifying why my analysis is actually wrong.

That’s how you know you’re over the target.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Jul 31

The most overlooked aspects of warfare are often sociological.

A lot of people will miss the negative religious implications for the Russian Orthodox Church of a magnitude 8.8 earthquake striking with an epicenter next to Russia’s nuclear naval base.

That and a lot more:
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Russia forgot about mother nature

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Jul 31

Not to worry guys. It’s not really an earthquake. It’s just a Special Seismic Operation.

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Paul Warburg @paulwarburg.bsky.social · Jul 30

Russian TV began threatening Alaska again.

Around the same time, an 8.8 earthquake (6th largest recorded in history) struck RIGHT outside Russia’s ONLY naval base in that area.

A tsunami has hit the naval base, and now a volcano is erupting to its north.

Irony sucks if you’re Russian.

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