Month: May 2022

Russian FM Lavrov at the WW2 Victory Parade in Moscow, Russia.

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Trump letter on former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper.

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Trafalgar 5/8: Barnette bumps McCormick from 2nd, Oz leads in first.

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Primary turnout in Texas and Ohio, 2022 vs. 2018. Republicans are +27% and +28%, Democrats are +4% and -27%.

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30-year mortgage rates now 5.27%, the highest since June 2009.

Meanwhile, CPI is 8.5%.

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NATO’s eastern flank, air domain. Stronger vigilance, deterrence, and defense. Around 30 allied surveillance and fighter jets in the air at any one time.

None of these will make much of a difference since Russia will launch nukes before any of them ever reach Moscow.

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An old map of Soviet Russian communist forces pushing back Hitler’s German Nazi forces near Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine in 1943, also where the frontline in eastern Ukraine is right now.

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Statement by Yan Gagin, advisor to the head of the DPR, alleging that there are senior NATO officers stuck in Azovstal in Mariupol, Ukraine, presumably from the US, the UK, and France, at least.

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Russian forces continue to bombard Azovstal in Mariupol, Ukraine to force Ukrainian [Azov] forces there to surrender.

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