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L. Coyote

(51,134 posts)
Fri Feb 25, 2022, 08:11 PM Feb 2022

Reality Sinks In For Ukrainians Fleeing To Safety

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes discusses his conversations with a Ukrainian journalist and how people there are leaving their lives behind to get to safety.

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Reality Sinks In For Ukrainians Fleeing To Safety (Original Post) L. Coyote Feb 2022 OP
Ukrainians weren't the only ones in denial Warpy Feb 2022 #1

Warpy

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1. Ukrainians weren't the only ones in denial
Fri Feb 25, 2022, 08:25 PM
Feb 2022

This guys has an interesting channel, knocks around all over Russia and the former SSRs, meeting people, showing what the cities are like, big interest in Soviet era art and architecture, stuff that's disappearing fast. I thought when he stopped posting a couple of months ago that he'd caught a clue and left but today this popped up:



Shock and sadness are going to wear off, to be replaced by blind fury. I remember what they did to get rid of Yanukovich and I know what they did when the Nazis rolled in.

I just hope this guy gets out of Dodge quick.
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