David Axe
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Russia Forced Back To Tank Warfare With Few Working Tanks In Storage
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Russia Forced Back To Tank Warfare With Few Working Tanks In Storage
Russia's oldest tanks—some 50 years old—are all that stand between Moscow and forced mobilization
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russia-forced-back-to-tank-warfare?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Russia Has A New Tank, The T-90M2. It Plans To Build 1,800 In The Next Decade.
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Russia Has A New Tank, The T-90M2. It Plans To Build 1,800 In The Next Decade.
Can the Kremlin find, or produce, enough hulls for a massive tank program?
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russia-has-a-new-tank-the-t-90m2?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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A Russian Tank Battalion & 40 Bike Troops Attacked In Broad Daylight. Ukraine's Mines, Artillery & Drones Left Few Survivors.
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A Russian Tank Battalion & 40 Bike Troops Attacked In Broad Daylight. Ukraine's Mines, Artillery & Drones Left Few Survivors.
The assault on Shakhove, north of Pokrovsk, squandered carefully stockpiled vehicle.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/a-russian-tank-battalion-and-40-bike?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 days ago
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As Ukraine Saves Pokrovsk, Russia Punches Through Thinned Lines 50 Miles South
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As Ukraine Saves Pokrovsk, Russia Punches Through Thinned Lines 50 Miles South
With more troops and vehicles, the Russians have the edge in southern Donetsk
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/as-ukraine-saves-pokrovsk-russia?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 days ago
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The 154th Mechanized Brigade Has Some of Ukraine's Worst Equipment—And It's About To Fight Russia's Biggest Division
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The 154th Mechanized Brigade Has Some of Ukraine's Worst Equipment—And It's About To Fight Russia's Biggest Division
Say a prayer for a brigade riding in old BMP-1s
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-154th-mechanized-brigade-has?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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In 1983, A U.S. Navy Strike Package Got Bloodied And Humiliated Trying to Bomb Syrian Air Defenses
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In 1983, A U.S. Navy Strike Package Got Bloodied And Humiliated Trying to Bomb Syrian Air Defenses
The Navy failed where the Israeli air force succeeded
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/in-1983-a-us-navy-strike-package?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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The Ukrainian 141st Mechanized Brigade Is Outnumbered and Outgunned. It Counterattacked Anyway.
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The Ukrainian 141st Mechanized Brigade Is Outnumbered and Outgunned. It Counterattacked Anyway.
A swift assault liberated two villages in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-ukrainian-141st-mechanized-brigade?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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The Russians Spent 9 Months Saving Up Tanks. Now They're Getting Blown Up In Donetsk.
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The Russians Spent 9 Months Saving Up Tanks. Now They're Getting Blown Up In Donetsk.
A Russian mechanized assault on Kostyantynivka ended with heavy vehicle losses.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-russians-spent-9-months-saving?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Ukraine's 59-Kill Cargo Plane Proves Low Tech Can Beat High Tech
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Ukraine's 59-Kill Cargo Plane Proves Low Tech Can Beat High Tech
Ukraine is launching every possible light plane to defend against swarms of Russian Shahed drones
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraines-59-kill-cargo-plane-proves?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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'Die In Droves': 100,000 Russians Killed Or Wounded Trying To Take Pokrovsk This Year
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'Die In Droves': 100,000 Russians Killed Or Wounded Trying To Take Pokrovsk This Year
The Russians are losing 1,000 troops a day
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/die-in-droves-100000-russians-killed?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Ukraine's Biggest Artillery Craves Ammo. 150,000 Shells May Arrive Soon.
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Ukraine's Biggest Artillery Craves Ammo. 150,000 Shells May Arrive Soon.
Greece is reportedly considering a huge ammo transfer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraines-biggest-artillery-craves?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Russia Landed One Of Its Last A-50U Radar Planes Within Range of Ukraine's Drones
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Russia Landed One Of Its Last A-50U Radar Planes Within Range of Ukraine's Drones
There might be four flyable A-50Us left
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russia-landed-one-of-its-last-a-50u?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 days ago
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Flying Together in RF-4 Recon Jets, American and Iranian Crews Once Spied On The Soviets
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Flying Together in RF-4 Recon Jets, American and Iranian Crews Once Spied On The Soviets
Iran and Afghanistan have long been useful bases for American efforts to monitor its rivals
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/flying-together-in-rf-4-recon-jets?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 days ago
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How Many Tanks Russia Can Produce Every Year—And How—Is A Major Mystery
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How Many Tanks Russia Can Produce Every Year—And How—Is A Major Mystery
We’ve got some new clues
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/how-many-tanks-russia-can-produce?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 days ago
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Yes, Russian Tank Production Is Collapsing
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Yes, Russian Tank Production Is Collapsing
Old tanks are running out—and new ones are too hard to build
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/yes-russian-tank-production-is-collapsing?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
9 days ago
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Ukraine Plays Deadly Whack-A-Bridge At Lyman—But Russian Engineers Are Winning
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Ukraine Plays Deadly Whack-A-Bridge At Lyman—But Russian Engineers Are Winning
One river is helping to protect a key Ukrainian town
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraine-plays-deadly-whack-a-bridge?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
9 days ago
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10 days ago
Sign of the times:
@mjgault.bsky.social
interviewed ABC's John Quiñones re: his podcast about Vanessa Guillén, a soldier who was murdered at Ft Hood in 2020. When Gault asked how Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth could roll back reforms made in response to Guillén's death, a PR person cut in to shut it down.
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Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up
Hey there Angry Planet listeners, Matthew here.
https://angryplanetpod.com/p/vanessa-guillen-and-the-importance
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To Advance Near Pokrovsk, Russian Troops March Over A 'Carpet Of Corpses'
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To Advance Near Pokrovsk, Russian Troops March Over A 'Carpet Of Corpses'
Ukrainian drones make every step extremely dangerous
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/to-advance-near-pokrovsk-russian?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
10 days ago
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Russia's Biggest Tank Division Is Heading Straight For Zaporizhzhia
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Russia's Biggest Tank Division Is Heading Straight For Zaporizhzhia
Unnoticed by the wider world, the Russian army is steadily marching west through south Donetsk
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russias-biggest-tank-division-is?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
10 days ago
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Ukraine's 110th Mechanized Brigade Survived The Hardest Fights Of The War. Now It's Battling A Whole Russian Tank Division.
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Ukraine's 110th Mechanized Brigade Survived The Hardest Fights Of The War. Now It's Battling A Whole Russian Tank Division.
Can the brigade slow the 90th Tank Division's advance?
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraines-110th-mechanized-brigade?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
11 days ago
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What Happens When 2 Armies Try To Surround Each Other? We're Finding Out In Chaotic Eastern Ukraine.
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What Happens When 2 Armies Try To Surround Each Other? We're Finding Out In Chaotic Eastern Ukraine.
Opposing pincer maneuvers fuel deepening chaos around Pokrovsk
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/what-happens-when-2-armies-try-to?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
12 days ago
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Near Pokrovsk, Ukraine Discovers Chaos Favors The Bigger Army
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Near Pokrovsk, Ukraine Discovers Chaos Favors The Bigger Army
Every attack exposes flanks to counterattack, and Russia has more troops for both
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/near-pokrovsk-ukraine-discovers-chaos?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
12 days ago
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Ukraine Hits The Planes That Haul Russia's Missiles
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Ukraine Hits The Planes That Haul Russia's Missiles
Ukrainian drones are targeting the cargo planes that make Russia's own air raids on Ukrainian cities possible
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraine-hits-the-planes-that-haul?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Ukraine's Lesson For Taiwan: Build Big, Cheap And Numerous Cruise Missiles
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Ukraine's Lesson For Taiwan: Build Big, Cheap And Numerous Cruise Missiles
Taipei needs its own Flamingo
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraines-lesson-for-taiwan-build?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
12 days ago
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The Russians Are Shoving Artillery Into The Chaotic Pocket Outside Pokrovsk
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The Russians Are Shoving Artillery Into The Chaotic Pocket Outside Pokrovsk
At least one big gun is now 'scrap metal'
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-russians-are-shoving-artillery?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
13 days ago
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A Weary Ukrainian Brigade Held Off Russia's Huge 90th Tank Division ... For 6 Months
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A Weary Ukrainian Brigade Held Off Russia's Huge 90th Tank Division ... For 6 Months
The 72nd Mechanized Brigade has a reputation for enduring long, grueling fights
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/a-weary-ukrainian-brigade-held-off?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Russia Has Committed All Available Marines To The 'Final' Battle For Pokrovsk
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Russia Has Committed All Available Marines To The 'Final' Battle For Pokrovsk
The 61st Naval Infantry Brigade joins the fight
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russia-has-committed-all-available?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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The Russian MiG-29 Fighter Flopped Hard In Middle East Wars
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The Russian MiG-29 Fighter Flopped Hard In Middle East Wars
It's not a bad jet, but it did fly for bad air forces
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-russian-mig-29-fighter-flopped?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Russia's Last 1,000 Tanks Are 50 Years Old—But Ukraine Should Still Worry
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Russia's Last 1,000 Tanks Are 50 Years Old—But Ukraine Should Still Worry
In a war where drones rule and tanks function as glorified artillery pieces, 50-year-old steel works just fine
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russias-last-1000-tanks-are-50-years?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Ukraine Can Now Deploy Hundreds of M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles
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Ukraine Can Now Deploy Hundreds of M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles
A summer purchase grew the M-2 force to 11 battalions
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraine-can-now-deploy-hundreds-of?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Today only! 20% off premium subscriptions to my newsletter Trench Art. Get your best war news and analysis for less.
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20% Off Today Only!
Let's celebrate 4,000 subscribers with discounted premium subs
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/20-off-today-only?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
16 days ago
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The 'Last, Final Battle' For Eastern Ukraine Has Begun
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The 'Last, Final Battle' For Eastern Ukraine Has Begun
80% of Russian reinforcements are marching on Pokrovsk
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-last-final-battle-for-eastern?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
17 days ago
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Russia Is So Scared Of Ukrainian Drones, It's Stripping The Turrets Off Tanks
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Russia Is So Scared Of Ukrainian Drones, It's Stripping The Turrets Off Tanks
When you’ve lost 22,000 vehicles, converting a T-72 into an infantry carrier makes total sense
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russia-is-so-scared-of-ukrainian?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Missile Hunters: Ukraine And Russia Race To Wipe Out Each Other's Launch Crews
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Missile Hunters: Ukraine And Russia Race To Wipe Out Each Other's Launch Crews
It's so hard to intercept a Russian Iskander missile in mid-air that the Ukrainians are now hunting the launchers, instead
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/missile-hunters-ukraine-and-russia?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
17 days ago
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The Ground Shakes in Eastern Ukraine As Russia's Biggest Division And Its T-90M Tanks Prepare to Attack
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The Ground Shakes in Eastern Ukraine As Russia's Biggest Division And Its T-90M Tanks Prepare to Attack
The 90th Tank Division is repositioning for a major river battle
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-ground-shakes-in-eastern-ukraine?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
18 days ago
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To Propel Their Giant Flamingo Missiles, the Ukrainians Scraped Old Engines From a Landfill
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To Propel Their Giant Flamingo Missiles, the Ukrainians Scraped Old Engines From a Landfill
The AI-25TLs have just enough life left
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/to-propel-their-giant-flamingo-missiles?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
19 days ago
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Russia's Rare Beriev Flying Boats Were Lucky Until This Weekend. That's When Ukraine's Drones Attacked.
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Russia's Rare Beriev Flying Boats Were Lucky Until This Weekend. That's When Ukraine's Drones Attacked.
Opportunistic drone strikes hit two Be-12s.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russias-rare-beriev-flying-boats?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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In the 1990s, Turkey Melted Down Over a Few Russian Missiles in Cyprus
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In the 1990s, Turkey Melted Down Over a Few Russian Missiles in Cyprus
Times have changed
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/in-the-1990s-turkey-melted-down-over?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
20 days ago
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The Russians Keep Parking Helicopters On the Same Undefended Tarmac In Crimea. The Ukrainians Keep Blowing Them Up.
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The Russians Keep Parking Helicopters On the Same Undefended Tarmac In Crimea. The Ukrainians Keep Blowing Them Up.
Ukrainian drones and missiles range freely across Crimea.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-russians-keep-parking-helicopters?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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WOODS WITCH has the sensibility "of an eight-year-old that had unfortunately been hit with a brick to the head," according to our latest Letterboxd review. WOODS WITCH is on Tubi!
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21 days ago
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Italy Sends Ukraine An APC 'On Steroids'
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Italy Sends Ukraine An APC 'On Steroids'
The VCC-1 is an up-armored M-113
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/italy-sends-ukraine-an-apc-on-steroids?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
22 days ago
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Russian Drones and Jets Are Probing NATO's Defenses. The Lithuanians Want to Shoot Them Down.
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Russian Drones and Jets Are Probing NATO's Defenses. The Lithuanians Want to Shoot Them Down.
'TĂĽrkiye set an example 10 years ago.'
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/russian-drones-and-jets-are-probing?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
22 days ago
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Ukraine's New Big Boom FP-2 Drone Is Blowing Up Russian Bases In the Most Important Sectors
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Ukraine's New Big Boom FP-2 Drone Is Blowing Up Russian Bases In the Most Important Sectors
The FP-2 packs a 230-pound warhead
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/ukraines-new-big-boom-fp-2-drone?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
23 days ago
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David Axe canceled his Disney+ and Hulu subscription on Wednesday. He's not much of a Kimmel fan—"Jimmy Kimmel's not funny, but that's not the point," he told Business Insider—but was disappointed in Disney's actions. "If Disney's going to cave to Trump, then Disney doesn't get my money," he said.
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People are canceling their Disney+ and Hulu accounts and calling for a boycott in protest of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension
"If Disney's going to cave to Trump, then Disney doesn't get my money," one former Disney+ subscriber who canceled told Business Insider.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cancel-disney-plus-boycott-hulu-espn-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-2025-9
23 days ago
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The Bulat Tanks Are Tired. But Ukraine Can't Afford To Ditch Them.
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The Bulat Tanks Are Tired. But Ukraine Can't Afford To Ditch Them.
They used to be Ukraine’s best tanks. But they’re worn out and they’re too heavy, so the Bulats are fading away.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-bulat-tanks-are-tired-but-ukraine?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
23 days ago
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The Battlefield Around Pokrovsk Is 'A Total Mess.' And It's About To Get Worse.
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The Battlefield Around Pokrovsk Is 'A Total Mess.' And It's About To Get Worse.
How many Russians are left in their salient northeast of Pokrovsk, and where are they? No outsiders know for sure.
https://open.substack.com/pub/daxe/p/the-battlefield-around-pokrovsk-is?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
24 days ago
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Ukraine's Gray Ghost Su-27 Interceptors Are Disappearing, One Tragic Loss At a Time
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Ukraine's Gray Ghost Su-27 Interceptors Are Disappearing, One Tragic Loss At a Time
How many Su-27s are left?
https://www.trenchart.us/p/ukraines-gray-ghost-su-27-interceptors?r=7jgcu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
24 days ago
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WatchYourRepsSC
26 days ago
"A 10-year-old raped by a family member would be forced to carry and give birth to her rapist’s child." Let. That. Sink. In.
#scpol
add a skeleton here at some point
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Cancel your Disney subscription.
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Fuck Donald Trump—I don’t bow to kings. And yes, Charlie Kirk was a fascist. There, I said it. You fucking thugs going to come for me now, too?
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