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Warpy

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2. The noose around Crimea is tightening every day
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 04:46 PM
12 hrs ago

and most Russian vacationers with their cars lined up waiting for a ferry that is now on fire somewhere were not told anything about the war except that Russia was on its way to a glorious victory and oh, look, there's a fantastic vacation package to Crimea this year.

Never mind the package was a cramped room in a high rise on an oil covered beach facing oil slicked water and the sounds of gunfire and explosions day and night. No the ferry boars capable of crrying cars have been knocked out in the last few days, they're all lined up with nowhere to go, even if they filled their tanks with black market gas. The bridge is rated for only a few cars at a time, nothing bigger than a momvan.

I always said an invasion to retake Crimea was probably not necessary, all Ukraine had to do is make it too shitty for tourism sand too expensive to maintain a military presence. Looks like someone was thinking the same way.

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