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I'm not a propagandist so I'm not sure how best to turn this, but this morning on our walk I passed a house that's had a big bunch of sunflowers out in their front yard for the last several months, and there was a lone cockatoo holding a single sunflower head in its hand as it ate the seeds. The obvious thought is that if some 3rd party is carelessly mowing down the sunflowers, the cockatoo can... well maybe it can only sit and watch and hatch its diabolical vengeance, maybe something else, whoever has a go at writing it can decide...

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A good column expressing the view that the west and the arms industry have knowingly created the circumstances that made the Russia/Ukraine conflict inevitable.

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/26/the-ukraine-and-how-we-got-here-chronicle-of-a-foretold/

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That Freedman substack is pretty good. Been reading that myself. I have to incognito the Mick Ryan thing every now and again as i am still resisting hopping on the back of the blue bird :)

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Good thing NATO spends billions on defence against the threat posed by the feared Russian forces that have been as yet unable to seize the Ukraine after commiting so much. Yes no doubt they would have 'steamrolled' across Europe. Please insert the required "Putin is a maniacal despot commiting atrocities in an independent country".

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Continuing on from Bill H, I thought armed drones would be having a more decisive role, as they have in recent battles around various contested areas.

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Why hasn’t Russia established air superiority? Where are the feared masses of armor and artillery? Could it be that Putin has shot his wad and mistakenly thought Ukraine would collapse from fright after a few days? Most projections I remember for a conventional war in the modern era said they wouldn’t last more than a month. The exchanges would be savage and eat up supplies quickly. In short , is Putin out of bullets?

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