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ADDRESSING THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
White house.gov ^ | 8/6/2025 | Donald J Trump

Posted on 08/06/2025 7:31:22 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: BroJoeK; McGruff; BeauBo; blitz128

I saw something a while ago, I think it was from Kremlin Secrets who is apparently a Kremlin tolerated military blogger. At any rate this figure gave the percent Russians killed (and perhaps missing) as around 80%. I would have guessed at least 50%. But from viewing how the Ukraine drones follow, and kill Russian troops in these meat wave attacks, that higher figure could indeed be correct. The drones even fly into buildings to hunt and kill the fleeing Russians.


21 posted on 08/11/2025 3:50:05 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts, and post their links.)
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To: kiryandil; McGruff; marcusmaximus; gleeaikin; PIF
kiryandil: "He's a joke.
Carefully constructed Walls O' Text with joke data from Wikipedia."

The only real jokes here are anything that originates with the Russian government.

Wikipedia simply compiles data from multiple sources, including the US, UK, UN, EU, BBC, Ukraine & others.
They all more-or-less agree and the only serious outliers are numbers originating with Russian government propaganda.
But what sane person would ever believe those?

kiryandil: "I Wonder why the Russians had 6,000 dead Ukie bodies from Kursk?"

Only in the fantasies of Russian propaganda are there 6,000 Ukrainian bodies from Kursk.
In reality:

  1. In June, at Istanbul, Russian & Ukrainian negotiators agreed to a one-to-one exchange, returning up to 6,000 bodies each of the other's fallen soldiers.

  2. As a result of the agreement, Russia turned over about 4,800 unidentified bodies to Ukrainian authorities.

  3. Ukrainians processing the bodies have so far identified only 15% as Ukrainian soldiers.
    The balance are Russian soldiers' bodies and/or unidentifiable.

  4. Based on the numbers of Ukrainian soldiers' bodies identified so far, Ukrainians have returned a few dozen identified Russian soldier bodies to Russia.

  5. There is no firm identification on any of the bodies returned by Russians to Ukraine, much less on when & where they died.
    If the 15% being valid Ukrainian soldiers holds, then it suggests fewer than 1,000 in total -- of the alleged 6,000 -- will be Ukrainians killed in battle at some time between February 2022 and July 2025.
kiryandil: "Why are the Ukies running out of soldiers?"

They're not, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
In fact, Ukraine's armed forces, active and reserves, total nearly 2 million men (~5% women).
Of those, around 300,000 serve on the frontlines against Russia.
So Ukraine's real issue is not "finding enough men" -- they've already got plenty.
Ukraine's real issue is devising systems for when, how & where to train & rotate its troops in & out the front lines.

Ideally, each of Ukraine's ~2 million men should rotate through the front lines as needed, even given a long list of reasons making that difficult.
Point is: Ukraine is not "running out of men", though it does need to manage its available troops most effectively.

22 posted on 08/11/2025 5:04:35 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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Wikipedia simply compiles data from multiple sources

Thanks for your joke post, JoeK.

23 posted on 08/11/2025 7:06:48 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: BroJoeK; McGruff
Wikipedia was taken over by Deep State disinformation organizations long ago. I use it for chronology or basic bio data (birth, death, positions held) or information about aircraft engines etc. But trolls love wikipedia -it's basically written for them to use to spread disinfo. I recall one time when I discovered 'RevMom' cut and pasted directly from it as if it was her own words.
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24 posted on 08/11/2025 9:55:04 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote; kiryandil; McGruff; marcusmaximus; gleeaikin; PIF
ransomnote: "Do you understand that as a diplomat, which is Trump's current role as he tries to negotiate peace, he is expected to adhere at least roughly to the numbers GIVEN HIM BY ZELENSKY????"

Not at all.
I think Pres. Trump is 100% capable of deciding for himself which set of numbers he will use in any given circumstance.
The fact that Trump chose numbers which highlight Ukraine's superior defensive tactics only means they emphasize his point that Russia should be seeking peace.

I have no doubt that Trump is getting numbers from many sources, including the DNI, CIA, DIA & NSA, and that all of these reflect what is generally known about the war in Ukraine, namely that Russians are squandering massive numbers of men doing insane "meat wave" assaults against fixed Ukrainian positions, resulting in very lopsided Russian-to-Ukrainian casualty figures.

ransomnote: "Recall that Ukraine won't let news crews in because it's largely an intel war NATO/CIA forces are abundant, and because they have been trying to hide the fact that from the start, 'little Ukraine' has been losing badly to Russia.
Ukraine's death toll is appallingly higher than it ever admits."

Absolutely, that is what Russian propaganda claims, but there is no non-Russian source anywhere to confirm it.

The truth is that Ukrainians pushed Russian forces out of about half of what they took in February & March, 2022, and Ukrainians have held their own against massive Russian "meat wave" assaults ever since.
In 2025, Russians have gained about 5 square miles per day, at a cost of over 200 Russian casualties per square mile.

Only in the minds of insane Russian propagandists is that "winning".

ransomnote: "You also 'forgot' to note that the 'lost 8,000' soldiers in Trump's post does 'not include their missing.'
Sadly, Ukraine has a poor reporting and recovery rate.
Instead of reported the dead, a significant portion are declared missing.
Part of it is intentional (intentionally not reporting what happens to soldiers) and in the worst case scenario, that can occur when soldiers too wounded to receive adequate treatment are harvested for organs instead (According to Arch Bishop Abbe Viganos. and he bases his reports on aid organizations). "

Several point are important here:

  1. There are no reports on the numbers of new missing Ukrainian soldiers in 2025, though past missing numbers often came in at about half the numbers reported killed.

  2. If the 50% ratio holds -- the number missing to killed -- it suggests 2025 year-to-date missing of: 8,000 killed X 50% = ~4,000 missing.

  3. This further suggests that Russia's offers to return 6,000 bodies of alleged Ukrainian missing soldiers could reflect actual Ukrainian casualties.

  4. However, to date, only 15% of the 4,800 bodies returned by Russia were identified as Ukrainian soldiers.
    The remainder were Russian soldiers, or unidentifiable.
    If that 15% ratio holds for all 4,800 bodies, then the number of new Ukrainian 2025 "missing" may be less than 1,000.

  5. As for your Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò -- I have no idea what's going on there except that he's become a willing spokesman for Russian propaganda & disinformation.
    I do know Vigano was recently excommunicated and will be defrocked if he continues to serve Mass.

    Why?
    Some of it is Vigano's entirely legitimate concern over the rise of secular globalism and corruptions in traditional Western liberalism.
    But how he, or anyone else, could be so delusional as to fantasize that Russia's mad-Vlad the Invader represents something other than pure evil, is beyond rational understanding.

ransomnote: "So Ukraine lies to keep its numbers down, doesn't always collect the wounded for burial, and in fact has fewer soldiers left on the battlefield to be injured.
There are sections of the Ukrainian front line which are entirely unmanned."

The only true part of that is fewer Ukrainians occupying their most forward outposts.
The vast majority of Ukrainian forces are miles behind the frontlines manning artillery, launching FPV drones and waiting in armored vehicles to ambush Russian "meat wave" assaults.

ransomnote: "Russia has extensive fighting aircraft and pilots to fly them.
Ukraine does not.
The F-16's given to Ukraine require pristine runways and air defense when on the ground - Ukraine's is inadequate.
Ukraine has said so for quite some time - they need more air defenses."

A Ukrainian F-16 was recently credited with shooting down a Russian SU-35S, at long range.
Overall, Russians have lost hundreds of military aircraft, both in the air and on the ground.

So far, Ukraine has received about 16 of the 85 F-16s promised, and of those 16, 3 were lost, one of those shot down by Russians.
It's true that F-16 require special runways and maintenance and so represent a considerable effort by Ukraine to keep flying.
The three lost F-16s illustrate what happens when Ukrainian pilots and ground crews are not at the very top of their games.

As for Ukraine's air defenses, their problem is not just a shortage of missiles & ammunition, but also that it makes no sense to shoot down $10,000 drones with $1 million dollar interceptors.
That is an issue which every military in the world, including ours, is working to deal with.

ransomnote: "Russia's missiles and missile launchers (aircraft or ground) are more modern and directly controlled (russia provides coordinates) whereas Ukraine's coordinates have to be relayed from NATO.
The US gives Ukraine HIMARS and buys Soviet era launchers to launch them."

There's nothing very modern about old Soviet S-300 and newer Russian S-400 air defense systems -- and Ukrainians have destroyed dozens.

Overall, Russia's daily assaults on Ukraine include:

  1. Tens of thousands of artillery shells
  2. Hundreds of drones
  3. Hundreds of glide bombs
  4. A dozen missiles of all types
All of that to produce around 30 Ukrainian KIAs and another 300 wounded or missing, per day.
Of Ukraine's wounded, about half return to service and most of the rest will find defense related employment.
About 5% of Ukraine's wounded are so severe (i.e., spinal & brain injuries, multiple amputations, etc.) that they can only be cared for.

Point is: Russia's massive expenditures in men, weapons and ammunition accomplish relatively little in terms of Ukrainian lands occupied and/or forces degraded.

ransomnote: "NATO/Ukraine is bleeding out.
Both sides are losing 'too many' as NATO/Zelensky hold on to their chance at drawing the US into the war to start WWIII.
Russia is fighting all of NATO (weapons, technology, command/control and soldiers) and NATO employs drones, so it makes sense to me that Russia's numbers are likely accurately reported."

All of that is 100% Russian propaganda nonsense, which no sane person should believe, much less seriously repeat.
The truth is the opposite:

  1. Russia is bleeding out, for no measurable gains in Ukrainian territory or casualties.

  2. No Ukrainian or European believes they will draw American "boots on the ground" into Ukraine.
    They do, however, well understand that they can purchase all the weapons they need from the United States.
    Europeans also expect that they will play a role as peacekeepers in whatever cease-fire peace deal Pres. Trump can arrange.

  3. Not just Russia, but also North Korea, Iran and China are fighting in Ukraine against Ukrainians armed & supported by dozens of Western-style democracies from Japan, South Korea & Australia to Europe and North America.

  4. Finally, if any word that originates in Russian propaganda "makes sense to me", it only means that your brain has been fried in bull cr*p and you need to make serious efforts to wash all that nonsense away, so you can think straight again.
ransomnote: "Logically it's ridiculous to assert that Zelensky's impossibly low, self-reported, or NATO estimated, losses are real.
Those who beg for money from day 1 are not likely to admit their loses because they plan to continue to beg for money.
They are losing and they are lying about it.
Putin's are more realistic, and sadly Ukraine's numbers would likely be markedly higher than Russia's if the truth were known."

What you're calling "logical" is just luny-talk & slavish devotion to Russian propaganda nonsense.
It does not stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.
What's verifiable and confirmed by all Western sources is that Russians take around 5 square miles per day at a cost of over 1,000 casualties and over 100 military vehicles & weapons systems destroyed daily.

ransomnote: "Sometimes Ukrainian trolls insist that Putin's Russia has 11 time zones and it's huge compared with Ukraine.
Other times the same trolls will insist Ukraine is defeating Russia or that RUssia has greater losses overall.
So the propaganda fantasy here is that Ukraine's fewer soldiers are killing far more Russians.
Part of the ground troops Ukraine is losing are foreign, and they don't count those.
But Ukraine is running out of men - and Vice President Vance was correct to say that to Zelensky in the Oval Office."

All of the non-Russian reports we have say that Ukrainians are fighting a defensive war against overwhelming numbers of Russian & Axis of Evil "meat wave" assault troops, artillery and drones, with the result of inflicting massively more Russan casualties than Ukrainians themselves suffer.
The only source contradicting that is Russian propaganda, but what sane person would ever believe Russia's government?

ransomnote: "Russia retains enough mobility to retrieve the injured.
Ukraine does not.
Ukraine has been complaining for over a year that they lack adequate ammo for soldiers.
Munitions access hasn't been as hard for Russia."

There's no doubt that Russians can access stockpiles of more ammunition than Ukrainians have, but these have not produced correspondingly more Ukrainian casualties.
The numbers we have show Russian casualties at several times Ukraine's and Russia's ratio of wounded to killed much smaller than Ukraine's, suggesting Russians are not as capable of caring for their wounded as are Ukrainians.

ransomnote: "Both sides are losing and the public will draw back in horror when the truth of Ukraine's losses becomes known. "

Of course, it's horrible that losses are "too many" -- far too many on both sides, but we know the truth of it already:

  1. That Russians have lost over 1,000,000 casualties and over 100,000 military vehicles (tanks, APCs, artillery, trucks, etc.) for the gain of very little new Ukrainian territory.

  2. That Ukrainians have lost fewer -- around 400,000 casualties -- though proportionately even more, compared to Ukraine's population.
    However, there appears to be a huge difference in the numbers of Ukrainian wounded who can return to military service or find employment in Ukrainian industry & service jobs.
So, overall, Russians killed in action appear to outnumber Ukrainians, as Pres. Trump reported, year to date: 112,500 Russians to 8,000 Ukrainians, or roughly 14 to one.
Even if you add in a few thousand Ukrainian missing, you still get 10:1 Russians to Ukrainians killed.

Those are the facts as best we can know them.
You should reject Russian propaganda out of hand as being unworthy of serious consideration, because it is only ever intended to promote evil.

25 posted on 08/11/2025 10:12:59 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK

I’m not going to read all that. You rant and waste my time.


26 posted on 08/11/2025 10:19:04 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Yes, the Wall O’ Text from Wikipedia.

He aims to win by boring us to death with bogus numbers.

BTW - Zelensky’s daughter is 21. Draft age.


27 posted on 08/11/2025 10:54:54 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: ransomnote; McGruff; kiryandil
ransomnote: "Wikipedia was taken over by Deep State disinformation organizations long ago.
I use it for chronology or basic bio data (birth, death, positions held) or information about aircraft engines etc.
But trolls love wikipedia -it's basically written for them to use to spread disinfo.
I recall one time when I discovered 'RevMom' cut and pasted directly from it as if it was her own words."

Of course, say whatever you want about Wikipedia, I'm not disputing their bias.
But in this specific case, I linked to a page which simply compiled all the latest Russia-Ukraine War casualty estimates from several different organizations -- including official Russian propaganda.

So you are free to examine the Wikipedia page chart and choose the numbers which make the most sense to you.
But if you take the time to study them, you'll notice that all of the numbers more-or-less agree except the official Russian propaganda numbers.

The question then becomes, why would you choose to believe Russian propaganda over multiple other sources?
That has nothing to do with Wikipedia and everything to do with your devotion to Russian propaganda.

28 posted on 08/12/2025 7:47:20 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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ransomnote: "I’m not going to read all that.
You rant and waste my time."

kiryandil: "Yes, the Wall O’ Text from Wikipedia.
He aims to win by boring us to death with bogus numbers."

Sure, I understand.
Like all Russian propagandists, you guys love, love to dish out the bull cr*p, but you cannot, and will never, deal with actual facts & logic.

29 posted on 08/12/2025 7:47:43 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: ransomnote

The Joke is still posting about what a great source LeftyPropagandaPedia is.


30 posted on 08/12/2025 9:40:09 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: BroJoeK; kiryandil; McGruff
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled ADDRESSING THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, BroJoeK wrote:
ransomnote: "I’m not going to read all that.
You rant and waste my time."

kiryandil: "Yes, the Wall O’ Text from Wikipedia.
He aims to win by boring us to death with bogus numbers."

Sure, I understand.
Like all Russian propagandists, you guys love, love to dish out the bull cr*p, but you cannot, and will never, deal with actual facts & logic.

How I wish your posts had better fact & logic! I went back to your 1838 word post (1268 are your words, the rest are quotes) and read part of it. 

ransomnote: (excerpted)"Recall that Ukraine won't let news crews in because it's largely an intel war NATO/CIA forces are abundant, and because they have been trying to hide the fact that from the start, 'little Ukraine' has been losing badly to Russia.

BroJoeK: Absolutely, that is what Russian propaganda claims, but there is no non-Russian source anywhere to confirm it.

That's an example of your boring circular reasoning - I said there are no journalists on the battlefield in order to help conceal reality, and you 'counter' by essentially saying there's no objective sources of that info (non-Russian), making my point at the same time. WHo's left aside from the Russians on the battlefield? Ukrainian military, NATO/Intel/CIA etc., otherwise known as your biased sources of information. This is WHY no journalists are allowed on the battlefield - to dismiss all unpleasant reality and limit reporting to that forwarded by Zelensky's military or NATO intel. But internationally, NATO and the US are trying to save what's left of Ukraine for the Ukrainians. That's not because Ukraine is winning.

Your content too often denies reality or doesn't make sense. Your response contained 7 repetitions of your accusation of 'RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA'. You pepper your writing with claims my content is 'crazy' 'luny'(sic) or insane, and yet you still expect me to read your long, boring repetitious posts!?


31 posted on 08/12/2025 10:27:13 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Looks like you’re posting to Circlebackmaximus...


32 posted on 08/12/2025 10:32:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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ransomnote: "I said there are no journalists on the battlefield in order to help conceal reality, and you 'counter' by essentially saying there's no objective sources of that info (non-Russian), making my point at the same time."

So, let's take a closer look at this issue.
We can begin by noticing:

  1. No independent journalists are allowed on Russia's side of the battle lines, so complaints against Ukraine from our pro-Russians are more than a little obscene.

  2. Thousands of journalists have served in Ukraine since Russia's invasion in February 2022.
    At any given time there are hundreds of active reporters in Ukraine from dozens of organizations.

  3. 13 journalists have been killed in Ukraine since February 2022, 47 more were injured and another 30 arrested and jailed by Russians, one of whom was tortured & killed in Russian custody -- Viktoriia Roshchyna.

  4. As the US military did in Iraq & Afghanistan, Ukraine is divided into three zones, which they label green, yellow and red.

    • 90% Green Zone -- hundreds of reporters can travel & report freely over 90% of Ukraine-held territory.
    • 9% Yellow Zone -- dangerous areas near battle lines where dozens of journalists operate escorted by military press officers.
    • 1% Red Zone -- active battle regions where few, if any, reporters are permitted, and then only with commanders' permission and military escorts.

  5. Further, there are several other Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) outlets for the Ukraine war, including:

    • Satellite imagery supplied by commercial companies such as Maxar Technologies, Planet Labs, Capella Space and the ESA.

    • Social media posts by Ukrainians & others near battle zones.

    • Geolocating services to identify war footage videos & photos by place and time, to verify personnel and equipment losses.

    • Drone workshops and tech hubs near the front provide data on Ukrainian equipment & tactics.
ransomnote: "WHo's left aside from the Russians on the battlefield?
Ukrainian military, NATO/Intel/CIA etc., otherwise known as your biased sources of information.
This is WHY no journalists are allowed on the battlefield - to dismiss all unpleasant reality and limit reporting to that forwarded by Zelensky's military or NATO intel."

Yes, only Russian propaganda reports from Russia's side of the battle lines.
On Ukraine's side:

  1. Hundreds of reporters operate freely over about 90% of Ukraine-held territory (Green Zone)
  2. Dozens of reporters operate with military press escorts over about 9% of Ukraine, the more dangerous Yellow Zone.
  3. Occasionally a few reporters are allowed with escorts into the most dangerous Red Zones, covering about 1% of Ukraine.
So, the truth of what is going on in Ukraine -- where its battle lines are drawn, what are the levels of casualties and equipment destruction, etc. -- all are readily known to anyone who makes the effort to learn it.

ransomnote: "But internationally, NATO and the US are trying to save what's left of Ukraine for the Ukrainians.
That's not because Ukraine is winning."

Everything depends on your definition of "winning".
Remember, the US Revolutionary War lasted for six years -- from 1775 to 1781.
Before 1781, the US lost three major battles for every one we won -- so we were clearly losing that war, until we won it.
As Thomas Paine wrote in our darkest hours:

My point is: we kept losing and losing and losing, until we won.

ransomnote: "Your content too often denies reality or doesn't make sense.
Your response contained 7 repetitions of your accusation of 'RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA'.
You pepper your writing with claims my content is 'crazy' 'luny'(sic) or insane, and yet you still expect me to read your long, boring repetitious posts!?"

You and your comrades-in-words here post blatant Russian propaganda and you refuse to consider valid data which contradicts pro-Russian narratives.

Seriously, there is no good excuse for such behavior and no valid reason for you to get upset when you're called out for it, FRiend.

33 posted on 08/13/2025 6:44:26 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: ransomnote

Gads - another Wall O’ Text from The Joke.

He’ll circle back to his point one of these days.


34 posted on 08/13/2025 8:41:00 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: BroJoeK

Nah. Today is not your day. Just not wasting my time on your posts.


35 posted on 08/13/2025 11:53:35 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: kiryandil

 

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled ADDRESSING THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, kiryandil wrote:

Gads - another Wall O’ Text from The Joke.

He’ll circle back to his point one of these days.

Thanks for the warning! I read it and then scrolled really fast to spot a massive wall of text, hit reply and said it wasn't his day and I wasn't gonna waste my time. All done without having to read any of it, thanks to your warning! :D


36 posted on 08/13/2025 11:56:08 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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ransomnote: "Nah.
Today is not your day.
Just not wasting my time on your posts."

Typical of our Russian propagandists, you only care about your own lies & nonsense, never about actual facts & reasons.

37 posted on 08/14/2025 7:44:28 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: ransomnote

And there he is, lying like The Joke he is...

He’s going to soil himself when Little Zelya gets hauled in front of the wall by his own Azov Nazis.


38 posted on 08/14/2025 7:55:22 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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