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# ![@GrayConnolly Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::499696436.png) @GrayConnolly Gray Connolly

Gray Connolly posts on X about defence, esp, russia, empire the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 5845 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"@romanhelmetguy Read esp Great War era letters - young guys with basic educations quoting the Bible Shakespeare Kipling esp in their letters to anxious parents and loved ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978061769001095398) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-14T11:34Z 59.4K followers, 66.9K engagements


"Honestly blaming Nixon for bombing Laos and Cambodia (which the VC/NVA used as sanctuaries and supply depots) makes about as much sense as blaming the Allies for bombing Nazi occupied Europe. If you will the ends you will the means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979362881176277409) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T01:44Z 59.4K followers, 13.5K engagements


"Apparently various generations of my family served Queen/King & Country so that Britain in 2025 could be a mere dormitory suburb for the worst Anti-Semites this side of the Al Jazeera staff cafeteria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979360991185142054) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T01:36Z 59.4K followers, 5748 engagements


"@MacArthur1880 On this day in 1812 Napoleon and his Grande Arme commenced their retreat from Moscow which then became a French retreat from Russia. Of the c600000 French & allied soldiers who invaded Russia only approx 110000 would survive to reach the French frontier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979827415670227390) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T08:30Z 59.4K followers, 3339 engagements


"Good morning all on this Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time Michelangelo Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 1477-1480"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979649825122771323) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T20:44Z 59.5K followers, 2080 engagements


"Good morning all & OTD in 1912 the First Balkan War commenced between the Balkan League (Serbia Greece Montenegro and Bulgaria) against the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans lost significant territories as a result of the War & their losses led to an independent Albanian state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1975651970318016793) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-07T19:58Z 59.4K followers, 2546 engagements


"Vivek is mostly right here. Haters will hate but the glory of Rome is in its longevity and how broadly it took in the concept of Roman-ness cf Stilicho at the end. The dream that was Rome was broadly shared #SPQR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1976118792368628039) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-09T02:53Z 59.4K followers, 12.2K engagements


"@danny__kruger @CapelLofft I missed this weak attempt at a defence by @aroberts_andrew of his Whiggish endorsement of euthanasia . the idea that any conservative let alone any Tory believes in an "if they so wish" philosophy let alone assumes future generations will agree is utterly preposterous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1976173527612219878) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-09T06:30Z 59.4K followers, 3403 engagements


"Barack Obama winning a Nobel Peace Prize for merely getting elected looks somehow even more utterly ridiculous now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1976576197959283197) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-10T09:11Z 59.4K followers, 22.9K engagements


"@EsotericCD Fair"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978239692031090981) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-14T23:21Z 59.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@EsotericCD I initially read it as Jay Leno"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978240169930105020) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-14T23:23Z 59.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@JRRCollins @EsotericCD Jay Lenos many crimes etc are not to my knowledge in dispute but in his defence he is a great car guy and a restorer of vintage vehicles so he is forgiven bad takes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978270966624002413) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-15T01:25Z 59.4K followers, XX engagements


"This is the most cringe thing to happen to Anglo-American liberalism since Andrew Roberts tried to pretend there was a conservative case for euthanasia . the sooner the "Spirit of 1985" is exorcised the better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978815668037222510) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-16T13:29Z 59.4K followers, 1286 engagements


"Good morning all & OTD in 1660 the regicide John Cook who had purported to prosecute King Charles I & who signed the King's death warrant was himself hung drawn and quartered-a fate no less than Cook deserved. Cook's show trial of the King became a model for other tyrannies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978915823243923936) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-16T20:07Z 59.4K followers, 1418 engagements


"@PeteWargent @AyoubKhanMP Good on you - my first visit to White Hart Lane was as a callow youth in the Gary Mabbutt years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978922519282450681) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-16T20:34Z 59.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@PeteWargent @AyoubKhanMP Ping @vbspurs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978922670977634766) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-16T20:35Z 59.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@Fox_Claire Claire has anyone seen the British prime minister Keir Starmer cannot go missing in action every time this happens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978985002063757408) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-17T00:42Z 59.5K followers, XXX engagements


"The US' indictment of John Bolton as with events in the UK where two parliamentary advisors were charged with espionage on behalf of China shows the 'insider threat' can never be taken too seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979101124687991011) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-17T08:24Z 59.4K followers, 3652 engagements


"@yeppjane The sort of people who want Maroon X played in public let alone unleashing hordes of mid life crisis types who have blown small fortunes on Brooks and Saucony need to be instead sent to a Dickensian workhouse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1977331971513806995) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-12T11:14Z 59.5K followers, XXX engagements


"We are in the 4th year of this talking point - the Russians now have invaluable experience in the highest intensity warfare against a NATO proxy & sorted their better officers from their worse . Russian defence industries also ramped up to sustain a war next door"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978563211843588539) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-15T20:46Z 59.5K followers, 5148 engagements


"@WiseguyThreeOne I think Leningrad would be banned now . yes students should be tested to explain every line in "We Didn't Start the Fire""  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979359952595751080) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T01:32Z 59.4K followers, XX engagements


"@HumphreyBohun Now imagining you being thrown out of the Four Seasons breakfast buffet for being dressed like some never trump yokel in your Ted Cruz 2016 trucker cap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979727474864136458) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T01:53Z 59.4K followers, XX engagements


"@DrCameronMurray When you are next in Sydney we can have lunch and discuss this socio-economic phenomena at some length"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979757209732219233) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T03:51Z 59.5K followers, XXX engagements


"Wise observers will note this Australian war memorial footage as Australians fought the Vichy French in Lebanon and Syria in 1941 to this day the Jordanian monarchy is protected by the Circassian Royal Guards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978572019328336074) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-15T21:21Z 59.5K followers, 7604 engagements


"Good morning all & OTD in 1797 the Treaty of Campo Formio was signed by Napoleon for the French Republic & by the Habsburg Austrians. The Treaty inter alia dissolved the 1100-year old Republic of Venice which was then partitioned between France and Austria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979317134795903118) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-17T22:42Z 59.5K followers, 5410 engagements


"@EdAlvarezB Recall there was a Rabbi post ww2 who went to Spain to speak to Franco about his regimes protection of Jews including sephardics in Nazi occupied Europe & who said Franco never wanted any credit as he needed Arab support"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979744533421416947) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T03:00Z 59.5K followers, XX engagements


"Tottenham Hotspur (my premier league club) has always had a substantial Jewish following . are Spurs supporters allowed to attend Villa Park Should they wear a yellow star @AyoubKhanMP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978920715102343500) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-16T20:27Z 59.4K followers, 19K engagements


"A reaction was always coming to horrific Anarchist / Communist violence - by far the most stupid Franco discourse ignores Franco lead a Nationalist coalition (all politics is coalition building) & it could have been (if not just as easily been) a more brutal Jos Milln-Astray"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979395081452032080) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T03:52Z 59.5K followers, 4318 engagements


"Watching the sort of idiot centrist huff about no one here caring about them on here & then flock to blue sky and get bullied off that platform by erstwhile Leftist "allies" is actually kind of funny sorry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1927460870721880135) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-05-27T20:24Z 59.4K followers, 3931 engagements


"Even the BBC is now giving credit to Trump for making this peace deal either a pre Christmas miracle or an augury of the End Times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1977651195113324931) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-13T08:22Z 59.5K followers, 7906 engagements


"Good morning all & OTD in 1793 Queen Marie Antoinette of France was murdered by the Jacobins after a campaign of calumny and lies and an abhorrent show trial in which one of the witnesses propped up against her was her son-who had been tortured. The age of chivalry was dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978549553277120646) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-15T19:52Z 59.4K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Given that Prince William admirably is such a dedicated Aston Villa supporter then hopefully @KensingtonRoyal are making representations behind the scenes as this is an appalling development"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978916703498019260) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-16T20:11Z 59.4K followers, 4286 engagements


"Was a sceptic of Reform's chances BUT if you have British ancestry and/or know the Anglo mentality . the Villa decision to - can we all just be honest - bow to local Islamist pressure to purposefully bar Jewish supporters from Villa Park will be the final straw for many Brits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979364028817486116) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T01:48Z 59.4K followers, 9098 engagements


"@Mr_Andrew_Fox In an alternative universe the British state's leadership simply asserted the enforcement of British laws by Police and norms including that sporting events were open to all regardless of religious faith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979466277157769380) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T08:35Z 59.4K followers, 4149 engagements


"@RachelMoiselle Ireland in 2025: where the land of Daniel O'Connell has decided to become 'kneecapstan'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979476532742758559) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T09:15Z 59.4K followers, 3945 engagements


"As it is a Sunday . I would very much like anyone who has any influence with the Church's hierarchs to take this onboard . I am not a TLM person do not know a sonnet from a motet or what have you but a Church 'katholic' should have space for all historic Rites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979725178830811437) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T01:43Z 59.4K followers, 4291 engagements


"@DrCameronMurray I will ponder this . when more firms were family/privately held I doubt that anyone discussed this . but if you ever had "family office" type duties to attend to you could easily keep a basically intelligent relation gainfully employed in just monitoring situations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979756691488198973) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T03:49Z 59.4K followers, 1047 engagements


"Given today's violent attacks on Police in Melbourne everyone - esp those in media that excuse or cheer on violent behaviour by 'their side' - should be made to watch this excellent briefing by Commander Wayne Cheesman. What happened to Melbourne"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979834341430870442) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T08:57Z 59.4K followers, 14.2K engagements


"Unlike past 'poors' a key problem is working poor have fewer ways forward - however hard today's poor person works s/he are paid in fiat currencies of ever depreciating value & which wages if banked receive no real interest . Post 2008 QE/ZIRP has been a social catastrophe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979845307329646665) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T09:41Z 59.4K followers, 12.8K engagements


"Good morning all & OTD in 1944 General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his pledge "I Will Return" as Allied landings commenced the liberation of the Philippines from a brutal Japanese occupation. "People of the Philippines: I have returned.Rally to me""  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979994563147386880) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T19:34Z 59.4K followers, 2270 engagements


"While obviously supportive of any Navy team was entirely unaware that there was an Owls football team - imagine the Owls' game is played sensibly & prudently with defensive & offensive play tempered by a certain realism about scarce resources amid numerous opportunities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1977187655931863250) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-12T01:40Z 59.4K followers, 5027 engagements


"Very good sad thread #Seapower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978052548255945159) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-14T10:57Z 59.4K followers, 6256 engagements


"Shia Iran took in Armenian Christians who were fleeing the brutality of the Ottoman Turks - as I have tried without any success to explain to the more banjo-strumming Mike Huckabee types here . Iran is an historic multi-everything empire & much more complex than 1979 & after"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1978557637655400926) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-15T20:24Z 59.4K followers, 27.1K engagements


"One reason a Caesar becomes appealing to the Normals is that what should be a democratic system responsive to change instead becomes sclerotic because of a self-dealing political class"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979652344037171649) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-18T20:54Z 59.4K followers, 86.6K engagements


"Putting aside natural suspicion of an inside job . how would jewels this particular and notorious ever be 'fenced' At the same time no shortage of wealthy Napoleonica obsessives who would see these jewels as the ultimate "private collection""  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1979879671690125517) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T11:57Z 59.4K followers, 5800 engagements


"@Imm_listening We need to get an intervention for you here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1980029725889430001) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T21:54Z 59.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Every journo / academic / they-them who said they were leaving here for Bluesky or threads or mastodon should be barred forever from returning here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/GrayConnolly/status/1980031389077844276) [@GrayConnolly](/creator/x/GrayConnolly) 2025-10-19T22:00Z 59.4K followers, 2072 engagements