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Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Taking the Right Lessons From the Dismantling of the Russian Illegals Network in Brazil

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adriana Carolina Costa Silva Pereira, Aleksandr Utekhin, Anna Chapman, Anna Dultseva, Anthony Blunt, Arnold Deutsch, Artem Shmyrev, Artyom Dultsev, Cambridge Five, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, Chekists, CIA, Communism, corruption, Dmitri Bystrolyotov, Donald Maclean, Eric Lopes, FCD, Federal Security Service, Federico Luiz Gonzalez Rodriguez, First Chief Directorate, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, Great Illegals, GRU, Guy Burgess, ICC, Illegals, Intelligence, International Criminal Court, Interpol, Irina Alekseyevna Antonova, Irina Shmyreva, Jair Bolsonaro, John Cairncross, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kim Philby, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula, Magnificent Five, Main Intelligence Directorate, Manuel Francisco Steinbruck Pereira, Maria Isabel Moresco Garcia, Maria Luisa Dominguez Cardozo, Mikhail Mikushin, military intelligence, NKVD, non-official cover, Olga Igorevna Tyutereva, Operation EAST, Richard Sorge, Roman Olegovich Koval, Russia, Sergey Cherkasov, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, spies, SVR, tradecraft, Tsardom, Ukraine, Uruguay, Victor Muller Ferreira, Vladimir Putin, Yezhovshchina on May 21, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Trump’s “Policies” on Syria and Ukraine Come into View

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Russia, Syria and tagged Britain, Crimea, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, Keith Kellogg, Mark Rutte, NATO, propaganda, Russia, Steve Witkoff, Syria, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky on April 16, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 April 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, anchoring, Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov, Antisemitism, barrier troops, Central Statistical Administration, Chechnya, ChGK, Communism, communists, de-Stalinisation, demographics, extermination, Extraordinary State Commission, fascism, Gaza, Germany, Goskomstat, Great Patriotic War, GULAG, Haiti, HAMAS, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Holodomor, information operations, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jews, Joseph Stalin, Katyn massacre, KGB, Leningrad, Leonid Brezhnev, Michael Ellman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazis, need for closure, Nikita Khrushchev, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Palestinians, Partisans, political warfare, propaganda, psychology, Red Army, Russia, S. Maksudov, Saint Petersburg, Second World War, Soviet Union, Stalingrad, Statistical Herald, Sudan, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, Vestnik Statistiki, Victory Day, Viktor Zemskov, Volga Germans, Volgograd, Wehrmacht, Yemen, Yezhovshchina, Yu. A. Polyakov, zagraditelnye otriady on April 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Celebrates Trump Ambushing Zelensky in the Oval Office

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba, Russia and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, America, America First, China, Communism, Crusader, Donald Trump, Europe, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, J.D. Vance, jihadism, jihadists, NATO, Russia, Second World War, Ukraine, United States, Volodymyr Zelensky on March 30, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Will Trump Succeed in Withdrawing From Syria This Time?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, America, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CENTCOM, Christianity, Christians, Donald Trump, Druze, European Union, Evangelicals, genocide, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, J.D. Vance, jihadism, jihadists, Joe Biden, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Marco Rubio, Nobel Peace Prize, PKK, propaganda, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia, Sanctions, Sayyida Zaynab, SDF, sectarianism, State Department, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, Turkey, United States on March 29, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Alawi Massacres in Syria: A Blip or a Rubicon?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, barrel bombs, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Christianity, Christians, Coastal Shield Forces, economy, ethnic cleansing, European Union, foreign fighters, General Security Service, Ghaith Dala, Gnosticism, GSS), Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hama massacre, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Imam Ali, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jableh, jihadism, jihadists, Latakia, Military Council to Free Syria, Miqdad Fatiha, Musa al-Sadr, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Neoplatonism, Nusayris, Ottoman Empire, Ottomans, Prophet Muhammad, Republican Guards, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, Shi’a, SNA, Sunnis, Syria, Syrian National Army, taqiya, Tartous, Tartus, theology, Trinity, Turkey, United States, war crimes on March 17, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Visiting Post-Revolutionary Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Hamidiyah Souq, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, Aleppo, Amin Dakaev, Bahur Chamntoub, Bakhour Chamntoub, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechnya, Christianity, Christians, coronavirus, COVID-19, Damascus, Druze, economy, Farah al-Atassi, foreign fighters, Fourth Division, Hamidiya Souq, Harun, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Idlib, Ignatius Aphrem II, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Kurds, Maher al-Assad, National Dialogue Conference, Nusayris, Patriarch of Antioch, refugees, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, shari’a, SNA, Syria, Syriac Orthodox Christianity, Syrian National Army, Tacitus, Turkey, Umayyad Mosque, Umayyad Square on March 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Bashar al-Assad Falls

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Ajnad al-Kavkaz, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Albania, Aleppo, Alois Brunner, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Baath Party, Baathism, Ba’th Party, Ba’thism, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechens, Chechnya, chemical weapons, China, crimes against humanity, Egypt, Free Syrian Army, FSA, Ghouta, GULAG, Hama massacre, Hama rules, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Imam Bukhari Jamaat, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, KTJ, Lebanon, Libya, Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, nationalism, Nazi war criminals, Nazism, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, pan-Arabism, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Quds Force, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salafi-jihadism, Shi’a jihadists, Siege of Hama, Syria, Taliban, TIP, totalitarianism, Tunisia, Turkistan Islamic Party, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, Xhemati Alban on December 9, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Condemns Syria’s Regime—and Syria’s Insurgents

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba, Syria, Syrian Insurgency and tagged al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Antisemitism, Atatürk, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, batinis, batiniya, Christians, Free Syrian Army, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, IRGC Network, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Ismailis, Israel, jahiliya, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Kobani, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lebanon, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nusayris, PKK, Rafidah, Rafidis, Romans, Rome, Russia, SDF, SNA, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Syrian National Army, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Vladimir Putin, Yazidis on December 7, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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