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Well, honestly only 40 - 50k out of 280k remained in Kherson, so it does look there was an effort (covert?) to evacuate them.

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Russia is in the midst of the worst streak of bad luck it had in a 1000 years. Yes, there were individual bad rulers that popped throughout history once every 100 years or so, but to have three disastrous rulers in a row - I don't recall anything like that. Gorbachev (1985 - 1991), Yeltsin (1991 - 1999), Putin (1999 - present day).

Putin is the worst of them all, since he is a skilled, naturally gifted actor playing a patriot's role while while doing everything exactly the opposite to what any person who genuinely loves Russia would do. It was Putin who should have been "loaned" Oscar by Sean Penn since he played his role longer and more convincingly than Zelensky. It is really surprising how naive are the people of Russian Federation who in sufficiently large numbers still continue believing in Putin and his good intentions. Well, they are not alone - Ukrainians are even naiver in their nationalistic rash, but what about Americans, how much of the critical thinking poses the people who believe in honest competition in people's interests between the two ruling parties?

On Kherson withdrawal. It is going to go down as one of the most shameful episodes in Russian history if not the most shameful. For the evacuation. This time, unlike in Izium and Balakleya, they tried to help local people. Evacuation was running full scale for 3 weeks and people are maybe naive but not stupid. When it was declared by Russian federal authorities that evacuees will be getting a resettlement housing certificate (which evacuees from Donetsk never got) everyone knew that the city of Kherson is going to get abandoned. Why some of the people who collaborated with Russian authorities stayed behind is beyond me.

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For many years I believed that even though Putin longed to be accepted by the West - which was never going to happen - & he allowed himself to be surrounded by neoliberal comprador oligarchs, that he was a true Russian patriot & sincerely loved his people, his country, its history & its culture. After his conduct of the Ukraine war - the ruble stops with him - with one humiliating retreat after another, I am disgusted with him. It deeply pains me to say this but the US is kicking his ass without barely lifting a finger. Those in the Kremlin who are calling the shots in this war are betraying the Russian people. To paraphrase FDR, this war will live on in infamy.

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Russia could have been collaborating with the West all along....the NWO/WEF/Satanic globalists' goal is DEPOPULATION...if you look at it that way, Putin's behavior makes perfect sense....

Antony Sutton wrote several books about US setting up Russia as "the best enemy money can buy" several decades ago...for his efforts he was expelled from his membership in a Stanford Univ. think tank

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It was too good to be true that a modern ruler actually cared about his country and the people of it. The West did a great job at so vilifying Putin with the intended effect many of us were psyop'd that he was the one good guy left. Diabolically clever. I got taken in on this one. Never again. From here on out it's down to examining and describing evil in its manifestations.

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Coventry...It's said They learned Coventry was going to be bombed because They'd broken some German codes...It's said They didnt warn the residents of Coventry so they could flee from danger because it would alert the Germans that some of their codes had been broken...It's said They left the residents of Coventry to their fate..

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Believing a word out of the West MSM mouth pieces and NATO is guaranteed to shorten your chance of survival.

NATO have zero respect for any country. Yugoslavia under the justification as "humanitarian intervention"

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