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DIY-HP-LED

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the offical clamp down has begun....

Good luck with a new iron curtain that cuts through the heart of the Slavic world in the information age! Russia is vast, but over 80% of the population is in European Russa west of the Urals. Most are just a few hundred miles from NATOs new borders, Belarus and Ukraine, easy to broadcast radio to and directed TV transmissions can go a long way. Many of the Russian broadcasters and celebrities who left Russia will end up in studios in Kyiv with transmitters on the borders pointing towards Russa, plus YouTube, even free satellite TV for those in Siberia and the east who have dishes. Half a million already left many of their best and brightest youth.
 

.pinny.

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Think you're in the same league as Trump? There are different kinds of scum...
i am a seperate and very distinctly different type of scum than him. i still have most of my hair, decent size dick length, and i dont beg my freinds for money to help me fight my political battles or to stop bullying me on the internet
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Yep, this should be a good war for Joe, if Ukraine kicks Russia out of Crimea in the summer and fall of 2024 after defeating them on the mainland this summer and destroying the Kerch bridge. The maga voices on the right will grow shriller, but the Europeans will grow bolder, and the Russians will grow more desperate. Forcing a house vote on more military aid to Ukraine at the right time will throw the GOP house into disarray and panic as they will have to choose and loose whatever way they vote.


We’re One Step Closer to Putin’s Crimea Nightmare

GUT PUNCH
Senior U.S. officials privately harbor concerns but Western leaders have started warming to the idea that Ukraine should kick Russia out of Crimea, despite the nuclear threats.


Since the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Western leaders have privately been warning Kyiv against kicking Russia out of Crimea, the peninsula Russian President Vladimir Putin seized from Ukraine in 2014, out of a fear of triggering a nuclear flashpoint.

But now, over one year into the invasion, the tide appears to be turning—at least from Kyiv’s perspective.

Western leaders have started warming to the idea that Ukraine can take back Crimea in spite of Russian nuclear threats, Tamila Tasheva, the Ukrainian government official in charge of Crimea, told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview.

“We heard from Western leaders that… if we come back to Crimea, that there would be an unavoidable escalation, that might even provoke a nuclear conflict,” Tasheva said, noting that those warnings have faded in recent weeks. “The rhetoric has been changing since we explain more and more what Crimea is, what it means for Russia, and how things are connected around Crimea,” she said referring to the way Russia has been using Crimea as a launchpad and key supply route for the war.

In the fall, The Daily Beast reported that Western officials were privately urging Ukraine’s government to back away from the idea of taking back Crimea. At the time, they expressed concerns to Tasheva that Putin, who had derived huge domestic support from seizing the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014, would view a Ukrainian campaign to take it back as an attack on Russia proper and respond with massive escalation.

Tasheva believes that concern has started melting away now that Ukraine is arguing that Crimea is key to a victory against Putin both because Russia continues to use it as a launchpad for the war, and because Putin views it as key to his political legitimacy in Russia.

Ukraine hopes its plan to kick Russia out of Crimea—as well as the other territory it has stolen—is finally gaining momentum.

It’s a dramatic shift from the early days of the war, when Ukraine’s goals were focused on defending against Russia’s invasion and forcing Russia out of Ukrainian land captured in 2022. As Ukraine’s forces have staged successful counteroffensives, though, Kyiv has gained confidence it might be able to push Russia out of territory it stole in 2014, including Crimea.

Now, with a Ukrainian counteroffensive likely targeted at southern Ukraine looming, the path to Crimea is becoming clearer.

Significant headwinds remain in the way of that goal, however.
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