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Subject: Re: El Salvador Controls Their Gang Problem
Date: 03/01/23 6:24 PM
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I was very leery about Perun at first (as I said, any yahoo can post). But he has been consistently solid in his analyses. His videos can be a bit dense with data, though.

I watched a few of Perun YouTube clips and yes, he does give a clearer and more in-depth explanation of the the Ukraine situation than that of several minutes or more of prime time news.

Then I saw a news-clip today. It was quite unsettling to me,

citizenfreepress.com - Zelensky u s will have to send their sons and daughters to die

Checking further Zelensky's statement was taken out of content, but still does not sit well with me....

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'FACT CHECK
Fact Check: Did Zelensky Say U.S. Will Send Its Kids to War for Ukraine?

The short clip is missing a lot of context'Zelensky's remarks were in response to a wider question about opinion polls in the U.S. that indicate a growing number of Americans believe the Biden administration is providing too much support to Ukraine.

Ukraine's president was asked about what his message would be to Americans with those concerns.
"Are American children any different from ours? Don't Americans enjoy the same things as we do?" he asked rhetorically. "I don't think we're very different."

Zelensky suggested that if American support for Ukraine weakened and depleted, and Kyiv went on to lose the war against Russia, NATO members including the U.S. risk being dragged into a bigger conflict.

This, Zelensky predicted, is because "Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO member states, and then the U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters, exactly the same way as we are sending our sons and daughters, to war.

"And they will have to fight because it's NATO that we're talking about and they will be dying, God forbid, because it's a horrible thing."

newsweek.com - Zelensky ukraine US russia war children
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