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Eugene McParland

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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 1h
A Russian captain sailed 54,000 tons of wheat stolen from occupied Ukraine to Syria. He is the first ship captain Ukraine has charged with a war crime. Russia has taken about 15 million tons of Ukrainian grain since 2022. euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/19/u...
Card: 54,000 tons of stolen Ukrainian wheat. Ukraine has charged a ship captain with a war crime for the first time. He carried the grain from occupied Sevastopol to Syria, investigators say. Photo of grain pouring into a truck, with an inset of the Abinsk, another Russian ship carrying stolen Ukrainian grain.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1h
President Trump: If Putin and Xi want a trilateral meeting in China, I would like to have it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump: "We've given a lot to Ukraine. They've given us nothing."
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 2h
President #Zelenskyy 💬 "regarding the exchange of intelligence and the operation of Starlink in #Ukraine. Unfortunately, we did not receive an early warning from our partners about the first wave of the russian ballistic missile attack last night.
President Zelenskyy
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h
Lavrov stated in Tehran: Russia has no intention of abandoning its agreements with Iran in the economic and investment sectors. Naturally, the two countries will also continue their military cooperation.
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Eugene McParland @eugenemcparland.wsocial.eu · 3h
#Albania accused of rushing through tRump-linked resort in formerly protected landscape 🖊 Helena Smith Dutch MEP says government is trying to avoid EU environmental rules as protests over luxury development turn violent www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Albania accused of rushing through Trump-linked resort in formerly protected landscape
Dutch MEP says government is trying to avoid EU environmental rules as protests over luxury development turn violent
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F.D. Shook III @fds.wsocial.eu · 3h
Latvian citizen, Russian businessman, German sabotage suspect: who is Oleg Levushkin? #Crime #Europe #Germany #Latvia #Leipzig #Russia
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Latvian citizen, Russian businessman, German sabotage suspect: who is Oleg Levushkin?
In August, a sabotage attempt took place at Leipzig Airport in Germany, which the German government has said was carried out by Russia. One of the suspected organizers of the attack is a Latvian....
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 3h
🛰️On the front lines, the American Starshield satellite communications system ceases to function when moving at speeds of 130–161 km/h. militarnyi.com/en/news/on-f...
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On the Front Lines, Starshield Stops Working at Speeds of 130-161 km/h — Zelensky
On the front lines, the American Starshield satellite communications system ceases to function when moving at speeds of 130–161 km/h.
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 4h
🇺🇸🇷🇺Ten years ago today.
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 4h
⚠️ Disturbing 📷 President #Zelenskyy condemned a russian "Shahed" drone attack in the Kharkiv region that killed six civilians, including children, in a park near a café.
A three-panel photo from the National Police of Ukraine. Left: a child in a red outfit seated in a black stroller, face blurred, autumn leaves scattered on the ground. Middle: a person crouched outdoors near a chair and small table in a park, face blurred, with fallen leaves and a tree. Right: a close-up of a person lying on the ground, face blurred, with a hand reaching toward them. Each panel bears a "НАЦІОНАЛЬНА ПОЛІЦІЯ УКРАЇНИ" watermark and emblem. The mood is somber and serious.
Image source: National Police of Ukraine
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h
You can donate here to help protect Ukrainians from Russian drone attacks. Please do so if you can. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 5h
❗️ Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence has released detailed information on the foreign components, companies, and equipment involved in producing Russian Kometa navigation systems. militarnyi.com/en/news/28-p...
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28 out of 37 Parts Made in USA: Defense Intelligence of Ukraine Reveals List of Foreign Components in Russian Kometa Systems
Ukraine's Defense Intelligence has released detailed information on the foreign components, companies, and equipment involved in producing Russian Kometa
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The Insider @theins.press · 5h
Lithuania reports attempted arson attack on Starlink equipment used to connect with Ukraine — the third incident in the EU this month The attempt in Vilnius, carried out overnight into Oct. 18, follows similar incidents in Poland and Bulgaria. Lithuania’s PM has linked it to Russia.
theins.press
Lithuania reports attempted arson attack on Starlink equipment used to connect with Ukraine — the third incident in the EU this month
Overnight into Oct. 18, an unidentified group attempted to set fire to Starlink equipment in Lithuania, targeting infrastructure that provides communications…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10h
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Exclusive | Putin Floats a Summit With Trump and Xi to Discuss Ukraine Deal
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky wouldn’t be included in the proposed talks, as Russia’s leader seeks to negotiate an end to the war that favors Moscow.
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Murena @murena-com.bsky.social · 7h
Tired of Big Tech looking over your shoulder? Our community proves that there are other options. 👉 How about Murena? murena.com
User quote by Fred, saying that the first thing you notice when using Murena is the peace and quiet
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 6h
russia launched a drone strike on the central park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region. 2 women and a baby were killed. At least 14 people were injured, including 7 children. Help protect Ukrainians from russian terror: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 6h
The EU paid Russia 682 million euros for 1.6 million tons of iron and steel in the first eight months of 2026, according to GMK Center analysis Belgium took 767,700 tons, nearly half of the total, and Italy took 191,800 tons euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/19/e...
euromaidanpress.com
EU paid Russia 682 million euros for steel in eight months, with slab loophole keeping money flowing, and big consumers lobbying to keep it open — analysis
Bans cut most Russian metal, but an exemption lets slabs reach Belgium and Italy until 2028.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 8h
When Trump says the Ukraine does not want to end the war, what he is really saying is that Ukraine does not want to surrender to a deal that he has worked out with Putin which would see the Ukrainians hand over more of their land and people. Speaking the truth is important.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 13h
Donald Trump says the Russian sanctions waiver is to help negotiate peace. But one Russian paper today writes: “We will make a deal with Ukraine entirely on our terms.” Another paper: “Russia’s borders, as we know, do not end anywhere.” #ReadingRussia
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"Russia's borders do not end anywhere", writes Russian newspaper.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 8h
Dutch editorial cartoonist Bas van der Schot believes Donald Trump has shown his true colors, boosting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war effort and blaming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for provoking and prolonging the conflict.
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B4Ukraine @b4ukraine.org · 8h
Finland has never before uncovered exports of components to Russia on this scale during the sanctions era. The case is also exceptionally rare globally. Yle exposes two Finns who sold nearly €30M worth of electronics to Russia — including sanctioned components used in missiles. yle.fi/a/74-20249082
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 8h
“Vlad’s Leadership Training.” Dutch editorial cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards believes Donald Trump envies his Russian friend’s freedom to muzzle the press and jail his opponents.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 9h
In a classic Kremlin tactic to deflect responsibility, Russia continues to blame Ukraine for global food insecurity. In reality, Russia’s invasion, attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, and disruption of shipping are the real threats to global food supplies, not Ukraine’s legitimate self-defence.
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UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social · 9h
A photo exhibition honoring French photojournalist Antony Lallican, who was killed in a Russian drone strike last year, opened in Kyiv. Featured photographs capture Ukraine between 2022 and 2025. Most of the locations Lallican documented have since been ruined by the Russians. Source: hromadske
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 12h
“The USA haven’t spent a single cent on Ukraine since January 2025, so more than 1.5 years. We in Europe are doing it.” So why are MAGA still whinging?
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 11h
This is a v misleading headline. Trump, Putin & Xi can agree what they like; it won't stop the war, because Putin's aim is to destroy Ukraine as a state & eliminate Ukrainian identity; no Ukrainian leader cd accept that. Europe shd ignore noises off, & step up military aid to UA & sanctions on RU.
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 10h
❗Service members of the Unmanned Ground Systems Company of the 92nd Assault Brigade named after Kish Otaman Ivan Sirko have carried out their first successful aerial evacuation of a wounded soldier from the front line. militarnyi.com/en/news/firs...
militarnyi.com
First Evacuation by Hexacopter: Soldiers from the 92nd Assault Brigade and 30th Mechanized Brigade Rescue Wounded Fighter
Service members of the Unmanned Ground Systems Company of the 92nd Assault Brigade named after Kish Otaman Ivan Sirko have carried out their first successful
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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social · 12h
Les digues sautent, les unes après les autres. Le 25 novembre, la Slovaquie de Robert Fico rouvrira les travaux d'une commission économique conjointe avec la Russie, une structure qui avait été gelée en 2022. Dans le même temps, Bratislava tiendra sa 4e session de 1/
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UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social · 12h
Nearly 1,700 residents remain stranded in Oleshky, where civilians are facing a “deadly trap.” Both the sole road out of the city and a nearby river are heavily mined. With winter approaching, residents fear they may not survive the harsh conditions. #RussiaIsATerroristState 📷: KRMA
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Tuta @tuta.com · 12h
October is #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth. Let's spread #Privacy & #Security together. 💪 Let us know what your favourite cybersecurity tool is in the comments. @firefox.com @torproject.org @yubico.com @duckduckgo.com @signal.org @bitwarden.bsky.social @ecosiasearch.bsky.social
App icons of different tools: Tuta, StartPage, Threema, Librewolf, Tor Browser, Cryptpad, Nextcloud, Yubico, DuckDuckGo, KeePassCX, Notesnook, Signal, Wire, Ecosia, Bitwarden, uBlockOrigin.
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 13h
President #Zelenskyy reports russia launched 16 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the Kyiv region plus 200+ drones overnight, hitting energy infrastructure across 11 regions.
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UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social · 15h
Civilian casualties in Ukraine rose by 85% in September compared with the same period last year, - The UN. Russian attacks killed at least 328 people and injured another 2,105. Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia recorded the highest numbers of casualties. 📷: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters
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EU Council @consilium.europa.eu · 14h
🇺🇦🇪🇺 The benefits of the EU-Ukraine partnership go both ways. Discover why supporting Ukraine today is an investment in a stronger, more resilient Europe of tomorrow ➡️ link.europa.eu/cp6hdM
Flags of the European Union and Ukraine. The text on the visual reads "Ukraine: an investment in Europe's future'.
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Eurojust @eurojust.bsky.social · 14h
📘 Discover the strengthened EU legal framework for combatting corruption more effectively. ⚖️ Note on Directive (EU) 2026/1021 highlights key changes, including a harmonised set of corruption offences. 👉 www.eurojust.europa.eu/publication/…
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 14h
Day after day, we see confirmation of an uninhibited tRump, who believes himself to be in such a position of strength that he can take the slogan “moscow does nothing wrong”—which has been drummed into his head since 1987—and turn it into a narrative reality, using it as an argument 👇
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The Adaptïve @theadaptive.bsky.social · 16h
"Stalink" 👀 Well played. #BoycottMusk #OligarchyKills #EpsteinClassWar
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 15h
“Escalating Russian aggression & an unpredictable Trump mean Burnham should aim to #RejoinEU…necessary to protect the UK’s prosperity, security & democracy & the PM should work to build a national consensus in favour of re-entry” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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UK must rejoin EU to combat growing threat from Russia and Trump, Burnham warned
IPPR urge Labour leader to ‘stop talking about Brexit’
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 15h
russia has proposed a trilateral meeting involving tRump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and putin, The Wall Street Journal has reported. It reports, moscow is proposing that the meeting take place next month to discuss the war in #Ukraine and seek a settlement on terms favorable to russia.
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Kremlin proposes Putin-Trump-Xi meeting - media
Russia has proposed a trilateral meeting involving U.S.
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 15h
New @restispoliticsus.bsky.social LEADING with the only woman in the world who can call Trump “uncle Donald.” Mary Trump not only knows him better than most but loathes him more than most too. Fascinating listen on how he became what he has become podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Trump's Niece on Why He's On Putin's Side
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 18 October · 51min
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 15h
On the night of 19 October (from 18:00 on 18 October), the enemy launched attacks using Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles, Iskander-K cruise missiles and 269 Shahed-type attack UAVs (including 59 jet-powered ones), S-8000 ‘Banderol’, ‘Gerbera’, and ‘Parody’-type decoy drones
Dark blue text card from the Ukrainian Air Forces, topped with the Air Forces logo and the words "Повітряні Сили". Below it, a timestamp reads "Станом на 09:00 19 жовтня 2026 року". The bold white headline "ЗНИЩЕНО/ПОДАВЛЕНО ПОВІТРЯНИХ ЦІЛЕЙ" sits above two side-by-side stats with icons: an aircraft icon with "243" and the label "БпЛА (43 із них – реактивні)", and a missile icon with "4" and the label "крилаті ракети «Іскандер-К»". All text and icons are white against the dark blue background.

Image source: Повітряні Сили ЗСУ (Ukrainian Air Forces)
Alt text generated with Vibe (Mistral AI)
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
No technological independence allowed, apparently: "European companies face “devastating” retaliation from Washington if Brussels presses ahead with plans to restrict American rivals such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX from parts of the European market, the US ambassador to the EU has warned."
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 15h
russia is putting #Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar’s life in danger over two years after his brazen abduction khpg.org/en/1608816142
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Russia is putting Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar’s life in danger over two years after his brazen abduction
The FSB concealed Anatoliy Kobzar's whereabouts for 19 months, during which time he was savagely tortured, and is now openly imprisoned with the torture through failure to provide medical treatment
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 16h
Four Ukrainians sentenced to 25 years or life for partisan resistance after russian ‘torture so bad you’d confess to anything’ Ihor Haranin, Serhiy Harkusha, Serhiy Yevtushenko and medic Olena Roi were all subjected to torture and dismissed the preposterous accusation of 'terrorism'
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Four Ukrainians sentenced to 25 years or life for partisan resistance after Russian ‘torture so bad you’d confess to anything’
Ihor Haranin, Serhiy Harkusha, Serhiy Yevtushenko and medic Olena Roi were all subjected to torture and dismissed the preposterous accusation of 'terrorism'
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 16h
#Ukraine update, day 1,699 of the full scale invasion (19 Oct 2026), yesterday: russia lost ~2,100 troops, 24 artillery systems, 3 air-defence systems, 1,636 drones and 332 vehicles in 24h.
Dark olive-green infographic titled in Ukrainian "ОРІЄНТОВНІ ВТРАТИ ПРОТИВНИКА" ("Estimated enemy losses"). White figures in a three-column grid list Russian military losses from 24.02.22 to 19.10.2026: personnel, tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery, aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, cruise missiles, ships, submarines and vehicles/fuel tanks, some in orange with smaller white figures for daily additions. General Staff of Ukraine logo at bottom.

Image source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 16h
Should have seen this one coming. Trump is considering Putin's proposal that the two leaders meet with Russia's ally China to "seek a way to end" the war in Ukraine. @wsj.com reports Putin raised it during a call with Presidementia 10 days ago when he also sold diesel to Trump.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Many useless words to explain why he is betraying Ukraine and siding with Russia
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 22h
Very helpful infographic showing how Trump and MAGA logic works.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22h
Agree w Tom. I’ll stress it’s utterly pathetic of Trump to think of Russia as a peer when it is vastly inferior. What’s worse is that this overestimation is music to Putin’s ears, prevents him from recognizing that russia has lost in Ukraine, and inspires him to dream about even bigger conquests.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 23h
🔴 Russian media showed Russian forces confiscating Ukrainian literature and textbooks in temporary occupied territories for disposal. The seizure is part of a systematic effort by Russia to eliminate Ukrainian history, suppress language, and erase national identity.
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
🇺🇸🇺🇦President Zelenskyy to the U.S.: "Just give us back Starlink. I can't understand the reasons for limiting us, for not allowing us to defend ourselves. I think it's a mistake."
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