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Let me read you[br]some of what

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your own MP's have told[br]me about what's been going on.

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"It's checkmate, we're stuffed."

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"It's dire."

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"We're all done for."

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These are your own colleagues.

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Well my message to[br]my colleagues is yes.

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Do you feel humiliated?

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That must feel humiliating

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so early in office.

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Look I understand it[br]is very difficult

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for families across the country.

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And they're blaming you.

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and if...

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But do you accept that[br]you have made it worse

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But we've

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What you've done has made[br]it worse for people.

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It's made it harder for[br]people to pay their bills.

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Definitely.

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Well it... yeah.

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First of all I[br]have said sorry.

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Oh hello.

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Welcome to System Fail,

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the show that speaks[br]truth to power.

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It is my great pleasure[br]to present you with

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the chief's award for valour.

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Congratulations, I'd like to[br]give you an opportunity

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to say a few words.

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I'm very uncomfortable being[br]here with you guys.

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I do not rock with the police.

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And I just want folks to know[br]that they don't keep us safe

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We keep us safe.

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Riots work.

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Thank you.

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Blow, how you like me now?

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Appreciate it.

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I am your host, Dee Dos,[br]and for months now,

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the drums of war have[br]been growing louder.

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84 missiles and 24 drones[br]targeting at least 10 cities

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From one end of Ukraine[br]to the other

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Revenge after a key bridge[br]connecting Russia to Crimea

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was blown up this weekend.

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Tensions in the Taiwan straight

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The largest ever military[br]maneuvers that China has done.

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Are you willing, militarily,[br]to defend Taiwan

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if it comes to that?

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Yes.

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Taiwan is an inimitable part[br]of Chinese territory.

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Could we be heading toward[br]World War 3?

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You know, global thermonuclear[br]war end of days scenario.

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Despite the focus of[br]western media coverage,

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today's most deadly war[br]is being waged in the

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territories ruled by[br]the Ethiopian state.

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In Amhara and Afar,[br]recent fighting has

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displaced tens of thousands[br]of people from their homes,

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mostly women and children,

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while in Tigray, millions of[br]people are being systematically

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starved to death, underconditions of a

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government-imposed[br]communications blackout,

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regular shelling, air strikes,[br]mass rapes, and other atrocities

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carried out by the Ethiopian[br]and Eritrean armed forces.

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I'm starving. It's awful.

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Hunger doesn't kill you in one hit,

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it destroys you slowly.

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Turkey continues to wage[br]a vicious and largely

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unreported war in[br]Syria and Iraq,

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bombing Kurdish villages[br]and repeatedly using

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chemical weapons against[br]guerrilla fighters aligned

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with the Kurdish Worker's[br]Party, or PKK.

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And in Yemen, civilians[br]are bracing themselves

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for a fresh round of fighting,[br]following the collapse of a

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six month ceasefire that[br]had provided a temporary

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reprieve from eight years of hell.

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Meanwhile, Putin's invasion[br]of Ukraine, and increased

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sabre-rattling over Taiwan,[br]have ramped up geopolitical

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tensions between the world's[br]so-called Great Powers

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to levels not seen since the Cold War.

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Geriatric politicians, some[br]of whom look like they

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could barely fight a cold,[br]have assumed the role

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of wartime leaders, framing[br]armed conflicts over

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energy markets, trade routes and[br]so-called spheres of influence

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as epic clashes of moral,[br]cultural and national values.

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Democracy will and must prevail.

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Against neo-nazisand extreme nationalists

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The actual values in question[br]have proven quite elastic.

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In Ukraine, Western media outlets[br]have gone to great lengths

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to rehabilitate the neo-nazis[br]of the Azov Battalion,

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re-framing them as[br]misunderstood patriots,

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while RT and Sputnik[br]have heaped praise on

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the neo-nazis of the Wagner[br]Group for their efforts to,

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quote, de-nazify the so-called

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Donetsk and Lugansk[br]People's Republics.

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Beneath all the misinformation[br]and patriotic spin

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lies the brutal reality of war:

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working-class humans[br]slaughtering one another

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for the vanity of politicians[br]and the profits of their

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capitalist handlers.

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When you look at the leadership[br]that's come from the

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defence contractors it's[br]telling us that this conflict

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in Russia and Ukraine will last[br]longer than the consensus expects.

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It's giving us the same message that[br]say the energy stocks or oil here is.

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So this idea of peak conflict[br]or peak inflation or peak yields

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I don't think the market is[br]justifying any of those

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and these defence contractors,[br]I think, support that view.

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But not everyone is going[br]along with the plot.

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I'm not afraid of anything

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The most valuable thing[br]that they can take from us

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Is the lives of our children

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I won't give them my child's life.

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In Russia, a militant anti-war[br]movement has risen up,

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launching a sustained,[br]multi-pronged attack

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on the government's war effort.

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The Russian state, for its part,[br]has arrested thousands of

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protesters for peacefully[br]demonstrating their moral

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objections to the war.

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No to War!

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No to War!

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Which leads to an obvious[br]conclusion: if all opposition

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is criminalized, you might[br]as well make it count.

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Members of the Anarchist[br]Communist Combat Organization,

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known by its Russian[br]acronym BOAK,

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have carried out dozens of[br]acts of sabotage against railways,

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aimed at disrupting the transfer[br]of military equipment and ammunition.

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They have been joined by[br]partisan counterparts in Belarus,

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whose sabotage of railways has[br]disrupted Russian troop movements,

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and played an important role[br]in thwarting its initial invasion of Kyiv.

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Meanwhile, within Russia,

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more than 50 military[br]recruitment offices

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have been attacked since the war began,

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many of them set alight in[br]brazen, night-time, molotov attacks.

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Government buildings, and police vehicles

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have also been put to the torch.

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The pace of these attacks[br]has intensified since

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Putin issued a decree on[br]September 21st,

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mobilizing 300,000 reservists[br]for active duty on the front lines.

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That's it!

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The games are over.

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You re all military!

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We're here to takeyou to the army.

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What army?

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I m 52 years old.

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The conscription age has been[br]raised to 60 years old.

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Raised by who?

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What do you mean by who?[br]The President.

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On September 26,[br]a 25 year old man named

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Ruslan Zinin shot a military[br]officer in a conscription office

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in the Siberian city[br]of Ust-Ilimsk,

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after his friend had been[br]called up for service.

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In Primorye, near the country's[br]border with North Korea,

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the commissar in charge of[br]regional mobilization

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and enlistment was found[br]dead on October 14th.

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Numerous protests have broken[br]out in the country's far east,

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as well as the Caucasus regions[br]of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria

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and Chechnya, where the region's[br]Putin-obsessed strongman,

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Ramzan Kadyrov,

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I can't hide the way I feel[br]about you anymore

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I can hold the hurt inside[br]keep the pain out...

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responded to protests[br]by threatening

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to forcibly conscript[br]participants and their families.

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Why are you taking the boy from us?

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Don t allow them to take the men!

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On the other side of the[br]increasingly fluid border,

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a number of Ukrainian,[br]Russian and Belarusian anarchists

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have joined the Ukranian war effort,[br]integrating themselves within

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the national army in order to[br]fight against what they see as

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the greater evil of[br]Russian occupation.

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Other anarchists have[br]maintained an active

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antagonism to Russia, NATO,[br]and the Ukrainian state,

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which has enacted authoritarian[br]war-time measures criminalizing dissent,

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limiting freedom of[br]movement for refugees,

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and enforcing military[br]conscription on all men

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and trans women between[br]the ages of 18 and 60.

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On October 5th, the Ukrainian[br]embassy in Prague was vandalized,

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and a communique was released[br]blasting Zelensky for forcibly

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confining Ukrainian[br]civilians who want to flee.

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It goes without saying,

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but Ukraine's oligarchs are[br]not fighting on the front lines.

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Most of them fled the country[br]for the safety of Western Europe

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as soon as the first [br]bombs started falling.

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Meanwhile, in France,[br]Germany, Italy and Greece,

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anarchists have carried out a[br]number of clandestine attacks

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against NATO military contractors,[br]and disrupted weapons shipments.

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Despite all the death,[br]devastation and divisions

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sparked by Russia's invasion,[br]new solidarities are being formed

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between those fighting[br]to end the war.

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Peoples of Russia have been oppressed[br]by the Russian state for a long time and

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all have reasons to fight it.

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Radical ideas have surfaced [br]in the political environment.

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We don't think Putin[br]can win this war

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and losing the was could[br]be followed by anything

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from change of power to the [br]collapse of the Russian Federation

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which is a scenario that[br]is becoming more and more

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beleivable by the day.

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It's worth noting that Russia's[br]defeat in World War One,

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hastened by widespread defections[br]and military sabotage,

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served as a primary catalyst[br]for the February Revolution,

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and the overthrow of the Tsar.

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History, as they say,[br]doesn't repeat itself

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but it sometimes rhymes.

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When the dust settles from this

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there's going to be hell to payin Moscow.

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Well perhaps maybe some[br]good will come from it.

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A little revolution, now and[br]then, is a healthy thing.

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We have now reached[br]the end of this

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