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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 A devastating attack on a Russian school dormitory has pushed the Kremlin's dominant hardline faction to demand that the gloves come off. Armed with a newly fortified pragmatic partnership with China, Putin is under intense internal pressure to unleash a massive, asymmetric retaliation against Western decision-making centers. Alex... show more

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