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Telegram channel @theislandernews: 61.7K subscribers, 2.6K views per post, score 31

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61.7K
Subscribers: 2.6K
Median views over 30 days: 4.3%
Views / subscribers over 30 days: 75
Posts over 30 days

Data as of October 1, 2026

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About geopolitics from a viewpoint critical of Western foreign policy: coverage of Middle East conflicts, commentary on events in Yemen, Iran and Afghanistan, anti-imperial framing, and analysis of Saudi and US actions in the region. The author hosts livestreams with guest analysts and economists, discussing the oil shock and the fallout of these conflicts for a multipolar world. As of 12 September: subscribers stand at 62 thousand, with 171 posts over 30 days, well above the category median. Median post views sit at 2,700, and engagement holds at 4.4 percent, below the category median. Over the past month the channel announced joint livestreams with Jeffrey Sachs and Ben Norton, alongside coverage of Houthi forces seizing the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and Brent crude prices climbing past 107 dollars a barrel.

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How many subscribers?: Subscribers: 61.7K. Median views per post: 2.6K. Views per subscriber: 4.3%. Measured on October 1, 2026.
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What it is made of
Engagement	2.1 of 30
Growth quality	12 of 20
Reactions and forwards	5.4 of 15
Consistency	3.6 of 12
Trust	3.7 of 8
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Score 31 — from 5 of 6 signals: the rest are not measured yet. Methodology

What the channel wrote about

From posts September 12 – 14 · written automatically

Ukraine's war, drone technology and Middle Eastern geopolitics. Posts covered Russian strikes on Ukrainian rear infrastructure, Russia's evolution of Iranian Shahed drones into advanced Geran systems that Tehran now seeks to acquire, and Saudi oil being cut off by Yemen's offensive backed by Iran.

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📝You can play this game with two players📝 A strong fleet is Russia's backbone. Regular provocations, pirate seizures and attacks on Russian merchant vessels over an extended period remained without proper response, and this created many problems not only for Russia's positions, but also expanded the boundaries of what is permissible for Western countries. 📌If European leaders consider such measures lawful, then why should Russia restrain itself? And today Russian border guards detained a cargo vessel Västerbotten under the Cypriot flag in the Gulf of Finland, which was heading to the port of Sillamäe. The Estonians confirmed this. Västerbotten is now anchored in Russian territorial waters. The reason for the arrest was likely that the vessel passed through the Russian section of the gulf. Last year they already detained the tanker Green Admire. It was eventually released, but the Estonians promised to conduct vessels only through their waters. 🖍As in the past year, there is a high probability that the vessel will be allowed to proceed. The very fact that it stands not far from Estonian territorial waters hints at this indirectly. BUT! Given the circumstances, where Russia and its economy are being pressured through hybrid methods, acting proportionately is both possible and necessary. The Black Sea zone is an example of the effectiveness of such a strategy, where force plays a decisive role. Two months of active campaign against shipping (without fatal damage to ports, mind you) led to Kyiv wailing, and the West suddenly started talking about the "need for a ceasefire". ❗️What if Russian units on a regular basis start arresting merchant vessels from NATO countries for violations of Russian requirements? Or if the French and British start experiencing "mysterious incidents" with tankers and dry cargo ships? What would Europe's reaction be in that case? #Baltic #NATO #Russia #Fleet ✈️ RU | ✈️ EN | ✉️ MAX ✉️ VK | ✉️ RuTube | ✉️ OK | ✉️ Zen 💸Support us Original msg
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LIVESTREAM ALERT: Join Danny Haiphong at LIVE 1pm eastern 7pm CET TODAY October 1st w/ Larry Johnson and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson! They discuss a new war plan taking shape as Trump and the empire signal imminent military action against Iran amid a flurry of hoaxes building the pretext. Iran has been a step ahead of a desperate US-Israeli plot to justify aggression as the economic crisis triggered by the war worsens. Watch here for this and much more! LINK BELOW: youtube.com/live/Sva3PLRnJk8
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Olga and Tara welcome Fyodor Lukyanov, Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club — for a deep-dive perspective on the escalation between Russia and Europe, why both Kiev and Moscow believe they can win the war, and how the West’s ideological habits distort the actual politician President Putin is. Is Europe using Russia as a convenient political foe to unify domestic populations and mask internal economic and social struggles? Why does Fyodor Lukyanov argue that current Western diplomatic approaches are built on a non-starter premise? And how has centuries of European distrust shaped today’s military-political crisis? Are Trump’s assessments of the conflict overly simplified and missing the root causes that date back to the 1980s? Is a military breakthrough in the Russia-Ukraine conflict still possible? And what makes the Western belief in a potential Russian collapse a dangerous historical misconception? Why is Western demonization completely distorting the reality of Vladimir Putin’s political profile? Why does Fyodor Lukyanov call him the most pro-Western leader in the history of Russia, even if ‘at the first stage’? And why does Putin remain genuinely committed to finding inclusive solutions even when Europe repeatedly rejects them? ▶️ This episode on YouTube | Rumble | BitChute | X 🔔 East Meets West explores geopolitics beyond the headlines. It's time to follow us if not yet!
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🔥 Obolon, Kiev - Russian “Geran” arrived as warehouse warfare continues. 🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews Donate - Support Our Work
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🇺🇦❌🇺🇦 Kiev - Passers by saved the next ‘defender of Kramatorsk’ from his TCC meat hunter issued death sentence. 🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews Donate - Support Our Work
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🇺🇸🤡 We’re no longer the woke department or the weak department. No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors - U.S. Secretary of Defence, TikTok Rambo and raging drunkard, Pete Hegseth, fails to mention his department is run by a rapist… 🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews Donate - Support Our Work
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🔥 Kiev BBQ season keeps going. 🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews Donate - Support Our Work
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🇺🇸🍊🤡🏃🏼🇮🇶 The orange ape announced the last U.S. occupational troops in Iraq have fled (withdrawn if you prefer). 🎙Subscribe @TheIslanderNews Donate - Support Our Work
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LIVESTREAM ALERT: Join me at LIVE 4pm eastern 10m CET TODAY Sept 29TH w/ Stanislav Krapivnik! Putin is rapidly preparing for war with Europe as Kaliningrad reemerges as a new front in NATO's effort to strategically defeat Russia, which has already failed according to former US Army Officer Stanislav Krapivnik. Ten thousand more North Korean/DPRK troops are headed to Russia to begin deployment to the frontlines of Ukraine, and while everyone's eyes are on the Middle East, Trump is sleepwalking into a "burden sharing" agreement with Europe toward a possible nuclear conflict with the Russian Federation. Watch here as we talk all this and more:
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