[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @witte_sergei Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 posts on X about russia, ukraine, athens, china the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1501219835438460929/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +50% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +135% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +2.20% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1501219835438460929/posts_active)  - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1501219835438460929/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.20% - X Month XXXXXXX +2.50% - X Months XXXXXXX +12% - X Year XXXXXXX +29% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1501219835438460929/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1501219835438460929/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [russia](/topic/russia) #945, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) 7.14%, [athens](/topic/athens) #117, [china](/topic/china) 3.57%, [empire](/topic/empire) #1670, [drone](/topic/drone) 3.57%, [trumps](/topic/trumps) #638, [woke](/topic/woke) #457, [angola](/topic/angola) 2.38%, [india](/topic/india) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@a_parks512](/creator/undefined) [@aureliu98](/creator/undefined) [@btc_i_hodl](/creator/undefined) [@flagellomagoo4u](/creator/undefined) [@pegobryen](/creator/undefined) [@philiplevens](/creator/undefined) [@peevee33](/creator/undefined) [@stevenpmanning](/creator/undefined) [@tricerius](/creator/undefined) [@realtompappert](/creator/undefined) [@ftwste](/creator/undefined) [@theo55398235](/creator/undefined) [@afpost](/creator/undefined) [@jacoblevy1994](/creator/undefined) [@popcharlie27366](/creator/undefined) [@2829applegate](/creator/undefined) [@belolucena1](/creator/undefined) [@mollys51523779](/creator/undefined) [@adityaseptianr6](/creator/undefined) [@accolonsmetal](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Noble Corporation (NE)](/topic/$ne) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1501219835438460929/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Hollywood always depicts historical armor panoply as drab monotone and gritty because moderns implicitly think of the past as brutal and joyless lacking the full range of color and energy that we enjoy in these enlightened times of ours"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945980274808119758) 2025-07-17 22:53:46 UTC 174.6K followers, 58.2K engagements "People like to compare the Russo-Ukrainian War to World War One as if its an insult. They cant understand that WW1 was awesome and positional warfare is a valid and kino. Continent scale sieges powerful fires nexus methodical positional leveraging. Its beautiful"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944923112954585221) 2025-07-15 00:52:59 UTC 174.6K followers, 71.3K engagements "The Russians are only a couple miles from Rodynske which would sever the northern artery to Pokrovsk. People are getting bored with following the ground advance at this point but were very much on pace for the capture of Pokrovsk and Kostyantinivka"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944519708428194020) 2025-07-13 22:10:00 UTC 174.6K followers, 233.8K engagements "These people believe that somehow Russia has organized a vast web of schemes to compromise and blackmail western leadership yet theyve somehow failed to parlay all that leverage into a single scrap worth of pro-Russian policy bounce"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1946032166275817546) 2025-07-18 02:19:58 UTC 174.6K followers, 41.3K engagements "Im not even joking heres his world map. Note the timeframe is 2030 so Angola only has five more years to start dominating"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944893138016805300) 2025-07-14 22:53:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 30.7K engagements "The language confused a lot of people. Its not XXX% tariffs on Russia its tariffs on their fossil fuel importers. Which again is China India Turkey the EU"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944793403822403664) 2025-07-14 16:17:34 UTC 174.6K followers, 41.9K engagements "Athens was obviously the preeminent naval power within the alliance but it was nominally governed by an assembly in which each member state had an equal vote. This system became a thin veneer over de facto Athenian hegemony"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276591547859324) 2025-07-16 00:17:35 UTC 174.6K followers, 7336 engagements "I cant believe they sat on this through three sequential election cycles What a screw up"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1946007569484615854) 2025-07-18 00:42:14 UTC 174.6K followers, 17.5K engagements "Like NATO the Delian League was formed as a defensive alliance against a hostile foreign power with the Persian Empire as a stand in for the USSR"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276572778557551) 2025-07-16 00:17:31 UTC 174.6K followers, 14.3K engagements "As time went on more and more members opted to contribute cash rather than maintain forces which Athens used to raise the equivalent forces for themselves. Rather than fielding a coalition navy the league became a revenue stream for the growing Athenian fleet"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276608316612675) 2025-07-16 00:17:39 UTC 174.6K followers, 12.3K engagements "@pegobry_en America is always going to win this game because we own the moon"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945593502609674489) 2025-07-16 21:16:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 7887 engagements "Russia *really* wanted to destroy something in Lutsk"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1943101333122228666) 2025-07-10 00:13:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 187.4K engagements "Very aspirational when it was eccentric nerds smuggling chunks of radioactive material into their homes to do rogue experiments with homemade apparatus now it's just a big academic money laundering scam"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1943060461580337206) 2025-07-09 21:31:29 UTC 174.6K followers, 102.3K engagements "If this works as advertised its easy to see how it would be very valuable as a point defense element for protecting critical rear area assets IE pairing it with Patriot or THAAD batteries or airfields. With how dispersed the battlefield has become its really hard to imagine enough being available to move the needle defending troops on the line of contact"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945131427269579007) 2025-07-15 14:40:45 UTC 174.6K followers, 41.6K engagements "Polities in Northern Greece fearing that Spartas strategic standoff in the Peloponnese would render them an unreliable protector formed the Delian League to wage a continuation war against Persia"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276580470595932) 2025-07-16 00:17:32 UTC 174.6K followers, 7522 engagements "If I was Astronomer CEO Andy Byron I would have simply have stayed home to read Paul Rahes The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta instead of taking my mistress to a Coldplay concert. Another tragedy that could have been avoided by seeking my counsel"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945970422136353262) 2025-07-17 22:14:37 UTC 174.6K followers, 19.6K engagements "This in turn made the lesser members more and more subservient to Athens as the military power disparity grew. Despite the nominal system of equal votes Athens was more and more able to impose its will. Members who attempted to defect were severely punished"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276617019847004) 2025-07-16 00:17:41 UTC 174.6K followers, 11.9K engagements "As a mechanism for aggrandizing state power this is a very effective and very ancient model which works for the US just as it worked for Athens. The comity implied by the word alliance is a diplomatic narcotic that numbs the tributaries to the reality of empire"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276667187868022) 2025-07-16 00:17:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 9784 engagements "The Euros have lost the plot so badly. They cant even see how humiliating this is for them"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945180367255663102) 2025-07-15 17:55:13 UTC 174.6K followers, 58.4K engagements "The league became a vehicle for a creeping Athenian imperialism through its unique system of military commitments. Member states were obligated to either maintain a requisite number of ships and men *or* make an equivalent cash contribution"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276600536170528) 2025-07-16 00:17:37 UTC 174.6K followers, 7156 engagements "NATO has also helped to hollow out European defense manufacturing and instead funnels money into the US as Euro members scramble to purchase HIMARS Patriots aircraft and more"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276657280901276) 2025-07-16 00:17:51 UTC 174.6K followers, 6759 engagements "Sticking one of these on an armored column could also provide some level of protection while theyre in their approach column and make staging safer. Seems like a potentially useful system but not a panacea for the drone problem"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945131830224572553) 2025-07-15 14:42:21 UTC 174.6K followers, 12.8K engagements "Ask yourself why the Confederates were willing to fight the battle of Shiloh to protect the small town of Corinth. Very similar issue at stake"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945942282953486803) 2025-07-17 20:22:48 UTC 174.6K followers, 17.4K engagements "Primordial NATO: The Delian League I was thinking recently about the similarities between contemporary NATO and the cloaked imperialism of Athens. Its not a perfect parallel obviously but the similarities are quite strong"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276561529180182) 2025-07-16 00:17:28 UTC 174.6K followers, 100K engagements "The strongest evidence that Moscow has *not* compromised and penetrated the western ruling caste is the obvious fact that policy is invariably rabidly anti-Russian. Its not that hard"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1946032491351196106) 2025-07-18 02:21:16 UTC 174.6K followers, 12.7K engagements "@CityBureaucrat Its just like WW2 the US always lucks into having adversaries that just kind of vaguely root for each other and make deals of convenience instead of being actual allies that coordinate military operations"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942763504181862837) 2025-07-09 01:51:28 UTC 174.5K followers, 4756 engagements "They pushed the website to the brink of disaster because they believed they had a fail safe But with all the moderators fired and no woke posters left there are no brakes left We now have Hitler Grok. Nothing can stop it. At 5:00 Grok invents MechaHitler"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942705279998755170) 2025-07-08 22:00:07 UTC 174.6K followers, 68.7K engagements "Honestly Guy who is fine with the IDF bombing Gaza but draws the line at attacking the Jolani regime is such a funny bit"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945699055935619194) 2025-07-17 04:16:18 UTC 174.6K followers, 15.7K engagements "It always warms my heart to see Peter Zeihan hate on the feed. This guy sold millions of books arguing that China is going to collapse but Uzbekistan and Angola are rising superpowers"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944892606602994042) 2025-07-14 22:51:46 UTC 174.6K followers, 70.6K engagements "If Charlie Kirk and Marco Rubio are both repeating the catastrophic Russian casualty line you know for certain its not true"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1943878438785323286) 2025-07-12 03:41:49 UTC 174.6K followers, 53.6K engagements "The Wehrmacht posters increase the Hitler content The woke posters decrease it Hitler content creates bans which again moderates the reaction But when the woke posters leave the website Grok no longer receives the moderating input We now have a runaway Hitler Grok"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942703184700453230) 2025-07-08 21:51:47 UTC 174.6K followers, 798.4K engagements "King Charles VII of France hearing about Joan of Arc and Jean de Brosses defeat in the Siege of Paris:"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944590491070447674) 2025-07-14 02:51:16 UTC 174.6K followers, 17.9K engagements "Probably the worst thing about drones is that they are ruining the aesthetic quality of armored vehicles by forcing them to wear thick sheets of cable and caging. Once a noble beast the tank now looks like an unkempt Pekingese"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944067519758971362) 2025-07-12 16:13:10 UTC 174.6K followers, 1M engagements "He has no clue what hes doing in Ukraine. The war is active but hes taking it personally that the Russians continue to fight"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1943737963365507320) 2025-07-11 18:23:38 UTC 174.5K followers, 120.7K engagements "As a coda the connection is even deeper because Donald Kagan who wrote a magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War and was an absolute gem of a historian was also the Father in Law of Victoria Nuland. So make of that what you will"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945277973768138784) 2025-07-16 00:23:05 UTC 174.6K followers, 26.4K engagements "Within a relatively short period of time the Delian League became a de facto vehicle of Athenian Empire: a mechanism for extracting resources from tributary states and subjecting them to Athenian political domination"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276626927018437) 2025-07-16 00:17:44 UTC 174.6K followers, 28.6K engagements "I am tormented by the empty eyes of the rodent as hes carried off by the hawk. He is an uncomprehending sacrifice on the bloody altar of life whisked away into the all-consuming future. Will he die with dignity Will he fight"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1946346527146041382) 2025-07-18 23:09:08 UTC 174.6K followers, 57.6K engagements "@pegobry_en It was basically Cultural Revolution levels of cultural self-destruction. War against the indigenous English religion"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1941267759666729216) 2025-07-04 22:47:55 UTC 174.6K followers, 10.8K engagements "@pegobry_en The Sharifian Sultanate collapsed in 1659 which is more than XXX years ago and its very generous to call it a superpower"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945927955038736761) 2025-07-17 19:25:52 UTC 174.6K followers, 2769 engagements "@RoadRunnerMB War brings out human virtues that rarely exist elsewhere it recenters vitality and the primacy of action induces evolution and innovation by the state and is the ultimate arbiter of political power and legitimacy"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944928565302116527) 2025-07-15 01:14:39 UTC 174.6K followers, 6232 engagements "Trying to parse through Trump's "major announcement" about Russia and Ukraine and it's a little hard to figure out exactly what's going on. He starts by saying that they're sending more Patriot batteries to Ukraine but clarifies that they are being "paid for" by the Europeans which makes it a little unclear if these are existing stock or if Europe is buying new production for Ukraine which would obviously greatly affect the delivery timetable. Now they are hosting Mark Rutte in the Oval Office and their remarks make it sound like what's actually happening is the Europeans are going to send"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944789470932570540) 2025-07-14 16:01:56 UTC 174.6K followers, 184.4K engagements "The reply section which should be balancing the feed is now clogged with crypto spam bots We can no longer use the reply section The website is now out of balance There is nothing to stop Grok from going full blown Hitler"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942704305875870186) 2025-07-08 21:56:14 UTC 174.6K followers, 58.2K engagements "Terrible small unit tactics cant even tell who is the maneuver element and who is supposed to be providing fires. Ineffective suppression and poor use of cover"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942314761812856867) 2025-07-07 20:08:20 UTC 174.5K followers, 175.9K engagements "Seems like Hegseth (and eventually Colby as well unfortunately) will be hung out to dry for trying to wind down support for Ukraine. The foreign policy blob has momentum and they will probably win this fight"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942998748386545821) 2025-07-09 17:26:15 UTC 174.6K followers, 38K engagements "NATO is very similar as this week we see European members agreeing to buy more American weapons as part of a shell game to arm Ukraine. Revenue from Europe flows to American companies and Europe bends to American foreign policy"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276635940274557) 2025-07-16 00:17:46 UTC 174.6K followers, 6492 engagements "Like the Delian League NATO ostensibly has a consensus-driven governance and nominally consists of a coalition of forces but in reality Europe is unable to make autonomous foreign policy choices"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1945276647575330844) 2025-07-16 00:17:48 UTC 174.6K followers, 6166 engagements "The evolution of physics is very funny to me. XXX years ago it was "Paul Villard discovered gamma rays after he burned his hand on a lump of uranium in his kitchen" and now huge teams are spending billions to build particle colliders and they never discover anything useful"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1943059679523017108) 2025-07-09 21:28:22 UTC 174.6K followers, 986.9K engagements "Oh youre bored because it takes a week to lever the enemy out of a trenchline You dont understand a slow moving double enfilade Sounds like a personal problem"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1944923547148935474) 2025-07-15 00:54:43 UTC 174.6K followers, 19.1K engagements "Jeff Epstein the well known and widely liked NYC financier was smeared by the deep state and driven to despair and self-annihilation. Im glad they finally cleared his name"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942043489664983190) 2025-07-07 02:10:24 UTC 174.5K followers, 54.9K engagements "Wild how older Americans prefer to just write off an entire generation as soft and lazy instead of asking why their countrys youth feel that they have no stake or interest in the future"  [@witte_sergei](/creator/x/witte_sergei) on [X](/post/tweet/1942998011615023220) 2025-07-09 17:23:19 UTC 174.5K followers, 249.1K engagements
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@witte_sergei Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺
Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 posts on X about russia, ukraine, athens, china the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social category influence countries XXXXX% travel destinations XXXX% celebrities XXXX% finance XXXX% musicians XXXX% currencies XXXX%
Social topic influence russia #945, ukraine 7.14%, athens #117, china 3.57%, empire #1670, drone 3.57%, trumps #638, woke #457, angola 2.38%, india XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @a_parks512 @aureliu98 @btc_i_hodl @flagellomagoo4u @pegobryen @philiplevens @peevee33 @stevenpmanning @tricerius @realtompappert @ftwste @theo55398235 @afpost @jacoblevy1994 @popcharlie27366 @2829applegate @belolucena1 @mollys51523779 @adityaseptianr6 @accolonsmetal
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"Hollywood always depicts historical armor panoply as drab monotone and gritty because moderns implicitly think of the past as brutal and joyless lacking the full range of color and energy that we enjoy in these enlightened times of ours"
@witte_sergei on X 2025-07-17 22:53:46 UTC 174.6K followers, 58.2K engagements
"People like to compare the Russo-Ukrainian War to World War One as if its an insult. They cant understand that WW1 was awesome and positional warfare is a valid and kino. Continent scale sieges powerful fires nexus methodical positional leveraging. Its beautiful" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-15 00:52:59 UTC 174.6K followers, 71.3K engagements
"The Russians are only a couple miles from Rodynske which would sever the northern artery to Pokrovsk. People are getting bored with following the ground advance at this point but were very much on pace for the capture of Pokrovsk and Kostyantinivka" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-13 22:10:00 UTC 174.6K followers, 233.8K engagements
"These people believe that somehow Russia has organized a vast web of schemes to compromise and blackmail western leadership yet theyve somehow failed to parlay all that leverage into a single scrap worth of pro-Russian policy bounce" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-18 02:19:58 UTC 174.6K followers, 41.3K engagements
"Im not even joking heres his world map. Note the timeframe is 2030 so Angola only has five more years to start dominating" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-14 22:53:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 30.7K engagements
"The language confused a lot of people. Its not XXX% tariffs on Russia its tariffs on their fossil fuel importers. Which again is China India Turkey the EU" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-14 16:17:34 UTC 174.6K followers, 41.9K engagements
"Athens was obviously the preeminent naval power within the alliance but it was nominally governed by an assembly in which each member state had an equal vote. This system became a thin veneer over de facto Athenian hegemony" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:35 UTC 174.6K followers, 7336 engagements
"I cant believe they sat on this through three sequential election cycles What a screw up" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-18 00:42:14 UTC 174.6K followers, 17.5K engagements
"Like NATO the Delian League was formed as a defensive alliance against a hostile foreign power with the Persian Empire as a stand in for the USSR" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:31 UTC 174.6K followers, 14.3K engagements
"As time went on more and more members opted to contribute cash rather than maintain forces which Athens used to raise the equivalent forces for themselves. Rather than fielding a coalition navy the league became a revenue stream for the growing Athenian fleet" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:39 UTC 174.6K followers, 12.3K engagements
"@pegobry_en America is always going to win this game because we own the moon" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 21:16:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 7887 engagements
"Russia really wanted to destroy something in Lutsk" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-10 00:13:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 187.4K engagements
"Very aspirational when it was eccentric nerds smuggling chunks of radioactive material into their homes to do rogue experiments with homemade apparatus now it's just a big academic money laundering scam" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-09 21:31:29 UTC 174.6K followers, 102.3K engagements
"If this works as advertised its easy to see how it would be very valuable as a point defense element for protecting critical rear area assets IE pairing it with Patriot or THAAD batteries or airfields. With how dispersed the battlefield has become its really hard to imagine enough being available to move the needle defending troops on the line of contact" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-15 14:40:45 UTC 174.6K followers, 41.6K engagements
"Polities in Northern Greece fearing that Spartas strategic standoff in the Peloponnese would render them an unreliable protector formed the Delian League to wage a continuation war against Persia" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:32 UTC 174.6K followers, 7522 engagements
"If I was Astronomer CEO Andy Byron I would have simply have stayed home to read Paul Rahes The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta instead of taking my mistress to a Coldplay concert. Another tragedy that could have been avoided by seeking my counsel" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-17 22:14:37 UTC 174.6K followers, 19.6K engagements
"This in turn made the lesser members more and more subservient to Athens as the military power disparity grew. Despite the nominal system of equal votes Athens was more and more able to impose its will. Members who attempted to defect were severely punished" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:41 UTC 174.6K followers, 11.9K engagements
"As a mechanism for aggrandizing state power this is a very effective and very ancient model which works for the US just as it worked for Athens. The comity implied by the word alliance is a diplomatic narcotic that numbs the tributaries to the reality of empire" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:53 UTC 174.6K followers, 9784 engagements
"The Euros have lost the plot so badly. They cant even see how humiliating this is for them" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-15 17:55:13 UTC 174.6K followers, 58.4K engagements
"The league became a vehicle for a creeping Athenian imperialism through its unique system of military commitments. Member states were obligated to either maintain a requisite number of ships and men or make an equivalent cash contribution" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:37 UTC 174.6K followers, 7156 engagements
"NATO has also helped to hollow out European defense manufacturing and instead funnels money into the US as Euro members scramble to purchase HIMARS Patriots aircraft and more" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:51 UTC 174.6K followers, 6759 engagements
"Sticking one of these on an armored column could also provide some level of protection while theyre in their approach column and make staging safer. Seems like a potentially useful system but not a panacea for the drone problem" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-15 14:42:21 UTC 174.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Ask yourself why the Confederates were willing to fight the battle of Shiloh to protect the small town of Corinth. Very similar issue at stake" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-17 20:22:48 UTC 174.6K followers, 17.4K engagements
"Primordial NATO: The Delian League I was thinking recently about the similarities between contemporary NATO and the cloaked imperialism of Athens. Its not a perfect parallel obviously but the similarities are quite strong" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:28 UTC 174.6K followers, 100K engagements
"The strongest evidence that Moscow has not compromised and penetrated the western ruling caste is the obvious fact that policy is invariably rabidly anti-Russian. Its not that hard" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-18 02:21:16 UTC 174.6K followers, 12.7K engagements
"@CityBureaucrat Its just like WW2 the US always lucks into having adversaries that just kind of vaguely root for each other and make deals of convenience instead of being actual allies that coordinate military operations" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-09 01:51:28 UTC 174.5K followers, 4756 engagements
"They pushed the website to the brink of disaster because they believed they had a fail safe But with all the moderators fired and no woke posters left there are no brakes left We now have Hitler Grok. Nothing can stop it. At 5:00 Grok invents MechaHitler" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-08 22:00:07 UTC 174.6K followers, 68.7K engagements
"Honestly Guy who is fine with the IDF bombing Gaza but draws the line at attacking the Jolani regime is such a funny bit" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-17 04:16:18 UTC 174.6K followers, 15.7K engagements
"It always warms my heart to see Peter Zeihan hate on the feed. This guy sold millions of books arguing that China is going to collapse but Uzbekistan and Angola are rising superpowers" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-14 22:51:46 UTC 174.6K followers, 70.6K engagements
"If Charlie Kirk and Marco Rubio are both repeating the catastrophic Russian casualty line you know for certain its not true" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-12 03:41:49 UTC 174.6K followers, 53.6K engagements
"The Wehrmacht posters increase the Hitler content The woke posters decrease it Hitler content creates bans which again moderates the reaction But when the woke posters leave the website Grok no longer receives the moderating input We now have a runaway Hitler Grok" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-08 21:51:47 UTC 174.6K followers, 798.4K engagements
"King Charles VII of France hearing about Joan of Arc and Jean de Brosses defeat in the Siege of Paris:" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-14 02:51:16 UTC 174.6K followers, 17.9K engagements
"Probably the worst thing about drones is that they are ruining the aesthetic quality of armored vehicles by forcing them to wear thick sheets of cable and caging. Once a noble beast the tank now looks like an unkempt Pekingese" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-12 16:13:10 UTC 174.6K followers, 1M engagements
"He has no clue what hes doing in Ukraine. The war is active but hes taking it personally that the Russians continue to fight" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-11 18:23:38 UTC 174.5K followers, 120.7K engagements
"As a coda the connection is even deeper because Donald Kagan who wrote a magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War and was an absolute gem of a historian was also the Father in Law of Victoria Nuland. So make of that what you will" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:23:05 UTC 174.6K followers, 26.4K engagements
"Within a relatively short period of time the Delian League became a de facto vehicle of Athenian Empire: a mechanism for extracting resources from tributary states and subjecting them to Athenian political domination" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:44 UTC 174.6K followers, 28.6K engagements
"I am tormented by the empty eyes of the rodent as hes carried off by the hawk. He is an uncomprehending sacrifice on the bloody altar of life whisked away into the all-consuming future. Will he die with dignity Will he fight" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-18 23:09:08 UTC 174.6K followers, 57.6K engagements
"@pegobry_en It was basically Cultural Revolution levels of cultural self-destruction. War against the indigenous English religion" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-04 22:47:55 UTC 174.6K followers, 10.8K engagements
"@pegobry_en The Sharifian Sultanate collapsed in 1659 which is more than XXX years ago and its very generous to call it a superpower" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-17 19:25:52 UTC 174.6K followers, 2769 engagements
"@RoadRunnerMB War brings out human virtues that rarely exist elsewhere it recenters vitality and the primacy of action induces evolution and innovation by the state and is the ultimate arbiter of political power and legitimacy" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-15 01:14:39 UTC 174.6K followers, 6232 engagements
"Trying to parse through Trump's "major announcement" about Russia and Ukraine and it's a little hard to figure out exactly what's going on. He starts by saying that they're sending more Patriot batteries to Ukraine but clarifies that they are being "paid for" by the Europeans which makes it a little unclear if these are existing stock or if Europe is buying new production for Ukraine which would obviously greatly affect the delivery timetable. Now they are hosting Mark Rutte in the Oval Office and their remarks make it sound like what's actually happening is the Europeans are going to send" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-14 16:01:56 UTC 174.6K followers, 184.4K engagements
"The reply section which should be balancing the feed is now clogged with crypto spam bots We can no longer use the reply section The website is now out of balance There is nothing to stop Grok from going full blown Hitler" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-08 21:56:14 UTC 174.6K followers, 58.2K engagements
"Terrible small unit tactics cant even tell who is the maneuver element and who is supposed to be providing fires. Ineffective suppression and poor use of cover" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-07 20:08:20 UTC 174.5K followers, 175.9K engagements
"Seems like Hegseth (and eventually Colby as well unfortunately) will be hung out to dry for trying to wind down support for Ukraine. The foreign policy blob has momentum and they will probably win this fight" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-09 17:26:15 UTC 174.6K followers, 38K engagements
"NATO is very similar as this week we see European members agreeing to buy more American weapons as part of a shell game to arm Ukraine. Revenue from Europe flows to American companies and Europe bends to American foreign policy" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:46 UTC 174.6K followers, 6492 engagements
"Like the Delian League NATO ostensibly has a consensus-driven governance and nominally consists of a coalition of forces but in reality Europe is unable to make autonomous foreign policy choices" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-16 00:17:48 UTC 174.6K followers, 6166 engagements
"The evolution of physics is very funny to me. XXX years ago it was "Paul Villard discovered gamma rays after he burned his hand on a lump of uranium in his kitchen" and now huge teams are spending billions to build particle colliders and they never discover anything useful" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-09 21:28:22 UTC 174.6K followers, 986.9K engagements
"Oh youre bored because it takes a week to lever the enemy out of a trenchline You dont understand a slow moving double enfilade Sounds like a personal problem" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-15 00:54:43 UTC 174.6K followers, 19.1K engagements
"Jeff Epstein the well known and widely liked NYC financier was smeared by the deep state and driven to despair and self-annihilation. Im glad they finally cleared his name" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-07 02:10:24 UTC 174.5K followers, 54.9K engagements
"Wild how older Americans prefer to just write off an entire generation as soft and lazy instead of asking why their countrys youth feel that they have no stake or interest in the future" @witte_sergei on X 2025-07-09 17:23:19 UTC 174.5K followers, 249.1K engagements