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Hortensis

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3. Wonderful. We're seeing an epochal story of heroism and strength
Tue Jun 20, 2023, 01:49 PM
Jun 2023

playing out in Ukraine. Inspiring, and don't we all need all we can get.

In a way, farmers are always at war. She still has her land, damaged as it may be, and the reasons for farming are more demanding than ever, so maybe more inevitable than otherwise?

The world's also getting to see 21st century Russia partly unleashed, 19th century still, refusing the civilizing agreements other nations advanced to since. And the peoples in the many other nations Russia wants to conquer are seeing they'd do to them. These stories about this devastation only guess at its extent on the Russian-held side.

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