Nat
@boatpeeper.bsky.social
Nat-Sec Pin-up Girl. OSINT-junkie. 🇺🇸 In 🇪🇺 indefinitely. Currently: Pursuing an MA in War Studies at Universität Potsdam. Dem Soc. Слава України 🇺🇦
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@boatpeeper.bsky.social
· Feb 8
Relationship Goals: Mulder & Scully but instead of investigating aliens and cryptids together— investigating irl monsters like #oligarchs, grifters, and #kleptocracies together.
In lieu of the recent strategy report from Trump & Co this is a good article explaining how to deal with this admin as a whole. I have extensive experience dealing with narcissistic individuals so I find this doubly interesting on both professional and personal levels.
gppi.net/2025/10/12/w...
gppi.net/2025/10/12/w...
When Your Ally Turns Narcissistic: A Self-Help Manual for Europe Navigating Transatlantic Relations
This study applies insights from psychological research on narcissism to offer a new approach to understanding — and countering — the unprecedented way the US currently wields power vis-à-vis its alli...
gppi.net
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
In lieu of the recent strategy report from Trump & Co this is a good article explaining how to deal with this admin as a whole. I have extensive experience dealing with narcissistic individuals so I find this doubly interesting on both professional and personal levels.
gppi.net/2025/10/12/w...
gppi.net/2025/10/12/w...
This is what I've been saying.
First as tragedy, second as farce
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is what I've been saying.
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🚨 Explosive report by Bloomberg:
The US has lobbied “several” EU countries to derail the reparations loan for Ukraine, arguing the Russian assets are needed to achieve a peace deal and shouldn’t be used to “prolong the war”.
The US has lobbied “several” EU countries to derail the reparations loan for Ukraine, arguing the Russian assets are needed to achieve a peace deal and shouldn’t be used to “prolong the war”.
US Urged Europeans to Oppose EU Plan for Loan to Support Ukraine
The US lobbied several countries in the European Union in an effort to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats famil...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨 Explosive report by Bloomberg:
The US has lobbied “several” EU countries to derail the reparations loan for Ukraine, arguing the Russian assets are needed to achieve a peace deal and shouldn’t be used to “prolong the war”.
The US has lobbied “several” EU countries to derail the reparations loan for Ukraine, arguing the Russian assets are needed to achieve a peace deal and shouldn’t be used to “prolong the war”.
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The profession of arms derives legitimacy from the system it serves. What happens when that system changes?
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
The American political system today is indeed in crisis. Government function is in doubt, the administration has politicized and weaponized a previously
warontherocks.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The profession of arms derives legitimacy from the system it serves. What happens when that system changes?
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Yeah, this is a pretty unambiguous war crime.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Yeah, this is a pretty unambiguous war crime.
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I am not a proponent of the supernatural, I don’t gamble much, and I do my best to rely on fact and falsifiable observations/conclusions,
But I absolutely believe this NSS was drafted by ChatGPT.
But I absolutely believe this NSS was drafted by ChatGPT.
Damn. The national security strategy is complete slop. Did ChatGPT write this shit?
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I am not a proponent of the supernatural, I don’t gamble much, and I do my best to rely on fact and falsifiable observations/conclusions,
But I absolutely believe this NSS was drafted by ChatGPT.
But I absolutely believe this NSS was drafted by ChatGPT.
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This thing reads like it was written by a sophomore undergrad lol
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This thing reads like it was written by a sophomore undergrad lol
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1/ Civilians under Russian occupation in the Luhansk region are starving and dying of cold because of a breakdown in essential services under the 'Luhansk People's Republic' (LPR), according to a complaint by a Russian warblogger. ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
1/ Civilians under Russian occupation in the Luhansk region are starving and dying of cold because of a breakdown in essential services under the 'Luhansk People's Republic' (LPR), according to a complaint by a Russian warblogger. ⬇️
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This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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Once a conservative club, Turning Point USA has become an $85M Christian nationalist power center. Former insiders recall staged “miracles”, pastors with abuse histories raised as authorities, & Seven Mountain teachings that cast institutional control not as politics — but as God’s plan for America.
TPUSA's Holy Hustle: How Conservatism Went Apocalyptic
Turning Point USA has transformed from a conservative campus club into one of the most powerful Christian nationalist engine in the country — a movement where apocalyptic prophecy, political warfare, ...
globalextremism.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Once a conservative club, Turning Point USA has become an $85M Christian nationalist power center. Former insiders recall staged “miracles”, pastors with abuse histories raised as authorities, & Seven Mountain teachings that cast institutional control not as politics — but as God’s plan for America.
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his name is Gentry Beach!
November 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
his name is Gentry Beach!
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Kazakhstan and Turkey condemned Ukraine's recent drone strikes on Russian tankers and the Novorossiysk oil terminal. Kazakhstan called it an “act of aggression” against a “civilian” energy facility. Turkey expressed concern over risks to shipping and regional stability in its EEZ.
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Kazakhstan and Turkey condemned Ukraine's recent drone strikes on Russian tankers and the Novorossiysk oil terminal. Kazakhstan called it an “act of aggression” against a “civilian” energy facility. Turkey expressed concern over risks to shipping and regional stability in its EEZ.
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one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries
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Late stage kakistocracy.
Future historians are going to spend years debating whether the key driver was honest stupidity vs. cynical corruption. My working hypothesis: why can't it be both?
Future historians are going to spend years debating whether the key driver was honest stupidity vs. cynical corruption. My working hypothesis: why can't it be both?
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Late stage kakistocracy.
Future historians are going to spend years debating whether the key driver was honest stupidity vs. cynical corruption. My working hypothesis: why can't it be both?
Future historians are going to spend years debating whether the key driver was honest stupidity vs. cynical corruption. My working hypothesis: why can't it be both?
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Just discovered an amazing photo. Pictured is Capt. Kevin Corcoran, CO C/1/5 1st Cav Div working his radios in South Vietnam at some point in the first half of 1968. Photo was taken by a fellow soldier, Dean Sharp. You can feel the weight of command on his face. Some may identify with that look.
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just discovered an amazing photo. Pictured is Capt. Kevin Corcoran, CO C/1/5 1st Cav Div working his radios in South Vietnam at some point in the first half of 1968. Photo was taken by a fellow soldier, Dean Sharp. You can feel the weight of command on his face. Some may identify with that look.
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They say two crude oil tankers of the Russian “Shadow fleet”—VIRAT (IMO 9832559) and KAIROS (IMO 9236004)—suffered explosions in the Black Sea north of the Bosporus.
gcaptain.com/flagless-tan...
gcaptain.com/flagless-tan...
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
They say two crude oil tankers of the Russian “Shadow fleet”—VIRAT (IMO 9832559) and KAIROS (IMO 9236004)—suffered explosions in the Black Sea north of the Bosporus.
gcaptain.com/flagless-tan...
gcaptain.com/flagless-tan...
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So Ukraine can get rid of their scheming viziers in the middle of an existential conflict but we still have to listen to Stephen Miller’s daily renditions of the Nuremberg Rally.
This is such bullshit.
This is such bullshit.
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
So Ukraine can get rid of their scheming viziers in the middle of an existential conflict but we still have to listen to Stephen Miller’s daily renditions of the Nuremberg Rally.
This is such bullshit.
This is such bullshit.
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US is prepared to recognise Russia’s control over occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea, in order to reach a deal to end the war—Telegraph citing sources.
This will be communicated by Witkoff and Kushner when they visit Kremlin.
Seeing is believing. If so, RU will be first to leak this.
This will be communicated by Witkoff and Kushner when they visit Kremlin.
Seeing is believing. If so, RU will be first to leak this.
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
US is prepared to recognise Russia’s control over occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea, in order to reach a deal to end the war—Telegraph citing sources.
This will be communicated by Witkoff and Kushner when they visit Kremlin.
Seeing is believing. If so, RU will be first to leak this.
This will be communicated by Witkoff and Kushner when they visit Kremlin.
Seeing is believing. If so, RU will be first to leak this.
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At some point Europe will need to realize that Russia is at war.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
At some point Europe will need to realize that Russia is at war.
Books and helping out today at Potsdam Universität's Society for History of War Conference. Meeting lots of cool folks and hearing fascinating panels about everything from Frontinus to modern drone warfare. Special thanks to the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History helping to put this on.
#milsky
#milsky
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Books and helping out today at Potsdam Universität's Society for History of War Conference. Meeting lots of cool folks and hearing fascinating panels about everything from Frontinus to modern drone warfare. Special thanks to the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History helping to put this on.
#milsky
#milsky
The veggie Thanksgiving 🍽️ 🍂 🦃 abroad. Cozy day with friends.
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The veggie Thanksgiving 🍽️ 🍂 🦃 abroad. Cozy day with friends.
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! (easier to do in the EU, but still!) #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/eiIqOvFB
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! (easier to do in the EU, but still!) #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/eiIqOvFB
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I hate that this is necessary, but it is. So it’s good that things are moving.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia
Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies.
www.politico.eu
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I hate that this is necessary, but it is. So it’s good that things are moving.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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The only ones who deserve this BS are whoever voted for it.
Mark Kelly is a better citizen, politician, and human being than trump will ever be.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
Mark Kelly is a better citizen, politician, and human being than trump will ever be.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
Sen. Mark Kelly: Trump and Hegseth don't 'understand the Constitution'
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and other congressional Democrats released a video last week letting service members know they can refuse illegal orders. Kelly is now being investigated for misconduct.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The only ones who deserve this BS are whoever voted for it.
Mark Kelly is a better citizen, politician, and human being than trump will ever be.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
Mark Kelly is a better citizen, politician, and human being than trump will ever be.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...