Captain Osint

‼️ Russia: “"All other industries fell." Russian industrial growth turned out to be weapons production” Yup! www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/06/26/v...

Calling it now: At least two of the 2028 Dem primary candidates will do a conscious planned version of the Mamdani-Lander schtick. Rally tour, joint podcast, combined ads, something. Voters love it, and it makes both candidates look great.

The official White House account is posting cringe on main

Back in 2009 I was chartered with writing a field manual for those working with & fighting for democracy around the world — the Battle for Democracy. For the next ten days I will be writing based on those lessons, updated for what we face today at home and abroad! open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

18/ 6️⃣ The ongoing problem of desertion on a massive scale. Golikov says that over 60,000 men have been listed as deserters since February 2022, with more than 10,000 of them deserting for a year or more. He rightly says this is a systemic issue.

13/ 4️⃣ "Regular rotations and vacations." Golikov notes that vacations are often more notional than real. Because so many soldiers desert while on leave in Russia, they are often forced to take their leave within occupied areas of Ukraine rather than being allowed to go home.

10/ 3️⃣ "The problems of mass drunkenness and drug addiction continue to exist among the troops ... The drug problem is currently epidemic throughout the line of contact. This applies to both plant forms and chemicals (salt, meth and amphetamines)."

7/ …he will not perceive the "patriotism" aggressively imposed on him, built on lies, hypocrisy, window dressing and show. Because a soldier is far from an idiot and sees everything."

Wait someone named Mads Mikkelsen being detained for having a photo of a fat and bald JD Vance is real? That’s not an ironic shitpost? You’re all not doing a bit?

This is a fight JUST TO COVER BOND EXPENSES. They have to pay those before they can use the money to pay any of their other bills. 🍿

"the average British user dedicates more than 42 hours a month to watching videos which rarely last longer than thirty seconds" Just an almost unutterably bleak statistic www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Comment ont évolué les distances parcourues par mode en France, entre 1800 et 2023 ? 🚶 🐎 🚲 🛵 🚗 🚌 🚊 ✈️ Réponse dans cette animation vidéo ⬇️

Ecoutez, là j'ai enregistré un épisode en début d'aprèm sur les options iraniennes de représailles, et devinez ce qui se passe à l'heure de l'apéro

This is all going great, I’m glad you guys didn’t elect warmongering lunatic Kamala Harris or we’d be in real trouble

It is super crazy how elite journalists in this country have like negative solidarity for each other & negative commitment to a free press, like they see other reporters get arrested and are either like "omg jealous, you went viral" or "lol nothing to do with me"

Any time they get questioned about this they accuse the person of "trying to overturn the 2024 election" as if that was a referendum on the constitution existing and the american people voted it out of existence. Madness

The theme of this administration is anti-legitimacy. "Oh we can disappear people without convicting them of any crime, we can destroy whole agencies and departments unilaterally, we'll start wars on a whim." They really don't believe they have any responsibility to the people or the constitution

Stalin had been warned of precise date of invasion by Soviet spy Willy Lehman. When reading it Stalin said Lehman could go f🌶️ck his mother for lying. He trusted Hitler Imagine now Russia being led by man who refuses to believe obvious Intel & leads his country to catastrophe...

It looks like I'll need a deeper bunker.

Progressives get steamrolled all the time in Congress. We are an outnumbered bloc, especially on matters of defense. Shouldn’t be hard. They know this isn’t “lefty” opposition. It is BROAD opposition from the American people across the board. The numbers show that. That’s why they’re pushing it.

Trump to Zelensky in February "You're gambling with World War Three!" Trump in June “Anyway, I just bombed Iran’s nuclear sites spectacular strike, tremendous success.”

5. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

What Russian soldiers seize is ours, Putin claims, quoting Hitler khpg.org/en/1608814760

Christo Grozev has done a huge amount to help us understand the world we live in. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

In my current work, I point to the invasion of Iraq 2003 as a moment where the public's trust in the foundational ideals of democracy, verification, deliberation, and accountability were systematically betrayed, destroying their trust in democratic systems.

‼️ Russia: “"The state may not have enough money." The head of the Duma budget committee warned that Russia could repeat the fate of the USSR” 🍿 www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/06/20/u...

Y'a peut être de l'espoir !

Je vais dire un truc un peu égoïste, que la principale intéressée me pardonne parce que c'est totalement dérisoire par rapport à sa situation, mais son regard sur le monde me manque un peu.

J'ai commencé à suivre @mariepeltier2024.bsky.social sur X pour son regard acéré sur le conflit ru-ukr et la propagande Russe. Ça m'a permis de découvrir son travail sur la Syrie. Je la suis aujourd'hui sur Bluesky mais elle ne parle quasi plus que de son harcèlement. Ça l'a corrodée de l'intérieur

« Nicolas Sarkozy devient ainsi le deuxième chef de l’Etat français privé de la Légion d’honneur, après le maréchal Pétain. » www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Après forcément comparé à TW, on a pas le même engagement quand on est pas infesté de bot, de troll, de complotistes et autres extrémistes ultra virulents. Les gens normaux ne passent pas autant de temps à poster sur les RS. BS : le réseau des gens qui ont une vrai vie 😂

So at the current rate of 0.7% per year, the majority of Ukraine will be occupied in 2069.

‼️ Russia: “Foreign investment inflow into Russia has fallen to its lowest level since the beginning of the century” 🍿 www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/06/19/r...

Shapovalov becomes the new Ground Forces commander militaryland.net/news/shapova...

Russia is throwing Iran under the bus after Iran saved Russia in Ukraine. LOL The worst ally in the world is Russia

X is a place for Nazis to share CSAM, and I'm being told by many individuals in the media that this is less of a problem than the fact that Bluesky doesn't respond well to centrist platitudes

Yep, right now they are barely selling enough bonds to cover the expenses associated with servicing their expanding debt, and not enough for anything else. The case was similar in 2024, so the Kremlin drew down the NWF (national savings) to fund the operating deficit. The NWF is empty now...

Qu'est-ce qui est bien connu dans votre milieu pro mais surprend les gens ? Jean Monnet a coordonné la logistique FR-GB dans LES DEUX guerres mondiales, en mettant les ressources en commun puis en créant des comités conjoints les gérer. L’UE c’est pareil, avec plus de monde autour de la table.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? The number of parents that don't care much about their kids and/or have very thinly veiled resentment against them is much higher than most people think.

Trump: Putin and I had a great phone call and told me Russia wants peace. Russia:

The tanker „Adalyn“ is burning in the Gulf of Oman after being rammed by the tanker „Front Eagle“. What is interesting is that the Adalyn is part of Russia‘s shadow fleet.

“Suspect in Minnesota shootings in custody” (WP). This is terrible. None of the 3 top U.S. newspapers dared to state what happened: A fanatical “Christian” republican priest murdered a democratic politician. Tell us the truth, cowards! ./2

The big U.S. news today should be stated as: “Republican anti-abortion pastor murdered Democratic legislator”. But “New Minnesota warning issued after shootings of politicians” (WSJ); “Violent action tied to politics is new reality” (NYT). ./1