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 ‘One of the Largest Strikes’ of the War. 8/26/24 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-news-putin-missile-strike-zelensky-kyiv-b2601849.html my asssessment: 1. it seems to be less calculus and more reaction to ukraine's independence day. they didn't even react like this after kursk incursion which was weeks ago and we already had a POW exchange. 2. it has high potential to trigger us to lift restrictions on american weapons striking into russian territory  @ mil targets 3. after ukr independence day, everybody is enlivened and refreshed, world leaders kiss up to president, and therefore it would be hypocritical not to follow thru with any political backlash (in other words, bad political timing on russias part). think, we just got done partying all weekend, celebrating, talking about our leaders - planning - and now we have a lot of political momentum. 4. ukr still occupies kursk. for russia to focus on civilian targets to terrorize country,...

Friends, The historic developments of Ukraine's incursion into Kursk has proven that all of putin's "red lines" that were actually intended to intimidate us from escalation, are actually moot, now essentially, irrelevant. After Ukraine's Kursk inclusion, Putin did nothing and was called bluffing. In fact, russia is so bogged down with its obsession with Ukrainian territory, that it cannot even defend its own borders. Today, our democracy is at stake and we must give a hand to Ukraine before it falls on us to have to face consequences, perhaps in the Taiwan strait... perhaps in Ukraine. I have seen the graveyards, it is completely plausible that this can get much, much worse. Tis the season - we need to push for candidates to hear their strategies on Ukraine. And we must not accept this lowball defeatist attitude of cessation of territory. Time & time again I go into the public, and whenever people start to parrot these russian talking points bac...