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The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda

@TheRealPolitick

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9,096subscribers

-16 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001665840299
TypeChannel
Username@TheRealPolitick
DescriptionMark Sleboda with a realist and critical, Russian-focused perspective on international affairs, security & geopolitics.
Created14 July 2022measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live10 August 2026
Measurements held4
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 10 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/TheRealPolitick

Growth

9,0969,1129,1047 August 2026 — 9,112 subscribers7 August 2026 — 9,112 subscribers7 August 2026 — 9,111 subscribers10 August 2026 — 9,096 subscribers7 August 202610 August 2026
4 measurements spanning 4 days, net -16. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 9,094–9,114 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
10 Aug 2026, 23:419,096-15
7 Aug 2026, 17:409,111-1
7 Aug 2026, 11:159,112no change
7 Aug 2026, 11:099,112first reading

Engagement

101 posts held, back to 7 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 14 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
2.71%
avg views ÷ 9,096 subscribers
Avg views / post
246
101 posts measured
Reaction rate
3.02%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
101
of 101 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 97 of 101 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026
Posts held101 (7 August 202612 August 2026)
Views total24,869
Reactions total749
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken12 Aug 2026, 15:36 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

What this channel posts

Photos
9,150
Videos
4,010
Links
9,030

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.

Video runtime
9m 40s
Average length
29s

Measured directly from 20 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no mark.

Reaction mix

749 reactions across 97 posts, in 26 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 24.2% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍18124.2%
😁10213.6%
🔥8711.6%
🤬709.35%
699.21%
🖕618.14%
🤮344.54%
👏314.14%
🤡293.87%
💩253.34%
🤣152.00%
😱70.935%
🏆60.801%
🤔50.668%
👎40.534%
🌚30.401%
🎉30.401%
💯30.401%
😢30.401%
🤩30.401%
6 further kinds81.07%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 97 of the 101 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 749reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 101 most recent posts we hold, published 7 August 2026 to 12 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

12 Aug 2026, 12:19 UTC69 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @DDGeopoliticsVideo

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Armed Forces have established control over Vodyanoye in Kharkov region, the Defense Ministry reports. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🔥4

12 Aug 2026, 12:19 UTC120 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Photo

📉 Even World Bank noted: Ukraine has sunk into total poverty New data from the World Bank paints a grim picture: Ukraine's poverty rate hit a staggering 41.6 percent in 2025: more than double what it was in 2021, before the country was thrown open to Western corporations. On the ground, the reality is very brutal. Food prices have soared 80 percent, utilities are up 70 percent, and 17 percent of families now turn t

1🔥1😁1

12 Aug 2026, 12:17 UTC199 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @SlavyangradPhoto

🇷🇺 Russian Forces Liberate Vodyanoye, Kharkov Region Location: Vodyanoye, Kharkov region. Units involved: Assault units of the North Group of Forces, including elements of the 11th Tank Regiment. Outcome: Russian forces have taken full control of the settlement, driving out Ukrainian troops after fierce fighting. The advance brings Russian units to the outskirts of Olkhovatka, a major Ukrainian logistics hub. Sou

🔥4

12 Aug 2026, 10:14 UTC279 views11 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @SlavyangradPhoto

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump prepares to declare 'victory' and withdraw troops from Iran Washington may claim the destruction of Iran's nuclear program and start pulling out US forces. Key pressure tools: a naval blockade of Iran and tougher sanctions, while allowing oil tankers through Oman. Trump believes Iran cannot significantly rebuild its nuclear program before his term ends. However, this could trigger escalation - Tehran ma

🖕8🤡2💩1

12 Aug 2026, 10:13 UTC242 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @SlavyangradPhoto

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Only 5-9% of Ukrainian missiles and drones reach targets in Russia - AP Ukraine significantly increased long-range strikes on Russian territory in July, but most are intercepted by Russian air defense, Associated Press reports. Analysts estimate July strikes tripled compared to January. Main targets: oil infrastructure, defense industry, air defense, and radar stations. RUSI's Jack Watling says only 5-9% of U

3🔥1

12 Aug 2026, 10:12 UTC216 views10 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @SlavyangradPhoto

🇬🇧 Britain wants to resume high-level military contacts with Russia due to escalation risk British military commanders fear the risk of "unintended escalation" due to the lack of dialogue, reports The Times. The need to resume dialogue arose after the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich fired warning shots in the English Channel in June due to the dangerous approach of a British-flagged yacht. The chiefs of genera

🤡7🖕3

12 Aug 2026, 10:11 UTC209 views8 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @SlavyangradPhoto

🇩🇪 Germany German intelligence services may be authorized to conduct “preventive” cyberattacks against Russia, according to Welt. Head of the Bundestag's parliamentary control committee, Mark Heinrichmann, stated the need to provide German intelligence with tools to neutralize potential threats before they arise. As an example, he cited the possibility of disabling Russian drones or the enterprises where they are p

🖕51🤡1🤬1

12 Aug 2026, 10:07 UTC163 views5 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Forwarded from @SlavyangradPhoto

🇷🇺 Zaporozhye Direction Units of the Vostok group of forces have established control over Novoye Pole in the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Ministry of Defence officially reported on 11 August. The significance lies not in the settlement itself, but in the continued advance of the Vostok group deep into Ukrainian defences on this sector and the position the Russian Armed Forces now occupy after a series of such succ

👍4🔥1

12 Aug 2026, 10:04 UTC120 views6 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

🚨🇷🇺 Any move to seize Russian commercial shipping will be met with a like-for-like response, Putin declared. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

👍5🤔1

12 Aug 2026, 10:03 UTC115 views3 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Photo

US military aid deliveries to Ukraine drop over 50% in 2026 Direct US military aid deliveries to Ukraine plummeted by more than 50% in 2026 as contract fulfillment under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative slowed from an average of $587 million per month in 2025 to $265 million per month this year, according to reports by quarterly Operation Atlantic Resolve. 👉 The USAI program delivered $7.05 billion in fin

🔥2👍1

12 Aug 2026, 10:03 UTC112 views7 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Photo

🇺🇸🇾🇪US admits responsibility for killing Yemeni civilians in military operations last year US airstrikes killed at least 153 civilians and wounded an additional 250 during last year’s operations targeting militants in Yemen, a Pentagon review indicated. The acknowledgment of three attacks on civilians that resulted in hundreds of casualties is the first time the Defense Department has admitted responsibility, with

🤬5😢2

12 Aug 2026, 10:02 UTC107 views5 reactionsread 12 August 2026
Video

🗣🇮🇷Iran produces munitions at a rate exceeding expenditure — IRGC general “Even if the war lasts for several years, our ballistic missiles will continue to rain down on the enemy,” General Mohammad Reza Naqdi stated. He added that Iran’s drone production capacity is “far greater than the rate at which they [drones] are deployed.” 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

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Showing the 12 most recent of 101 posts we hold for @TheRealPolitick. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 10 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda” (@TheRealPolitick), 9,096 subscribers as measured 10 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/TheRealPolitick.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.