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Weekend Update #96: The Abuse of the Word “Strategic”

Weekend Update #96: The Abuse of the Word “Strategic”

Also: The Russian advance on Pokrovsk, Ukraine may have Launched its Largest Drone attack ever into Russia.

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Hello All,

I’m starting this report with a discussion of the word “strategic” in relation to its use in the Russo-Ukraine War. There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the word, and almost everything the Russians try to take is instantly labelled strategic (which the opposite seems to be the case for Ukraine. Moreover, we have some interesting…

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