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Russia conscripting more troops. by Brahms
On numbers alone they will continue to overwhelm Ukraine, likely not challenged in any meaningful way w/out an influx of new weapons from the West.
The rape of Ukraine (literally and figuratively) when Vlad prevails, will be a crime against humanity for which Trump (and the West more broadly, but to a less extent) should be deeply and forever ashamed. I can't really see Putin forgoing the pagentry of a Holodomor 2.0 event.
We are a bastion of nothing especially good or hopeful at the moment.