Earlier this month, a Russian missile slammed into a housing complex in Pryluky, a Ukrainian city of no strategic value, far from the eastern front lines.
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missile → slam → lines
Thirty apartments were destroyed.
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apartments → destroy → ?
Twenty-two people were killed.
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people → kill → ?
Vladimir Putin started this war; Volodymyr Zelensky is simply fighting for the survival of his people.
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Zelensky → start → people
Ukraine targets troops and drone-supply warehouses.
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Ukraine → target → troops
Russia aims at civilians.
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Russia → aim → civilians
Ukraine strikes oil refineries that fuel Putin’s army and fund his invasion.
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that → strike → invasion
Russia hits power plants in an effort to freeze women and children.
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Russia → hit → women
History will judge harshly an American administration that enables this horror.
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that → judge → horror
Yet that’s exactly what President Trump is doing by shelving the sanctions against Russia pushed by Lindsey Graham, and passed in his honor after his death.
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Trump → ’ → death
The United States now aids the war machine killing 1-year-old children.
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States → aid → children
Analysts say the waiver and diesel deal will do little to lower fuel costs.
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waiver → say → costs
If it’s meant as a token of goodwill to Putin to push a peace deal, history has shown that concessions only embolden him.
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concessions → mean → him
We understand that Trump wants the war to end, but pressure on Putin, not cash, is the only way to do so.
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pressure → understand → Putin
The Russian dictator pushes the narrative that Ukraine’s defeat is inevitable.
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defeat → push → narrative
He’s been saying that for nearly 5 years.
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He → say → years
His army has barely moved.
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army → move → ?
This summer, Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi reclaimed 107 square miles.
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Vivaldi → reclaim → miles
More than 450,000 Russian troops have died because of a madman’s folly.
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troops → die → folly
So instead, Putin murders civilians, in hope of breaking Ukraine’s spirit.
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Putin → murder → spirit
Will lifting sanctions make him stop?
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him → lift → sanctions
He’ll just use the money to buy more drones.
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He → use → drones
The killing will go on and on and on.
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killing → go → ?
And what does Putin offer our peace envoys?
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Putin → offer → ?
All while he stabs us in the back by supplying Iran with arms.
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he → stab → arms
Ukraine is desperate for peace, but it can never give Russia the exact lands it couldn’t take by force.
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it → give → force
And Zelensky is not “difficult” for rejecting this abject surrender.
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Zelensky → reject → surrender
He’s making the only choice he can.
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he → make → choice
Some foreign policy thinkers on the right believe that Russia is our natural ally. That we need them on our side in a global competition against China.
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we → believe → China
But that ignores Putin’s philosophy, which he has stated over and over again.
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he → ignore → which
He believes the end of the Soviet Union was a historic tragedy, and that his dictatorship should retake its empire — from the Baltics to Eastern Europe.
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dictatorship → believe → Europe
He hates Democracy.
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He → hat → Democracy
He hates the West.
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He → hat → West
Our parents and grandparents stood up to Russian aggression during the Cold War.
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parents → stand → War
By standing up for Kyiv, we send a message to China that we will support our allies and not capitulate to bullies.
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we → stand → bullies
It weakens a geopolitical ally.
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It → weaken → ally
It forces Europe to step up, which Trump has rightfully encouraged.
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Trump → force → which
Supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do morally, ethically, strategically and militarily.
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Supporting → support → Ukraine
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