If you’re using the word “marathon” in a context with Iran, for God’s sake look up the fucking etymology you ignorant churls

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
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Holy shit, this Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge found "AI" bullshit in briefs filed by the lawyers in this case and was having utterly and completely None Of It. Fucking *Love* to see it.

In all my years at WaPo, this happened to me twice, and it was a huge Marty-Baron-is-calling-your-boss-level deal.

Now that I’m indy, it’s three times in a month, that I know of! It’s fucking disgusting. I made $220 from paid subscriptions last month and a salaried journalist is stealing from me.

Sign the Petition End Russia's Academic Privilege: Remove 'Russia' from Titles at University Studies Centers

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Oh look, Ukraine has cards!

The world is finally seeing what Ukraine deals with every single night.

The chaos caused by a few hundred drones across the entire Middle East last weekend is what a single Tuesday in Kyiv looks like.

Russia has launched tens of thousands of shaheds since this started

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Trump’s State of the Union Reminds Us The Republican Party Is Truly Lost More evidence that the Republican Party has been entirely transformed into the party of violence and authoritarianism.

“It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang…with cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.”

www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...

🧵 It is important to point out that the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany were very similar to these. The so-called "wild camps" were located in all kinds of diverse locations (basements, warehouses, even boats.). They were characterized by varying levels of violence and almost no oversight.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

And "Truce Becomes Peace: Resolution of the International Status on Trieste," via John Hickman

"'One of Our Own among Strangers and a Stranger among Our Own': The Surprising Destiny of General of the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Army Fedor Makhin" by Andrey Ganin...

"Geography in Motion: Andrei Snesarev and the Military-Political Situation in Strategic Planning," by longtime editor/contributor to the journal, Roger N. McDermott...

Then, "Siloviki at Senior Levels of Selected Russian Civilian Ministries," from Stephen Fortescue...

First up, "From Nuclear Proliferation to Hybridity: The Evolution of Russian Understandings of Strategic Deterrence" by Asya Cooley, Skye Cooley, and Sumin Shin...

The Journal of Slavic Military Studies Volume 39, Issue 1 of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies

First issue of the year, with pieces on nuclear threats, strategic planning, siloviki, but also reaching down into southeast Europe as well... Moving from articles to reviews, you are indeed seeing double when you check out vol 39 iss 1... www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3...

Some real Swan Lake shit

Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

And I don’t bloody care if the guy who got killed was the worst criminal ever we have laws we have rules you do NOT get to kill people in the street. JFC 🤬 www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.

If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

The Siege of Mariupol - Pen and Sword Books The Siege of Mariupol details Ukraine’s heroic defense, civilian suffering, and Russian forces’ eventual capture.On 24 February 2022, the President of Ru...

If you’d like to review this, drop a message… Got this book in: The Siege of Mariupol: The Azovstal Steel Plant and Ukraine’s Battle for Survival by Christopher Lawrence and Stefan Korshak. www.penandswordbooks.com/978139903420...

was in a meeting recently and someone pitched making trailers with AI for a book and I cut them off and said absolutely not and they dropped it. not hard! do not use the tools of the enemy!

In fascist states, individual rights had no autonomous existence. The State of Law—the Rechtsstaat, the état de droit—vanished, along with the principles of due process by which citizens were guaranteed equitable treatment by courts and state agencies. A suspect acquitted in a German court of law could be rearrested by agents of the regime at the courthouse door and put in a concentration camp without any further legal procedure. A fascist regime could imprison, Deadpool, and even kill it's inhabitants at will and without limitation. All else pales before that radical transformation in the relation of citizens to public power.

Sure sounds familiar!

From Robert O. paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2004), p. 142.

JSMS Books for Review - PUBLIC Books that The Journal of Slavic Military Studies would welcome a review of. Reviews can look at a single book or spend additional length doing a more involved review essay on a couple texts (and othe...

As always, if you’re interested in reviewing for the journal, check out this list here and get in touch with the JSMS editors; have a book that should be reviewed, let us know as well...
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Putin's Wars The third edition of this acclaimed book offers a systematic analysis of Putin’s three wars, placing the Second Chechen War, the war with Georgia of 2008,…

And Associate Editor Michael Coffey looks at Putin’s Wars: The Rise of Russia’s New Imperialism, now in its third edition from Marcel H. Van Herpen, Rowman & Littlefield (now Bloomsbury)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/putins-wa...

The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power This book provides a systematic analysis of the Russian-Ukraine war, using the concept of resilient fighting power to assess the operational performance of both sides during the first year of the full...

Stephen Satkiewicz looks at The Russia-Ukraine War: Towards Resilient Fighting Power, by Viktoriya Fedorchak, also from Routledge… get yourself a physical copy or an open access version!
www.routledge.com/The-Russia-U....

Warlord Hitler: With Reference to the Campaign in Southern Russia in 1942 This book is a study of Adolf Hitler in his role as military commander and strategist from the beginning of the Second World War until the end of 1942, examining in detail the campaign in southern Rus...

EIC Lak does double duty closing out the year, with a review of Warlord Hitler. With Reference to the Campaign in Southern Russia in 1942, by Alan Donhue, from Routledge www.routledge.com/Warlord-Hitl....

Reinhard Gehlen: Hitler’s Spymaster - Casemate Publishers US “This book makes an important contribution to the history of the 20th century.” – International Journal of Intelligence and CounterintelligenceEleven y...

Romedio Graf Thun reviews Reinhard Gehlen: Hitler’s Spymaster: From The Eastern Front in WW2 to Cold War CIA Asset, by Norman Ridley, from Pen & Sword @casematepublishers.bsky.social
www.casematepublishers.com/9781036113254/.

The Eastern Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of what Winston Churchill once called the 'unknown war': the vast conflict in East...

And book reviews as well—Editor in Chief Martijn Lak reviews The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
by Nick Lloyd, Milton Keynes, from Viking
www.penguin.co.uk/books/443194....