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The disconnect from reality currently being displayed by Zelensky is truly shocking. One suspects that the escapist drug-taking you allude to above must be permeating to the very highest levels civilian control in Ukraine as well.

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Fascinating! The escape into gambling recalls Leo Tolstoy's picture of the Czarist army on the eve of Napoleon's invasion. Indeed, addiction to gambling plays a key role in the early plot of "War and Peace."

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