97 year-old retired Navy CAPT Royce Williams finally getting his Navy Cross for a legendary (but officially forgotten) dogfight over Korea in 1952 is my favorite story this week.
But the media missed half the story: the Top Secret half....so here it is:
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In #Volgograd, #Russia, there is a military parade to commemorate the Stalingrad Battle of 1942-43.
These men are wearing uniforms of the NKVD, Stalin’s brutal secret police responsible for mass purges. The NKVD is being celebrated in 2023. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Today's guest on #RockRachon was @20committee - a security expert and former National Security Agency. John tells us about the intelligence war that preceded the #Russian aggression on #Ukraine and that is still going on right now.
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Gosh, that ginormous Chinese balloon with all those antennas sure seems to be way off course....
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Unprovoked? There's an archduke and his wife who might like a word.
Also, Austria didn't exist in 1939 but, hey, #details.
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Austro–Hungary has been on the side of unprovoked armed aggression in three European wars: 1914-18, 1939-45, and the current 2014-? war. twitter.com/KyivIndependen…
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The dinners weren't the problem, Bill
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The Chinese state has infiltrated Canadian democracy at all levels, according to a report from investigative reporter . Trudeau has issued a stern denial. Who's telling the truth? And what is Beijing up to in Canada? Sam explains his work.
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Canadian universities have for years collaborated with top Chinese military scientists on hundreds of research projects, generating knowledge that can help drive China’s defence sector in cutting-edge, high-tech industries.
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If true, this intelligence will lead to organized crime figures involved in PRC police station and casino networks in BC #projectwatch 👇
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Federal agency targeting illegal wildlife trade through financial intelligence, @JimBronskill reports bit.ly/3XSgkVa
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You KNOW you have to vote for Blessed Karl I. of Austria, right?
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World Cup of Uncrowned Saints. #WCUS
Round 1, Group 8/16. Top 2 go through to Round 2.
Whom would you canonize first?
Something for all tastes here.
Karl I of Austria
Catherine Jarrige of Mauriac
Tomás de Torquemada
Thomas à Kempis
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I saw it and liked it, historically speaking.
Midway went far in getting things right in terms of historical accuracy. Even the movie's too-good-to-be-true subplots....were actually true.
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You obviously haven't seen 2019's Midway from Lionsgate.
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Midway is Citizen Kane compared to Pearl Harbor
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Haven’t seen that one yet, in retrospect that seems like a good choice 
What about its 2019 “spiritual successor” Midway?
What about its 2019 “spiritual successor” Midway?3
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Leading today's SITREP:
The Ukraine War is far from over, NATO admits
What "split" between Moscow and Beijing?
Zoran Milanović keeps saying stuff you can't say
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Pearl Harbor is so bad it needs to be hate-watched to grasp its full awfulness, in every aspect. You will need a stiff drink or 2. It's the worst film released by a major Hollywood studio in decades.
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I remember seeing PEARL HARBOR in the theater with my HS buddies, and it's maybe the only time in my life I have ever heckled the screen in public. It was the scene where (this shit happens, I swear) FDR stands up out of his wheelchair to prove America can stand up to Japan.
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Don't do it. The Pacific is pretty bad. It just doesn't work (despite some good scenes and performances). BoB has created expectations for you that The Pacific can't match.
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I am debating whether to dive into THE PACIFIC next, or to really double-down on the horror in a different way by mainlining NARCOS, which comes compulsively recommended to me by people I respect.
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No big, but war with China may be coming...sooner than you think.
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Thanks, Dirk, when partisan Democrats like you and full-on MAGAs are both yelling at me over the exact same statement, I know I'm in the right place.
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We definitely have enough information to decide he's apolotical.
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We can be certain that Western intelligence agencies know more about Linke’s spy ring than they’re telling the public. The preeminent question now is: Does this Kremlin spy network have still more members, yet undetected?
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You get more of what you reward. Everywhere. twitter.com/spincity615/st
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McGonigal seems to have been apolitical, just a greedy idiot. Speculating about What It All Means before we understand exactly when he went rogue & why is dumb and counterproductive. Of course, stupid hyperventilated speculation is the Birdsite's special sauce, so here we are.
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A bag full of cash on the floor for a senior FBI official is, checks notes, probably shady. businessinsider.com/charles-mcgoni
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"Germany’s big Russian mole scandal gets worse — and involves America" by
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It's Berlin, all too easy to believe, alas.
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Another terrifying nat sec weak link from an ally…hard to believe.
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“We can be certain that Western intelligence agencies know more about [Carsten] Linke’s spy ring than they’re telling the public.” -
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It's a fast-moving Friday in Spooklandia, if you blink you might miss it
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"That someone as dubious as Linke had been chosen to head that service’s counterintelligence shop explains why the BND was unable to find any Russian mole without incriminating tips from Western partner spy agencies."
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The BND's Russian mole disaster is spreading far beyond Berlin. Just how big was this Kremlin spy network operating inside Western intelligence?
We need answers.
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"Best job I ever had!"
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A group of Austro-Hungarian 'Sturmtruppen' armed with hand grenades and spring clubs. These nasty hand-to-hand weapons consisted of a heavy metal ball conected to a handle by a strong and flexible coil spring. Also note the axe carried by the guy standing on the right.
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The age of the tank is always over, until suddenly it isn't, 1917-present.
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Didnt we spend the last 6 months telling everyone the age of the tank was over?
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200 Leopard 2s, which NATO can provide, is enough for 3 new armored brigades (or so) for the ZSU. Big deal. twitter.com/jimgeraghty/st
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Today they're all suddenly tank experts.
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All the epidemiology experts have pivoted to CI
Soon they’ll migrate back to being legal consultants specializing in Constitutional matters.
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Reality: 2 companies of Abrams* won't have much impact on the war. But if NATO gets its act together and can get a couple hundred Leopard 2s to Ukraine in 2023, that will cause real pain for Russia.
*Ask the Wehrmacht about how small numbers of super-tanks don't change wars.
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The fervidly conspiratorial counterespionage musings of people who's never worked a day as a staff officer in anybody's intelligence service are worthy of laughter, but hey, this is Twitter, so why bother with #facts when there are RTs to be had.
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Thank you, Poland (especially Biuro Szyfrów)!
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Arthur Scherbius received a patent for a cipher machine, now known as the Enigma, #OTD in 1918. The Germans believed in the innate security of the Enigma. They never realized that the Allies read most of the encrypted Enigma messages throughout #WW2. virmuze.com/m/crypto-museu
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It's unsurprising that small numbers of classified docs wind up in the "UNCLAS" papers of former POTUS/VP. Mistakes happen. As long as they're C or S, it's not a huge deal.
If there's TS, worse SCI (as with Trump & Biden) something has gone very wrong. That's not a minor error.
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VIPs taking classified "home" is not a new problem, folks. That and a lot else in today's YourINT SITREP.
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