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The “Whites” in the Russian Civil War Were Not Monarchists

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 February 2026

This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged 1905 Revolution, Admiral Kolchak, Aleksandr Kolchak, Alexander Kerensky, Alexander Kolchak, Alexey Kaledin, Allies, Antisemitism, Anton Denikin, Armed Forces of South Russia, Ataman, Baltics, Black Army, Black Baron, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Bourbons, Britain, Central Powers, Communism, communists, Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Democrats, Cossacks, Czechoslovak Legion, David Lloyd George, democracy, Dimitry Lehovich, Directory, Dobrarmiya, Dobrovolcheskaya Armiya, Don Cossack Host, Don Cossacks, Don Host, Entente, Estonia, ethnic nationalists, ethno-nationalists, Evan Mawdsley, Finland, Finns, First World War, France, General Alfred Knox, Germany, Great War, Hetman, Ice March, ideology, Imperial Russia, Jews, Kadets, Kazakhstan, Kuban, Lavr Kornilov, liberal democrat, liberalism, liberals, Mensheviks, Mikhail Alekseev, Mikhail Alekseyev, Mikhail Rodzianko, Mitteleuropa, monarchism, monarchists, Napoleon Bonaparte, nationalism, nepredreshenchestvo, Nikolai Iudenich, Nikolai Yudenich, non-predetermination, Northwestern Army, Octobrist Party, Octobrists, oriyentatsiya, patriotism, Pavlo Skoropadsky, Peter Kenez, Peter Krasnov, Peter Wrangel, politics, propaganda, Provisional All-Russian Government, Provisional Government, Provisional Siberian Government, Pyotr Krasnov, Pyotr Wrangel, Randstaatenpolitik, Reds, Republic, republicanism, Richard Pipes, Russia, Russian Civil War, separatists, Siberia, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Sovdepia, SRs, Symon Petliura, terrorism, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsardom, Tsarism, Union of 17 October, Vladimir Lenin, Volunteer Army, White Armies, White Guards, White Movement, Whites, Woodrow Wilson on February 12, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

“Damned Lies and Statistics”, Al-Qaeda Edition

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 February 2026

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy and tagged 9/11, 9/11 Commission Report, Africa, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, al-Shabab, AQAP, AQIM, Australia, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, caliphate, Global War on Terror, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, ideology, Intelligence, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting, Osama bin Laden, September 11, September 11 attacks, Somalia, strategy, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, Yemen on February 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

How the Palestinians Enabled the Islamic Revolution in Iran

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 January 2026

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This entry was posted in Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abu Hassan, al-Qaeda, Albania, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Hassan Salameh, Ali Reza Sepasi, Amal movement, Anis Naccache, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Anthony Parsons, anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, antizionism, Anwar al-Sadat, Artesh, Asadollah Alam, Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, Ayatollah Muhammad Beheshti, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Colonel Qaddafi, Communism, Cuba, DDR, Dhofar Liberation Front, Dhofar Rebellion, disinformation, East Germany, Eastern Bloc, Enver Hoxha, espionage, FATAH, Fedayeen-e-Khalq, Fidel Castro, Force 17, Gaza War, German Democratic Republic, Grand Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari, Green Book, HAMAS, Hani al-Hassan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosayn Ruhani, Hossein Ruhani, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, ideology, Imad Mughniyeh, Imperial Government, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, Italian Red Brigades, Jalaleddin Farsi, Japanese Red Army, Jews, Jordan, KGB, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mao Zedong, Marine barracks bombing, Marxism, Marxist Mojahedeen, Marxist Mujahideen, MEK, MJTRUST/2, Mohammad Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Saleh Hosseini, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Moscow gold, MOSSAD, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Munich massacre, Musa al-Sadr, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Oman, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, Pasdaran, Pasdaran-e Enghelab, Peykar, PFLP, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, radicalism, Red China, Red Mullah, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, SAVAK, Sazman-e Peykar dar Rah-e Azadi-ye Tabaqe-ye Kargar, Sepah-e Pasdaran, Shah, Shi’a Islam, Shi’ism, Siahkal incident, socialism, South Yemen, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, The Organisation of Combat for the Emancipation of the Working Class, The Organisation of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, totalitarianism, Tudeh Party, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, veleyat-e-faqih, Vladimir Lenin, White Revolution, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on January 19, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State’s Al-Naba Editorial on the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 December 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Amn al-Kharji, Antisemitism, Australia, Belgium, Bondi Beach, Bondi Hanukkah Massacre, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, Edgar Torres-Tovar, Gaza War, global terrorism, HAMAS, ideology, Intelligence, Internet, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, jihadism, munafiqun, mushrikun, Muslims, nationalism, Naveed Akram, Palestine, Palmyra, populism, Sajid Akram, Sydney, Syria, Tadmur, terrorism, United States, William Howard, William Nathaniel Howard on December 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Soviet Strategy and the Downfall of Salvador Allende

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexei Kosygin, Andrés Allende, Andrés Pascal Allende, Angola, Augusto Pinochet, Bernard Lewis, Bolivia, Cambridge spies, Carlos Altamirano, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevara, Chile, Chile truckers' strike, Chilean coup, Christopher Andrew, Church Committee, CIA, Claudio Orrego, Claudio Véliz, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Chile, confidential contact, constitution, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Czechoslovakia, DDR, democracy, DGI, Diario Oficial, Directorate of National Liberation, DLN, East Germany, Eduardo Frei, El Furor y el Delirio, El Mercurio, ELN, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, extremism, Fernandez Oña, Fidel Castro, Fuerza Central, GAP, GDR, General Directorate of Intelligence, German Democratic Republic, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo des Amigos Personales, Grupo Móvil, Guatemalan coup, ideology, Informacion y Chequeo, Intelligence, Investigations Service, Joaquín Fermandois, Jorge Masetti, José Piñera, Joseph Stalin, Juan Carretero Ibáñez, KGB, Latin America, Leandro Yañéz, Leftist Revolutionary Movement, Leonid Brezhnev, Luis Corvalán, Magnificent Five, Mariano Rumor, Mario Garcίa Enchaustegui, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Miguel Enríquez, mir, Miristas, Movement of the Revolutionary Left, Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, Mozambique, National Liberation Army, national liberation movements, Nikolai Podgorny, North Korea, Novosti, Oscar Waiss, PCC, PCCh, Pedro Vuslovic, Popular Front, Popular Unity, PS, Rule of Law, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Sierra Maestra, socialism, Socialist Party, South America, South Vietnam, Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, Soviet Empire, Soviet Politburo, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spies, STASI, Svyatoslav Fyodorovich Kuznetsov, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World Strategy, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United States, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam War, Vladimir Lenin, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Yuri Andropov on December 2, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement: 1866 – 1876

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexander Herzen, Alexander II, Alfred Talandier, Anabaptism, Anabaptists, anarchism, Anna Geifman, Übermensch, Bakuninism, barin, Battle of Frankenhausen, Beznachalie Group, Bidbei, Bolsheviks, capitalism, Chigirin affair, Christianity, Communism, constitutionalism, DDR, Decembrist Revolt, Demons, Dmitry Karakozov, Dmitry Pisarev, East Germany, Farmers’ War, First International, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Going to the People, Iakov Stefanovich, ideology, industrialisation, Ishutin Society, Ivan Gavrilovich Pryzhov, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, Jacobinism, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Kolokol, konspiratsiya, Leninism, Mark Natanson, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Mikhail Bakunin, Mikhail Pokrovsky, monarchy, morality, Nabat, Narodism, Narodnaya Rasprava, Narodnaya Volya, Narodnik, Narodovoltsy, Nechayevism, Nechayevshchina, Nikolai Ishutin, Nikolai Mezentsov, Nikolai Romanov, Nikolai Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, obshchina, Osip Aptekman, Paris Commune, Pavel Pestel, Peasants’ War, People’s Retribution, People’s Summary Justice, Peter Tkachev, propaganda, Pyotr Lavrov, Pyotr Shuvalov, Pyotr Stolypin, Pyotr Tkachev, Pyotr Tkachov, Pyotr Tkachyov, Pyotr Zaichnevsky, Raskol, Reformation, Romanovs, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Jacobins, Russian Orthodox Church, Schism, secret police, serfdom, Sergei Nechaev, Sergey Kravchinsky, Sergey Nechaev, Sergey Nechayev, Siberia, socialism, Soviet Union, Stepniak, Tchaikovskist, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Possessed, The Revolutionary Catechism, The Tocsin, Third Section, Thomas Muntzer, Tibor Szamuely, Tkachovism, Tsardom, Tsarism, USSR, utilitarianism, utopia, utopianism, Varfolomey Zaytsev, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Vladimir Lenin, Vperyod, Werner Tübke, What is to Be Done?, Yezhovshchina, Young Russia on November 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

A Microcosm of Why There’s No Israeli-Palestinian Peace

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged Abu Iyad, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Morris, Bill Clinton, Camp David, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Farouk Kaddoumi, Faruq al-Qaddumi, Gaza, ideology, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish State, Jews, KGB, Oslo Peace Process, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian National Charter, Palestinian National Council, Palestinian National Covenant, Palestinian State, Phased Program, PLO, PLO Charter, PNC, rejectionism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, suicide bombing, Temple Mount, Ten Point Program, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on November 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Can Syria’s Future Escape Ahmad al-Shara’s Past?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 November 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abdul Jashari, Abdulaziz Hudaberdi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Qatada al-Albani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, Alawi massacres, Alawis, Alawites, Alija Izetbegović, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bosnia, Brad Cooper, Caesar Act, Caesar sanctions, CENTCOM, China, David Petraus, Donald Trump, Druze, foreign fighters, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, ideology, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jewish State, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Kevin Lambert, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Lebanon, media, Palestinians, PKK, propaganda, public relations, Rabbi Yosef Hamra, Raed Fares, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, repression, Salafi-jihadism, Sanctions, sectarianism, SNA, SOCOM, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taliban, terrorism, Thomas Barrack, TIP, torture, Turkey, Turkistan Islamic Party, United Nations, United States Central Command, Uyghurs, Xhemati Alban, Xinjiang, Zahid on November 13, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State’s Commentary on Israel (So Far) in 2025

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Israel, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Mazen, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Azhar, al-Naba, Amn al-Kharji, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Battle of Al-Bab, Camp David, Christianity, Crusaders, Donald Trump, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza War, HAMAS, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, ideology, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic State, Islamists, Israel, jahiliyya, Jewish State, Jews, jihadism, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmud Abbas, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, nationalism, NATO, Operation EUPHRATES SPRING, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, Persians, PLO, Pope, Pope Francis, Qatar, Qur’an, rabbis, Rafida, Rafidites, Roman Catholic Church, Second Intifada, shari’a, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey on October 24, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State’s Attack Reports and Ideological Focus in Al-Naba From June to October 2025

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Strategy, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahl al-Kitab, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmed Abdi Ali, al-Bab, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Antisemitism, apostates, atrocities, Badiya, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Boko Haram, Borno State, Burkina Faso, Burning of the Camps Campaign, Cabo Delgado, Cameroon, Christianity, Christians, da’wa, deen, Deir Ezzor, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Donald Trump, Egypt, Europe, Gaza War, General Qalyare, Ghouta, Ghouta chemical attack, global jihad, GRU, hajj, HAMAS, Hasaka, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, hijra, HTS, Iblis, ideology, IEDs, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISCAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam, Jews, jihad, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jizya, KGB, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, massacres, missionaries, Mozambique, munafiqun, Muslims, muwahideen, nationalism, Niger, Nigeria, Operation Burning of the Camps, Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Palestine, Palestinians, People of the Book, Persians, PKK, pogroms, proselytism, Puntland, Rafida, Rafidites, Raqqa, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Sahel, SDF, sectarianism, Shi’a, Shi’is, Somalia, Syria, Syrian Badiya, Syrian Democratic Forces, Tabuk expedition, Taliban, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Wagner, war crimes, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, Zionism, Zionists on October 21, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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