Jill Sargent Russell, PhD
@jsargentr.bsky.social
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-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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The post for my first day of work in the kitchens in Zaporizhzhia is up and it is free to read.
"Картопля!"
Come for the potato gatling gun, stay for the agony and the aglio.
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"Картопля!"
Come for the potato gatling gun, stay for the agony and the aglio.
www.patreon.com/posts/first-...
First Day of Work: Картопля! | The Adventurous Historian
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The Epstein class is ruling our country.
February 18, 2026 at 6:57 PM
The Epstein class is ruling our country.
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REMINDER: My next town hall is this week at Wy'east Middle School Performing Arts Center in Hood River on Saturday at 11:00 am PT. If you live in Cascade Locks, Parkdale, or Odell, come join me! I’d love to hear from you.
February 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM
REMINDER: My next town hall is this week at Wy'east Middle School Performing Arts Center in Hood River on Saturday at 11:00 am PT. If you live in Cascade Locks, Parkdale, or Odell, come join me! I’d love to hear from you.
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As I mentioned on Twitter, 90% of the counteroffensive maps you'll have seen are mappers correcting overmarking of Russian advances.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
On the Zaporizhzhia / Dnipropetrovsk boundary, Ukraine pushed through Sosnivka towards Ternove.
Ukraine has also attacked west from their positions around Dobropillia, towards Solodke.
Ukraine has also attacked west from their positions around Dobropillia, towards Solodke.
February 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM
As I mentioned on Twitter, 90% of the counteroffensive maps you'll have seen are mappers correcting overmarking of Russian advances.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
Those villages were never truly under Russian control. It was small forward units in contested areas; these are largely just fluctuations in the contested zones.
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
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🇩🇰Denmark has ordered five new mobile field hospitals for the 1st Brigade from Rheinmetall in 🇩🇪Germany with two being the Role 2 Enhanced and three being the Role 2 Basic. The hospitals are containerised and much more mobile than the older generations of field hospitals.
www.fmi.dk/da/nyheder/2...
www.fmi.dk/da/nyheder/2...
February 18, 2026 at 7:08 PM
🇩🇰Denmark has ordered five new mobile field hospitals for the 1st Brigade from Rheinmetall in 🇩🇪Germany with two being the Role 2 Enhanced and three being the Role 2 Basic. The hospitals are containerised and much more mobile than the older generations of field hospitals.
www.fmi.dk/da/nyheder/2...
www.fmi.dk/da/nyheder/2...
The only person responsible for all of the deaths is Putin.
Q: Zelenskyy said he doesn't think it's fair Trump is saying Ukraine has to make concessions & not Russia. What's Trump's response?
LEAVITT: I think the president would respond by saying he doesn't think it's fair thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives, and Russians too, in this deadly war
LEAVITT: I think the president would respond by saying he doesn't think it's fair thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives, and Russians too, in this deadly war
February 18, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The only person responsible for all of the deaths is Putin.
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Yes, it is not fair that thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives in this deadly war that the Russians started and continue every day for four years.
It would be cool if they fucked off back to Russia. They would instantly stop dying after that too.
It would be cool if they fucked off back to Russia. They would instantly stop dying after that too.
Q: Zelenskyy said he doesn't think it's fair Trump is saying Ukraine has to make concessions & not Russia. What's Trump's response?
LEAVITT: I think the president would respond by saying he doesn't think it's fair thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives, and Russians too, in this deadly war
LEAVITT: I think the president would respond by saying he doesn't think it's fair thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives, and Russians too, in this deadly war
February 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Yes, it is not fair that thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives in this deadly war that the Russians started and continue every day for four years.
It would be cool if they fucked off back to Russia. They would instantly stop dying after that too.
It would be cool if they fucked off back to Russia. They would instantly stop dying after that too.
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I love/hate the idea that anyone thinks the USFP establishment is altruistic in such endeavors.
Even the most liberal will have been chastened by Kennan (or mentor's Kennanism) on morality and FP. The USG can only *care* about Americans, as an obligation.
...
Even the most liberal will have been chastened by Kennan (or mentor's Kennanism) on morality and FP. The USG can only *care* about Americans, as an obligation.
...
Andrew Natsios, the Republican politician who ran USAID under George W. Bush, clarifies:
USAID "builds goodwill & political influence and economic influence. It promotes American business. It protects us in terms of disease threats around the world. It is in our national interest”
USAID "builds goodwill & political influence and economic influence. It promotes American business. It protects us in terms of disease threats around the world. It is in our national interest”
‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’
A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
www.politico.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I love/hate the idea that anyone thinks the USFP establishment is altruistic in such endeavors.
Even the most liberal will have been chastened by Kennan (or mentor's Kennanism) on morality and FP. The USG can only *care* about Americans, as an obligation.
...
Even the most liberal will have been chastened by Kennan (or mentor's Kennanism) on morality and FP. The USG can only *care* about Americans, as an obligation.
...
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2 Shock 2 Awe
A "weeks long war" with Iran.
🙄
An airpower display with few hopes of political effect.
Nobody is honest about how impotent airpower alone is, because there is just too much juvenile faith in large amounts of high explosives.
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An airpower display with few hopes of political effect.
Nobody is honest about how impotent airpower alone is, because there is just too much juvenile faith in large amounts of high explosives.
February 18, 2026 at 8:09 PM
2 Shock 2 Awe
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-- CivMil divergence. And coming from a liberal East Coast background, I am more than aware of the unknowing -- though the animosity towards the military was always over-egged.
And so, in that moment, I deliberately, intentionally, and almost passionately chose a civilian path.
And so, in that moment, I deliberately, intentionally, and almost passionately chose a civilian path.
November 24, 2024 at 6:21 PM
-- CivMil divergence. And coming from a liberal East Coast background, I am more than aware of the unknowing -- though the animosity towards the military was always over-egged.
And so, in that moment, I deliberately, intentionally, and almost passionately chose a civilian path.
And so, in that moment, I deliberately, intentionally, and almost passionately chose a civilian path.
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Beyond the misgivings I had at commissioning - I have real problems with patience for things which are standard military practice, I'm mouthy, and, uhm, the combat arms ban - I was a student of 90s Civil Military Affairs. We were at the vanguard of the emerging narrative of a --
November 24, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Beyond the misgivings I had at commissioning - I have real problems with patience for things which are standard military practice, I'm mouthy, and, uhm, the combat arms ban - I was a student of 90s Civil Military Affairs. We were at the vanguard of the emerging narrative of a --
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Maybe Munich isn't the place to workshop your new interest in FP?
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
February 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Maybe Munich isn't the place to workshop your new interest in FP?
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
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Hey NJ-10, I’m excited to invite you to my State of the District address. RSVP today to secure your seat!
February 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Hey NJ-10, I’m excited to invite you to my State of the District address. RSVP today to secure your seat!
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There is a blackout in Belgorod today following an attack on the thermal power plant. Again.
February 18, 2026 at 7:31 PM
There is a blackout in Belgorod today following an attack on the thermal power plant. Again.
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Trump, who has sued thousands of times, has not sued anyone calling him a pedophile
"Donald Trump's name is all over these files. I saw a reference today of a 9-year-old girl " Jamie Raskin after reading the unredacted Epstein Files
February 18, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Trump, who has sued thousands of times, has not sued anyone calling him a pedophile
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🤣💀
February 18, 2026 at 7:19 PM
🤣💀
Trump isn't judged on many points of his comms, but he absolutely gets clobbered on the salient point of his comms - crowd excitement - when he fails.
If being a cool and effective communicator is your game, then that's where the judgement falls.
Also, it's entirely possible that effectiveness...
If being a cool and effective communicator is your game, then that's where the judgement falls.
Also, it's entirely possible that effectiveness...
February 18, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Trump isn't judged on many points of his comms, but he absolutely gets clobbered on the salient point of his comms - crowd excitement - when he fails.
If being a cool and effective communicator is your game, then that's where the judgement falls.
Also, it's entirely possible that effectiveness...
If being a cool and effective communicator is your game, then that's where the judgement falls.
Also, it's entirely possible that effectiveness...
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Watching Flavor Flav absolutely lose his shit when his girls succeed is the best part of the Olympics.
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Watching Flavor Flav absolutely lose his shit when his girls succeed is the best part of the Olympics.
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Continuing to restate demands that are non-starters. Again, nothing has meaningfully changed in how Russia views any peace process re: Ukraine. And while the US-led talks have led to meetings between both sides, there remains previous few details on actual progress. tass.com/politics/208...
Russia to demand legal codification of NATO’s non-expansion eastward — newspaper
According to the newspaper, Moscow will also demand the revocation of the decisions of the 2008 Bucharest Summit
tass.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Continuing to restate demands that are non-starters. Again, nothing has meaningfully changed in how Russia views any peace process re: Ukraine. And while the US-led talks have led to meetings between both sides, there remains previous few details on actual progress. tass.com/politics/208...
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'Yuriy Ignat, head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has denied reports by a French outlet claiming that foreign pilots are involved in protecting Ukraine’s airspace.' www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...
Ignat denies reports of foreign F-16 pilots operating in Ukraine
Yuriy Ignat, head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has denied reports by a French outlet claiming that foreign pilots are involved in protectin...
www.ukrinform.net
February 18, 2026 at 6:39 AM
'Yuriy Ignat, head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has denied reports by a French outlet claiming that foreign pilots are involved in protecting Ukraine’s airspace.' www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...
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This was a very spicy take in 2008, and remains so
One of the the things that really make the British Isles unusual in Europe and the OECD, is that thanks to housing, we have prevented regional depopulation. Our high regional inequality because we have successfully pushed people into poor regions better than anybody else.
February 18, 2026 at 6:49 AM
This was a very spicy take in 2008, and remains so
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MARITIME N E R D ALERT! 🔥 🤓
1/x With the advent of cellphones and social media, we can now witness ship collisions almost in real-time online. Of course, there are always the usual comments, including one that frequently reappears: "ships don’t have brakes." Well, at one point, they sort of did. A small🧵
February 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM
MARITIME N E R D ALERT! 🔥 🤓
Maybe Munich isn't the place to workshop your new interest in FP?
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
February 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Maybe Munich isn't the place to workshop your new interest in FP?
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
Maybe President isn't the job to seek if you still must learn it? Because foreign affairs is where the Presidency kicks the office-holder in the face hardest.
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