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Let me read you
some of what
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your own MP's have told
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
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
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
you have made it worse
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But we've
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What you've done has made
it worse for people.
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It's made it harder for
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
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
truth to power.
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It is my great pleasure
to present you with
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the chief's award for valour.
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Congratulations, I'd like to
give you an opportunity
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to say a few words.
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I'm very uncomfortable being
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
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,
and for months now,
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the drums of war have
been growing louder.
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84 missiles and 24 drones
targeting at least 10 cities
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From one end of Ukraine
to the other
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Revenge after a key bridge
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
maneuvers that China has done.
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Are you willing, militarily,
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
of Chinese territory.
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Could we be heading toward
World War 3?
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You know, global thermonuclear
war end of days scenario.
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Despite the focus of
western media coverage,
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today's most deadly war
is being waged in the
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territories ruled by
the Ethiopian state.
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In Amhara and Afar,
recent fighting has
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displaced tens of thousands
of people from their homes,
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mostly women and children,
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while in Tigray, millions of
people are being systematically
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starved to death, underconditions of a
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government-imposed
communications blackout,
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regular shelling, air strikes,
mass rapes, and other atrocities
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carried out by the Ethiopian
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
a vicious and largely
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unreported war in
Syria and Iraq,
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bombing Kurdish villages
and repeatedly using
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chemical weapons against
guerrilla fighters aligned
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with the Kurdish Worker's
Party, or PKK.
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And in Yemen, civilians
are bracing themselves
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for a fresh round of fighting,
following the collapse of a
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six month ceasefire that
had provided a temporary
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reprieve from eight years of hell.
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Meanwhile, Putin's invasion
of Ukraine, and increased
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sabre-rattling over Taiwan,
have ramped up geopolitical
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tensions between the world's
so-called Great Powers
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to levels not seen since the Cold War.
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Geriatric politicians, some
of whom look like they
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could barely fight a cold,
have assumed the role
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of wartime leaders, framing
armed conflicts over
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energy markets, trade routes and
so-called spheres of influence
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as epic clashes of moral,
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
have proven quite elastic.
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In Ukraine, Western media outlets
have gone to great lengths
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to rehabilitate the neo-nazis
of the Azov Battalion,
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re-framing them as
misunderstood patriots,
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while RT and Sputnik
have heaped praise on
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the neo-nazis of the Wagner
Group for their efforts to,
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quote, de-nazify the so-called
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Donetsk and Lugansk
People's Republics.
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Beneath all the misinformation
and patriotic spin
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lies the brutal reality of war:
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working-class humans
slaughtering one another
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for the vanity of politicians
and the profits of their
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capitalist handlers.
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When you look at the leadership
that's come from the
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defence contractors it's
telling us that this conflict
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in Russia and Ukraine will last
longer than the consensus expects.
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It's giving us the same message that
say the energy stocks or oil here is.
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So this idea of peak conflict
or peak inflation or peak yields
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I don't think the market is
justifying any of those
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and these defence contractors,
I think, support that view.
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But not everyone is going
along with the plot.
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I'm not afraid of anything
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The most valuable thing
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
movement has risen up,
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launching a sustained,
multi-pronged attack
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on the government's war effort.
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The Russian state, for its part,
has arrested thousands of
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protesters for peacefully
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
conclusion: if all opposition
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is criminalized, you might
as well make it count.
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Members of the Anarchist
Communist Combat Organization,
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known by its Russian
acronym BOAK,
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have carried out dozens of
acts of sabotage against railways,
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aimed at disrupting the transfer
of military equipment and ammunition.
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They have been joined by
partisan counterparts in Belarus,
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whose sabotage of railways has
disrupted Russian troop movements,
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and played an important role
in thwarting its initial invasion of Kyiv.
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Meanwhile, within Russia,
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more than 50 military
recruitment offices
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have been attacked since the war began,
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many of them set alight in
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
has intensified since
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Putin issued a decree on
September 21st,
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mobilizing 300,000 reservists
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
raised to 60 years old.
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Raised by who?
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What do you mean by who?
The President.
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On September 26,
a 25 year old man named
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Ruslan Zinin shot a military
officer in a conscription office
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in the Siberian city
of Ust-Ilimsk,
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after his friend had been
called up for service.
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In Primorye, near the country's
border with North Korea,
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the commissar in charge of
regional mobilization
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and enlistment was found
dead on October 14th.
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Numerous protests have broken
out in the country's far east,
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as well as the Caucasus regions
of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria
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and Chechnya, where the region's
Putin-obsessed strongman,
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Ramzan Kadyrov,
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I can't hide the way I feel
about you anymore
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I can hold the hurt inside
keep the pain out...
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responded to protests
by threatening
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to forcibly conscript
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
increasingly fluid border,
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a number of Ukrainian,
Russian and Belarusian anarchists
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have joined the Ukranian war effort,
integrating themselves within
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the national army in order to
fight against what they see as
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the greater evil of
Russian occupation.
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Other anarchists have
maintained an active
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antagonism to Russia, NATO,
and the Ukrainian state,
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which has enacted authoritarian
war-time measures criminalizing dissent,
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limiting freedom of
movement for refugees,
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and enforcing military
conscription on all men
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and trans women between
the ages of 18 and 60.
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On October 5th, the Ukrainian
embassy in Prague was vandalized,
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and a communique was released
blasting Zelensky for forcibly
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confining Ukrainian
civilians who want to flee.
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It goes without saying,
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but Ukraine's oligarchs are
not fighting on the front lines.
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Most of them fled the country
for the safety of Western Europe
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as soon as the first
bombs started falling.
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Meanwhile, in France,
Germany, Italy and Greece,
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anarchists have carried out a
number of clandestine attacks
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against NATO military contractors,
and disrupted weapons shipments.
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Despite all the death,
devastation and divisions
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sparked by Russia's invasion,
new solidarities are being formed
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between those fighting
to end the war.
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Peoples of Russia have been oppressed
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
in the political environment.
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We don't think Putin
can win this war
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and losing the was could
be followed by anything
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from change of power to the
collapse of the Russian Federation
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which is a scenario that
is becoming more and more
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beleivable by the day.
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It's worth noting that Russia's
defeat in World War One,
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hastened by widespread defections
and military sabotage,
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served as a primary catalyst
for the February Revolution,
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and the overthrow of the Tsar.
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History, as they say,
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
good will come from it.
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A little revolution, now and
then, is a healthy thing.
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We have now reached
the end of this
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episode of System Fail.
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