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Oct 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What is noteworthy is not the kit en route to reinforce the RUS army groups (resupply/reinforcements happen as a routine occurrence in any war) but that RUS accounts are using "Novorossiya"
I wrote on Russia's "Novorossiya" plan in July and then August & could not get a publisher .... anyway here it is on my blog .... as I note at the end, I hope to be wrong here. #RealPolitik

As in all other things, in the RUS-UKR war, you are better off drawing your own conclusions based on what facts you can verify. I am aware that deviating from the approved narrative is risky but one should not be here to ratify the foaming madness of the laptop bombardier class.
On "Novorossiya", this video from 30 years ago in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and its Russian speaker's mention of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, is why as a Westerner you should always proceed cautiously here - if at all

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Lidia Thorpe is often rude/vile etc but this seems to have been a robust meeting with hurt feelings of the kind that should occur in Canberra - Thorpe "...raised concerns about the exclusion of some of the state’s 38 clans from the [Treaty] process."

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Problem with the NAFO people - most of whom are well-meaning Anglo-Americans with very little knowledge of Russian history beyond watching Red Dawn, who previously thought Iraq & Afghanistan were smart wars - is here ... also Europeans (inc RUS & UKR) have real Far Right politics
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I can see the argument for removing the Cahill Expressway … no one on the. north side is looking back in this direction except for the Opera House .. it could be worse … you could be in the Inner West
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Every Australian must do their duty @Wallabies
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Scores level 34-all.
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The refereeing has been abysmal.
This penalty does not change that.

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