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You have put out so much amazing information. Thank you. I’m trying to educate others but they still believe Russia is the bad guy here. If I hear one more person say that the attack on Ukraine was unprovoked...

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Thank you Dean. I feel compelled to get these things off my chest even while realising their great limitations. I am no academic and take no interest in anything that has even the whiff of conspiracy theory to it. I do tend to reflect things on a more simple level and though I did study the situation in Ukraine from the winter of 2013-14 onward very intently I am always aware of the need not to indulge in hyperbole due to emotional reactions. I try to keep things on an even keel, on a more or less strictly intellectual and factual basis. To cut a long story short it is my confirmed and abiding conviction that Russia had no other choice but to respond in the way it did. The main tragedy is arguably that it had to wait so long, eight long years, to do so. And more tragically still, that its initial attempt (as I see it now) to get Zelensky and co. to agree to Russia's terms without war, i.e. by marching initially to Kiev, failed to have the desired effect.

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With full credit to you, I’m getting the word out. And I love the audio of your posts. I have listened to many of the earlier posts twice.

What’s sad is that even when facts punch you right in the face, some refuse to believe. Their positions are so engrained into who they are as people.

Is there a way to DM you?

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There's an audio of my posts? I didn't know that. You can email me directly if you wish at kaneix@yahoo.com.

The conditioning of western populations about Putin and Russia has been all-pervasive since 2007 after Putin made his Munich address to the assembled dignitaries and elites of the west and other parts of our world. In it he stated that though Russia would work with other nations to resolve global threats it was not signing up to be dictated to by the USA and its allies in a unipolar world. He became public enemy #1 across every elite, political and media in the West from that point on. The slandering of Putin became ubiquitous from then on.

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LoL. You didn’t know about the audio options? You can queue up posts and listen to them uninterrupted like a podcast. It’s brilliant. Not all posts though. Perhaps it runs on an algo based on views? I string together a couple dozen at a time.

Will email you a bit later. Going to the movies with the fam.

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Enjoy the film! I would be interested to hear an audio version sometime. I'll look into how to do that.

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Your telling me of the existence of audio renderings of my commentary (which I still don't know how to access by the way) got me thinking. I performed a search and found a free way to create an audio file which I set about doing.

I chose the commentary that began life as a series of tweets posted in 2018 (as I recall) and which were an effort to describe why we are in this position now that I see as the last world war, World War Three: The End Game War.

https://audio.beyondwords.io/play/4681635

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I have no reason not to believe her story

I hope she finds happiness and safety as she deserves it..

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what a terrifying story! I hope Larissa has enough evidence and will be able to identify her torturers and have them brought to justice. When I only think of those long eight years and what people have had to go through dealing with this fascist regime!

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