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[Zorax]

MSN has a shitty habit of screwing up links. Sorry to bother, your link goes to a jeopardy story. I can't find the story from that page.

thx.

And it's these kind of speculative superlatives these bloggers spew that like I detest that adds to a false sense of control frump allegedly has.
I think the opposite is true, and these nonsense unsubstantiated comments are there only to help the other republikklans in their agendas. A blogger says shit over and over, the mindless will believe it. And the people that know better will waste time and effort second guessing themselves about the real criminality of frump.
This is written more like a frump supporter.

But the words of an ex-President, especially at a time of war, carry weight. Trump remains the effective leader of the Republican Party. He's a hot favorite for the GOP nomination in 2024, won nearly 47% of the popular vote in 2020 and could have a reasonable chance in a presidential rematch against Biden. Therefore the ex-President has enormous political power, and his behavior and rhetoric must be examined by voters as they consider whether to return him to the Oval Office.

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Not since WWII

"This may be Trump's most twisted appeal to Putin yet
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN - 7h ago
Donald Trump is doing it again -- putting his personal goals and burning zeal for revenge above the national interest -- as
he once more appeals for Russian President Vladimir Putin's political help in the midst of the brutality in Ukraine."
Correct link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-may-be-trump-s-most-twisted-appeal-to-putin-yet/ar-AAVH951?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f14cef7bf48a43d9b3ad17e8fbcebe5a

By Emily Clark in Lviv with photography by Brendan Esposito

Updated 1 Apr 2022, 8:44am
Published 1 Apr 2022, 5:55am

On February 24, war returned to Europe at a scale not seen since 1945, since the establishment of the United Nations and since promises of protection were enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

For all the lessons available in the pages of history, a new dark chapter is being written in Ukraine.

For all the effort to avoid a third world war, global leaders now fear it is one wrong move away.

And for all the work to develop humanitarian law, Ukrainian children are being killed in a war they’re too young to fully understand.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is attempting to negotiate for peace, but the reality for many of his people is that they may not have homes to return to, that the damage has been done, that the trauma has been inflicted.

Not since World War II has the world seen a refugee crisis at the scale and speed of what is happening in Ukraine.

[... some of it is that cool scroll over pictures with print popping in on the way type ...]

James explains that when the Syrian war started 11 years ago, it took 2.5 years for 1 million children to become refugees.

“In Ukraine, it took two weeks.”



There have been reports of children going missing and grave fears for their safety as UNICEF warns the risk they will be trafficked across Europe is real and immediate ..
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/children-fleeing-war-ukraine-heightened-risk-trafficking-and-exploitation .

There are documented instances of children travelling across Ukraine on their own.

[...]



[...]

Elderly people here who were children in World War II are reeling from the reality of a new war.

Svetlana Vasiliyevna, 85, is originally from the Donetsk region, but was living in Irpin when Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

She is sitting outside the Lviv railway station, seething as she describes how she has been treated, distraught at being displaced again.



She brings up World War II and how she was taken from her parents as a child and forced into labour in Germany.

“First we lived in a camp,” she said.

“They took me to work in a kitchen ... and my mother fell to her knees, [saying] ‘Take me, take me.’

“There was a huge canteen for Germans. Before eating, they were all shouting ‘Heil Hitler’. This is what I remember.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-01/russias-war-in-ukraine-refugee-crisis-compared-to-wwii/100941590