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Ivan Snook

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ivy league elitist critical theory, psychoanalysis, laws of war

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10 months

@EODHappyCaptain The military should stop giving commissions to any enlisted. Mustangs erode the esteem, legitimacy and distinct culture of the officer corps like merchants marrying into the aristocracy. Nevertheless, we are intent on lowering the standards and reducing military service to being

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@MaxBlumenthal What an absolutely bizarre set of arguments.

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@dieworkwear Speaking of forums...

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@McFaul What an admission.

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@stavridisj We hit Fallujah with over 5,000 artillery rounds, not to mention the 155mm coming from AC-130's. Mosul, Hue, Beirut, Grozny, Aleppo... Heavy artillery is a staple of street-to-street battles.

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@ArmchairW New respect? I was a designated marksman. For the SS countersnipers and spotters to not see this amateur crawling around a white rooftop a few hundred yards away in broad daylight is a major reason to lose respect for them.

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@Gritty20202 @70sBachchan

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@USCGPacificNW The Water Taxi's Captain deserves a medal for heroism. I believe he was the first ship to reach the barge. It was above and beyond his ship's call of duty. I hope @USCGPacificNW makes this happen.

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@ArmchairW You should read Orlando Figes' The Crimean War. It mirrors today's war so, so much. So, the Ottomans were brutally oppressing the Christians in the Balkans. Tsar Nicholas I, genuinely a very religious man, got Victoria and Napoleon III to agree to liberate the Balkans. But,

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@ConceptualJames You can tell that JD Vance joined the Marines, went to Iraq, and studied philosophy whereas @ConceptualJames made cringe backyard neckbeard sword videos and studied math. JD Vance is like everything you pretend to be.

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@McFaul @POTUS Yeah, he's great on foreign policy, except for all the wars.

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@BetteMidler The ruling's main thrust is reaffirming the separation of powers. How are you going to convince the Supreme Court justices during the pre-trial interlocutory review that arresting and murdering legislators is a core Article II power?

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@ArtaMoeini Dehumanizing Chinese, Russians and Iranians as "subhuman orcs" is ghastly and reeks of orientalism.

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@McFaul Pretty sure Putin was the one who convinced NATO countries to increase defense spending.

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@Glenn_Diesen Obedient oligarch-> democracy advocat Disobedient oligarch-> authoritarian

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@ME_Observer_ No. Off-duty soldiers are valid targets. But boobytrapping objects that appear as civilian objects (e.g., pagers, regular walkie talkies) is explicitly a war crime.

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@Gerashchenko_en So, in a normal mass shooting incident, you're supposed to send in the unarmed medics and firefighters before sending in special forces to stop the shooting?

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@eleanoir I spent $120,000 to study Freud only to learn that I unconsciously did it to get laid.😩

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You gotta be a first ballot HOF shitbag for your Chaplain to come after you.

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Chaplain of Tim Walz’s National Guard battalion calls VP pick ‘cowardly’ for abandoning unit

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@zeynep @70sBachchan Given recent events, that seems like an ideal landing spot for someone who violently suppresses dissenting opinions.

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@Blake_Hall And they're both on rifle with no spotter on binos. Tunnelvision.

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@MaxAbrahms Why? Turkey is NATO's second largest military. And it is the most strategically important. It joined NATO at great risk to itself all the way back in 1952. And by removing it, Turkey will most likely accelerate turning the Turkic Council plus Afghanistan and Pakistan into a EU

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@mccaffreyr3 How insulting for Sergeants Major to hear this from a retired General.

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"We overestimated Russia's military power," say the folks who predicted Russia would run out of ammo by last June.

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Russia’s historic reputation as a superpower has led many Western analysts to overestimate its military power, writes Zoltan Barany. How has this skewed perception affected Ukraine’s warfighting strategy?

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@Chuck_Ritter92 I choose to believe all stories that shit on CIF out of solidarity. ✊

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@Podolyak_M You think German tanks rolling towards Kursk is going to DEmoralize Russians rather than send them to the military recruitment offices?

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@carlbildt If I were Russia, I wouldn't want to dislodge them. German tanks entering Russian territory and advancing towards Kursk will most likely cause an enormous rally-around-the-flag effect and fill military recruitment offices. This is the best PR Russia could have hoped for. Have you

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@JSchogol73030 @df_lawrence What about those of us from Seattle culture?

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@ndcarson "The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing." -- Winston Churchill

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@ChuckCallesto For comparison, this event caused national outrage.

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Buffalo video: Officers suspended after 75-year-old man pushed down,...

Video showed a Buffalo police officer appearing to push the 75-year-old man who walked up to police clearing Niagara Square around the 8 p.m. curfew Thursday...

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@judgeluttig Does this mean ending diplomatic immunity? And prosecuting police officers for speeding in high-speed pursuits?

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@LeverNews "The landmark ruling, brought by the court's right-wing majority, cut away at the executive branch's ability to regulate pollution." But the Air Force is in the executive branch.

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@McFaul 2022: "It's not a proxy war!" 2023: "Proxy wars are good, actually."

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@__Injaneb96 @chelseahartisme sue me.

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@broadcastmike @mccaffreyr3 I'm an academic specializing in how the military covers up war crimes, and you were the Sgt. Maj. of Public Affairs -- one of the most senior positions in charge of covering up those war crimes as well as our unjust wars' false pretenses for which lowly junior enlisted

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@Gerashchenko_en Two-hundred and eighty Middle Eastern and African asylum seekers is a serious threat to national security? Since September, that's like 3 people per day.

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@jonathanbrazee @EODHappyCaptain Look at all the comments here along the lines of, "The only officers I ever respected were mustangs." Most of that respect is for the mustang's technical expertise and capacity for empathy in contrast to the non-mustang's lack of technical expertise and mere sympathy. And it is

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@SpiritofHo "Venezuela has one of the most democratic electoral systems in the world." Would you mind explaining this point for those of us unfamiliar with the specifics of Venezuela's electoral system?

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@GLandsbergis What is your final solution for this ethnic group you so despise?

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@SamiOnTap @SeattleONTap It's not his fault. Opponents have been scheming to block him on the blitz, and Pete keeps playing him inside the box instead of as a safety. He's not built or experienced to play linebacker or nickelback. If he's allowed to play as a safety again, he'll turn it around.

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@acidhorizonpod Hegel reading The Phenomenology of Spirit

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@kennardmatt Reminds me of a terribly sad fact I heard a few years ago: Beirut is known as the "plastic surgery capital" of the Middle East because they needed so many post-conflict reconstructive surgeons, and they later switched to cosmetic plastic surgery to make money.

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@BenjaminNorton The Israeli hostages: 👁👄👁

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@TimothyDSnyder The Georgian Legion who posted a film of them executing POWs and whose leader bragged about not taking prisoners?

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@TimothyDSnyder When Tim Snyder gets mad about US citizen Elon Musk influencing our elections, it's because he loves democracy. When others get mad about US citizen George Soros influencing their elections, it's because they're fascist.

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@McFaul Those questions are answered in the ruling's first sentence.🤦‍♂️

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@Gerashchenko_en Why, then, did Russia choose to annex a military powerhouse backed by Europe instead of the comparatively undefended Central Asian countries with *vastly* more natural resources?

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@anthonyzenkus What would you change to get a deal done? Nothing, we have to get a deal done. But your policies haven't gotten a deal done. We👏have👏to 👏get 👏a 👏deal👏done👏

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@skdh @JustDaweed Americans don't understand what labour unions are good for because the culture industry is controlled by capitalists.

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@Peter_R_101 @stavridisj Right. 105mm.

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@adam_tooze Framing the question as a mere financial one is brilliant. It totally bypasses questions of NATO expansion, 'spreading democracy,' and military prowess. It says, "We in DC were right and continue to be right about everything, it's just the damn cheapskate voters holding us back

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@broadcastmike @mccaffreyr3 Not all of us have the guts to be a careerist public affairs specialist. Thank you for your service.

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@ZeroBlog30 60% of B-17 ball turret gunners were killed in action.

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@tparsi I was a designated marksman and did this exact countersniper work for years. It's unfathomable.

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@dieworkwear "too dressy up top, and too casual down bottom." So, DeSantis's outfit is basically a mullet.

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@ricwe123 I got widely insulted for saying all of this six years ago while studying Ukrainian politics at Columbia SIPA. Personally frustrating that I saw those other students get great jobs in the think-tank and NGO space while I failed to capitalize on it.

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@KarlMarxsux @EODHappyCaptain And how did things pan out for Napoleon?

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@Malinowski Immediately after saying, "Russia's borders do not end anywhere," the audience laughed and Putin said, "That was a joke." If dictators always mean what they say, how do you know which of these contradicting statements is true?

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@MichaelSteele You're one to talk.

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@DuplessisBrad From where does an officer derive their authority? It must be libidinal. If the authority is only legal, then it is a weak and unstable authority in competition with the subject's (i.e., the servicemember's) ego; and it will have little influence on the subject when they are

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He was exchanged in today’s prison exchange procedure in Turkey: 🇷🇺Vadim Krasikov is a Russian hero, an officer of the Russian special services, sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany. On August 23, 2019, Krasikov rode up on a bicycle from behind Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who

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@ElbridgeColby Hodges shouldn't be taken seriously. He speaks out of ego. If Ukraine fails, history will remember him as one of the Commanders of US Army Europe who failed to prepare anyone there or here for this war.

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@NeedBirds @KarlMarxsux @EODHappyCaptain A dessert which, like the General, isn't as good as a Wellington.

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@stavridisj Is it appropriate for a retired Admiral to make such an accusation with such enormous consequences before seeing any evidence?

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@GrayConnolly Nikki Haley is the Kamala Harris of Mitt Romneys.

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@ELuttwak The B21 is a strategic nuclear bomber, and we should never trust nukes to drones.

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@broadcastmike @mccaffreyr3 Then you should fix your LinkedIn.

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US Supreme Allied Commander Europe: "Russia is reconstituting that force far faster than our initial estimates suggested." Remember when everyone gloated about how "Putin miscalculated"? Sadly, there will be no reckoning for any of the American leaders who miscalculated. Like

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@DuplessisBrad That's a rather insulting view of officers. A different conclusion is reached if you analyze the civilizing role of officers and the deep psychology foundation of their authority through the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, Klaus Theweleit, Wilfred Bion, WRD Fairbairn,

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@broadcastmike @mccaffreyr3 Maybe you can help me out on another term. Walz dropped out well before completing the SgtMaj academy to avoid a combat deployment. So, he was only "frocked" as a SgtMaj, right? Would you also be ok for someone to call themselves a SEAL if they quit the second week of BUDS?

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@general_ben Russia signed the grain deal that promised to lift sanctions blocking Russian grain exports. Then they let over 1,000 ships through. We never lifted the sanctions. So Russia left the deal. And Ukraine has been blowing up granaries in Kursk. Sad.

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@HustleChillson Ohno never wore a Seattle jersey or even competed in Seattle. If just being from Seattle meets the criteria, you should replace him with Fred Couples.

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@OlegKostour @flreg44 @MaxAbrahms Both Stoltenberg & your article say move military infrastructure or forces, which are the same thing. That doesn't mean kicking states out of NATO. If true, we chose war over "looking weak" by just pulling our armies back which would have made NATO no less safe. And u like that?

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@anders_aslund "We have a thousand year history" is not at all similar to Hitler's "thousand-year reich" rhetoric. Come on.

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@KenRoth That's a misleading. The 2,000-pound Mk84 bomb's 'likely injury radius' is 360 meters. Sure, some fragments will fly very far away, but the chance of being hit by one at 600 meters is basically nil and the fragments' kinetic energy would be very low.

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@I_am_The_Jen @GLandsbergis Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs says here that the problem is not just the Russian state, but ordinary Russians. So, what is the final solution for ordinary Russians?

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@EasyDeepBlue @EODHappyCaptain Thanks for your support. I'm not bothered. I would have agreed with these other folks when I was younger. But then I got my Masters from Columbia and a post-grad certificate from the Freud Institute studying this exact topic (among others), so I know the crucial importance of a

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@MaxAbrahms Who does Axelrod think he is to claim to know RFK Sr better than RFK Jr?

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@I_Katchanovski His statements are clearly just public relations and have no value for analysis. He's probably high balling so that the peoples of the West will feel like they 'won' the negotiations by getting Russia to settle for less than these maximalist demands. Not entirely sure what to

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@hawkblogger macdonald understands that 9+2 is 11, which is 3 points more than 8. a real sabermetrics guy here.

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@willchamberlain @thomasbsauer New drinking game: for every new Gold Star family video, Kamala Harris takes a shot.

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@azamatistan What exactly does "purifying" the minds of Russians mean and entail? Are we talking about re-education camps or what?

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@markomihkelson What exactly is weak about diplomacy, Mr. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee?

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@Mitski_mask @dieworkwear The Eldridge Knot, or as I call it, "the Double Pretentious Knot."

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@SpencerGuard Was it then also a war crime when Azov Bn. hid in the tunnels of the Mariupol steel plant behind the civilian women and children?

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@JerryHendrixII @ElbridgeColby What should we make of Eisenhower's 1951 statement that, "If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project [NATO] will have failed."

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@BrandiKruse @UW And we know which side decided to show up today to stir trouble and generate headlines when none were there.

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SNL is the continuation of MSNBC by other means.

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@ianbremmer How would we be better off not hearing their horrifying statements?

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@susancrabtree Cheatle has bragged about being an SS agent for 30 years. I'd like some questions to test her tactical knowledge. "Have you looked at the countersniper teams' range cards? Do you know what a range card is?" "What optics did they have? Did they have IR? Would you recommend that

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@itslaylas and to think adorno used to teach there

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@RepJayapal liberals: trump is a senile dolt who cant string together two coherent sentences also liberals: trump made a 1,260 page machiavellian political manifesto that will overthrow the entirety of western democracy and crown himself caesar for life

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@DmytroKuleba How many Ukrainians are willing to die for the right to join NATO?

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Kamala: "I went to NATO's eastern flank." Fact-check: It's called the "front."

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@McClureShawn @skdh People who say this don't know what philosophy is.

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The US Navy has more Admirals (270) than ships (260).🧐

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