please post any subsequent updates here unless they’re huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don’t have to be their own thread

roofuskit
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Add to that a brigade (2,000-8,000) of Russian special forces that defected. Those guys are probably worth 2-3 national guardsman.

Edit: allegedly

miket
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Question is, is it true?

roofuskit
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Hard to tell. What is abundantly clear is that they are meeting little to no resistance. Otherwise they would have never gotten this far. Whether troops really are joining them I can’t confirm. It’s all coming in very rapidly from sources I have no experience with.

I’m going to update my previous comment to add “allegedly.”

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