@nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social
Historian by training. Have been covering the Ukraine war since February of 2022. At times engage in climate change as well. I do this at both Medium and Substack
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The Closing of the United States
If there is a thing that is predictable in authoritarian spaces, it is that their leaders follow a well-trodden path.
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Authoritarians use manufactured crisis to consolidate power. This is exactly what we are watching take shape in the United States. Once you understand this, crashing the economy makes sense.
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Well, I am going to say that the alleged shooter will turn out to be a lone wolf. The whole collection of crazy channels I follow from the right are damn quiet on Telegram. That's a confession of sorts. The only question is…which part of the right? shoot feds…
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Well, I am going to say that the alleged shooter will turn out to be a lone wolf. The whole collection of crazy channels I follow from the right are damn quiet on Telegram. That's a confession of sorts. The only question is…which part of the right? shoot feds…
The far right in the US has been talking itself towards civil war since the 1990s. So this post is far more of the every accusation is a confession. Thanksgiving should be fun…
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The far right in the US has been talking itself towards civil war since the 1990s. So this post is far more of the every accusation is a confession. Thanksgiving should be fun…
This should be a five-alarm fire for anybody worried about soft power, whatever still remains that is. While not in the piece, letting Russia keep territory will be used to justify doing the same in Venezuela.
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The Peace Plan and Witkoff
We knew the plan came via Russia, but now we have more details of the why.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This should be a five-alarm fire for anybody worried about soft power, whatever still remains that is. While not in the piece, letting Russia keep territory will be used to justify doing the same in Venezuela.
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This is breaking. It will be weaponized. Could be an inciting incident. If you know, you know. Hope the guards are ok.
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is breaking. It will be weaponized. Could be an inciting incident. If you know, you know. Hope the guards are ok.
Why Are They Leaving Office? | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ahem 👀👇🤷♀️
Preliminary reports suggest one of Russia’s A-60 airborne laser aircraft may have been destroyed. Only two prototypes were ever built, “1A” and the upgraded “2A”, both based on the Il‑76MD and used for experimental high-power laser systems.
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Preliminary reports suggest one of Russia’s A-60 airborne laser aircraft may have been destroyed. Only two prototypes were ever built, “1A” and the upgraded “2A”, both based on the Il‑76MD and used for experimental high-power laser systems.
t.me/noel_reports...
NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
Preliminary reports suggest one of Russia’s A-60 airborne laser aircraft may have been destroyed. Only two prototypes were ever built, “1A” and the upgraded “2A”, both based on the Il‑76MD and used fo...
t.me
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Ahem 👀👇🤷♀️
Preliminary reports suggest one of Russia’s A-60 airborne laser aircraft may have been destroyed. Only two prototypes were ever built, “1A” and the upgraded “2A”, both based on the Il‑76MD and used for experimental high-power laser systems.
t.me/noel_reports...
Preliminary reports suggest one of Russia’s A-60 airborne laser aircraft may have been destroyed. Only two prototypes were ever built, “1A” and the upgraded “2A”, both based on the Il‑76MD and used for experimental high-power laser systems.
t.me/noel_reports...
100, 000 people have left to Mexico. I predicted this a week ago in my duty tobwarb piece. This is manageable. A million csn still be, more than that it gets complicated.
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Caravana de migrantes sale de EE.UU: “Volvemos a México”
YouTube video by Tío Liberal
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November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
100, 000 people have left to Mexico. I predicted this a week ago in my duty tobwarb piece. This is manageable. A million csn still be, more than that it gets complicated.
youtu.be/V6Xm1gGZNAU?...
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Trump struggles to walk, doctor SOUNDS ALARM
YouTube video by David Pakman Show
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November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Expect an a track soon
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Expect an a track soon
A little-known chapter of World War Two history is that of the 201 Fighter Squadron, Aguilas Aztecas. I had the honor of talking with one of its members when I was young. So this is a way to honor him and the squadron. Free Substack
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When You Intersect With Living History
When I graduated from the first-aid school in Mexico City in 1983, I promptly joined the Third Company of medics, even though we were not trained beyond first-responder level at the time.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A little-known chapter of World War Two history is that of the 201 Fighter Squadron, Aguilas Aztecas. I had the honor of talking with one of its members when I was young. So this is a way to honor him and the squadron. Free Substack
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When the history of this era is written, treason may be a real conversation. But trust me, so will be the bizarre. Trump as either Guilliman or the Emperor of Mankind may be a strange way to communicate with the Kremlin.
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The Plan Came from Russia
Trump’s November 27 deadline “is not stable” — Rubio
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November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
When the history of this era is written, treason may be a real conversation. But trust me, so will be the bizarre. Trump as either Guilliman or the Emperor of Mankind may be a strange way to communicate with the Kremlin.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🚨MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE ABRUPTLY RESIGNS
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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November 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
So Trump wants a win, any win. And given how transactional he is, he does not understand why people fight. This is a man who called US servicemembers fools. He also has no idea about concepts such as dignity.
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The US Wants to Force Ukraine into Surrender
🇵🇱🇺🇦 Nawrocki: The emerging proposals to end Russia’s war against Ukraine must take into account the fact that Russia is a country that does not honor agreements.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
So Trump wants a win, any win. And given how transactional he is, he does not understand why people fight. This is a man who called US servicemembers fools. He also has no idea about concepts such as dignity.
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This free Sunstack addresses the very dangerous moment we are at. We are moving ever so closely to violence that will benefit Trump. We may end in a balkanized country, the question is how?
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A Duty to Warn
This is not going to be easy, for some of my worst-case scenarios for the United States under Donald J Trump are starting to take shape.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This free Sunstack addresses the very dangerous moment we are at. We are moving ever so closely to violence that will benefit Trump. We may end in a balkanized country, the question is how?
open.substack.com/pub/nadinabb...
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That peace plan has the stench of the surrender at Munich. So I expect it to utterly fail. But Russia wins with the further weakening of American soft power.
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“Peace” Plan for Ukraine
First, let’s be clear.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That peace plan has the stench of the surrender at Munich. So I expect it to utterly fail. But Russia wins with the further weakening of American soft power.
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Poland has again scrambled aircraft due to a massive attack on Ukraine
Pairs of fighter jets and an early warning radar aircraft have been scrambled. Ground air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest level of combat readiness.
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Pairs of fighter jets and an early warning radar aircraft have been scrambled. Ground air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest level of combat readiness.
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Telegram
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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Poland has again scrambled aircraft due to a massive attack on Ukraine
Pairs of fighter jets and an early warning radar aircraft have been scrambled. Ground air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest level of combat readiness.
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t.me/c/1686929119...
Pairs of fighter jets and an early warning radar aircraft have been scrambled. Ground air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest level of combat readiness.
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t.me/c/1686929119...
MASSIVE BREAKING: The US Senate just agreed to pass the Epstein Transparency Act by a voice vote of unanimous consent.
It will now be sent to Trump to sign into law!
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It will now be sent to Trump to sign into law!
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Krassenstein (@krassenstein)
MASSIVE BREAKING: The US Senate just agreed to pass the Epstein Transparency Act by a voice vote of unanimous consent.
It will now be sent to Trump to sign into law!
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November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
MASSIVE BREAKING: The US Senate just agreed to pass the Epstein Transparency Act by a voice vote of unanimous consent.
It will now be sent to Trump to sign into law!
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It will now be sent to Trump to sign into law!
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Russia is through the looking glass. However, some of their efforts should sound familiar, such as raising the retirement age. Others, quite frankly, the treatment of non-Russian minorities.
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Retirement, Labor Force, and Russia
There are ways to see how a crisis develops within the boring markers of the dismal science.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Russia is through the looking glass. However, some of their efforts should sound familiar, such as raising the retirement age. Others, quite frankly, the treatment of non-Russian minorities.
open.substack.com/pub/nadinabb...
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We are probably heading to impeachment.
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We are probably heading to impeachment.
Breaking news, Poland was attacked at a rail line. However, we are in a tension between a Russian government that wants to expand the war, and the beginning of a more organized Russian civil society.
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Echoes in Russian History, and Breaking News
First, let me start today’s piece with some breaking news from Poland.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Breaking news, Poland was attacked at a rail line. However, we are in a tension between a Russian government that wants to expand the war, and the beginning of a more organized Russian civil society.
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