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Putin's Mistake

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The Ukranians Did Not Prepare for the Invasion

The way that the ucranian forces have so far defended better than they were expected to, implies that they probably were expecting it and were more prepared tan any one, especially pute, expected them to be. But presumably you need to keep saying, up until the moment, we don't believe it's going to happen. Because as soon as you say, well, we think it is, you're going to make it happen. They did not prepare for blowing up bridges. I mean, they have blown up quite a few bridges now, but, i mean, i know that because when i drove from kiev to a place close to the bilerussian border on monday

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