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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/
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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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BUT to be FAIR, this is coming from someone who understands what “would be financially catastrophic to the region” since Trump is the one who f’ed Atlantic City and all the business owners and workers he stiffed in his time going bankrupt down there.
February 17, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I continue to be physically pained by the fact I understand the prequels now...🤣
The most accurate analysis of the transatlantic dynamics at MSC I’ve seen so far:
February 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Republicans happy to create unpaid required labor from women in order to vote. It's a poll tax by other. FUCK YOU.
Chip Roy on Fox News tries to explain why the SAVE America Act won't actually prevent women from voting
February 17, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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ICE arrested two men outside their church yesterday in Union City.

This makes me furious and should piss off everyone. Places of worship used to be “sensitive locations” i.e. off limits under prior administrations but now that’s no longer the case because of Trump.
February 17, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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Putin stepped too hard on the rake and is kaput and his successor will have a mighty job digging out. Meanwhile, the power shift between Beijing and Moscow is going to make westward troublemaking dumb. And WEUR should force the issue - Russia as eastern frontier. Suck it, Kremlin.
February 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Complex attrition intensifying.

When Putin did not realize the error between March/October 2022, the only other end was collapse. That takes time and the metrics are fuzzy - the object level of destruction across the board is uneven and not total. It's fractions that accumulate strategically.
the end of this war is getting steeper and faster. Russia is staring disaster in the face. Putin is destroying his country and its future. They will not recover from this in decades. Ukraine needs to keep up the pressure, keep resisting and we must keep supporting them to the end.
I know I say this
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Jill has been making it clear Putin wasn't winning from the first days. The problem for everyone is that Putin cannot accept the ultimately inevitable L because after day four, this was too much of an error to survive. So, Ukraine has had to do it the hard way, not on the battlefield, where --
February 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Infrastructure can be hard after you’ve made a career of stiffing contractors and running projects over budget and behind schedule.

These tunnels were built in 1910 and carry the busiest passenger rail line in America.

Release the funding and let us build.
February 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The Times did AOC a favor making minor issues seem like the problem. Because a lot of what she said could be brutally taken down. Consider this a bit of grace for her to mature rather than the substantive critique that could be written.
February 17, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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IT IS SENATOR MY BOO’S BIRTHDAY!

Send birthday #BaeBucks to his campaign because he brought the cake to his own birthday 🥵

🎶 Is it your birthday boo cos you’re looking like a present 🎶

Chip in secure.actblue.com/donate/saves...

Drop your fave 🍑ssoff pics and videos in the replies
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Remember to volunteer for Senator My Boo electjon.com/volunteer/

Advocate for him by getting to know his policies @ossoff.senate.gov

Follow his campaign @ossoff.bsky.social

When we thirst, we vote!
February 16, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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It’s also not true. It’s apples to oranges. Both Obama and Clinton levels of deportations were fueled by rapid border removals. Trump, through brutality and defiance of the law, has managed to halt most border crossings. Deportations from the interior are at record levels. That can’t be done nicely.
Hilary Clinton over at one of those Davos/Epstein class panels arguing that Democrats are better than Republicans at deportations so perfectly, ironically, and unwittingly encapsulates how we got to this moment. Democrats need wholesale leadership change. And quick.
February 16, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Explosions in Dnipro , Ukraine. City is under massive drone attack
February 17, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Both the NHL and the NBA have international players. I wonder why MLB is struggling? (No, actually, I don't.)

World Cup is going to be fun.
February 17, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Canada has officially joined the European Union’s Security Action for Europe program.

The agreement enables Canada to contribute to the rearmament efforts of European states, following negotiations finalized in December 2025 and formal approval by EU member countries.
February 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Personally I think Ossoff should be in the mix for the Dems in 2028. He’s young, but maybe not too young (AOC) articulate and unapologetic.
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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My thoughts are with the victims of the shooting in Pawtucket.

Grateful to our law enforcement and first responders for acting swiftly.

Please avoid the area and follow the guidance of local officials.
February 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Everyone’s talking about AI datacenters needing more power.

But the real problem isn’t just how much power they use.

It’s how they use it.

Off-grid data centers won’t work, so most are looking at hybrid approaches.
February 16, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Petty?? I'm not even going to start anything with someone who insists on a top sheet...this sounds like torture! 🤣
What are peoples petty reasons for ending a relationship? Mines because her duvet was too high a tog and stupidly heavy. Was awful, Duvet cover was really baggy too so you'd get caught up in it all night long.
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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🔫😎 Hawks battalion showed work of ground vehicle with machine gun!
February 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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The bigger problem some of the O5s and O6s who retire from their military faculty slots onto the civilian faculty & never leave. They get farther & farther away from operational relevance, often become rigid in their thinking, & are taking billets that could be going to fresher blood. 28/
February 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM