Whatismoo
@whatismoo.bsky.social
Transatlantic Doctoral Student covering the Cold War to the present.
Logo adapted from that of the Soviet Army Studies Office
Logo adapted from that of the Soviet Army Studies Office
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Black Alliance for Peace are also Uyghur genocide denialists
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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it's incredible how these people make themselves sound like hard truthtellers when they objectively have failed to make any sort of sense of the post-victory government and instead perform the role of tailing populists
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
it's incredible how these people make themselves sound like hard truthtellers when they objectively have failed to make any sort of sense of the post-victory government and instead perform the role of tailing populists
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA MENTIONED
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA MENTIONED
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I would love if more of these local stories popped up in the commentary.
where in the 1960s (population ~90-100,000) a hispanic neighbourhood was demolished for I-380 and an off-ramp www.thegazette.com/history/litt...
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I would love if more of these local stories popped up in the commentary.
That's stupid as fuck but I do want to note that station wagons are much better for everyone than massive fucking SUVs
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
That's stupid as fuck but I do want to note that station wagons are much better for everyone than massive fucking SUVs
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READ THEORY
Samuel Huntington’s Prussian Paradox
Clausewitz, Military Professionalism, and the Myth of a “Apolitical” Military
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December 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
READ THEORY
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I spend a fair bit of time around people born there and the funniest (and also exceedingly Soviet) story I have is one of the Russian professors claims a veteran's discount at every store she goes to. Her daughter is always horrified. "They didn't say which army!"
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I spend a fair bit of time around people born there and the funniest (and also exceedingly Soviet) story I have is one of the Russian professors claims a veteran's discount at every store she goes to. Her daughter is always horrified. "They didn't say which army!"
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December 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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The Soviet Army Studies Office (founded in '86) was under CAC as well, so I'm really just kind of baffled by this constellation. As best as I can tell, though, there was a clutch of Soviet FAO / ex-USMLM folks who were the core
it's under CACDA in '82 though, but god bless it is hard to find direct product (at least on DTIC and ISCARL and any journal archive)
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Soviet Army Studies Office (founded in '86) was under CAC as well, so I'm really just kind of baffled by this constellation. As best as I can tell, though, there was a clutch of Soviet FAO / ex-USMLM folks who were the core
CAC Threats seems to have been CoC fluid, because nobody seems to know if it's under Combined Arms Combat Development Authority (CACDA) or Combined Arms Center (which I'm pretty sure is CACDA's parent org) It doesn't exist here in 1978, or isn't enumerated
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
CAC Threats seems to have been CoC fluid, because nobody seems to know if it's under Combined Arms Combat Development Authority (CACDA) or Combined Arms Center (which I'm pretty sure is CACDA's parent org) It doesn't exist here in 1978, or isn't enumerated
Fun fact: The army has dogshit documentation on what the fuck was going on at Leavenworth for threat analysis in the late 70s early 80s! I know CAC-Threats was doing it, they were the proponent of FM 100-2. Were they subordinate to CAC or CACDA? Sources conflict!
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Fun fact: The army has dogshit documentation on what the fuck was going on at Leavenworth for threat analysis in the late 70s early 80s! I know CAC-Threats was doing it, they were the proponent of FM 100-2. Were they subordinate to CAC or CACDA? Sources conflict!
Trying to figure out who was working at CAC-Threats on FM 100-2 (1984) between 1978 and 84 and I got flashbanged by this guy
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trying to figure out who was working at CAC-Threats on FM 100-2 (1984) between 1978 and 84 and I got flashbanged by this guy
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Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
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He was a blacksmith who originally objected on religious grounds. His pastor convinced him that some things just need doing, no matter how distasteful. He went on to earn the medal of Honor in world war I.
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
He was a blacksmith who originally objected on religious grounds. His pastor convinced him that some things just need doing, no matter how distasteful. He went on to earn the medal of Honor in world war I.
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I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
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idk if this is why he lost in his specific race like he claims, but Will is 110% right here on the broader point.
I would argue pretty strenuously that overreliance on nonprofits for social services is, in fact, a centrist position at best. NGO world cloaks itself in progressivism by adhering to cultural signifiers of social justice. Endless land acknowledgements as they take public jobs from union workers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
idk if this is why he lost in his specific race like he claims, but Will is 110% right here on the broader point.
It's up there with the quebec license plate. "I remember"? Remember what? Getting your asses handed to you on the Plains of Abraham?
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It's up there with the quebec license plate. "I remember"? Remember what? Getting your asses handed to you on the Plains of Abraham?
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Clausewitz is worth quoting in full on this issue:
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Clausewitz is worth quoting in full on this issue:
Why do they lionize The Warrior? Because it is romantic. To be a part of a privileged class.
But The Warrior is an antique. A quaint & quixotic curio, broken on the wheel of the mass army. Warrior, shopkeeper, soldier, citizen, steel and lead do not care. Samuel Colt made us all equal long ago.
But The Warrior is an antique. A quaint & quixotic curio, broken on the wheel of the mass army. Warrior, shopkeeper, soldier, citizen, steel and lead do not care. Samuel Colt made us all equal long ago.
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Why do they lionize The Warrior? Because it is romantic. To be a part of a privileged class.
But The Warrior is an antique. A quaint & quixotic curio, broken on the wheel of the mass army. Warrior, shopkeeper, soldier, citizen, steel and lead do not care. Samuel Colt made us all equal long ago.
But The Warrior is an antique. A quaint & quixotic curio, broken on the wheel of the mass army. Warrior, shopkeeper, soldier, citizen, steel and lead do not care. Samuel Colt made us all equal long ago.
And for the other side of the pond: Audie Murphy worked retail. Dick Bong was going to college to teach. Nathaniel Hale was a teacher from CT. Joshua Chamberlain was a school teacher from Maine. Robert Copeland was a lawyer from Tacoma. Cato was an enslaved tailor.
I'm so sick and tired of this warrior bullshit in the age of the levee en masse citizen soldier. Look at Ukraine. Do you see warriors? I see school teachers, truck drivers, programmers, janitors and businessmen with rifles in their hand. Charles Upham (VC & Bar) was a sheep farmer, not a warrior.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And for the other side of the pond: Audie Murphy worked retail. Dick Bong was going to college to teach. Nathaniel Hale was a teacher from CT. Joshua Chamberlain was a school teacher from Maine. Robert Copeland was a lawyer from Tacoma. Cato was an enslaved tailor.
I'm so sick and tired of this warrior bullshit in the age of the levee en masse citizen soldier. Look at Ukraine. Do you see warriors? I see school teachers, truck drivers, programmers, janitors and businessmen with rifles in their hand. Charles Upham (VC & Bar) was a sheep farmer, not a warrior.
🎙️Discover how Admiral Nelson’s forward-thinking leadership still inspires today’s military minds. Listen to Dr Martin Robson’s insights on his remarkable command and legacy in the latest episode of Talking Strategy: https://bit.ly/4rMfokO
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm so sick and tired of this warrior bullshit in the age of the levee en masse citizen soldier. Look at Ukraine. Do you see warriors? I see school teachers, truck drivers, programmers, janitors and businessmen with rifles in their hand. Charles Upham (VC & Bar) was a sheep farmer, not a warrior.
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This is actually the most pathetic government of my lifetime? They are ADDICTED to saying 'a big boy made me do it' about everything
Does he also believe in the Tooth Fairy? That, and other questions raised by this excellent piece: www.ft.com/content/cc83...
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is actually the most pathetic government of my lifetime? They are ADDICTED to saying 'a big boy made me do it' about everything
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The debate is very silly because the cleanest grid in the country is the publicly-owned TVA that's heavy on nuclear, while the Northeast's constant insistence on shutting down functioning nuclear plants while sandbagging build-out and import of renewables makes our grid dirty af.
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The debate is very silly because the cleanest grid in the country is the publicly-owned TVA that's heavy on nuclear, while the Northeast's constant insistence on shutting down functioning nuclear plants while sandbagging build-out and import of renewables makes our grid dirty af.