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Forbes, the NYT, Reuters & others reporting that the Russian crew on their Flag ship has abandoned ship. The Neptunes are mobile units of a Russian earlier design. The Neptunes apparently came from the Odessa area to strike the Moskva twice with the NYT citing a Ukrainian Commander in Odessa, Maxim Marchenko.

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Gospodi Pomiluj. Lord have mercy.

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I always found this line of reasoning underreported:

''Putin had insisted on “demilitarization” of the entire country and “denazification” of the regime, (even through President Zelenskyy is a Jew, there are no Nazi parties in the government, and it is the Russians who have destroyed monuments to the Holocaust in Ukraine.)"

The absurdity and anti-logic in the Russian messaging is synecdoche for their whole invasion.

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Was it Voltaire who said, and I’m paraphrasing, those who can get you to believe absurdities can get you to commit atrocities?

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Hmm, sounds like something Goebbels might have said too... thought I hate to put [him] in the same sentence as Voltaire!

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