{"id":1695,"date":"2025-10-27T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:35:00","slug":"october-27-2025-daily-x-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"October 27, 2025 Daily X Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Some quick X threads that I thought were interesting. This post is also an open thread. I welcome any readers to post comments or additional links related to national security or history issues, even if unrelated to the links below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">South China Sea \u2013 On October 26, 2025 at approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the \u201cBattle Cats\u201d of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73 went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Pacific Fleet (@USPacificFleet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USPacificFleet\/status\/1982583083519140329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two aircraft went down on the same day. Everyone was rescued, but President Trump said it could have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/26\/politics\/navy-aircraft-crash-south-china-sea\">bad fuel?<\/a>&nbsp; Regardless, something to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In today&#8217;s Congo War Security Review:<\/p>\n<p>The Congolese government refused to sign the US-brokered peace agreement in a proposed head of state ceremony on October 23.<\/p>\n<p>Members convened for the third meeting of the Joint Security Coordination Mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>The Congolese army conducted\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KzvXoQa6VH\">pic.twitter.com\/KzvXoQa6VH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Critical Threats (@criticalthreats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/criticalthreats\/status\/1981835599620268121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Africa. So much fighting. I am not sure if it&#8217;s the mountains, the heat, the lack of navigable waterways, or the disjointedness, but the conflicts are constant. Unfortunately, this is just another one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26a0\ufe0f WATCH THIS (PART 1)\u26a0\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s claimed \u201cNature Reserve\u201d at Scarborough Shoal threatens our seas and our future.<\/p>\n<p>China calls it a \u201cnature reserve.\u201d But beneath the label lies the truth \u2014 a reef ringed by damage, coral turned to rubble, and Filipino fisherfolk pushed to the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t7fhlWLTmk\">pic.twitter.com\/t7fhlWLTmk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BRP Sierra Madre (@BRPSierraMadre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BRPSierraMadre\/status\/1981714029673644098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Every single story about the destruction in the West Philippine Sea needs to be shared.&nbsp; Welcome to the front line of Great Power Competition. On another note, as a country, China is the second highest country of origin for readers of this blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I came to Germany in 2016 to start my PhD. Germany then was a hotbed of scientific and engineering activity. And now in a span of 9 years I have had the incredible opportunity to witness a first world country on the cusp of becoming a great superpower systematically decimate\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e11E0RHdI2\">https:\/\/t.co\/e11E0RHdI2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayukh (@mayukh_panja) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mayukh_panja\/status\/1982400691797676094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While this post does not look like Great Power Competition, it is great power production, and affordable power production is Great Power Competition. I don&#8217;t understand how the collective West has done this to ourselves. In my opinion, cheap energy should be a policy for all governments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Beneath the brown water of a New England river sits a 40-ton sandstone mystery\u2026.etched long before a European map ever touched this coast.<\/p>\n<p>Figures. Spirals. Hands.<br \/>\nSymbols no outsider could read.<\/p>\n<p>They called it Dighton Rock.<br \/>\nAnd it rewrites what \u201chistory\u201d looks like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nRrAtu9aCF\">pic.twitter.com\/nRrAtu9aCF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MoundLore (@MoundLore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoundLore\/status\/1982178918892257307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Some cool history about our forgotten past.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\uddf5 1\/ On this day in 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph line was completed, instantly linking the East and West coasts with a message from California Chief Justice Stephen Field to President Abraham Lincoln\u2014shrinking America from weeks of Pony Express mail to seconds of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R7hDLYqISM\">pic.twitter.com\/R7hDLYqISM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manifest History (@ManifestHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManifestHistory\/status\/1981682137993474403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another cool history thread.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quick X threads that I thought were interesting. This post is also an open thread. I welcome any readers to post comments or additional links related to national security or history issues, even if unrelated to the links below. South China Sea \u2013 On October 26, 2025 at approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-x-threads"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image-1.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}