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John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The US Department of Justice has filed its Memorandum in Support of Andrew Tate’s extradition to the UK.
The DOJ argues that the UK’s submission establishes probable cause that Andrew Tate committed the 39 charged offenses being considered for extradition.
The DOJ also emphasizes that the allegations are not based solely on victims’ statements, citing substantial independent corroborating evidence, including communications, witness accounts, travel records, and banking records.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Socialist theory promises to destroy the ruling class.
In reality, it simply replaces business owners who compete for your dollar with unaccountable party commissars who rule your life with a gun.
You don't eliminate the hierarchy, you just make it armed, ruthless, and impossible to escape.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
At Auschwitz, Josef Mengele stood on the selection ramp and called: “Zwillinge heraus.” Twins, step forward.
He pulled roughly 1,500 pairs of children—mostly Jewish and Roma—from the trains. They received slightly better food and a separate barracks. Then the work began.
One twin was injected with disease, phenol, or unknown substances. The other served as the living control. Eye drops meant to change color produced blindness and permanent damage. Surgeries occurred without anesthesia. When one child died, the other was frequently killed the same day so both could be dissected side by side. Of the estimated 3,000 children, only about 200 survived.
In occupied Manchuria, Japan’s Unit 731 under Shirō Ishii called prisoners “maruta”—logs. Thousands of Chinese civilians, POWs, and others were deliberately infected with plague, anthrax, cholera, or typhoid, then vivisected without anesthesia so researchers could observe the disease in living tissue. Frostbite tests, pressure chambers, limb amputations and reattachments, forced impregnation followed by further experiments. No one is documented to have left the facility alive.
Those were secret, lethal experiments on captives under wartime totalitarian regimes, driven by racial ideology or bioweapons development. The doctors recorded their results, shipped organs to institutes, and most escaped full accountability.
Decades later, under a different ideology, another cohort of doctors began chemically and surgically altering the healthy developing bodies of minors experiencing gender distress. Puberty blockers (GnRH agonists) followed by cross-sex hormones. The claimed justification: affirmation of an internal identity, reduction of dysphoria, prevention of suicide.
The evidence base has not held. The UK’s Cass Review (2024), drawing on systematic reviews by the University of York, concluded the evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in adolescents is “remarkably weak” and “wholly inadequate.” No reliable evidence of long-term benefit for dysphoria or mental health. Clear risks to bone density; fertility and sexual function compromised or destroyed; effects on cognitive and psychosexual development unknown.
The UK ended routine NHS use of puberty blockers. Sweden, Finland, Norway, and others restricted them to research or exceptional cases, returning to psychosocial approaches first. Historical data showed high desistance rates for childhood-onset dysphoria when left untreated. The post-2010s surge has been overwhelmingly adolescent-onset and female, with elevated rates of autism, trauma, anxiety, and depression.
The interventions are irreversible for many: sterility, loss of sexual function, lifelong medical dependence, unknown cognitive impacts. Internal documents from activist medical groups have acknowledged that many minors cannot fully grasp the permanence. Systematic reviews of benefit were weak or absent; dissent was often treated as ideological rather than scientific.
When the current ideological framework loses its institutional power, when the evidence is examined without political pressure, and when a full accounting occurs, the chemical and surgical medicalization of healthy minors for gender distress will be viewed by future medical historians as a profound ethical failure—on the same order of horror as the earlier experiments that treated children as material for an unproven theory.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
In 2007, Marlon West tracked his missing teenage daughter, Scarlett, to a Rochdale grooming flat and tried to force his way in.
Instead of rescuing the girl, Greater Manchester Police arrested Marlon for breach of the peace.
The family later waived their anonymity to expose the failure, highlighting how authorities punished protective parents.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
I'm being mass reported by the girlymen of the Christian Nationalists. If I get suspended, realize it's political. I had this sent my way like a week and a half ago, and X said it doesn't constitute violence or threats. Just FYI.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Putin's operation to make people think that Charlie Kirk represented Russia's "traditional and spiritual values" started in 2018 and went into overdrive as soon as he couldn't speak for himself anymore.
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Putin compared Charlie Kirk to an American who defected and died fightin... youtube.com/shorts/aoqR-Zmeq… via @YouTube
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John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
On October 27, 2024, servicemen from Rogue Team and Omega Team of the GUR International Legion were tasked with locating and eliminating Russian FSB and SOF DRG groups conducting cross-border ambushes in Ukraine’s Chernihiv and Sumy Oblasts.
During the mission, the teams attempted to infiltrate enemy territory but encountered a fortified Russian position near the village of Brahlov in Bryansk Oblast.
According to Rogue Team fighter with the callsign "Snow," they had expected a trench position but instead came across a heavily fortified underground bunker with trenches and eight firing positions. "It was like Fort Knox," - "Snow" recalls.
Rogue Team split into two main teams: Alpha and Bravo. Rogue Alpha and Omega Team assaulted the fortification from the treeline west of Rogue Bravo.
Rogue Bravo then split into two groups, with one advancing to assault the fortification while the other remained behind to provide covering fire. The actions of Rogue Bravo were captured on video by one of its fighters, callsign "Uno."
At 05:05, the fighters launched an assault from two directions, throwing grenades into the Russian positions and attempting to storm the fortification. However, they were met with heavy Russian fire. This marked the beginning of the operation's most difficult moments.
- Rogue Alpha, which was attacking the fortification from the treeline, came under Russian machine-gun fire and lost two fighters (off-screen). The team leader, Bradley Carl Jennison, callsign "Super Dave," was shot in the chest and died at the scene. Reportedly, Simon Petrik Rajakisto, callsign "Rauta," was wounded in an open field and could not be evacuated due to heavy Russian fire, so he blew himself up to avoid capture.
- 16:45 Somewhere around this time, Rogue Bravo fighters again attempted to enter the bunker but failed.
- At 17:38 Canadian volunteer Mandeep Singh, callsign "Poet" moved into the open and was wounded by small-arms fire. His comrade, American volunteer Corey John Nawrocki, then attempted to reach "Poet" and drag him to safety under covering fire from the cameraman, but Russian fire killed both men.
- 20:24 While attempting to help them, one of the fighters was wounded in the head, possibly in the neck area. With only two fighters remaining at the position, they decided to withdraw to the rear position where the second Rogue Bravo group was stationed and requested covering fire, but received no response.
- 22:14 The fighters began retreating under Russian fire. Possibly due to communication problems, their comrades only began providing covering fire at the last moment.
- 23:20 The fighters provided first aid to the wounded man and spent the next few minutes trying to contact Omega and Rogue Alpha to request covering fire for their withdrawal.
- 32:17 Due to communication problems, the fighters were unable to contact their comrades. However, they spotted members of Omega Team in the treeline and decided to cross the open field directly in front of the Russian positions.
- 33:07 The cameraman crosses the open field under Russian fire and enters the treeline.
- 35:07 The fighters began retreating through the forested area as Russian forces pursued them. In addition to the difficult terrain, they also encountered barbed wire. One of the fighters got caught on the wire, forcing the group to stop for several minutes.
- 42:11 The fighters eventually regrouped with other teams.
- 1:10:30 After regrouping with other groups and resting briefly, the soldiers began their withdrawal toward Ukrainian territory.
Rogue Team lost four fighters during the operation.
🛡 Bradley Carl Jennison, "Super Dave" - 🇺🇸
🛡 Simon Petrik Rajakisto, "Rauta" - 🇸🇪
🛡 Mandeep Singh, "Poet" - 🇨🇦
🛡 Corey John Nawrocki, "Corey" - 🇺🇸
Unfortunately, their bodies could not be recovered at that time. May they rest in peace, and may their sacrifice never be forgotten.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Kharkiv is hell right now.
russians have struck a residential apartment building. A massive fire has broken out, and people are trapped inside.
russia is a terrorist state.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
🇺🇦🇷🇺 BUDANOV SAYS PUTIN HAS DRIVEN RUSSIA INTO A STRATEGIC DEAD END
“Russia has driven itself into a dead end. It has no strategic solution left. What they are doing now only delays their defeat.”
Kyrylo Budanov’s assessment goes beyond the question of how much territory Russia can capture or how many soldiers it can send into battle. He is arguing that Moscow’s fundamental problem is strategic: continuing the war does not necessarily bring it closer to achieving the political objectives for which it launched the invasion.
Russia can still mobilize manpower, manufacture weapons and inflict enormous destruction. Its ability to sustain military operations should not be confused with an inability to fight. But sustaining a war and finding a way to achieve its objectives are two different things.
Moscow began its full-scale invasion expecting to impose its will on Ukraine. Instead, it has faced years of resistance, heavy military losses, international sanctions and a Ukrainian state that continues to fight for its independence.
Budanov’s argument is that prolonging the conflict cannot resolve those underlying failures. Even further battlefield gains would not automatically translate into the political outcome the Kremlin originally sought.
Whether Russia ultimately suffers the defeat he predicts remains uncertain. But his warning raises a question that military statistics alone cannot answer: how does Moscow turn the enormous cost of this war into a sustainable strategic success?
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
My investigation into Russia's latest attempts to plot sabotage of Nato bases in Sweden, Lithuania and Norway: it's holiday home hybrid war. Latest with @LilyShanagher on a strange new chapter in the Moscow playbook...
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
This year, Ukraine’s positions on the front remain stronger than they have been in a long time during this war. If our partners’ support for Ukraine remained just as strong – particularly when it comes to Patriots and other air defense capabilities – Ukraine would be in a much better position diplomatically as well. Just now, in October alone – since October 14 – there have already been several Russian ballistic missile attacks. Essentially, in two weeks, more than 100 ballistic missiles have been launched against Kyiv and the region. Unfortunately, there are significant restrictions on supplies, with air defense packages being delayed. I want to thank all our partners who provide their support on time.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
People who have sacrificed very little and lost nothing often find it easiest to forgive the very worst atrocities, on behalf of those who have lost everything.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Russian intel chief:
"We gotta stop including 'Friends of Russia' when we name our fronts. It's too obvious."
Russian intel officer:
"OK, all we gotta do is add 'conservative' to it and they'll think it's about patriotism or some shit like that."
Russian intel chief:
"How much of a dumbass are you? That'll never work. No one is as stupid as you are."
Russian intel officer:
"They are. Just watch."
A ‘diplomat’ who launched the ‘Conservative Friends of Russia’ group has now been identified as a Russian intelligence officer involved in an attempted European disinformation campaign bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/t…
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
So, shall we spell out Trump’s actions regarding Putin and Russia, dear Americans?
1) Trump normalizes the dictator Putin by hosting him in Anchorage.
2) Trump constantly pressures Ukraine, while exerting no pressure on Russia.
3) Trump’s son—who frequently criticizes Ukraine in public—receives funds for his wedding from a Russian oligarch in Putin’s inner circle, and vacations with him in Mongolia.
4) Trump repeatedly lifts sanctions on Russian oil, enabling Putin to continue financing the war in Ukraine.
5) Trump is attempting to return frozen assets to Putin.
6) Trump is trying to unfreeze the "dirty money" belonging to Putin’s associates for his own personal enrichment.
7) To be continued...
Could true Republicans have imagined such a scenario even a decade ago? So brazen corruption and immorality?
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Ukrainian Defenders evacuated 8 civilians from Lyman, shielding them from a Russian drone with their own bodies.
Among the rescued civilians were an elderly woman, three wheelchair-bound individuals with disabilities, and a man with a severe leg wound. Everyone was successfully brought to safety.
During the evacuation, a strike and search team operated on the ground, including French and American legionnaires: "Flash," "Cowboy," "Spud," "Chandra," and "Fanta." Aerial reconnaissance monitored the routes from above, warning of enemy ambushes. Logistics and the river crossing on MaxxPro armored vehicles were provided by a mortar battery and an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) unit.
At the final stage, a Russian FPV drone spotted and attacked the group. However, one of the fighters shielded the civilians with his body, sustaining severe injuries. Thanks to the timely actions of his brothers-in-arms, he survived.
📹:Defenders of the 63rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, 3rd Army Corps.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Today, 2 years ago, we lost 4 amazing souls during one of the hardest missions of the GUR Legion that I can personally remember..
🇺🇸 Bradley Carl Jennison, callsign “Super Dave” (1983–2024)
🇺🇸 Corey John Nawrocki, callsign “Corey” (1982–2024)
🇸🇪 Simon Petrik Rajakisto, callsign “Rauta” (2001–2024)
🇨🇦 Mandeep Singh, callsign “Poet” (1993–2024)
We spent months afterwards talking with the guys from GUR who survived that mission, trying to understand what happened, how it happened and everything surrounding it.. and even now, 2 years later, we are still talking about it, still remembering…
Some things you just cannot forget, no matter how much time passes.. and some things you will never be able to forgive.
Never forgive. Never forget. 🕯️🇺🇦
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Yezhov – The Butcher.
His old boss once said he had never met a more ideal worker: "Give him a task and you don't need to check on him – he'll get it done. He has only one shortcoming: he doesn't know when to stop."
Nikolai Yezhov was a small man, barely five feet tall, a former factory worker with little schooling who rose through the Party as a diligent, obedient bureaucrat. He was exactly the man the system needed.
A small and vicious man – in power, he drank heavily and liked to go down to the prisons to watch interrogations – sometimes joining the beatings himself. When his wife had an affair with the novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, Yezhov had their hotel room bugged and listened to the recordings. He watched his own bedroom just as he watched over the whole country.
His philosophy fit in one sentence: better that ten innocent people suffer than one spy escape. English law had said the opposite for centuries: better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent suffer. That one reversal is the whole difference between a civilization and a terror.
In 1936, Stalin put him at the head of the NKVD. The old boss who had praised him was shot in the terror that followed.
The West calls it the Great Purge. Russians remember it as the Yezhovshchina – "the Yezhov times." But it was not a frenzy. It was a plan.
An order of July 1937 gave every region a quota: so many to be shot – the "first category" – and so many to be sent to the camps – the "second category." Local chiefs competed to fulfill the plan and asked Moscow to raise their limits. Moscow usually agreed.
Torture was authorized from the top. Then came the national operations – Germans, Latvians, Finns, and above all Poles. Order 00485, signed by Yezhov, hunted an organization that did not exist. The verdicts came in albums, a few lines per person. In Moscow, two signatures sealed them – Yezhov's and the prosecutor Vyshinsky's – hundreds of death sentences at a sitting.
The wives of the condemned went to the camps. Their children went to orphanages.
Propaganda posters showed him crushing a many-headed snake in a spiked glove. His name means "hedgehog," and "hedgehog gloves" is the Russian idiom for an iron grip.
In two years, around seven hundred thousand people were shot.
Then the machine needed a culprit. In 1938, Beria arrived as his deputy, and by November Yezhov was out. In April 1939 he was arrested, tortured with the methods he had perfected, and made to confess to being a spy. At his secret trial, he asked that Stalin be told he would die with his name on his lips. He was shot in February 1940.
Then he was erased – from the photographs, from the records, from the story. The terror kept his name, Yezhovshchina, so that it would not carry the Master's.
His adopted daughter was sent to an orphanage, like the children of his victims.
The machine is never satisfied. It always needs the next name on the list – and, when the time comes, the name of the man who made the lists.
Next: Beria.
The Butchers – The Men Who Ran the Soviet Terror.
Moscow, a winter night in 1937. Long past midnight in the Kremlin, a man with a pipe sits at his desk under a lamp. In front of him, a stack of typed lists – names, one per line. He runs a blue pencil down the pages. A tick. A note in the margin. Sometimes a name crossed out, sometimes one added. The same pencil he uses to edit film scripts and poems.
His officials stay awake at home, next to the phone, in case he calls before dawn.
Hundreds of lists. Tens of thousands of names. On a single day, December 12, 1937, he and Molotov approved more than three thousand death sentences. Then, historians tell us, they went to watch a film.
But Stalin didn't invent the machine. He perfected it.
In August 1918, Lenin sent a telegram to his comrades: hang at least a hundred kulaks – hang them so that people see it for hundreds of kilometers around. Trotsky, the "good communist" of Western nostalgia, ordered the families of officers taken as hostages.
The founders gave the orders. Then the machine needed men – men who would build the apparatus, fill the camps, write the confessions and pull the triggers. And sooner or later, it devoured many of them.
1. Dzerzhinsky – the Founder. "Iron Felix," a Polish noble's son, who built the Cheka in 1917.
2. Trotsky – the Myth. The revolutionary Western intellectuals still romanticize, who wrote a whole book defending terror – until the machine he helped build killed him with an ice axe.
3. Stalin – the Editor. The man at the desk, with the blue pencil, long past midnight.
4. Yagoda – the Builder. The Gulag as an economy: canals dug by prisoners who died by the tens of thousands. Then shot by his own machine.
5. Vyshinsky – the Prosecutor. "Confession is the queen of evidence" – so he got confessions. "Shoot the mad dogs!" at the show trials, then the Soviet seat at the United Nations.
6. Yezhov – the Butcher. The Great Terror, the quotas, the Polish operation – then shot, and erased from the photographs.
7. Beria – the Strategist. Katyn, the atomic bomb, the deportations – and a predator. Shot by his own colleagues three months after Stalin's death.
8. Blokhin – the Executioner. In the spring of 1940, at Kalinin, he personally shot thousands of Polish prisoners over a few weeks, in a leather apron and cap.
9. Serov – the Hunter of Poland. He crushed the Home Army, lured the leaders of the Polish Underground State to "talks" and had them tried in Moscow. Then Hungary in 1956, and the first chairman of the KGB.
10. Andropov – the Modernizer. Dissidents sent to psychiatric hospitals instead of camps: softer, quieter – same goal: erasing people. The first secret police chief to rule the country.
11. Epilogue – The Chekists Never Left. From the KGB to the FSB to the Kremlin.
Why name them? Because their whole work was erasure – of people, of records, of memory. Remembering is the opposite of what they did.
And erasure didn't die with them. Today it rarely needs a bullet. It is called cancelling, deplatforming, debanking, lawfare. The inconvenient person isn't shot – he is removed: from his job, his bank account, his platform, the conversation. Yezhov needed a retoucher. Today a terms-of-service update does the job.
For Poles, these are not names from a history book. They are the names behind our grandparents' graves – and that is why we recognize their heirs.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Imagine you are a dental hygienist and live in Sweden..
You are employed to help “migrant children” with their dental issues.
As part of your job you examine the wisdom teeth development of the kids and you notice that 80% of those “kids” have fully formed wisdom teeth, implying they are not kids at all but adults older than the age of 18.
You tell the Swedish Migration Agency and they advise you to put it in writing.
When you send exact details, with examples of specific patients you are suspended, investigated and fired for disclosing private information relating to patients.
This happened to Bernt Herlitz in 2017.
When he appealed the unfair dismissal he ultimately lost and was fined about $50,000.
He and his family faced financial hardship and almost lost their home, until some generous benefactors raised money for him. Bernt remains unemployed today, despite staff shortages for dentists in his area in Gotland.
At the time, Sweden scoffed at the tests and claimed they were “discriminatory” but since then they have quietly brought in mass dental testing, for those whose age is in doubt, by the National Board of Forensic Medicine.
Bernt deserves a medal. Not vilification and unemployment.
John Wagner 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
At what point is giving Ukrainians to the very people executing and torturing them a plausible option?
I warned in my article that civilians must be free to choose where they go. Having literally been down this road before, I know why that matters.
Lo and behold, the FT now reports evacuees will first be taken to occupied Crimea or Russia.
What guarantees do they have of reaching Ukrainian-controlled territory?
