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A Deadly Hate Crime That Liberals Probably Can’t Blame on Tucker Carlson

Posted on | May 17, 2022 | 3 Comments

Say hello to David Wenwei Chou, 68, a resident of Las Vegas, who drove to Orange County, California, with a plan to murder Taiwanese people:

“We believe, based on what we’ve discovered so far, that he specifically targeted the Taiwanese community, and this is one representation of that Taiwanese community,” said Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, referring to the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, which was the target of the attack. . . .
Among the evidence recovered, Barnes said, were notes written in Chinese that Chou left in his car showing he did not believe Taiwan should be an independent state from China. Law enforcement sources said investigators recovered a handwritten note in his car setting out his motivations and thinking for the attack.
Chou was born in mainland China and at some point relocated to Taiwan before moving to the United States, according to Barnes. The sheriff said it appears Chou had an issue with Taiwanese people because of the way he said he was treated while living there.
It is not clear how long Chou lived in Taiwan, but Barnes said he has been in the United States for years and is a U.S. citizen.
The FBI has opened a federal hate crime investigation into the shooting, according to Kristi Johnson, assistant director in charge of the bureau’s Los Angeles office. That would be in addition to any local charges filed in Orange County.

Is there a Chinese-language broadcast of Tucker Carlson, in which he incites hatred among Chinese immigrants? Because liberals in the media assure me that he’s the source of all hate in America.

This reminds me of how anti-Semitic and anti-Asian hate crimes were spiking a few months ago, but because the perpetrators were black, liberals didn’t want to talk about the problem. You eventually must realize that Democrats only want to talk about “hate” when it can be used as a way to scapegoat Republicans. Certainly they don’t want to talk about violent crime as an issue, considering how crime is out of control in the very places where Democrats have the most political power. But it’s too early in the morning to get started on Chicago . . .




 

Category: California, China, Crime, Racism

In The Mailbox: 05.16.22

Posted on | May 17, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.16.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So far I’ve gotten exactly zero input from the Loyal Commentariat on the impending Smittypalooza, which leads me to believe that it might boil down to me, Smitty, & Stacy sitting around a table in Leesburg or someplace and yakking at each other for an hour or two. Which would be no bad thing, mind you…but anyway, if y’all in the DC area have a preference for when and where we want to do this, speak up soon.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Settled Science” Sent An Innocent Man To Prison For 30 Years
EBL: Old, Chicom “Lone Wolf” Attacks Taiwanese Christians In California, and Operation Mincemeat
Twitchy: Eric Swalwell Apologizes To House GOP, also, Bill De Blasio Doesn’t Understand The First Amendment
Louder With Crowder: New WHPS Even More Inept Than Bad Orange Woman, also, Chris Rock – “Once You Sh*t In Somebody’s Bed, You’re Guilty Of Everything”
Vox Popoli: Why Washington Wants WWIII, The Consumer Costs Of War, and Another Wind-Up Toy
Stoic Observations: The Ride Along

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Vote As Hard As You Can In A Rigged System
American Conservative: Covid Failure, also, The Comeback Of Rand Paul
American Greatness: Cancel Yale Law School, also, Assassinating Elon Musk?
American Power: Great Replacement Theory
American Thinker: Victor Davis Hanson’s Magnum Opus, also, Democrats Blame Inflation On Greed Instead Of Their Own Policies
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: New Democrat Outreach To Latinos Employs Cuban Communist Propaganda, also, Dictatorship’s Own Statistics Show Cuban COVID Deaths Five Times Higher Than Official Figure
BattleSwarm: Greatest Movie Comedy Of All Time? also, Ukraine Launches Successful Counteroffensive
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Update On SLS Preparations For The Next Dress Rehearsal, and Curiosity Climbs On!
Cafe Hayek: Seek Little-T Truth, Reject Those Who Peddle Big-T Truth, also, More On The Dangers Of Price Controls
CDR Salamander: The USN’s Port Arthur Problem, also, Who Is Helping Ukraine Build The Riverine Force They Need?
Chicago Boyz: Random Pic
Da Tech Guy: An Odd Judge & Other Thoughts Under My Fedora, Firewood & Breast Milk, and Mike Myers’ Netflix Debacle
Don Surber: “Trumpism Is Bigger Than Trump”, Barnette & Mastriano Snub The Press. Good! and Birth Is The First Human Right
First Street Journal: I Don’t Want To Be An A*****e, But…, also, Our Freedom Of Religion Vindicated!
Gates Of Vienna: The Abolition Of The Soul, A New NATO For A New Cold War, and Does Poland Have Designs On Western Ukraine?
The Geller Report: Pennsylvania Court Rules Mail-In Ballots Unconstitutional, also, White House Blames American Moms For Baby Formula Shortage
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, I’m So Old, and Imaging A Black Hole
Hollywood In Toto: The “Let Them Eat Cake” Celebrities, also, Woke Screen Rant Pummeled By Its Own Facebook Fans
The Lid: Liberal Maggots Blame Tucker Carlson For Buffalo Shooting, also, Biden Lawyers Already Preparing For Red Wave Of Investigations
Legal Insurrection: The Left Has Been Building “Social Justice” Infrastructure In Education For Decades, Texans Asked To Conserve Energy After Six Plants Go Offline During Heat Wave, and Oberlin College Appeals To Ohio Supremes In Gibson’s Bakery Case
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Nebraska – Honestly, It’s Not for Everyone
Outkick: Jack Nicklaus Blames Cancel Culture For PGA’s Move From Trump-Owned Course, NBC Cuts Drew Brees As Analyst After One Season, and Max Scherzer Refuses To Let Japanese Ambassador Throw Ceremonial First Pitch
Power Line: Weakening Of Warming Or Cooling Trend? also, Justice Thomas On The Leak
Shark Tank: Demings Accused Of Flip-Flopping On Abortion
Shot In The Dark: How Can You Tell The Strib Is Lying About Republicans? also, The Music Of The Spheres
STUMP: U.S. Gun Deaths Are Mostly Suicides, Not Homicides
The Political Hat: European Union – The Stasi Redux? also, The Laws All Being Flat
This Ain’t Hell: RIP Randy Weaver, Netflix – No Room For Woke, and No Good Deed
Transterrestrial Musings: A Tour Of Starbase, “Let Someone Whack You”, and Margaret Atwood
Victory Girls: Karine Jean-Pierre – Everything Is Racist, also, Great Replacement Theory Hysterics From The Media
Volokh Conspiracy: Akhil Amar On The Draft Dobbs Opinion, also, Why The Texas Social Media Law Is A Threat To Freedom Of Speech
Watts Up With That: Climate Change Didn’t Cause South Africa’s Tragic Floods, also, Wind Turbines Out West – Epilogue
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris, America’s Greatest Orator, While Congressional Staff Gets Free Peloton & Booze, Your Baby Gets Nothing And You’ll Like It, and Wisc. School District Investigating Middle School Students For “Misgendering” 
The Federalist: Liz Cheney Weaponizes Racial Division For Political Power, Is San Francisco’s Soft On Crime DA Headed for A Recall? and 75% Of Americans Think Biden Is Taking The Country In The Wrong Direction
Mark Steyn: Disinformation No, Disagreement Yes, Double Cross Double Feature, and Blades & Boxers

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Category: Linkagery

Personally I Blame Ruy Teixeira

Posted on | May 16, 2022 | Comments Off on Personally I Blame Ruy Teixeira

Hang on a minute, and I’ll explain why Ruy Teixeira of the Center for American Progress is the real inspiration for the mass shooting in Buffalo. First, however, the usual suspects have been busy:

Rolling Stone is facing severe backlash on social media after publishing a commentary article suggesting the 18-year-old suspect in the Buffalo shooting was a “mainstream Republican.”
The article suggests that right-wing extremists are commanding the Republican Party and pushing hateful and delusional rhetoric that channels both the “great replacement” theory and white supremacy.
The “great replacement” theory is “the idea that white people, in the United States and white-majority countries around the world, are being systematically, deliberately outbred and ‘replaced’ by immigrants and ethnic minorities, in a deliberate attempt to rid the world of whiteness,” according to the Rolling Stone article.
The theory has served as the inspiration for numerous terror attacks and fueled a “gnawing fear of a minority-white America” that has consumed conservative politics in the country, the article posits.
Thus, rather than a lone wolf, the shooter in Buffalo is a “mainstream Republican” who is “gripped by a racist delusion,” according to the commentary article.
Many on social media have not taken kindly to that suggestion and have ripped Rolling Stone online.

Now, I am less interested in “replacement theory” than I am in replacement fact — that is to say, rather than speculating about future contingencies and seeking scapegoats — it’s much more helpful to ascertain what is actually happening now, and figure out why it is happening. Conspiracy theories and science fiction scenarios about a dystopian future aren’t my stock in trade and (it should not be necessary to say) I am against mass murder.

Also, I am against Democrats like Ruy Teixeira.

You see, in 2002, he published a book entitled The Emerging Democratic Majority, which not only inspired a lot of triumphalist chest-beating about our Glorious Progressive Future, but also inspired an explicitly anti-white rhetoric by Democrats. Every time they lose an election, Democrats now scream “voter suppression” and claim that Republicans are basically trying to re-institute Jim Crow. It is this trend — for which Ruy Teixeira bears direct responsibility — which has fueled the kind of demographic-related Fear and Loathing of which Peyton Genron is the latest gaudy example. Exactly how is murdering a bunch of random people at a grocery store in Buffalo counted as a “win” for anybody’s cause? If random massacres are part of your Grand Strategy, maybe you need to rethink whatever movement you claim to be representing.

As it is, the death toll in the Buffalo shooting is twice the number shot to death this past weekend in Chicago, although 28 others were wounded in Chicago. More than 1,000 people have been shot in Chicago so far this year, including 200 fatal shootings. But none of those shootings gave liberals a reason to blame Tucker Carlson, so you probably haven’t heard too much about them. As for the whole “Great Replacement” scare, I’ve got six kids and five grandchildren already, so you can’t accuse me of slacking off in the demographic department. If y’all ain’t keeping up, that’s not my fault, just like it’s not my fault if some teenage dweeb from the suburbs of Binghamton, N.Y., goes berserk in a grocery store.

By the way, I managed to download a copy of the shooter’s “manifesto,” in which he explains that he is (a) a graduate of a public high school in New York and (b) an engineering major at the local SUNY campus. So, if we’re going to blame somebody, how about the New York public school system and engineering majors? The FBI needs to get busy compiling a dossier of future mass murderers who fit this profile.

Meanwhile, it’s almost 8 o’clock here, so I’ll have to log off and watch Tucker Carlson as he gives Super-Secret Marching Orders to Would-Be Mass Murderers. It’s must-see TV, I tell ya . . .




 

Category: Crime, New York, Racism

Ukraine: Donbas Battles Intensify

Posted on | May 16, 2022 | 1 Comment

Following up on Saturday’s post (“Ukraine’s Victory in the Battle of Kharkiv”), the situation in the Donbas region will likely dominate developments in the Ukraine war over the next week. You can click on the map above to see it full-size. The northeastern sector has three distinct crisis points: First, the Russians are attempting to advance from Popasna, threatening Bakhmut; second, 35 miles north of Popasna, Sievierodonetsk is surrounded on three sides by Russian forces; and third, 40 miles west of Sievierodonetsk, Slovyansk is threatened by Russian forces advancing from Izyum. However, Ukraine claims to be counterattacking on Izyum, the Wall Street Journal reports:

Ukraine began a counteroffensive toward the eastern city of Izyum aimed at disrupting Russian supply lines into the Donbas region, officials said, as Ukrainian forces continued clearing villages north of Kharkiv . . .
Russia has established the forward headquarters of its operations to conquer Donbas in the town of Izyum, which straddles the Siverskyi Donets river in the Kharkiv region. Ukrainian troops have begun to push successfully toward the town, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Synehubov, said Saturday.
“The Izyum direction remains our hottest point. That’s where our armed forces have begun a counteroffensive,” he said in a video address. “The enemy is retreating in some directions, which is the result of the character of our armed forces.”

Now, if this is true — a big “if,” because there is no confirmation of exactly where this counteroffensive is occurring or where the Russians have retreated — then the Russian threat to Slovyansk may soon be reduced. Still,the Russians maintain threats at many places in a long front from Oleksandrivka, near Izyum, all the way around to Popasna, then down to the southern front which is another story in itself.

While we await confirmation of Ukrainian success near Izyum, it seems to me that a crucial point is around Lyman, where the Ukrainians hold a bridgehead on the northern bank of the Siverskyi Donets river. This is crucial because as we have recently seen (“Ukraine Wipes Out Russian Battalion at Attempted Pontoon River Crossing”), getting across a river in a war zone is very hazardous. Possession of the Lyman bridgehead on the north bank of the river gives the Ukrainians a base from which to launch attacks that could threaten Russian supply lines, and thus relieve pressure on other parts of the front. Click the map below to enlarge.

If the Ukrainians could reinforce Lyman and launch a counterattack toward Zarichne and Kreminna, this would force the Russians to retreat from the river at Yampil and would also relieve pressure against Sievierodonetsk. Clearing the Russians from the north bank of the river would then allow the Ukrainian forces now holding the south bank to cross over and join the counteroffensive. Of course, it’s very easy for a civilian to point at a map and say, “Attack here,” and a much more difficult task to organize and execute such an attack. The Russians have had weeks to dig in around Zarichne and Kreminna, so that driving them out would almost certainly require heavy fighting.

Do the Ukrainians have the necessary reserves for such an attack? We know that the West is pouring weapons and other equipment into Ukraine; we don’t know if the Ukrainians have enough trained manpower to put all these resources to effective use on the battlefield. When this war started 11 weeks ago, something like 200,000 volunteers were quickly enlisted, and we can assume that most of those volunteers are now sufficiently trained and equipped to be deployed in combat. Given the emergency circumstances, many of them must already be combat veterans by now. Probably it wouldn’t take more than 10,000 fresh troops — if well-equipped and competently led — to break through the Russian defenses north and east of Lyman. Yet it seems that, rather than organizing their volunteers into brigade-sized units, Ukraine has instead deployed them piecemeal around the several fronts.

So the question is whether Ukraine can assemble a strike force for the kind of breakthrough effort I’ve described. Something like this must be attempted somewhere in the Donbas theater, because Ukraine can’t keep playing defense and let the Russians have the leisure to pick and choose their points of attack. That’s a formula for slow-motion defeat. Given the success Ukraine has already had at repelling the Russian invaders from Kyiv and Kharkiv, they ought to be able to seize the initiative somewhere, and the Lyman bridgehead looks like a good place to start.




 

Category: Russia, Ukraine

Rule 5 Sunday: Anya Forger

Posted on | May 16, 2022 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

He’s a top-ranked spy. She’s a master assassin. Their adopted daughter is a telepath…and none of them know the others’ secrets. That’s the plot of Spy x Family, which has been adapted to an anime currently running on Hulu. The mom is hot and the daughter is almost intolerably cute, and I’m looking forward to watching it when it finally comes out on DVD. Have some wallpaper of the happy family.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Exasperated Americans Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: MAGA – Make Press Secretaries Great Again, Bad Orange Woman Retires, Fred Ward RIP, What Did Babies Rely On Before Baby Formula?, Kathy Barnette For U.S. Senate, Vintage Hollywood Mothers Day, and The Shirelles

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Jennifer Connelly, Fish Pic Friday – Sweetertea, Thursday Tanlines, Virginia Being Invaded, Wednesday Wetness, Some Tuesday Tattoos, The Monday Morning Stimulus, America is Too Corny, Sunday Sunrise and The Sheep Look Up.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Mirage

Posted on | May 15, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Mirage

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We’re almost to the end of the 1970 draft in Pete’s continuing draft league, and I feel pretty good about the Senators’ chances this coming season. I managed to keep the offensive and defensive core of the team intact while adding some good replacements for departed players and some solid backups at key positions.
Picked up the Klaus Schulze album Mirage from Amazon this week. I don’t like it as much as Picture Music or Moondawn, but it’s still excellent, relaxing electronic music.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

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In The Mailbox: 05.07.22 Special Weekend Edition
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‘Democrats Like to Pretend…’
The DaleyGator
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EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Silhouettes
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Rule 5 Sunday: Maid In Latex
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Fugitive Murder Suspect Caught; Woman Who Helped Him Escape Shoots Herself
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In The Mailbox: 05.09.22
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UPDATE: Vicky Sue White Has Died
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Crazy People Are Dangerous
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Hundreds Dead in Chicago; Guess Why Mayor Frogface Issued a ‘Call to Arms’?
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Democrats: The Baby-Killer Party
The First Street Journal
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In The Mailbox: 05.11.22
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Ukraine Wipes Out Russian Battalion at Attempted Pontoon River Crossing
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In The Mailbox: 05.12.22 (Morning Edition)
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Amber Heard and the Man-Haters Club
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‘HORRIFIC’ MASS SHOOTING

Posted on | May 15, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘HORRIFIC’ MASS SHOOTING

Inexplicable violence:

A mass shooting in downtown Milwaukee left 17 people wounded late Friday shortly after fans left a nearby NBA playoff game, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
The shooting took place around 11 p.m. just blocks away from Fiserv Forum, where thousands of fans attended the Bucks’ Game 6 loss to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series hours earlier.
The victims range from 15 to 47 years of age, police said in a news release. All are expected to survive, it said.
It added that 10 people had been taken into custody and nine guns recovered.
The shooting followed two other nearby incidents, police said at a news conference Saturday. One happened just after 9 p.m. when three people were injured in non-fatal shootings. Police said one person was in custody and a gun had been recovered.
In another incident around 10:30 p.m., one person was shot and injured. No arrests were made in that shooting.
Police said Saturday they do not believe any of the three shootings are connected.
Because of the weekend violence, a state of emergency was declared and Mayor Cavalier Johnson issued a city-wide curfew for anyone under the age of 21. . . .
The Milwaukee Bucks, which lost 108-95 to the Celtics, called the shootings “horrific” and said it was canceling Sunday’s watch party on the plaza.

But perhaps this isn’t the “mass shooting” you were looking for.




 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

Ukraine’s Victory in the Battle of Kharkiv

Posted on | May 14, 2022 | 2 Comments

Bikini model Leanna Bartlett is a native of Ukraine with more than 3 million Instagram followers and I thought she’d make a better illustration for this post than the usual maps clipped from the Internet.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessment:

The Russian military has likely decided to withdraw fully from its positions around Kharkiv City in the face of Ukrainian counteroffensives and the limited availability of reinforcements. Russian units have generally not attempted to hold ground against counterattacking Ukrainian forces over the past several days, with a few exceptions. Reports from Western officials and a video from an officer of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) indicate that Moscow is focused on conducting an orderly withdrawal . . .
Ukraine thus appears to have won the Battle of Kharkiv. Ukrainian forces prevented Russian troops from encircling, let alone seizing Kharkiv, and then expelled them from around the city, as they did to Russian forces attempting to seize Kyiv.

The ISW has been very cautious in its analysis, and they wouldn’t be declaring a Ukrainian victory at Kharkiv if weren’t a fait accompli. They further point out, however, that tactical considerations (e.g., the difficulty of crossing the Donets River) likely prevent Ukraine from pushing eastward past Pechenihy and Malynivka to threaten Kupiansk, a crossroads on the supply line of the Russian forces at Izyum.

When you look at a map (instead of looking at Ukrainian bikini models, who are of limited utility in understanding tactical considerations), you see that the Russian salient at Izyum appears as the most obvious target of the next Ukrainian counteroffensive. Why haven’t the Russians in that salient been destroyed? The most probable explanation is that Ukraine has limited military resources, deployed in defensive positions around the country, and that they simply lack the reserve capacity to mount multiple counteroffensive operations simultaneously. Their first order of business was to repel the Russian invaders at Kyiv, which they accomplished by early April, and now, by mid-May, they’ve repelled the Russians from Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. They’ve done this while keeping the Russians largely stalemated in the Donbas area, and also preventing Russia from advancing on Odessa in the south.

Don’t get distracted by Ukrainian-born bikini model Leanna Bartlett, as the important question remains: What next in Ukraine? We can only speculate, but it is likely that the forces that scored Ukraine’s victory at Kharkiv will be redeployed to supply offensive firepower somewhere in the eastern and southern theaters. As obvious as it would be to strike next at the Izyum salient, that may not be Ukraine’s top priority. The city of Kherson in the south — which just happens to be Leanna Bartlett’s hometown, I might add — could instead be the target of the next Ukrainian counteroffensive. On the other hand, the main battle front in the Donbas, in the vicinity of Lysychansk, continues to be very active. Thursday, I blogged about Russian forces attempting a river crossing near Bilohorivka, east of Lyman, that went disastrously bad for the Russians. There are reports that the Russian invaders tried to cross the same river again on Thursday, with similarly disastrous results.

You can click on the map below to see the image full-size.

Yes, I know it’s less interesting than a Ukrainian bikini model, but this map shows the crucial points on the northeast sector of the Donbas front. Severodonetsk is on the eastern bank of the Siverskyi Donets River, across from Lysychansk on the west bank. Bilohorivka is about 12 miles west of Lysychansk, so if the Russians could cross the river there, they would threaten the flank and rear of the Ukrainians at Lysychansk, and force them to pull back from Severodonetsk. However, about 25 miles west of Bilohorivka, the Ukrainians still hold Lyman, from which they could advance eastward to threaten the Russian forces attempting to flank the position at Lysychansk. Therefore, if the victory at Kharkiv has freed up Ukrainian troops to fight elsewhere, this region between Lyman and Severodonetsk may present the most pressing emergency.

All this is merely speculation, of course, but the point is that the best defense is a good offense and, having pushed the Russians back from Kharkivk, we can expect Ukraine to mount another major counter-offensive somewhere else in the next week or so.




 

Category: Russia, Ukraine
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