JR 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

JR 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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USAF veteran, NAFO Fella, Seattle area, moderate/centrist, a Twitter refugee.🚫cam/dating🚫MAGA/fascists🚫crypto🚫scammers🚫sales. DMs are OFF. Never voted for the buffoon! Слава Україні! https://ukrainedefensesupport.org/ https://europeanactionforukraine.org/

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There's the saying, 'War is hell'. Actually, war is worse than hell. For while hell in Xtian belief is only for sinners, war is full of innocent bystanders. And the dead in war almost always have families that grieve and suffer long after the war is over. Too bad my own government doesn't know.

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We know the Kremlin doesn’t answer to its people, yet assume it cares for them. Moscow has spent 5 centuries proving otherwise. Under tsars, commissars and kleptocrats, it sacrificed russian lives to hold colonial possessions from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad My latest ⤵️ thehill.com/opinion/inte...

thehill.comThe new sanctions bill is aimed at the wrong RussiaWhile the Senate passed the Graham sanctions package to penalize Russia’s war economy, critics argue that true peace requires explicitly weakening Moscow’s military capacity through dir…

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A shapeless, nagging terror has gripped kremlin rulers since time immemorial: the fear of discovering that russia lacks meaning and coherence: a fragmented empire of peoples Moscow colonized in a hurry, forever searching & never finding a unifying national idea www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...

realclearworld.comRussia's War and Putin's ChoiceThis article first appeared in German in Neue Zürcher Zeitung Few medieval figures loom larger in Russia’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince credited with founding an outpost o