https://geographical.co.uk/geopolitics/is-the-baltic-sea-a-nato-lake-only-if-gotland-is-a-nato-island

https://www.uawire.org/expert-russia-needs-50-000-100-000-troops-to-halt-ukrainian-advance-in-kursk-region


https://hromadske.ua/en/war/226855-i-will-calm-down-when-russia-collapses-topolia-on-his-wars-for-georgia-chechnya-and-ukraine
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https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/major-western-companies-paying-billions-of-1724061003.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-nemesis-ilya-ponomarev-plans-to-create-putins-nightmare-in-captured-russian-territory

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-third-bridge-damaged-ukrainian-incursion-kursk-region-2024-08-19/

https://lansinginstitute.org/2024/08/19/kremlin-maneuvers-stasi-agents-into-power-in-germany/

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-19/how-putin-uses-religion-to-spread-lies-in-russia-and-abroad

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/ukraine/67583/natos-folly   pro-russian
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https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1825603946033078632
Garry Kasparov: Germany has a historic responsibility to help Ukraine defeat Russia.

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/key-narratives-in-pro-kremlin-disinformation-part-4-the-imminent-collapse/
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/russias-federal-subjects-say-moscow.html

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/russians-have-state-but-kursk-shows.html

https://www.ft.com/content/444893e7-7bca-4efa-9612-3e068d5f6e02

Western countries can easily afford more support for Ukraine


https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1825817803485577392

Petr Pavel, President of Czechia, believes that Ukraine's accession to NATO should not depend on whether it has full control over its entire territory, and recalls a precedent in history.
 Germany, which was admitted to NATO in 1955, despite the fact that part of the country was occupied by the Soviet Union.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-reagan-revolutions-attack-4ae

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/21/sumy-sees-fewer-russian-attacks-from-contested-kursk-more-from-belgorod-data-shows/

https://charter97.org/en/news/2024/8/20/607486/
Belarusian Volunteer: Many Kursk Region Residents Seem Inclined 'To Be Ukrainians'

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/20/politico-ukraines-incursion-into-russias-kursk-oblast-strengthens-kyivs-position-in-pursuing-peace-talks/

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/20/germany-to-deliver-four-iris-t-air-defense-systems-to-ukraine-in-2024/

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/20/massive-fire-engulfs-russian-oil-depot-after-ukrainian-drone-strike-spreads-over-10000-square-meters/

https://www.uawire.org/ukrainian-forces-encircle-russian-troops-in-strategic-maneuver-near-malaya-loknya-kursk-region

https://www.uawire.org/china-shifts-oil-imports-from-russia-to-middle-east

https://www.uawire.org/life-in-sudzha-residents-adapt-to-ukrainian-military-presence
https://www.uawire.org/mongolia-rejects-power-of-siberia-2-gas-pipeline-deals-major-blow-to-russia-s-energy-ambitions


https://www.uawire.org/russian-military-officer-defects-to-ukraine-after-detonating-grenade-at-russian-command-center

https://ukrainetoday.org/an-economic-catastrophe-is-lurking-beneath-russias-gdp-growth-as-putin-throws-everything-into-the-fireplace/

https://ukrainetoday.org/many-200-and-300-the-internet-writes-about-the-defeat-of-russian-marines-in-the-kursk-region/

https://ukrainetoday.org/no-one-announced-an-evacuation-the-administration-fled-sudzha-residents-told-about-the-situation-video/

https://ukrainetoday.org/ukrainian-troops-destroyed-a-pontoon-crossing-in-the-kursk-region/

https://ukrainetoday.org/bild-thousands-of-russian-soldiers-find-themselves-in-stalemate-situation/

https://jam-news.net/experts-on-georgian-dreams-statement/

https://jam-news.net/georgian-dream-statement-on-the-elections/

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/08/reaction-to-kursk-shows-that-mentally.html
Reaction to Kursk Shows that 'Mentally, Russia has Already Disintegrated,' Tatar Activist Says

Russian Z-propagandists are almost openly blaming Putin for the "special military operation." And on Solovyev's channel, no less.
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1826238384186229226

https://thedispatch.com/article/do-foreign-countries-have-military-bases-in-the-united-states/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_installations

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/14/david_vine_us_bases_china_philippines
The U.S. Has 750 Overseas Military Bases, and Continues to Build More to Encircle China


https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/how-russia-is-slowly-encircling-europe-32596


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