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Russia’s Destruction of the Ukraine Military (best short summary of the SMO I have seen so far)
Paul Craig Roberts | formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and a columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/08/19/russias-destruction-of-the-ukraine-military/
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