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Bennett Murray

@BDMurray

Master's student at @FletcherSchool. Previously reported in 🇺🇦. Was also once @dpa Vietnam bureau chief.

Massachusetts Beigetreten Mart 2009
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Bennett Murray
Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
I spent the past week and a half in the Donbas, where I embedded with the 28th Mechanized Brigade in the Bakhmut direction. The shell hunger is acute, with FPV drones the only thing keeping the line steady. But Ukraine's grim determination continues. thedispatch.com/article/hope-w…
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Bennett Murray
Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@SpaghettiKozak @Waraboshi Well sort of. The in-game scroll clearly says Жар-птица at the top and he has no idea what that might mean. I think the scriptwriters assumed that Cyrillic is like Chinese characters, insofar that foreigners might be able to learn the language while bypassing basic literacy.
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@BDMurray @Waraboshi That makes sense. A lot of times poetic license makes it harder to understand even if a person is proficient in the practical language.
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@SpaghettiKozak One of my all-time favorites. 90% of the non-English is subtitled because the protagonist supposedly understands most of the languages spoken on the train. The exception is Serbian, the language of the main villians. I think they pretty much give up the game in their dialogue.
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Bennett Murray
Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@Lazarban @mikitaisbased There's no such thing as an ethnic Hercegovinian, nor will you ever see a road sign saying "Now entering Herzegovina." But if you say you're Hercegovinian, people in the Balkans will know where you're from.
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luka أناكين 🗡️ ⛓️
luka أناكين 🗡️ ⛓️@Lazarban·
@mikitaisbased I have actually seen people introduce themselves as "Hercegovinian", it's even listed in my Croatian language textbook as one of the many groups of people living in post Yugoslav countries
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@nikicaga I got married in Serbia because it was the most central choice for our families to meet (US and Kazakhstan) and couldn't have been happier with our choice.
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Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸@nikicaga·
"Why did Zohran have weddings in 3 countries?", idk apart from Dubai (bad and embarrassing), its just normal diasporoid stuff Regardless of where and how else I get married, I'll HAVE to hold a giant wedding in Serbia if I don't want to bring shame upon my family
Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸@nikicaga

Good for him!

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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@MoiDawg Doesn't quite look right. Colored tape would help. So would some novelty patches. The biggest issue is that Ukrainian soldiers are free to heavily customize their tactical clothing, so there's tons of variety in the field that'd be hard to capture in a game.
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MoiDawg@MoiDawg·
Ukraine is officially coming to Squad. The Squad Leader looks like he's actually been out on the front for the past 3 years
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@ASPertierra @TrueSlazac @luistr640poli The KR had been vowing to annex Kampuchea Krom from Vietnam even before they took power. The KR cadres were under NVA military command until 1973 or so but they already hated each other by 1975.
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Andrés Pertierra@ASPertierra·
@TrueSlazac @luistr640poli As I understand it, it wasn’t just violence against Vietnamese but also an increasing military buildup in the context of Cambodia being in China’s camp and Vietnam in the USSR’s. It was a national security problem
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Slazac 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🌐@TrueSlazac·
Tankies love to bring up when Vietnam deposed the Khmer Rouge and hate to bring up when Vietnam brought them to power
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@POMAHMOBA @Madame_Ennui Premium in this case means more expensive than substitutes. In the U.S., McDonald's at least historically was viewed as a place that the working poor could afford with some regularity, and that's just not the case in any other market of theirs I've seen (including Poland).
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🇺🇦Луганський швайношиншил
🇺🇦Луганський швайношиншил@POMAHMOBA·
Dude, I’m from Luhansk and McDonalds wasn’t “premium product” there half a year after first one opened, our median income was like half the Polish one Poland isn’t a “developing country”, the 90s are over
Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma

the rise of Western white people fetishizing Poland as like White Wakanda is so weird. McDonald’s in Poland is nice because it’s a premium product in a still developing country. It’s not cheap like it is in the US

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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@doctoradmiral @Arhivistka_LJ @yarotrof Until recently it was against the law for foreigners to serve as officers so they'd inevitably be led by a Ukrainian past the NCO level. The law has changed but I suspect it's mostly still the case.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
Yaroslav Trofimov@yarotrof·
In the Ukrainian war against the Russian invasion, the mostly Colombian 🇨🇴 Recon Strike Group of the 47th Brigade was at the tip of the spear of combat against North Korean 🇰🇵 forces. Source: t.me/brygada47/1613
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@Arhivistka_LJ @yarotrof I've never heard of any language crash course. They do place English-speaking Ukrainians (perhaps Spanish as well) around them to transmit orders and whatnot, but they often just have to live with the language barrier from what I've seen. Some of them pick stuff up on the fly.
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Arhivistka@Arhivistka_LJ·
@yarotrof Just wondering how such multinational troops are managed. Do they have a crash course of Ukrainian or Russian before joining the battle? Do they have interpreters seconded?
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@SpaghettiKozak @Agapiy_ First thing that came to mind is my all-time favorite toad monument in Berdiansk. If the day ever comes, they can place it opposite of him.
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SK Media@SpaghettiKozak·
@Agapiy_ I know where they can put it. Where the Lenin statue was on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard. They never found a permanent replacement AFAIK.
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SK Media@SpaghettiKozak·
You are welcome to sign up and if things don't go well for you you'll have a place on the square. Otherwise, no way.
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@LieutenantRusty @ingelramdecoucy I personally knew a member of a foreign parliament with US citizenship. The current legal precedent is that the only way to lose your citizenship is to file the paperwork at an overseas embassy, pay the fee, and go through with the final renunciation in person.
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Rusty@LieutenantRusty·
@ingelramdecoucy I feel like there’s an interesting discussion to be had on that subject, actually: does acquiring a foreign title, etc., constitute a de jure renunciation of citizenship?
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@carlfranzen @bigblackjacobin I'm a grad student who graduated college in 2012 so I've lived in both worlds. AI is considered a perfectly acceptable research tool and I use it all the time. The problem is that the cheaters aren't even learning to apply the tech in novel ways. They're gaining nothing.
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Carl Franzen
Carl Franzen@carlfranzen·
@bigblackjacobin ...instead of sticking head in the sand or saying it's garbage and detrimental to learning. Clearly, the students profiled in here, and many around the country (and likely world) don't care, and will use new tools if it makes their lives easier in the moment. And I don't blame em
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Carl Franzen
Carl Franzen@carlfranzen·
"Most assignments in college are not relevant. They're hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them." Nah, I'd say higher ed and most existing institutions and processes are what's cooked.
Zito@_Zeets

The kids are cooked

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Mia Teller@MiaTeller40313·
@BDMurray Do you have a backup of this video? It's been removed from Vimeo unfortunately...
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
My late friend Steve Martin prepping and smoking refined opium in the old Chinese style, with antique pipe and lamp.vimeo.com/50424449
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@ARaderVon @MazMHussain It's a popular destination for what I'm sure are mostly perfectly well-meaning halal tour groups. Beautiful mountainous countryside, lots of pretty old mosques, halal cuisine, etc. But, it also has a robust alcohol culture and probably some of those tourists get the wrong idea.
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History Impossible@ARaderVon·
@MazMHussain I had no idea Bosnia was being essentially treated as the Thailand for the Gulf Arab world. Sad stuff.
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@SpaghettiKozak @NataliaAntonova It's common to hear journalists and other noncombatants dick size about being X meters away from the Russians. Fucking hilarious hearing that come from a supposed fighter.
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SK Media@SpaghettiKozak·
@NataliaAntonova Yeah. FOUR HUNDRED METERS FROM THE RUSSIANS! Shit I could legitimately say that from 2021.
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SK Media@SpaghettiKozak·
So yeah I've got some things to say about this group. A while back I was contacted by one of theirs about potential work. I wrote a signal message to the individual mentioned here. Strap yourself in, because it's about to get wild.
Rachel Jamison@RachelPAV

I will post the link in the next tweet. For weeks Bradley Crawford of the Tactical Combat Advisory Group @tcagukraine has been sending me erratic, harassing messages that come in the middle of the night. I've stopped responding to him but he won't stop contacting me. In the messages he claims to be going on combat missions in Ukraine despite not having a contract and not being in the military. He also threatens to physically fight a soldier in 3rd Assault Brigade.

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The Notorious S.E.B.@bigseb31213·
@justincbzz there's gotta be something else going on since neither side uses it but yeah it's crazy. maybe the observable battlefield in the fpv era is just too large or smoke to be viable and they eel that laying down smoke just exposes your attack vector?
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Justin Case
Justin Case@justincbzz·
It's year 4 of this war and 99% of both russian and ukrainian assaults do not use smoke and it's just insane to me.
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@Szabadsag1956 Also, it's not totally crazy that Ukraine could get the bomb in that timeframe.
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@Szabadsag1956 I'm curious what the sweet spot amount of time for Russia to rearm would be, but four years feels like a pretty big gamble for them. Ukraine can do stuff too to prepare. Also, the continued existence of "Nazi Ukraine" without further "denazification" would make a mockery of Putin
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Szabadság1956🇺🇸 Слава Україні!🇺🇦 Tisza2026🇭🇺
Szabadság1956🇺🇸 Слава Україні!🇺🇦 Tisza2026🇭🇺@Szabadsag1956·
Wild conspiracy speculation: Trump and putin hammer out a deal that freezes the lines of contact *for as long as Trump is in office.* They both can claim a foreign policy "victory" and russia can rebuild for the next war, which Trump can wash his hands of after leaving office.
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Bennett Murray@BDMurray·
@bengrossbg @flaminhottweets Very hard to compare. For instance, you can argue that the Taliban took almost twice as long as HTS, or you can take a different perspective and argue that they survived twice as long. The character of warfare in both countries was also very different.
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