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Reports just confirmed another slaughter in Nigeria: at least 62 dead, dozens wounded, and thousands forced to flee after armed gunmen raided a local community.
Right now, 7 out of every 10 Christian martyrs on the planet die in that single country alone. One is murdered every 86 minutes.
The legacy media will still chalk it up to "land disputes.” That is a lie. It is the targeted, systematic slaughter of Christians, as well as Muslims who aren’t radical enough.
When ISIS burned Christians in cages, the world changed the channel. When Kabul fell, they looked away. I refuse to.
This week, two brave women from my charity, @Mercury1Charity, are flying to Nigeria to help build rescue networks. It’s a humanly impossible mission, but I believe that’s where God does His best work.
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波兰外长西科尔斯基在公开讲话里提醒西方：
别被那种“俄罗斯总能打赢”的迷思给蒙住了。
真去翻战史账本，事情根本不是这么回事。
西科尔斯基一口气数了六场：
克里米亚战争、日俄战争、第一次世界大战、入侵波兰、阿富汗战争，以及冷战。
这六场大仗，俄罗斯全输了。
我们先看 1853 年的克里米亚战争。
沙皇号称欧洲宪兵，看着体量无比庞大。
结果英法联军端着线膛步枪、坐着蒸汽动力铁甲舰开过来，俄军手里拿的还是老式滑膛枪，后勤全靠牛车在烂泥里硬拉。
最后塞瓦斯托波尔要塞陷落，黑海舰队只能自己把军舰全凿沉在港湾里。
沙皇尼古拉一世服毒身亡，直接逼出了后来的农奴制改革。
再看 1904 年日俄战争。
沙俄向远东出兵，原本以为十拿九稳。
结果陆战旅顺受挫，波罗的海舰队千里迢迢绕了大半个地球赶到对马海峡，被日本联合舰队几小时内打到全军覆没。
远东扩张彻底停滞，直接引爆了圣彼得堡的 1905 年革命，沙皇统治根基当场裂开。
到了一战，更惨烈。
号称“俄罗斯压路机”，动员了上千万人。
打到 1917 年，后方经济瘫痪，前线士兵连步枪都发不齐，几个人抢一把枪。
前线大面积哗变，后方面包断供，罗曼诺夫王朝三百年基业瞬间垮台。
新政权只能签下《布列斯特条约》，割让近百万平方公里土地，灰溜溜退出战争。
1920 年苏波战争。
红军一路打到华沙城下，准备借道波兰向欧洲腹地推进。
结果波兰人在维斯瓦河绝地反击，切断了红军补给线，十万红军溃散被俘。
到了 1979 年阿富汗战争。
苏联机械化部队长驱直入，以为几个月就能解决战斗。
结果陷在山地游击战里整整打了十年，死伤数万人，军费把国家财政榨干。
撤军后不到三年，整个苏联轰然解体。
最后是冷战。
苏联在东欧堆了上万辆坦克，核弹头造得比全世界加起来还多。
军工吞掉了全国三分之一的经济资源，轻工业和民生彻底枯竭。
西方甚至不用开一枪，这套庞然大物自己就倒下了。
既然输了这么多，那“俄罗斯不可战胜”的印象到底是从哪来的？
说白了，绝大多数人脑子里记住的，其实只有两场极端特例：
一场是 1812 年拿破仑打莫斯科；
另一场是 1941 年希特勒打莫斯科。
但这两场胜利，背后有两个绝对前提。
第一，那是本土防御战，对手孤军深入几千公里，被广袤的国土纵深和冬天活活耗死。
第二，也是最关键的一点：背后有外部顶级工业大国的全力输血。
二战期间，光是美国《租借法案》，就给苏联运去了 40 万辆卡车、1.4 万架飞机、几百万吨高能炸药和航空燃油。
连红军吃的肉罐头和穿的军靴，大半都是美国工厂运过去的。
赫鲁晓夫后来在回忆录里承认：如果没有美国的援助，苏联根本扛不住纳粹德国。
把战史还原到具体的因果上，规律其实清清楚楚：
一旦离开本土纵深跑去打对外扩张，
一旦没有外部先进工业国的技术和资源补给，
落后的经济结构和脆弱的后勤体系，根本扛不住现代工业联盟的长期消耗。
西科尔斯基在台上点出这六场大仗，说的都是血淋淋的算账逻辑。
当一个政权把“底盘大、能耗得起”当成万能底牌时，历史早就给出了答案：
近代俄罗斯每一次真正输掉帝国国运，恰恰都发生在它以为自己耗得起的时候。
Minerva's Owl retweeted
🚨🚨🚨 PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS🚨🚨🚨
Whilst Melania claims she is saving the people in Oleshky who have been starving to death under Russia occupation and bombing, Russian forces for refusing to let Oleshky residents cross the short Dnipro River distance to Ukrainian-held areas during evacuations, directing them instead deeper into occupied Crimea or Russia where they risk further coercive processing.
Melania has not secured ANY guarantees that Ukrainian residents will be transported to Ukrainian held territory where they will be safe following an evacuation form Oleshky.
THE CEASEFIRE HAS COMMENCED
The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.
Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys.
General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.
Minerva's Owl retweeted
Diplomacy isn’t a real estate deal, so why are we sending Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to negotiate with Putin?
These two jackasses are too busy complimenting a dictator instead of standing up for America and our allies.
Minerva's Owl retweeted
Bipartisan pressure is mounting in the US Congress to bypass the current blocks applied by the White House on weapons deliveries to Ukraine and remove obstacles delaying military assistance, according to Axios and Roll Call.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers are pursuing legislative measures to address weapons-transfer delays. A bipartisan Senate bill would streamline the transfer of American-made weapons from European allies to Ukraine, including 155mm artillery shells, Excalibur precision rounds and HIMARS rockets.
The push comes amid growing congressional scrutiny of reported delays in Patriot interceptor deliveries and restrictions on US intelligence support for Ukraine.
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HEARTBREAKING: A church in Nigeria was stormed by Islamic terrorists who started shooting everyone in sight.
The congregants tried to escape in a panic, but were slaughtered or kidnapped by terrorists lying in wait outside.
Do not stop talking about the real genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
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In 1960 the Aral Sea was the fourth-largest lake on Earth, and the fishing towns on its shore were hauling in 160 tons of fish a day.
Then a cotton plan written in Moscow sent the sea's two rivers into the fields. By 2009, more than 90% of the sea's water was gone.
This is what Soviet central planning did to nature. 🧵
Minerva's Owl retweeted
So, what do we have? A Russian intelligence-directed sabotage operation that set fire to Romania’s Carfil weapons manufacturing facility in Brașov.
According to the SRI, the network had additional targets across the region. Two suspects were arrested in Germany while preparing similar acts, while a third was located in Poland.
Romania has strengthened security around defence facilities and critical infrastructure.
This is one of the first cases in which Romania has directly attributed a sabotage operation to Russian intelligence and one of the rare cases where footage of the fire itself is available to the public.
BREAKING: 🇷🇴🇷🇺 Romania’s intelligence service (SRI) has uncovered a Russian intelligence-directed sabotage network involved in a fire at the Carfil military industrial platform in Brașov, Romania, on September 14.
According to the SRI, the network was coordinated from Russia and involved several citizens of former Soviet states living in EU countries. Judicial proceedings are underway in Romania and in cooperation with authorities in other European countries.
Investigators say Russian coordinators had assigned the network additional targets across the region, including arms factories and other military and industrial facilities. The SRI also identified other sabotage attempts in Romania this year, including at facilities used to train Ukrainian armed forces.
Romanian authorities say the operations aim to intimidate European countries, damage their defence capabilities and undermine regional security. The investigation is ongoing, with Romanian intelligence working alongside national agencies and European partners.
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BREAKING!! Seven bipartisan lawmakers warn U.S. banks, fuel distributors and port authorities that importing Russian diesel could invite legal action and congressional scrutiny, while helping fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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🇺🇸👀 Democrats are preparing the ground for an investigation into Trump's diesel fuel deal with Russia, - Axios.
Leading Democratic politicians, who could hold influential positions next year, are demanding that major banks and ports preserve all documentation they hold related to potential imports or other transactions involving Russian diesel fuel.
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Seventy years ago today, on Bloody Thursday, Soviet troops and the secret police opened fire on unarmed Hungarians peacefully demonstrating in front of Parliament.
The barbaric attack left hundreds dead and wounded.
We will never forget them.
Gloria Victis.❤️🤍💚
Minerva's Owl retweeted
A great article by @PhilipIngMBE.
Our adversaries are constantly looking for ways to undermine us. Recognising the threats we face and preparing for all eventualities is essential to strengthening our deterrence, preventing conflict and safeguarding our children’s future.
Preparedness is not about seeking conflict; it’s about doing everything we can to prevent it.
You can read the article here:
dailymail.com/debate/article…
Minerva's Owl retweeted
Mitch McConnell has just delivered a warning Trump cannot afford to ignore.
In The Wall Street Journal, the veteran Republican senator warned that Trump’s continued submission to Putin could jeopardise his entire legislative agenda.
McConnell calls Trump’s Russia policy strategically naive and morally bankrupt. More importantly, he signals that Republican senators may withhold their support unless Trump changes course.
This is no longer merely about Ukraine. It is about whether Republicans will allow an American president to keep rewarding a Russian dictator while undermining America’s allies.
For once, Trump may discover that Congress has a spine.
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A nightmare for Putin and his tools like Musk, Farage, Le Pen and the AfD - Indefatigable Georgians waving St. George's Crosses, EU flags, and a Ukrainian flag in resistance to the ruling Putinist regime. – at Brighton, England
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Zelenskyy: On Saturday at 5:20 a.m., Ukraine's early warning on Russian ballistic strikes worked at 100% and Starlink came back.
Starlink now runs at a new speed of 420 km/h after the 100-mile limit. This is the result of our Oslo talks with the Americans. 1/
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Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.
This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior.
Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly".
We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians.
The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption.
We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.
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It is possible that the rumors relating to a new batch of European-made Stormshadow / SCALP EG missiles to Ukraine might be true.
Another factory in Russia has been struck this afternoon, this time in Yelets, Lipetsk region. Several impacts have been reported. The area has been cordoned off and ambulances are rushing in.
This comes only 2 days after a factory belonging to Russia's military industrial complex in Oryol was targeted and shot ablaze.
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Everyone hates Russia.
If you see someone that says otherwise on this platform, there’s a 98% that it’s a bot, and for the 2% of them that isn’t, there’s a 100% chance that they’re a fucking idiot.
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Things heating up in Serbia as the election hasn't gone as the Russian-backed Vucic regime planned, now pouring troops onto the streets, here readying (in true soviet fashion) to seizing the city's TV station.
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UPDATE | 🇺🇦 Ukraine is pushing back against Elon Musk's claim that its military violated Starlink's terms by using the civilian satellite service for offensive drone strikes.
Serhii Beskrestnov, a defense technology adviser to Zelensky, says commercial Starlink terminals have been subject to speed and geographic restrictions since February, making the medium- and long-range strikes Musk describes technically impossible.
Ukrainian drone supplier Serhii Sternenko also says missions requiring satellite connectivity relied on Starshield, not civilian Starlink.
Musk has acknowledged that SpaceX restricted Starlink service but maintains that the US government controls Starshield.