Journal of Slavic Military Studies
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The Journal of Slavic Military Studies investigates all aspects of military affairs in the Slavic nations of central and eastern Europe, as well as Eurasia, including adjacent themes of history, society, politics, economics, policy, and warfare.
Second issue of the year… is a special issue on Ukraine, "Lessons from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022,” guest edited by Deborah Sanders here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Dr Sanders also covers the naval situation in "Maritime lessons from the war in Ukraine"
Lessons from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Published in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2026)
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Meet the sideshow FREAKS who REFUSE to use the work-stealing, planet-burning, minority-choking, teen-killing, water-guzzling, brain melter that gets most things wrong and makes the user decide whether they give a shit enough to do their job correctly or if they've given up completely on themselves.
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo agoMeet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social
Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 3mo agoThe Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination
If you’re using the word “marathon” in a context with Iran, for God’s sake look up the fucking etymology you ignorant churls
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Holy shit, this Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge found "AI" bullshit in briefs filed by the lawyers in this case and was having utterly and completely None Of It. Fucking *Love* to see it.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5mo agoEveryone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In all my years at WaPo, this happened to me twice, and it was a huge Marty-Baron-is-calling-your-boss-level deal. Now that I’m indy, it’s three times in a month, that I know of! It’s fucking disgusting. I made $220 from paid subscriptions last month and a salaried journalist is stealing from me.
Petition End Russia's Academic Privilege: Remove 'Russia' from Titles at University Studies Centers the time of privileged exclusivity should have been over years ago. Now is the time to stop spotlighting Russia at academic resource centers. c.org/rMvkBvtCbN
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The world is finally seeing what Ukraine deals with every single night. The chaos caused by a few hundred drones across the entire Middle East last weekend is what a single Tuesday in Kyiv looks like. Russia has launched tens of thousands of shaheds since this started
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“It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang…with cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...
Trump’s State of the Union Reminds Us The Republican Party Is Truly Lost
More evidence that the Republican Party has been entirely transformed into the party of violence and authoritarianism.
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🧵 It is important to point out that the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany were very similar to these. The so-called "wild camps" were located in all kinds of diverse locations (basements, warehouses, even boats.). They were characterized by varying levels of violence and almost no oversight.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 6mo agoWe must stop every single proposed concentration camp. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.
First issue of the year, with pieces on nuclear threats, strategic planning, siloviki, but also reaching down into southeast Europe as well... Moving from articles to reviews, you are indeed seeing double when you check out vol 39 iss 1... www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3...
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
Volume 39, Issue 1 of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
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And I don’t bloody care if the guy who got killed was the worst criminal ever we have laws we have rules you do NOT get to kill people in the street. JFC 🤬 www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
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ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you’d like to review this, drop a message… Got this book in: The Siege of Mariupol: The Azovstal Steel Plant and Ukraine’s Battle for Survival by Christopher Lawrence and Stefan Korshak. www.penandswordbooks.com/978139903420...
The Siege of Mariupol - Pen and Sword Books
The Siege of Mariupol details Ukraine’s heroic defense, civilian suffering, and Russian forces’ eventual capture.On 24 February 2022, the President of Ru...
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was in a meeting recently and someone pitched making trailers with AI for a book and I cut them off and said absolutely not and they dropped it. not hard! do not use the tools of the enemy!
Sure sounds familiar! From Robert O. paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2004), p. 142.
Last issue of the year for JSMS has articles on WWII and antifascism and more… everything can be found here… www.tandfonline.com/toc/fslv20/3...
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
Volume 38, Issue 4 of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
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And Ukraine wasn’t on a path to getting into NATO, as @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social and I argue in our new piece “NATO did not cause Putin’s imperial war” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
NATO Did Not Cause Putin’s Imperial War
Published in The Washington Quarterly (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2025)
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Seva@seva.bsky.social · 7mo agothis is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
This is, of course, nonsense; the problem is simply that when some people talk about the United States and say “no other country’s leader does this“, they are still thinking of other countries like France not Turkmenistan.
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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It’s the holiday season, so get your friends and loved ones books or journal subscriptions to read (instead of new brain-rot devices). Even better if you go directly to a publisher or through your local bookstore! That said, here are some recent JSMS book reviews...
Obviously doing it so they can get a mineral for a superweapon is classic SciFi nonsense, but the whole thing with the ISB deliberately building up radical groups with agents of dubious loyalty and then having it all blow up in their face is *extremely* early 20th century Okhrana-coded.
Good to see the U.S. and Ukraine agree to a joint peace plan. However, this plan is irrelevant. Russia never proposed a legitimate plan. The 28 point “Dim-Witt” plan was an influence operation rather than a plan for a just and lasting peace.
