military communication channels. we don t want inadvertent escalation with what we ve seen with chinese war planes being reckless. there have been a mass of mass shootings across the country this holiday weekend. you sit on the gun violence protection task force. when is congress going to get a handle on this crisis of mass gun violence? it seems like what s been passed so far, the bipartisan effort at legislation in the last year or so didn t make a dent in the problem. i agree with you. and what s more frustrating even than that is we know what works, red flag laws, safe storage laws, universal background checks. ending the liability shield that gun manufacturers have for the carnage that their products cause. i represent massachusetts, these laws have saved tens of thousands of lives. and on to your question, this
he did not take he did not take kyiv in the first week. he did not have a victory parade in kyiv. he is still fighting for shreds of land in the east. and at this point, he needs anything he can throw at it. and prigozhin does two things. first, he delivered the only kind of significant territorial win in the last few months. he delivered bakhmut to putin. it took him seven, eight, nine months and tens of thousands of lives but he did what the defense ministry run by the government could not do. and he also, to andrei s point, he keeps the defense ministry if line. he keeps them kind of on their toes and trying to do better. he is the kind of junkyard dog that keeps the elites in line. the question is what happens in the junkyard dog gets off his chain. he has a large army. he has other sources of income
after months of war, hundreds and thousands of lives are lost, tens of thousands of lives. fighters with the brutal private army, the wagner group, can be seen tearing down a ukrainian flag and replacing it with a wagner flag. i should just emphasize this is a mercenary group fighting for putin. it would still be a small victory of what s left with a decimated city with little strategic value. and a victory would come at incredible cost. nato intelligence tonight says putin has lost five men for every wukrainian soldier. that flag, as i mentioned that they were hanging there on that monument not even the russian flag, flying atop an unhabitable horror zone. and what is a victory if you can t move forward or defend what you ve won? because the head of the wagner
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but if there is a connection with pkk, it s common for kurdish militant groups to operate out of iraq or syria where they can more easily operate than perhaps they can in turkey. because the turkish authorities have been in conflict with kurdish separatists for, really, the last four decades, costing tens of thousands of lives in the process. there have also been terror attacks, either claimed by islamic extremists or kurdish militants, that have plagued turkey. but not in the last few years. turkey has been trying to get tourists to come to the city, to come to the country, as of late. especially given the economic difficulties facing the country. yesterday afternoon was a perfect example of a perfect day for turks and tourists to be out. the weather was perfect on a sunday afternoon onn istiklal