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		<title>Voldomyr Zelenskyy &#8212; Global Hero And Freedom Fighter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine - Russo War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine - Russo War of 2022]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volodmyr Zelenskyy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It is 2:31 AM on 24 February 2022 and you and your beautiful wife are sleeping under a feather quilt in your warm bed in still wintry Kyiv when the phone rings. You look at the clock and rub your sleep shut eyes before answering. President Zelensky: &#8220;Yes?&#8221; Caller: &#8220;Mr. President, a Russian armor column [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Amateur Hour Contestants &#8212; Ambassador Steve Witkoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Trump 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Steve Witkoff, 68, is a pal of Donald Trump&#8217;s from the rough and tumble of the Manhattan real estate industry. Witkoff, a lawyer (Hofstra University 1983) is an uber successful developer, investor, and financial manager with offices in Manhattan, Miami, and Los Angeles. He is an established and successful heavyweight real estate pro in some [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Russian Nothing Burger &#8212; The Best Way To Cook A Russian Nothing Burger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine - Russo War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nothing burger]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Donald J Trump, enroute to trouncing Kamala Harris, boasted he would end the Ukraine v Russia War before Inauguration Day. Might have been a bit of election braggadocio. Haha. The old boy can be a bit of a boaster, a braggart. It&#8217;s part of his charm, I suppose. I take no offense as it communicates [&#8230;]</p>
<p>This post first appeared at The Musings of the Big Red Car<br />
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		<title>The Continuing Drift To War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Big Red Car]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[President Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[world war iii]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I wrote about the drift toward World War III here: Drifting Into War I think we are further along already. Let me share my concerns:  1. The North Koreans and the Russians have begun to cooperate at an increasingly higher troop level. NK is trading troops for cash, oil, food, and nuclear technology. This active [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Ukraine War Escalation Or Not?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Big Red Car]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 17:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[President Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Biden admin recently announced it would no longer compel Ukraine to limit its use of American supplied long range armaments (capable of flinging hot iron 190 miles down range) to its own country. Translated: Ukraine can now use American ATACMS to strike targets &#8212; only certain targets &#8212; inside Russia. Russia, of course, has [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Paying For The North Atlantic Treaty Organization &#8211; NATO</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Big Red Car]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Nato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nato]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The North Atlantic Treaty Article V requires each member nation to rise to the defense of any other member nation in the event of an attack. An attack on one is an attack on all. It is a simple alliance and it is focused on the danger created by Russia &#8212; let&#8217;s not pretend otherwise. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Pepsi (And You?) Support The Russian Killing Machine?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Big Red Car]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine - Russo War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[7 Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lay's chips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pepsi]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I am not a huge commercial boycott supporter as it relates to social media and wokeness, but war is different and this story of Pepsi&#8217;s behavior in Russia merits your most thoughtful consideration. I draw no conclusions and challenge you to evaluate the information and decide for yourself. You are an independent thinker, right? Give [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The Massive Russian Misinformation/Disinformation Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Disinformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Su-57]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Russia is a little country in economic terms with a GDP that is dwarfed by Italy. It is not a technologically advanced nation with most of its manufacturing expertise having been imported. It is not unfair to say Russia is a little gas station owned by China and India. Given the recent avalanche of Russian [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Military Crisis &#8212; We Will LOSE Our Next War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1939]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The United States Army is the smallest it has been since 1940, the year before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and sunk the majority of  the American fleet in an act of perfidy that launched the US and the world into a global war that killed millions and changed the course of civilization. [Frame of [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The State of the Russian Economy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Big Red Car]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanctions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Russia invaded a peaceful Ukraine in February 2022 &#8212; seventeen months ago &#8212; and thereafter the West imposed broad economic sanctions on Russia. Putin, knowing he was going to invade Ukraine, prepared for the anticipated economic sanctions by stockpiling liquidity, but was caught off guard by the universality and depth of the West&#8217;s sanctions. [It [&#8230;]</p>
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