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@ EL, I share your concerns about announcements--not turning up to work, closing airspaces, and celebrating Ukraine Independence Day--being foreboding.

WRT Daria Dugina's car bombing, my first thoughts were that it probably was Ukrainian-sponsored activity, sanctioned or not. And I thought "fine, maybe now Russians will understand better how Ukrainians feel about all the lost loved ones.” Then I thought the bombing might have been sparked by pro-Ukranian//anti-Putin Russians. After reading your summary, I changed my mind and agree that this may very well have been a Russian false flag operation. Regardless of who did it, I don’t think Russia has any leg to stand on calling it state terrorism. Russia invaded Ukraine for heaven’s sake. Ukraine has the right to defend itself!

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An unknown Russian group has come forward to claim responsibility—you really think they would be alive to tell the tale?

I feel as if we are watching an old 80s Russian spy movie. Is there a body? Was it so badly burned that no one can identify it? When the only source of information is from a Russian state owned platform, one must wonder how accurate it is.

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The madness continues amid the deaths, destruction and increasing threat of nuclear war. I agree this is not a Russian war; it is madman KGB Putin's war as evidenced by the destruction of a Ukrainian monument and replaced with one of Lenin.

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