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There will be stories of the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war that will do justice to its wartime leader. Sadly it has yet to be written as not the biography of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, but as histories of his presidency dominated by a war,...
by annieli
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin likes to fancy himself a scholar of both proto and modern Pan-Slavic history. In his twisted historiography, all things Slavic find their genesis in Moskva Rus. To him and his ilk like Alexandr Dugin, Kyvian Rus, the...
by Decimus
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A Russian missile test didn’t exactly go as planned -- but it made a pretty cloud. I have to agree. Probable missile types involved: • UR-100NUTTKh (SS-19 Stiletto) • R-36M2 / RS-20 (SS-18) Both rely on UDMH fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, which...
by quaoar
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Ukraine went after bases in Chechnya belonging to the Akhmat unit that has been fighting alongside the Russians. A Russian soldier shows why this area of Novotoretsk is called the Valley of Death. He videos a meat assault past the bodies of numerous...
by quaoar
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It is probably a safe bet that a gallon of ketchup hit the wall when Trump heard that his billionaire real estate buddy Steve Witkoff was dissing him in his leaked conversation with the Russians (see below). How many scaramuccis before Trump claims he...
by quaoar
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"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy." — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT) has called the latest Witkoff/Rubio kerfuffle a “Goat Rodeo” What does goat rodeo mean? A goat rodeo is a slang term for something going totally,...
by annieli
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Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...
by quaoar
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All that work Steve Witkoff did to appease Putin and it’s all getting carved up. Poor Steve. Trump isn’t a details guy — unless it involves putting gold-plated crap all over the Oval Office. Trump was in a damn hurry to force Ukraine to accept by...
by quaoar
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Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 23 to 24. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 162 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other drones – of which roughly 80 were Shahed-type...
by annieli
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A diplomatic snafu came from Kushner and Witkoff having a secret meeting with Kremlin minions that regurgitated the same Russian ‘maximalist demands’, with Trump ‘acting tough’ demanding that Ukraine agree by Thursday as though turkey pardoning...
by annieli
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