By James O’Neill*
It seems very clear that certain elements within the United States government are determined to have a war with Russia. The statement made by Victoria Nuland, the Deputy head of State, and by her boss Antony Blinken can only be described as madness. The ostensible basis for their idiocy is the situation in Ukraine. It is worth our while to spend a moment recalling the origins of the Ukraine crisis.
It began in 2015 when the legitimate government of Ukraine was overthrown in a violent revolution. It is important to remember that none other than Victoria Nuland was an important instigator of that coup, acting on behalf of her then-boss, Barack Obama, a man whose reputation as a warmonger has been greatly downplayed by the western media.
The elected president of Ukraine fled into exile in Russia. As a result of the coup a number of events occurred. First, the people of Crimea held a referendum about their future. An overwhelming majority (more than 90%) voted to apply to re-join Russia. The operative word here is “re-join”. Crimea had been part of Russia for hundreds of years until in 1954 then Soviet president Nikita Khrushchev (himself a Ukrainian) gifted Crimea to Ukraine. The people of Crimea were never consulted about the shift in their allegiance. To hear the rhetoric of the modern Ukrainian leadership one could be forgiven for thinking that Ukrainian control of Crimea was hundreds of years instead of the 61 years that it actually was.
At the same time as the change of government in Kiev two Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine also decided they wanted nothing to do with the new leadership and effectively declared their independence. A number of important consequences flowed from that decision. The first was that the Ukrainians ignored what they had agreed to at the Minsk conference that occurred at that time to deal with the issues arising from the declaration of independence. They have waged a war against the breakaway regions ever since.
The second consequence was that France and Germany did nothing to encourage the Ukrainians to keep to the agreement they had signed. The result has been an unsatisfactory stalemate ever since.
The breakaway provinces of the Donbass have grown progressively stronger. Unsurprisingly, the attitude of the Ukrainian government has done nothing to encourage their belief that all will be well if they were to return to the control of the Ukrainian government.
The resistance of the two Donbass regions has been assisted by Russia, mainly in the form of weapons and political and moral support. Most recently, the citizens of the two regions were offered Russian citizenship. They have long been permitted to live and work in Russia. The chances of these two regions ever returning to Ukrainian control looks increasingly remote.
None of which encourages the Ukrainians to look with any favour upon Russia. This antipathy has reached ridiculous proportions. The Ukrainians, heavily supported by the Americans, who it must be remembered, started the whole crisis by their role in the overthrow of the legitimate Ukrainian government in 2015, have become increasingly shrill about an imminent Russian invasion of the country.
The Russians have consistently denied any plans to invade Ukraine and it is not difficult to see why. The economy is in a state of collapse, with millions of Ukrainians choosing to live and work in other European countries. No one can come up with a single convincing reason why Russia would want to invade the country.
The lack of logic has not stopped the Ukrainians and the Americans from making ever shriller claims that a Russian invasion is imminent. The Americans have also declared that there will be major economic costs for Russia should they eventually invade Ukraine. American hostility to Russia is not a new phenomenon and the current rhetoric has done nothing to improve relations.
Given the frankly unhinged American rhetoric and the absence of any plausible reason why Russia would want to invade Ukraine, it raises the suspicion that the Americans are planning a false flag operation to give them an excuse to impose their sanctions.
The Russians have made it clear that such a move by the Americans will lead to the severing of political and economic relations with the United States. Russia is in a far better position to survive an American-inspired economic attack than the lunatics in the United States appreciate. Among the threats being made by the Americans are to cancel Nord Stream 2 which the Americans, for purely selfish reasons, have long opposed.
It is symptomatic of their profound stupidity that the cancellation of Nord Stream 2 will have little or no effect upon Russia, which is busy sending its ample energy supplies eastward to the welcoming arms of China. It will, however, have a devastating impact on Germany whose dependence on Russian energy is beyond doubt. It is yet another classic example of the Americans doing what they want, with scant regard to the effects it will have upon their European allies.
The Germans are acutely aware of the dangers to their economy if Nord Stream 2 is cancelled. The German Chancellor has recently held emergency talks with Russia, in an attempt to undo the damage caused by the blatantly pro-American view expressed by the German Foreign Minister.
Whether Germany is strong enough to resist the blatant self-interest of the Americans is an open question. Their track record in this regard does little to inspire confidence. The greatest immediate threat, however, is a U.S inspired false flag operation aimed at justifying yet another round of sanctions. Their resilience and ability to withstand US pressure is doubted.
The real danger is that United States hubris and frankly profound stupidity runs the risk of sparking a full-scale war. In that case, Australia will not be exempt.
*Geopolitical analyst. He may be contacted at jamesoneill83@icloud.com
The US “must be destroyed” by ANY and ALL means. This is to eradicate the Bill of Rights etc.
The fall of Byzantium (by Venice and others)
https://www.bitXXXXchute.com/video/3RlsQCwWd3mx/
Take out the XXXX because BigTech hates bitchute
As far as the Germans, maybe the DeepState wants them to go back to nucular power, the Germans were always at the forefront of anti-nucular peace stuff, could it be !!! That the fabricated CO2 climate change thing is part of this push to re-nucularize Germany. The deviousness of Swissy is hard to guess but never to be underestimated.
I doubt it. Germany and France are de-nuclearising.
We hear the Poles do all the Germans recycling for them, they had over 100 recycling yard fires last year if I recall correctly, here in Australia they are quite frequent, I remember seeing one out of the client’s window a year or so ago, very big and hot fire.
This is how Green Initiatives are handled. Who was our yellowcake front desk, why, I do believe Downer, Turnbull and Bishop were mentioned. Snouts in the trough as usual, wrestling for position. Who knows the outcome.
We hear Biden admin wants to “build back better” an Intel semiconductor factory, this will take the pressure off Taiwan, maybe they already got their other new factory up and running in Israel as mooted some time ago. This means the former 90% of global chips operation (Taiwan Semiconductor) is fading into insignificance. Is Biden going to throw Taiwan to China, just because they put a few millions in Hunter Biden’s account ? I guess so, if he can get away with it.
So Ukraine is the ww3 that never happened and never will happen, it’s a “look over here” operation, but not for the Russians, who WILL control the Black Sea whether NATO likes it or not. Ultimately, there are too many forces at work pushing for the destruction of America, the Deep State, the Competitor nations, the Illuminati over there in Geneva, the self interested such as Biden, Pelosi, Cheney, Gates, Bushs & Rockerfellas, they are all vultures tearing at a carcass, maybe one of these days there will be nothing left, just plastic coffins piled up on top of each other.
Good article, James. I will pass it along to this lady who is running for Rep from my district:
You are part the way there James, but you still do not have the bigger picture to look at as to how this world has been controlled. Try listening to Janet Ossebaard and her very factual and informative – The fall of the Cabal – on Bitchute, if you really wish to comprehend what is at play Globally.
A long one Perry but a good intro, I didn’t realise the Titanic went down during Feast of Moloch, April 15 (1912), the same date as the Notre Dame burning and all sorts of massacres etc. Well so many people are fans of the movie featuring Leonardo DeCappucino drowning amongst the icebergs they should be interested in that at least. There must be a complete compilation of “Feast of Moloch” events, it would appear that Easter itself was placed in that period not only to supplant Eostre, probably by a decision of a committee with all their various ideas, staggering toward an agreement.
CCP controls Melbounre police and tennis via Dicktator Dan’s government
Strangely, the Vistorian Government does not have a foreign minister !!!
Meanwhile Scotty claims his “wechat” was hacked and he has lost control of it and now it is full of CCP propaganda. Red party opposition leader “Elbow” was not hacked.
If you want to own nothing and be happy, it looks like the red party is for you, and your social credit score will be arriving soon.
Sorry I can’t spell Melbounre or Vistoria correctly in the early morning
• Victoria Nuland: Ukrainians Deserve For Respect From Their Government
referenced here
• American and Israeli Zionists behind Civil Unrest in Ukraine
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/american-and-israeli-zionists-behind-civil-unrest-in-ukraine/76814
More from that youtube channel U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
• Deterring Putin – U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
… Just a pure hatefest of toxic Zionist derangement
Unelected Bureaucrat Threatens War (Blinkin)
All that’s needed then to begin the war is a false flag.
Don’t poke the bear
Russia and china especially, through their rejection of allowing Rothschild Central Banks to control their nation have made themselves the enemy of world Jewry by stymying their quest for a Jewish controlled world government.
As all manner of subterfuge to remove these main two stumbling blocks has so far failed the Jews must resort to a war in which of course other people than themselves will do the fighting – “Wars are the Jews harvest”.
Jews Control America
JEWS CONTROL MONEY
The Rothschilds, Goldman Sachs, and Warburgs of Hamburg are primary holders of the Federal Reserve Bank.
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=821
WORLD CONQUEST THROUGH WORLD JEWISH GOVERNMENT
http://www.reclaimaustralia.net/prot/protocols_content.html
McCain rhymes with Ukraine
• GOP Senators McCain and Lindsey Graham foment war with Russia!
• John McCain Is Pushing For War With Russia: “What Has Been Set Into Motion Is Still In Motion”
https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/john-mccain-is-pushing-for-war-with-russia-what-has-been-set-into-motion-is-still-in-motion
• Russian President Putin calls McCain a crazy old fart
• John McCain’s Family Ties to Jewish Organized Crime Syndicates in Arizona
https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/john-mccains-family-ties-jewish-organized-crime-syndicates-arizona/ri24574
We have to remember that these people fomenting war are not Americans – they just control America and dangle a cardboard cut-out called ‘POTUS’ so that we can’t see their true faces and know their true agenda.
• Top Russian Politicians CRUSH John McCain’s Legacy on #1 Russian TV Show
At 2:12 “McCain is the American Stalin” – interesting observation.
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY ***** FLASH ***** INTEL SHOWS TACTICAL-NUKE CAPABLE ISKANDER-M MOVING INTO UKRAINE
23 January 2022
The first hardcore intel showing Tactical-nuclear-capable weaponry is in, and we now have solid, visually-verified COVERT intel that Russia has moved Iskander-M missiles capable of carrying tactical nuclear warheads, into the theater of Ukraine.
Intelligence sources sighted the transfer of an Iskander-M brigade from the Russian army’s tactical nuclear facilities to Ukraine.
The Russians have also equipped the Iskander brigade with extra P78-19 transporter-erector-launchers based on an 8×8 MZKT-79306 truck chassis, effectively quadrupling the brigade’s capacity.
Iskander-M is a variant for the Russian Armed Forces with two 9M723 quasi-ballistic missiles with published range 415 km, rumored 500 km. Speed Mach 6–7, flight altitude up to 6–50 km, nuclear capable stealth missile, controlled at all stages, not ballistic flight path. Immediately after the launch and upon approach to the target, the missile performs intensive maneuvering to evade anti-ballistic missiles. The missile constantly maneuvers during flight as well.
To be clear, NO ONE thinks Putin will use nukes right out of the gate. But for years there has been sketchy intel that Ukraine may have KEPT some of the old Soviet Union nuclear cores, and since most of the old Soviet nuke stockpile existed inside Ukraine, and was built inside Ukraine, the technical skill exists there to take those nuclear cores and make an actual functioning a-bomb out of one or more of them.
It COULD ALSO BE that Putin is simply hedging his bets by having nuke-capable weapons in-theater, or . . . it could be a very crystal clear warning to NATO: Keep Out of this affair.
Either way, there has been widespread speculation about HOW a conventional war could quickly escalate into a tactical nuclear war; then escalate like lightning to a full scale nuclear war. Now, we have our first, rock-solid confirmation that Tactical-nuke weapons are in-theater.
Hal Turner Remarks
I no longer see any chance at all of this situation being resolved Diplomatically. I don’t know what Russia’s time table is, but I think it is best that WE here in the US, and civilians in all of Europe, make certain our “preps” are fully completed, immediately.
Emergency food, water, medicines, First-Aid supplies, Personal Protective Equipment, Flashlights, portable radios, batteries for both lights and radios. CASH MONEY; banks won’;t work and neither will ATM’s or Credit Cards, so have CASH MONEY. Have a way to generate electric. Fuel for that electric generation. Fuel for vehicles and all maintenance done on those vehicles.
HAVE AN EVACUATION PLAN. Know where you’re going and more importantly, HOW you will get there. What routes will you take and what other routes can you take if your original route is blocked. MAPS (not GPS) would be essential. CB or HAM radio too.
Time is NOT on your side. If you don’t have ALL your prepping done, and the shit hits the fan, everyone will panic. Stores will sell out within minutes. Gas stations too. Don’t be caught having waited. Better to get it all now and not need it, than to need it and not be able to get it.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/subscribers-only-flash-intel-shows-tactical-nuke-capable-iskander-m-moving-into-ukraine
Scared = Compliant
Swissy likes to pick up on various memes and mainstream them, but I don’t think that’s going to be one
Vercinge… hey, somebody does his homework.Good stuff.
This was actually a very detailed and informative presentation by Matthew Ehret
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-eurasian-manifest
watch on Bitchute, Rumbel or the other.
I am concerned about Xi Jinping’s WEF virtual Davos speech – Matthew explains it away as political double talk but I have my concerns. Why even acknowledge them by addressing this forum? The rest of the talk is riveting.
Long winded but informative.
I take issue though with his rubbishing of Thomas Hobbes.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm
Just dropping this here (again) as a reference tool:
• Crimea. The Way Home. Documentary by Andrey Kondrashev
At 1:46:42 for just a minute or so of this video we have this little tidbit on Crimean/Russian history …
Way before the Ottomans or Tartars ever ‘arrived in’ Crimea, here is a little cameo regarding Chersonesus (or should I say Χερσόνησος), where Prince Vladimir was baptized in 988 and Orthodox Christianity started to spread across Russia. Also see history of Χερσόνησος back to 6th century BC.
• Putin speaking with creative youth at the Tavrida National Youth Educational Forum, during his trip to Crimea on August 20, 2017. (excerpt)
(I still can’t detect the geopolitical 5D chess cracks)
The same oligarchs rule in every nation that have central bank franchises (ditto BSL4 factories), globally. As we’ve witnessed, with all wars in our times and now the implantable beast by injection, all wars are banksters wars, financing all sides for mutually assured destruction.
Everywhere, mass murder is the COVID agenda, our hospitals have become the eugenicists extermination camps. Cash for murder, with many workers in hospitals knowing what the plandemic is, but carrying on regardless. With jabs or no job choice, they kill to keep their jobs. Ditto for all players in associated fields of professional schizophrenia, such as politicians, media and enforcement goon squads.
The streets of suburbia have become the killing fields, with prime targets being the elderly, disabled and now they’re coming for the children.
Soldiers must not obey illegal orders, right?
Any unconstitutional act is illegal. The Con has priority over Statutes and EOs.
If we are to go to war against Russia we (US) must get a declaration from Congress to that effect. That is well-settled law.
Write to me if you don’t understand. MaxwellMaryLLB@gmail.com Or see my Maxwell v Trump case here at Gumshoe.
On March 29, 2018 at a speech at National Defense University, Sen Rand Paul said:
“Handing war-making power from Congress to the executive branch is not an exercise in congressional power. It is the final and full abandonment of that power. It is wrong, it is unconstitutional, and it should be stopped.”
The first 4 minutes will suffice:
More escapism !!!
When the USA catches a cold Australia sneezes –
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-u-s-a-is-preparing-for-martial-law-and-total-military-oppression-economic-collapse-martial-law-the-storm-is-the-end-game/
GOLD FRINGED FLAG stage props for Presidential speeches –
The flags displayed in State courts and courts of the United States have gold or yellow fringes. That is your WARNING that you are entering into a foreign enclave, the same as if you are stepping into a foreign embassy and you will be under the jurisdiction of that flag. The flag with the gold or yellow fringe has no constitution, no laws, and no rules of court, and is not recognized by any nation on the earth, and is foreign to you and the United States of America. more information
MILITARY FLAG WITH THE GOLD FRINGE
Martial Law Flag “Pursuant to 4 U.S.C. chapter 1, §§1, 2, & 3; Executive Order 10834, August 21, 1959; 24 F.R.6865; a military flag is a flag that resembles the regular flag of the United States, except that it has a YELLOW FRINGE border on three sides. The President of the United States designates this deviation from the regular flag, by executive order, and in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the military. The placing of a fringe on the national flag, the dimensions of the flag and the arrangement of the stars in the union are matters of detail not controlled by statute, but are within the discretion of the President as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy.” 34 Ops. Atty. Gen. 83.
President, Dwight David Eisenhower, by Executive Order No.10834, signed on August 21, 1959 and printed in the Federal Register at 24 F.R. 6865, pursuant to law, stated that: “A military flag is a flag that resembles the regular flag of the United States, except that it has a yellow fringe border on three sides.”
Read on –
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/flag.htm
Relax –
Relax!!??
That beautiful little girl and her harp makes me enraged that the “New Order of Everything” wants to degrade Mankind into a nasty scourge on the pristine brutality of “nature” and that the “Evolutionary” improvements that are supposed to give some “eusocial” futuristic utopia are just a dialectical competition synthesis “Great Reset” away.
I’m more enraged than ever that diabolical narcissism like unrestrained “freedom” in competition with a definable nature and purpose of the whole shebang is supposed to be an “Evolutionary” step toward an emerging “Cosmic Consciousness” that is, presumably, (if one can take any notice of any of the proponents of “New Age” “Primordial Wisdom”) something that is “growing” or “becoming” out of Nothing.
I am more than ever convinced that “mass formation psychosis” cannot exist without the assumption that Everything (including Truth and Virtue) is in a random process of dialectical “becoming”.
My anger is, perhaps, best left where it is for the moment.
Why doesn’t Syria retaliate to Israeli attacks? Nasrallah’s response
US-Israel play poker, Resistance Axis plays chess.
« The Resistance Axis is very vigilant and watchful during this period (of transition between Trump & Biden), and must scrupulously take care not to be drawn into an escalation, in the slightest point of this Axis. We must not allow ourselves to be dragged to an unmeasured (large-scale) confrontation, to a (total) war whose timing would be the one chosen by our enemies. Of course, (open) war (against the United States and Israel) will (inevitably) happen one day or another, but we are talking about this current timing (we will choose the time and place of the Great War, not them). »
Source: https://video.moqawama.org/details.php?cid=1&linkid=2116
Translation: resistancenews.org
https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/why-doesnt-syria-retaliate-to-israeli-attacks-nasrallahs-response/
Province fluidity:
I see a profound parallel between the situation involving Crimea and Donbass with Russia, and that involving the areas of Sudetenland and Danzig with Germany in the 1930s.
In Crimea, ethnic ‘Russians’ were arbitrarily displaced from their father/motherland by the redrawing/reassignment of borders or jurisdictions (as described by James – Khrushchev 1954)). The people in the Donbass regions had been happily living their lives as ‘Russians’ without concern until the ‘US’-orchestrated coup established an administration which was hostile both to these citizens in the east as well as to Russia itself.
• Donbass: War Continues; Ukrainian Army Killing Civilians
The same happened over 100 years ago with the Diktat of Versailles, culminating in the massacre of civilians in 1939 which left Hitler with no alternative but to resolve the ‘Polish’ question militarily. The operation took three weeks but it was all the Jewish Bankers operating out of London needed to initiate and nourish what festered into World War II.
• The Real Reason Germany Invaded Poland.
https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/what-hitler-said-about-the-danzig-and-bromberg-massacres-of-ethnic-germans-by-predominantly-jewish-b_VYLQ7oP5dEAjMiV.html
(Churchill so reminds me of Biden … although that might actually be unkind to Biden, poor thing
https://fightingmonarch.com/2022/01/23/winston-churchill-was-a-homosexual-traitor/ )
On another site someone shared the following
• The US Secretary of State addressed the Russians in the style of Goebbels’ Hitler leaflets (use automatic translation to English – up the top right somewhere)
https://ruslanostashko.livejournal.com/853395.html
I haven’t had a chance and do not really have the time or energy to comment where this was posted because the topic is just too big, but this is SO completely absurd – comparing the Jew Blinken (whose first loyalty is to Israel) to Goebbels who dropped pamphlets reassuring Russians (and Ukrainians) that their beef was with the Bolsheviks (“waging a war of liberation from Bolshevism”)
Just dropping this here for readers to ponder – more examples of leaflets dropped by a) Hitler and b) Ilya Ehrenberg when I can find time. Just standing back, pondering the psychology of all this (including COVID) is just mind boggling.
And I am still not ruling out that it is all theatre – but who writes the screenplay?
Russell Winter writes in the article below:
“To those who might call me an unpatriotic or anti-American person, I can only retort: If your country is treating you like sh*t, and there’s been non-stop bombing and regime changes abroad for decades, then look carefully. It may no longer be your country but rather a hijacked kakistocratic Global Empire only posing as your former country.”
• The Barnett Plan: The Pentagon’s Dead-End Map for Neocon Globalism – Winter Watch
https://www.winterwatch.net/2022/01/the-barnett-plan-the-pentagons-dead-end-map-for-neocon-globalism/
“The so-called Barnett Plan, described in the book “The Pentagon’s New Map” by Thomas Barnett, is a continuation of the New World Order (aka New Underworld Order) plan of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. I will dissect my own reading of this unfortunately influential but God awful book. Barnett was asked by the United States Air Force to give the indoctrination presentation to every new officer who attained the rank of general.”
[…]
“Thanks to the global war on terrorism, we now understand that it likewise demands the clear enunciation and enforcement of a security rule set as well.”
[…]
“Winter Watch Takeaway
I will end my discussion of Thomas Barnett’s ludicrous failed plan by quoting the only truism that came from this man’s mouth in the entire book (page 29):
“I’ve worked with the Pentagon for enough years to know there’s a huge difference between signing new doctrines into being and fielding the forces that will bring those strategies to life.”
Little wonder that he’s moved on to work for the Israelis.”
Latest from Brian Berletic (The New Atlas). Off topic but relevant
• US-Funded “NGOs” Panic as Thailand Prepares New NGO Transparency Law – Brian Berletic
Riot pigs lie in wait (Brussels yesterday)
Protesters attack EEAS which seems to be a Euro foreign interference ministry presumably controlled by Globalists and liaising with NATO to arm up against Russia, inject Africans and other depop strategies ( 5 minutes of destruction )
https://www.brighteon.com/a6305495-fee2-457b-977e-2c62b7acd9f6
Actual protest (3 hours) MSM says 50,000 protesters
https://www.brighteon.com/f759d438-08b7-47cd-9d14-6296edd51c01
Start about halfway (1:30:00) to see the built-up crowd
On Tucker Carlson Fox News
Millions of protesters all over Europe, anti-va666passport, digital ID, etc (already started in Australia) – “Europe is turning into China”
https://www.brighteon.com/354e5f97-3e11-4b07-b3ed-1ab984a0d3a1
“It would not be the first time in history that tyranny was born in Austria” – note, next door to Swissyland, so easy to buy all the politicians you need.
In fact VENICE used to be part of AUSTRIA at some points in history, and functioned as Austria’s seaport.
Where did Austrian wealth come from ?
Pep talk (Australia)
https://newtube.app/user/Believe_it/qSJeOq8
Latest from crooked TGA showing myocarditis and periocarditis statistics
Scroll about halfway down : – P FFSer is called Comerenaughty and ModeRNA is called Spikeva666
https://www.tga.gov.au/periodic/covid-19-vaccine-weekly-safety-report-20-01-2022
We have heard the stories about how they make it very difficult to report injuries, by having a pulldown menu with no appropriate category, by scaring doctors ( with big mortgages ) etc.
I’m guessing people are getting the hell out of flats, shares, anything low on intrinsic value
I have no idea how they plan to repay Swissy, or are they convinced this ponzi will go forever. Note popular use of the term “ponzi” which at one time was known as a “pyramid scheme”, perhaps Mr Global did not approve the use of the word “pyramid” in this context and deplatformed the meme
Have a look at this black man getting smacked around by two white women in a lift (1 min video)
https://nationalfile.com/video-angry-white-women-yell-black-lives-matter-reportedly-assaulting-black-man-mask-etiquette-elevator/
1 in 6 Americans support a Ukraine war ( why so many ? I guess they are rusted on democrats or MIC beneficiaries )
https://nationalfile.com/biden-reportedly-final-stages-ordering-8500-u-s-troops-eastern-europe-amid-russia-ukraine-tensions/
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