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Wuhan virus -
CDC has stopped using the herd immunity as a national goal. Part of this is the CDC admitting that the ‘vaccines’ so called immunity is only good for a few months. Dr Oliver Brooks, member of the CDC’s advisory committee on Immunization Practices warns that such a de-emphasis will demotivate many from vaccination.
CDC Admits No Record Of Naturally Immune Transmitting COVID-19
The CDC’s disclosure drew responses from several medical experts, including Johns Hopkins Dr. Marty Makary, who said it underlined how little data the agency has released concerning the recovered. Makary called on the CDC to make public data on any re-infections that have resulted in hospitalization or death, with information on the patient’s comorbidities or lack thereof. “CDC should be transparent with data on natural immunity. Instead we get glimpses from FOIA requests like this one,” he wrote on Twitter.
Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said on Wednesday (Nov. 10) that a panel of experts has decided to suspend administering second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT) COVID vaccine to children 12-17 years old amid concerns it may increase the risk of myocarditis. Cases of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the outer lining of the heart) have been reported after BNT vaccination of children between 12 and 17 years of age. According to U.S. statistics, the risk of youths experiencing myocarditis after receiving the second BNT dose is 10 times higher than after the first dose. Pfizer is linked to roughly 75% of the US mycarditis cases reported.
Fauci told The New York Times that officials are starting to see some waning immunity against both infection and hospitalization several months after the initial vaccination. He then cited data from Israel, which he said tends to be about a month to a month and a half ahead of us in terms of the outbreak.
“They are seeing a waning of immunity not only against infection but against hospitalization and to some extent death, which is starting to now involve all age groups. It isn’t just the elderly,” Fauci said. “It’s waning to the point that you’re seeing more and more people getting breakthrough infections, and more and more of those people who are getting breakthrough infections are winding up in the hospital.” Because of this, Fauci is claiming that it’s crucial for people who have been vaccinated to get their booster shot.
OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - The wuhan narrative is slowly crumbling and the globalists are struggling to get more jabbed before is falls apart further. However, the left is throughly entrenched and nothing short of a massive purging of their ranks will stop their efforts.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
China and India torpedoed a key component of the COP26 accord by substantially watering down the anti coal provisions. Both are facing severe energy shortages due in part to coal shortages for their power plants.
Austria is set to impose a new nationwide lockdown, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Sunday, with the restrictions limited to the unvaccinated. Schallenberg said that starting Monday, unvaccinated Austrians 12 and over will be ordered to remain at home, and will be allowed out only for a limited number of purposes. The lockdowns are to be enforced with random spot checks for the next 10 days with police patrols being stepped up. It will then be reviewed, according to the government.
SEE Economy for further related items.
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Economy -
Its bad and the govt doesn’t recognize it. Three US companies publish national rent indexes – CoreLogic, Zillow and Apartmentlist.com – and their readings of year-on-year rent inflation range from 9% to 16%. But the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a year-on-year rise in the rents of just 3.4%. Shelter represents a third of household expenditures according to the Consumer Price Index.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said that if inflation were going to end, it would depend mainly on how the pandemic goes.
“It really depends on the pandemic,” Yellen said, speaking with CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And “the pandemic has been calling the shots for the economy and for inflation. And if we want to get inflation down, I think continuing to make progress against the pandemic is the most important thing we can do.”
OBSERVATION - Easy to blame. Wuhan lockdowns started the ball rolling, but deliberate incompetence by biden et al has added to the mess.
Looting has become a fixture across the country, some estimating upwards of 100 million being stolen every day. Retail theft is now said to be responsible for $45 billion in annual losses in the U.S., according to one trade association. Many states have changed their laws to be more lenient on shoplifters in recent years, and this appears to be helping to fuel an enormous boom in organized retail theft
Larry Summers, who was Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton and directed the National Economic Council under Obama, said on CNN recently that inflation is going to be unavoidable for the near future. “I think the odds are that we’re going to have inflation of a kind we haven’t seen in 30 years, until either the Fed takes some significant move with respect to monetary policy, or until there’s some kind of accident that disrupts the economic growth we’re enjoying.”
“I think it’s possible but quite unlikely that inflation will recede back to its normal 2 percent level without some significant change in the path we’re now — we’re now on.” Summers continued by pointing out that he things the Biden administration is acting incorrectly and making the situation worse:
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Biden watch -
All eyes on the discussion with China’s Xi this evening. How badly will he botch it up.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Closing arguments in the Rittenhouse trial begin today - 2.5 hours for each side. Kenosha and other cities are preparing for rioting.
Antifa radicals and anti-vaccine protesters appeared to clash Saturday night outside Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence in New York City. The event came amid a wave of anti-vaccine mandate protests in New York City and around the country.
One independent journalist on Twitter recorded a confrontation between the two sides that included one person called the anti-vaccine mandate protesters “Nazi scum.”
America First protesters were also seen shouting “f-— Antifa” during the protest.
Contributing to this situation, Fox news called the antivax protestors “White Nationalist”, a term that has since been ‘edited’ out.
OBSERVATION - Antifa is turning their eyes increasingly upon anti-vax protests, seeing those nasty ‘nazi’s ‘ behind them. Antifa has supported some anti mandate protests but this counter protest may signal a new target of their wrath.
A Far-Left activist in a Fort Worth Independent School District Board meeting threatened parents all because they were criticizing CRT. The activist said that he would bring 1000 soldiers and that he will be “lock and loaded” next time.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
More insider rumblings against VP Harris and her ineptness as VP. Increasing scrutiny may well represent an attempt to get someone else into the position before jettisoning biden. The friction between factions has even forced CNN to sit up and take notice. Now reports that Harris staffers are leaking that biden administration is racist.
NOTE - Getting rid of Harris is a difficult challenge - if she doesn’t want to leave. This developing split may further lock up moving forward with biden’s agenda.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -
Gulf Arab navies have held their first joint military exercise with Israeli warships, co-ordinated by the US Navy. The five-day drill in the Red Sea involved warships from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel and the US. It began last Wednesday and included boarding, search and seizure tactics “to help ensure freedom of navigation”.
US Naval Forces Central Command said the training would “enhance interoperability between participating forces’ maritime interdiction teams”.
The exercise follows the signing of the Abraham Accords in September 2020, which saw the UAE and Bahrain normalise their relations with Israel. Since then, there has been an intense exchange of diplomatic, military and intelligence contacts between Israel and those Gulf states, as all parties share their concern over Iran’s activities.
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Cyber Warfare -
US and Israel announce joint efforts to combat cyber attacks.
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China -
“China’s daily coal output has reached 11.93 million tons, the highest level in recent years, and increasing coal supplies have laid a good foundation to ensure energy supply security and residential heating during the winter, the nation’s top economic planner said on Monday, as many parts of the country were hit by a severe cold wave over the weekend,” The Global Times, the state-run media outlet, reported last week.
SEE ALSO Globalism above.
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Russia -
See Ukraine and Belarus activity
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Ukraine -
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he had rejected a defense ministry proposal to hold snap Black Sea military drills in response to NATO activity because he did not want to escalate tensions in the region. “So the defense ministry is limiting itself to escorting (NATO) jets and ships,” Putin told the Rossiya-1 channel.
Russia has never planned on invading Ukraine, and won’t do so “unless provoked,” Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador said on Thursday. His words followed sharp criticism from the United States over reports of a troop buildup at Ukraine’s border.
“Never planned, never did,” said Dmitry Polyanskiy when pressed by a reporter at U.N. headquarters on whether Russia is planning on a military invasion of Ukraine, amid reports of a surge in troop presence along the countries borders.
“Never going to do it unless we’re provoked by Ukraine, or by somebody else,” or if Russia’s national sovereignty is threatened, added Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations.
Hundreds of British special force troops are ready to deploy to the Ukrainian border at a moment’s notice, amid rising tensions and fears of a possible Russian invasion in the region, according to reports.
The UK’s Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment are prepared to enter the region with medics, engineers, signalers, and hundred of paratroopers, The Mirror reported.
“The high readiness element of the brigade was told it may need to deploy at very short notice, a source told The Mirror.
“Between 400 and 600 troops are ready. Their equipment is packed and they are ready to fly to Ukraine and either land or parachute in. They have trained for both eventualities.”
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister - speaking at joint press conference with NATO chief - says the Russian troops build-up on Ukraine’s border and Moscow-ally Belarus’s use of migrants to destabilize European Union should be seen as one hybrid operation
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Europe General -
Great Britain - Three men have been arrested under the terrorism act, after a taxi exploded outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday morning. The passenger died and the driver was wounded. Police say a local taxi driver picked up a man yesterday who asked to go to Liverpool Women’s Hospital. As the taxi approached the drop off point an explosion took place. But the driver escaped the cab. Police say this was terrorism. “An improvised explosive device had been manufactured” by the passenger in the taxi. But the motive and the reason for the sudden explosion are not known.
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Iran -
See Syria above
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Syria -
Iran seems to be overstaying its welcome as Syria appears to now regret inviting Iran to help quell a long and ongoing insurrection in the country. According to Saudi news network AlHadath, Iran has repeatedly violated rules set by the Syrian regime in regards to deployment of forces and attacks on third parties like Israel and American military forces. That could explain why Syria’s other ally in this fight, Russia, has consistently turned a blind eye to Israeli strikes against Iranian forces in Syria.
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Central America General -
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez suffered a severe setback in midterm legislative elections held on Sunday, with his ruling Frente de Todos (Front for Everyone) coalition losing control of the Senate for the first time in almost 40 years. With over 90% of votes counted, the coalition — made up of a collection of Peronist and leftist parties — looked set to drop from 41 to 35 seats in the 72-member Senate. The conservative opposition, which was badly defeated in a presidential election two years ago, won almost all the key races in the legislative ballot, as voters turned away from the government amid widespread discontent over a deepening economic crisis, spiraling inflation and rising poverty.
OBSERVATION - Continued instability as leftists ruin the economy and the right overcorrects - common pattern throughout Central and South America.
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Venezuela -
Two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization were arrested in Colombia two months ago, Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano revealed in an interview with the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo on Sunday.
Molano stated that in several meetings Colombian officials have held with different intelligence agencies, “there are concerns about the presence of Hezbollah in Venezuela and its relationship with terrorist groups and their financing,” according to El Tiempo.
Concerning the two Hezbollah-backed criminals who were arrested and deported from Colombia, Molano said that they intended to commit a “criminal act” in the country.
OBSERVATION - Iran’s support for Venezuela comes with this bonus - a base of operations to enable it to work its way into Central and South America. Principle goal would be to attack US and Israeli interests.
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Colombia -
See Venezuela above
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Belarus -
Polish Ministry of National Defense: The camp where the migrants have been so far is empty. People who were there moved to the border crossing. The migrant march took place under the control of the Belarusian services. Polish sources warn that these latest movements suggest that these migrants with the help of Belarus elements will forcefully attempt a border crossing very soon. Overnight 60 migrants tried to cross the border by force.
Kremlin’s spokesperson Peskov: Russia is ready to help resolve the migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the EU as a mediator. The Kremlin considers it wrong to blame Lukashenka for the migration crisis
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Armenia/Azerbaijan -
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan’s troops on Monday of violating the border between the two countries and sacked his defense minister, the Interfax news agency reported.
Another Russian news agency, RIA, quoted Armenia’s Security Council as saying the incident took place on Sunday but the Azeri troops had since left.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan’s troops on Monday of violating the border between the two countries and sacked his defense minister, the Interfax news agency reported. Interfax also quoted an Azeri foreign ministry spokesperson as saying Azeri forces were operating on the country’s own sovereign territory and accusing Armenia of “provocations.”
The incident marked an escalation of tensions between the two former Soviet republics, which fought a 44-day war last year that killed at least 6,500 people and ended in a decisive victory for Azerbaijan.
OBSERVATION - This is Russia’s circus, as they’ve placed peace keeping forces in Armenia to prevent this.
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Wuhan virus -
Germany and France have decided that because of the excess risk of myocarditis the Moderna vaccination should not be given to people less than 30 years old. News reports suggest that myocarditis is 5 times more common with Moderna than Pfizer at these ages. Moderna now acknowledges its higher rate of myocarditis. The US, like multiple other countries now, should favor Pfizer over Moderna for males under 30.https://t.co/uXneLDWXGZ
— Walid Gellad, MD MPH (@walidgellad) November 11, 2021
Pfizer is not out of the woods either. Clinical trials conducted by drug giant Pfizer were too short to determine long-term myocarditis risks in children who take the Covid-19 vaccine, the company admitted in documents submitted to the FDA.
The information appears on page 11 of an FDA advisory committee briefing from late last month, where Pfizer even admits its sample size of clinical trial volunteers was also too small to detect myocarditis risks in children aged 5 to 12.
“The number of participants in the current clinical development program is too small to detect any potential risks of myocarditis associated with vaccination,” Pfizer states in its Overall Risk-Benefit Conclusions.
“Long-term safety of COVID-19 vaccine in participants 5 to <12 years of age will be studied in 5 post-authorization safety studies, including a 5-year follow-up study to evaluate long term sequelae of post-vaccination myocarditis/pericarditis.“
https://www.fda.gov/media/153409/download
Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental VOID-19 pill, a move that could make the treatment available to more than half of the world’s population.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Pfizer said it would grant a license for the antiviral pill to the Geneva-based Medicines Patent Pool, which would let generic drug companies produce the pill for use in 95 countries, making up about 53% of the world’s population.
NOTE - As always, follow the money
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Dr. Fauci on Sunday told CBS “Sunday Morning” senior contributor Ted Koppel that there’s a “misplaced perception” about people’s rights superseding “societal safety.”
“One of the things that to me was most difficult to accept is that we put together a good plan for how we were going to try and dampen down the spread of infection early on thinking that that was accepted by everybody,” Fauci said to Koppel. “And then, the next day you have the president [Trump] saying, ‘Free Michigan. Free Virginia.’ I didn’t quite understand what the purpose of that was, except to put this misplaced perception about people’s individual right to make a decision that supersedes the societal safety. That, to me, is one of the things that, I think, went awry in all of this.”
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Economy -
On Sunday, California gas prices rose to a record-setting high average of $4.676 per gallon for regular gasoline, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). The previous record average price of $4.671 was set in October 2012.
NOTE - Kalifornia gasoline situation is a little different from the rest of the country. It only permits fuel refined within the state for sale due to special formulation requirements. Secondly, twice a year prices spike as these refineries switch over to specific seasonal formulas. This may be what is happening here. BTW, Kalifornia prices are also closely linked to Saudi prices, the major supplier source to the state.
Spire Energy, a natural gas firm that supplies 1.7 million homes in Missouri, Alabama, and Mississipi warned custormers in an email that a federal review of the STL Pipeline could jeopardize their energy supply.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will discuss revoking the pipeline’s permit during a Nov. 18 hearing.
In an email to customers, Spire Energy president Scott Carter wrote that “The STL Pipeline was built to support your energy needs, along with those of more than 650,000 homes and businesses in the St. Louis region,” adding that “Since 2019, this safe, fully operational pipeline has been bringing even more reliable and affordable natural gas to our community. Unfortunately, while the STL Pipeline continues to operate todat, it is now in jeopardy.”
The STL Pipeline runs from Illinois to Missouri and received initial FERC approval in 2018, beginning to serve customers in mid-2019.
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Biden watch -
The President devoted three hours yesterday to a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Judging by the announcements that followed the call, there wasn’t much progress to report. Basically, China said it will continue what it has been doing. China announce the call a ‘success’ - indicating that the US side made no progress.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Closing arguments in the Rittenhouse trial are complete and it is in the jury’s hands. Tracking threats of riots. Many voices in social media are calling for riots. MSM has been trying to inflame matters through lies and false reporting. Haven t seen development on the grass roots level though.
OBSERVATION - Regardless of the verdict, there will be riots. The only question at this stage is how violent and widespread. Winter conditions will help mitigate turnout to a degree.
A spokesperson for the Pentagon insisted on Monday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has the authority to overrule Oklahoma’s highest-ranking military official and force members of the state’s National Guard to get a COVID-19 vaccine. “Refusing to do that, absent an approved exemption, puts them in the same potential [for disciplinary action] as active-duty members who refuse the vaccine,”
NOTE - This isn’t the final action in this matter. The federal govt holds the purse strings on National Guard funds and the president can nationalize them - taking them away from the governor’s control.
The President of the Scottsdale Unified School Board in Arizona was removed from his position as president on Monday night, after it was discovered that Jann-Michael Greenburg had access to an invasive dossier that sought to compile “dirt” on Scottsdale parents who oppose mask mandates and anti-white Critical Race Theory.
The dossier in question featured pictures of parents’ homes, their children, and even pictures of their license plates. Greenburg’s trove of information amounts to little more than spying on the part of a public official against his own constituents.
OBSERVATION - Remember, as far back as 0bama the left talked about having a ‘database’ on opponents. This case just goes to show who the real domestic terrorists and serve as a warning that many on the right are on some kind of a list.
Speaking of lists, evidence that the ATF has already amassed records on over 54 MILLION gun-owning citizens in 2021 alone. This is a defacto core of a national gun registry.
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CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
According to a new Hill-HarrisX poll, 71% percent of “all voters” strongly or somewhat agree “that cancel culture has gone too far.”
Seventy-six percent of GOP voters strongly/somewhat agree, while 70% Democrat and 68% independent voters said they strongly/somewhat agree.
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Russia -
Russia conducted an anti satellite test yesterday destroying a non -functional old comm sat, but it was a an orbital level that forced the ISS crew evac into return capsules in the event of an impact. They have received a lot of condemnation because now the lower orbital zone is cluttered with more dangerous space trash. The intercept created as many as 1500 trackable pieces.
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Israel -
The US would like more countries to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, following the Abraham Accords, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said during her first-ever visit to Israel on Monday.
Following a meeting with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Thomas-Greenfield tweeted: “Encouraged to hear about the tangible progress of the Abraham Accords during my meeting with [Lapid]. The United States will continue to encourage countries in the region to normalize relations and expand cooperation with Israel, including at the UN.”
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Iran -
Pentagon says an Iranian helicopter approached USS Essex in the Gulf of Oman and operated in an “unsafe and unprofessional manner,” flying proximately 25 yards off port side of Essex at one point as low as about 10 feet off the surface of the ocean & circled ship 3 times.
Excellent analysis on Iran from strategy page -
The new radical government has been around for three months and is already in trouble for overpromising and under delivering. The hardline decisions made since August in Iraq, Syria and Yemen have not had the desired result. In each of these countries there is a Quds Force general who directs the activities of all Iranian controlled or supported local forces. In Iraq this led to a failed assassination of the nationalist Iraqi prime minister who opposes Iran. In Syria the Assad government, which has developed relationships with Russia, Turkey, and Israel, demanded that the current Quds Force general in Syria be replaced, and that was done. In Yemen the Iranian “ambassador” in the Shia rebel-controlled capitol, ordered the Shia rebels to seize control of the inactive (since 2015) U.S. Embassy compound and take hostages among the Yemenis who currently are employed as compound caretakers or had previously held those jobs. The Shia rebels scoured the empty embassy compound for “evidence” of American plots against Iran or the Shia rebels. This was a violation of international law and not quite a repeat of what the Iranian radicals did in 1979 to the operational U.S. embassy in Iran. The U.S. began negotiating for the release of hostages and got most released but the Shia are demanding ransoms for the few still held. Several days before the embassy compound attack the Shia rebels began arresting Yemenis working for the UN and American foreign aid groups. The Shia rebels have bullied the UN and foreign aid workers in the past, usually to keep the aid coming despite the rebels diverting much, or most of it to support their military operations.
https://www.strategypage.com/qnd/iran/articles/20211116.aspx
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Cuba -
Cuban police deployed in large numbers on the streets of Havana Monday ahead of a rally the opposition has vowed to hold despite it being banned by the one-party state. Along the city’s seaside esplanade, armed police in uniform gathered on nearly every corner, while others in civilian dress patrolled the city’s squares and parks.
Cuba’s opposition has said the “15N” (November 15) gathering would go ahead in the face of the official ban, and the risk of criminal prosecution with hundreds still in jail after earlier protests that were put down by the armed forces.
The government claims protest organizers are seeking regime change with the backing of the United States, which maintains sanctions against the communist island.
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Belarus -
Another night of chaos as islamic migrants, driven and supplied by Belarus agents, attempted to force a border crossing. Polish police and military responded with tear gas and flash bang grenades. Latest reports that migrants are now withdrawing from the area of standoff on the border to the camp.
OBSERVATION - Situation remains tense on the border, but it seems Belarus is being slowly reeled back. It seems Putin isn’t ready to start a war due to hot head Lukashenka rants and actions.
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