Jerome Starkey
@jeromestarkey · UK, Ukraine · joined 28 Jan 2009
Defence Editor @TheSun. Present Frontline & Arms Race on @YouTube. London by way of Kabul and Kenya. Often in #Ukraine. Now on the FSB's wanted list.
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@jeromestarkey There's money for the wretched #Chagos deal to give away billions to a Chinese ally, but no money to train.
What the actual ...
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@jeromestarkey @PhilipIngMBE Got to make some cuts to find £35 billion to give away the Chagos islands
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@jeromestarkey @SO3_Clausewitz Because paying to give away sovereign territory is more important!!
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🚨BREAKING – The Army has been ordered to stop training in an historic blow to Britain’s defences as the MoD runs out of cash.
https://t.co/xZaaQb9BJY
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@jeromestarkey WTAF 😳 How did he get into the country ffs 🤦♀️
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📸 And here is Cheng Bohan collapsed in a Wagner Group t-shirt & separately playing the bagpipes in front of a Wagner Group flag.
Wagner Group, run by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, is proscribed as a terrorist group in Britain.
Cheng dismissed it as “cosplay” https://t.co/HbM7IvHb
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A few days before Cheng Bohan played bag pipes at a Highland Games he shared this picture from in front of the Russian MoD in Moscow.
The caption read: “Glory to airborne forces” https://t.co/ozSYzedvPz
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It’s been a busy summer:
July: Cheng in Russian camo & Kalashnikov at the gates of occupied Donetsk
August: Kilt & piles at the Highland Games…
…then in Daoist robes in Glasgow to win a Grade 3 solo piping contest https://t.co/aC07wDylfZ
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Later that year he shared a video of himself brandishing an AK and an RPG wearing full Russian rig.
In one scene he wears the insignia of the notorious Pyatnashaka Brigade, which is part of the Russian Volunteer Assault Corps known for recruiting foreigners.
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A picture shared online shows him wearing the trademark blue and white striped t-shirt of Russia's airborne forces as he hands “humanitarian aid” to man in camouflage https://t.co/5IZ5wnDacO
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Cheng’s first known trip to occupied Ukraine was in 2024
It included a trip to Mariupol which was captured by Russia after “mediaeval style siege” and what the Red Cross called “desperate scenes of human suffering” in 2022.
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🤯 SCOOP – A Chinese Daoist priest who boasted of joining Putin’s war in Ukraine has been touring Scotland’s Highland Games (in a kilt) & won a bagpiping contest in Glasgow.
Cannot make it up 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🏴
https://t.co/xSgUO8JzTP https://t.co/Nbywyl5V9Q
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🇺🇦 It is hard to believe this was 3 years ago.
With hindsight one of the maddest things I did in Ukraine.
On a speed boat with a 50 cal, in the middle of the Dnipro river
https://t.co/E6u4ez1xh5
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Against accounts of the same size
14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views928this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.97%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.21%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 928 | 924 | 1.00× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.97% | 3.62% | 1.37× |
| Engagement rate | 2.21% | 1.52% | 1.45× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
98810 Aug
30.7K22 Aug
868
694
573
568
6.5K
509
461
140
296.3K3 Sep
4.6K
2.8K
1.5K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.33%10 Aug
0.55%22 Aug
2.07%
2.74%
2.97%
3.52%
0.70%
3.34%
3.25%
8.57%
0.22%3 Sep
1.77%
1.59%
2.10%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes64.7%810 in total
Reposts15.6%195 in total
Replies5.2%65 in total
Quotes7.4%92 in total
Bookmarks7.1%89 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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