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Ukraine update: Bakhmut and Vuhledar updates, plus another year-ago look at Tankie/MAGA tweets [1]

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Date: 2023-02-27  

Just days after writing this…

This joker writes this:

I don’t feel like doing the math, but it’s been a lot longer than one hour and 22 minutes since Russia invaded, and the entire Ukrainian military doesn’t appear so disabled.

The 1:22 thing was apparently a talking point. And a stupid one.

We’re at around 8,800 hours, so … technically, he might still be correct?

Did Sputnik crash and burn—taking down Russia’s military might and international prestige in one fell swoop?

Ukrainian hopium gave way to Russian copium.

Literally every sentence in that tweet is false.

It shouldn’t be surprising that Max Blumenthal is also an Assad apologist, given his tankie support for Putin.

“Hey, just lie back and take it. It’s okay to be conquered by a murderous tyrant. You can do that ‘democracy’ thing later, like in the future!”

“Truth is one of the first casualties of war,” says the guy spouting a litany of lies.

But it’s all okay, guys. Some of his best friends are Ukrainian.

Mark Sumner came in on his day off Sunday to post a Bakhmut update in our company Slack. What follows is him:

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