#SovietBloc
This month 30 yrs ago, 🇫🇷 intelligence captured the enfant terrible of #ColdWar terrorism, Carlos the Jackal, in Khartoum, Sudan. For more on his complicated relationship with #SovietBloc #Czechoslovakia #StB see #WatchingtheJackals now available for pre-order at rb.gy/eoob7w
August 26, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Many 🙏 @warontherocks.bsky.social for publishing my piece on #SovietBloc #ColdWar #sabotage #doctrine, which argues that current attacks/fires/explosions on #NATO territory mirror Moscow’s CW-era sabotage doctrine in important ways. If this is indeed the case, more is yet to come.

👉 encr.pw/ZG1cJ
The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine? - War on the Rocks
Boris Nikolaevich Rodin was a known entity in the KGB. Operating as an intelligence officer in London from 1947 to 1951, he helped manage the defection of
warontherocks.com
August 21, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Good for #Ukraine! She is wearing out the Giant and frustrating its plans to hop-skip-jump the former #SovietBloc territory back into its totalitarian control. Image: Russian aggression as The #HollowMen.
May 17, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Trump: "People go into war, think they're gonna win the war, then they get their asses kicked & they lose their country and lose millions of lives. Nobody goes into a war thinking they're gonna lose. I'm sure Ukraine thought they were gonna win. You're gonna beat somebody that's 15 times your size"
August 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Ask me at your own peril, and be prepared for a 45 minute diatribe on Why You Should Check Out These #PostPunk Bands From Former #SovietBloc Nations. Also, #Turkey & #LosAngeles.
July 19, 2026 at 12:42 AM
One of the first steps in the #1989Revolutions came on #ThisDayInHistory in 1989 when #Hungary began dismantling its #BorderFence with #Austria. An exodus followed of people from across the #SovietBloc, East Germans especially; folks taking a 'holiday' and failing to return home.
May 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
&the former SovietBloc watching him putting $1000 into TrumpKidsAccounts(not available til they’re 18 b/c of course not)attemptin to increase NationalistBabyProduction. He wants to be a“DearLeader”so bad&force his face on🤑&six grandfathers while doin“RedScare”
While🇨🇳billionaires his sugardaddies?Ew
July 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Russia’s pared-down Victory Day parade tells a story: Away from the pomp, war in Ukraine is not going to Putin’s plan#Armenia #ColdWar #DonaldTrump #EasternEurope #EuropeanUnionEU #Hungary #Putinism #Russia #SovietBloc #TheWest #Ukraine #UkraineRussianwar #ViktorOrbán #VladimirPutin
May 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM