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John Spencer

@SpencerGuard

War Scholar | Chair of War Studies Madison Policy Forum | Executive Director @urbanwarfareins | UWP podcast | Thoughts/Posts my own RT/Quote/Like ≠ Official Gov

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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Feb 19
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Sep 10, 2022
Just in case you are still not informed. Ukraine has launched the greatest counteroffensive since World War II. Ukraine has regained/liberated over 1,000 km of land & cities. Ukraine is winning. Ukraine is defeating Russia (once thought to be the second most powerful military)!
John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Dec 4, 2023
I just watched the roughly 45-minute footage of October 7th at a private screening in NYC. Here are my immediate thoughts minutes after watching it. 🧵
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Feb 26, 2022
So I've been asked what my advice would be to civilian resistors in Ukriane, especially Kyiv. Someone with no military training but wanting to resist. Here are a few things #Kyiv #UkraineUnderAttack :
John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Jul 28, 2022
I just watched the video showing Russian soldiers cutting off the genitalia of Ukrainian POWs. How do you unsee that? WTF are we waiting on to halt this evil? Stop incrementally sending weapons, we all know they need- 100 MLRS, all types of rounds, ATACMs, tanks, etc, send it! 🤬
John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Dec 21, 2022
"History only remembers the victors, only the strong and the brave." President Zelensky in Bakhmut. No script, no teleprompter, only pure leadership! Historic leadership!
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Mar 10, 2022
This makes me very sad. Like I am not doing enough. I have girls this age. We (the world) must do more to help Ukraine. I understand all the political and escalation lines. I don’t care. We can and must do more.
John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
May 14, 2025
Article
Operation Sindoor: A Decisive Victory in Modern Warfare
India has not declared Operation Sindoor completely over. What exists now is a sensitive halt in operations. Some may call it a ceasefire, but military leaders have deliberately avoided that word....
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Jul 23, 2025
Article
I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza
In his New York Times op-ed titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It,” Omer Bartov accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. As a professor of genocide studies, he should know...
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
May 16, 2025
Pakistan deployed a “first to lie” strategy within hours of the start of India’s Operation Sindoor, many international media fell for it. Like we have seen in Gaza, fact checking has become a lost standard. All in the name of being “first.” Indian PM @narendramodi had to go to a
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Oct 30, 2025
The silence is deafening. Civilian men, women, and children are being slaughtered in Sudan. Estimates of over 150,000 killed & 14 million displaced since April 2023. Considered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. No mass protests. No daily political statements/demands. No
The Telegraph
@Telegraph
Oct 29, 2025
🔴 The hot sand around the Sudanese city of El Fasher is stained red with the blood of more than 2,000 massacred civilians See how journalists used satellite imagery to reconstruct the scale of violence ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Dec 10, 2023
“I am changed forever more [after watching the Oct 7th video], there is your context madam presidents…this is not about a territorial dispute, it’s not about oppressors and the oppressed, it’s not about religion or ideology. Any agenda that was on the table before October 6 is
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Dec 25, 2022
Merry Christmas to all the soldiers around the world not with their loved ones, but rather standing guard or fighting so I can be with mine.
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John Spencer
@SpencerGuard
Dec 4, 2023
Replying to @SpencerGuard
I hated having to watch the video. You can’t unsee the evil shown in it. No one should want to see it, but the horrors of that day should never be forgotten. Never rationalized away. The phrase in my head the whole time “Never Again” from the past, but I was watching it again.
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