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Europe Should Refuse To Be Pushed By US To Confront Russia – OpEd

That bar, the Red Star, on the far side of eastern Europe was closed—until the Ukraine war started. So why did the White Moon bar on this side of the street decide to stay open, even extending its drinking hours? Once the Warsaw Pact closed shop there was no good …

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Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Is Going Slowly: Is That A Problem? – Analysis

Six weeks into a major counteroffensive that Ukrainian military commanders and political leaders hope will decisively change the course of the 17-month Russian invasion, this is where things stand: About 1,500 meters of recaptured territory south of Orikhiv, in the Zaporizhzhya region; less than that south of Hulyaypole. South of …

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Putin Launched Ukrainian War To Block Russia’s Disintegration But Unwittingly Has Accelerated It – OpEd

Like his Soviet predecessors, Putin has nothing to offer the peoples of the Russian Federation except repression and Russification; and because that is so, Gasan Guseynov says, the Kremlin leader launched his war against Ukraine lest the nationalism his own policies have produced spread to the Russian Federation and threaten …

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