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I imagine that Ukraine, while miffed, will weigh the enormous advantage of US intelligence that has weighed in their favor, along with superior warfare matèriel against the Russian 'elephant' that has afflicted NATO since WWII. I"m amazed at the Russian complete lack of intelligence control that allowed the warning of 'false flag' attacks, et al, by a now-evident third-rate military that was once actually considered for membership in NATO??! As I've previously noted, in WWII as his mismanagement of Operation Barbarossa was deemed essential to the Allied war effort, Hitler was NOT assassinated; and so it is proving with with 'Vlad the Grate' Putin. Should he be killed by his own side or die of his rumored cancer, my chief concern is that the Kremlin might actually find someone competent to conduct the the restoration of the neoStalinist iron-curtain empire in contesting the so-called 'Merikan-led "world order". Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are the next dominos to fall if Ukraine falls...