“Come, step lively!”
The standard exhortation from train conductors such as those of the Manhattan Elevated Railway to move passengers off and onto the trains.
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“Very few people can speak to him now,” the Kremlin insider told me. “The world inside his head is only his own.”
What about live conferences going for hours, with journos and callers from all over?
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start high. They demanded a written guarantee from the U.S. that Ukraine would never join NATO.
What so high about it. It's just a proper agreement, on paper.
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“He has direct access to Putin,” the spy chief told me.
The kind of "intel" one gets from watching TV.
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In their scramble to respond, the U.S. and its allies have sent planeloads of weapons to Ukraine
Loads of weapons were sent to Ukraine much earlier. "Ukraine receives second batch of U.S. weapons..." Reuters. January 23, 2022. And this is not the first load...
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security forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing dozens of them in the streets.
It is still unknown who opened fire on the demonstrators.. and not just demonstrators but also on security forces... There has been no investigation on the issue to this day. No indictments.
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its leaders had no intention of joining any Western alliances.
In 2002 Kuchma [Former President of Ukraine] stated that Ukraine wanted to sign an association agreement with the European Union (EU) by 2003–2004 and that Ukraine would meet all EU membership requirements by 2007–2011. He also hoped for a free-trade treaty with the EU. Wiki.
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