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A running video. Just my type.

@JackWa8819 @noclador Haha. Still lost bigly. 😘

@ArthurSBandit @noclador Raids on Gibraltar (1940-1943): Successful sabotage missions against British shipping. Conquest of British Somaliland (1940): Occupation of Berbera and the entire colony. Battle of Bir El Gobi (1941): Defeat of the British 22nd Armoured Brigade by the Ariete Division.

This is very interesting and explains a lot: 🇬🇧 British Armed Forces: 50,000+ civil employees 🇮🇹 Italian Armed Forces: 16,257 civil employees And Italy fields 30,000 more troops than the UK. This explains were a part of the British Armed Forces' budget is being wasted.

@noclador Excuses, excuses. 😁 What about the vaunted Italian navy at Taranto then? 3 battleships disabled 1 heavy cruiser damaged 2 destroyers damaged by 21 biplane torpedo bombers. 😁

@ArthurSBandit Unlike you I also know what men Mussolini sent to Libya: all the ones considered "unreliable" by the fascists and so of course most of them happily surrendered to the first Brit or Australian they saw.

@JackWa8819 @noclador Refer to Operation Compass where 36,000 British Empire troops fought 150,000 Italians and captured 133,000 of them - in two months. Oh, and you Jackass !!

@ArthurSBandit @noclador Yes if those guys are from top units. Refer to El Alamein where few italians repelled UK, Aussie and NZ troops you dumbass

Latest in @TheAtlantic . The Ukrainians are no longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and therefore how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift link. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

Full article: x.com/i/status/20454…

@Noahpinion Don’t make that mistake Noah. There will always be a role for the rifleman even in the age of drones. The minute the you claim something is obsolete, war will make a fool of you.

@noclador 30,000 more Italian troops than British doesn't mean jack. Refer to Operation Compass.

Holy f*ck. Word for word. Ana Kasaparian (Extreme Left Wing) and Nick Fuentes (Extreme Right Wing) paint themselves as polar opposites on the political spectrum. However, listen to them here, side by side. This is horseshoe theory on fully display.

To sum up the day. The Strait of Hormuz is still not open unless vessels go through the Iranian tollbooth, the U.S. naval blockade of Iran continues, and the dramatic decline in oil prices is caused not by the changing reality on the ground but by market expectations — possibly over-optimistic — that the U.S. and Iran will strike a nuclear deal in the foreseeable future.

Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi delivered his report. First of all, regarding the front line – I am grateful to all our units that are holding their positions and repelling Russian assaults. The high pace of eliminating occupiers continues in April. The Russians are not succeeding in seizing the initiative on the front, and that is important. We are also observing attempts by the occupying forces to regroup – most likely in order to compensate for a shortage of personnel. In this context, it is becoming increasingly clear why military activity in Belarus has increased. According to intelligence, the construction of roads toward Ukrainian territory and the development of artillery positions are underway in the Belarusian border areas. We believe that Russia may once again attempt to drag Belarus into its war. I have instructed that appropriate channels be used to warn the de facto leadership of Belarus about Ukraine’s readiness to defend its land and independence. The nature and consequences of recent events in Venezuela should serve as a warning to the Belarusian leadership against making mistakes. We also discussed with the Commander-in-Chief our further long-range operations. Glory to Ukraine!

Ukraine could have surrendered in 2014. But we didn’t. Ukraine could have surrendered in 2022. But we didn’t. And we could surrender now. But we will not. We. Are. Ukrainians. We will not surrender.

Food is reportedly running low on the USS Tripoli and USS Abraham Lincoln, with crews complaining about poor conditions. I’m sorry, but… what is that on the plate? Looks like a boot sole.

Trump: I did it! The blockade worked! Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is OPEN … Iranian Foreign Minister: Yes but only if using the IRGC traffic separation scheme and payment of $2 million Multipass toll. Trump: Same-Same! It’s Open! Iran: Same-Same but different!

We map an incredible number of events, and it requires an insane amount of work from a group of people to make this possible. Yesterday I was listening to a woman from the ISW talk about how over the course of the past four years their processes have barely adapted. Suspicious. Over the past few years we have had to invest heavily in developing our own tools, adapting methodology, and increasing work efficiency to barely keep up with the exponential rise in footage. We've done this at significant personal expense, with no funding outside of small donations from our users and supporters. Not to mention the tens of thousands of work hours that have gone into collecting, processing, and analyzing the data. Which is often then stolen by aggregators or others so they can lazily synthesize the data for their own purposes, spending 20 minutes vibe coding some dashboard built on top of maps they never bought licenses to, data they stole from others. Or, worse yet, the people who steal data, and then pretend to have collected it themselves. Who go on talks about how their data cannot come from AI because it takes a human touch to analyze the data. Which you then sell commercially to governments or journalists who whoever will buy it. And then when you look under the hood, nearly all of their data is taken from others. And, in most cases, from the team of people producing our map here. But, hey, it took a lot of human effort to personally steal every data point you sell for a profit. And, somehow, the journalists, whose job is to be able to have a brain and understand the most basic things, do not see what is happening. That a middle man is coming through stealing data and then selling it to them. Or maybe it is convenient to the journalist, because other journalists have quoted this middleman so many times that the middleman is now considered some sort of valued source, even though they aren't a source at all. They are an aggregator of other people's work. But, even worse, is that that work they are aggregating IS ALREADY AGGREGATED BY THE CREATORS OF THE WORK. So the aggregation is not even valuable or unique in the first place. Which brings us back to the true hilarity of the situation. Journalists think that sources of information are less valuable than officially recognized aggregators. Let that sink in. Let it stew within you. Journalists think that people who do work, who understand the work, who understands what went into the work and what it means and its limitations are LESS VALUABLE than people who take others people's work, without understanding context, without fully understanding what it means, having to add abstractions and bias and noise. Historically, it was the job of a journalist to seek out sources for the exact reason of getting closer to the truth. Today, journalists avoid them intentionally for the sake of time savings and laziness. What do you think this says about the quality of their work? What do you think the impact is on their work? If you look at the writing, you see the impact clearly. You see bias amplified. You see incorrect information amplified. And, occasionally, when Russian propaganda is quoted as a legitimate source (which these aggregators do regularly btw), you see Russian propaganda accepted as literal fact and injected into the discourse uncritically even by anti-Russian news outlets who rely on these aggregators rather than actual information sources. That is the true result. So, to get back to my original point: It takes an insane amount of work to analyze and map this data.

@CanadianKobzar You've fought the good fight. Well done. x.com/CanadianKobzar…

After months of careful consideration I’m stepping down from NAFO and Twitter. My life direction has changed and I have other battles to fight. I’ll be leaving my account up so you can all still read my history threads, but as of tomorrow, I won’t be logging in anymore. Everyone keep fighting the good fight. Support Ukraine. Support democracy. Boost fundraisers (like Toonie Tuesday) Fight russian disinformation. Fight evil wherever it stands. Thank you all so much for your support, friendship and dedication to Ukraine. You are all amazing. Keep being amazing.