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Thank you! Especially for the links. The sickness of Putin's mind is beyond comprehension.

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Always and I mean always happy to help and provide links to factual information. Sending you a virtual hug for being so kind and generous ((hug))

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I am horrified beyond belief about the children, dead, injured and so many thousands now at grave risk of all kinds of evil. Including right wing “Adoptions”! Frankly I think Putin is pissed at Trump’s failure of a deliverable. All too confident to believe Trump’s “believe me” about NATO’s fracture being beyond repair. And given Trump still won’t slam the guy, there is little doubt that what we’ll see in 2024 will make 2016 look like a fond memory. Putin deliberately targets children because he knows no one will stop him. It’s the “whose gonna stop me” and “prove it” at the same time. Trump is absolutely no different. We’ve got his entire inner circle suing to shield their records while themselves innocent and insurrectionists POWs. It’s just all so horrifying.

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Also, that the time to proceed in accruing UA was not going to get any riper for Putin, given Biden's strides on the world stage

No hurry, if Trump had been re-elected, given Trump's determination to remove US from NATO, alienate and undermine allies, etc

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Gonna add this:

It is probably both terrifying and terrible for Putin (and karmaic, too) that RU's demography is becoming unsustainable (hence his need to add more territory and people to his country; no one except Snowden would really want to emigrate there, for God's sake)

When I was in St. Petersburg a decade ago, in a private convo, pressed waaay past etiquette, the married guide admitted that she didn't think it would be feasible to have a child in RU

And it certainly isn't helping that Putin's war is decimating the ranks of young men in his country

Re: children being killed or kidnapped by RU: there seems to me to be a sense of the biblical lesson from King Solomon's court (if we cannot have them, no one will)

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Fuck, Mic, I cannot even read this...it's taken days for me to open it to thank you for being such an (expletive!) diabase of stability

*Diabase/dolerite is the strongest igneous rock in compression, tension, and shear (sheer!!!) stress

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