They need the next war for their self esteem. Sure, they still have the Great Patriotic thing, but no one outside cares about it. It gains them no respect. So they need something new. And it's go to be a war cause they're not able to gain respect with anything else. They know it.

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1/2 There was a fierce attack by Ukraine on Belgorod in the early hours of today. It seems Kyiv has again been employing reciprocal actions on Russia, by hitting the MegaGrinn mall. But whereas Ukraine's shopping centres are hit in the daytime, no-one was in this place when hit.

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Omsk is a chemicals hub, not a random target. Feedstock for explosives and propellant sits there. Hitting it at 2,500 km says the war-industrial map Moscow drew assuming distance equals safety no longer holds.

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A 32-year-old farm worker, killed at work by a drone. The word humanitarian keeps getting attached to a state that hunts people in fields and barns. She had a birthday days ago. No military logic here, just terror priced as cheap.

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He frames elites vs people while being the elite with the most to gain. Deregulation and market access in a Russia that wins is the payoff, and his peace push is priced in that direction.

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