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Sam Ursu's avatar

Thank you for yet another comprehensive and illuminating analysis.

A couple of notes:

1) Ukrainian law (pre-2022) forbids holding parliamentary and local (mayoral) elections during wartime. However, the "elections" everyone talking about are the presidential elections scheduled for March 2024. If Zalinsky wants to hold them, the parliament would have to pass an exemption. Therefore, it's not technically up to him, but obviously, it is. Also, I might be wrong, but I think the decision only has to be made 45-60 days in advance (unlike in America, election cycles are very short in this part of the world).

2) About your unpublished notes on a ship strike. Years ago, I used to do investigative reporting, and sometimes I'd knock together these HUGE articles on a given subject, only for them to (more or less) be ignored. However, the longer you're in this game, the more often will come a time when someone a) finds an old article of yours on a given subject and then reaches out to you because of it and b) asks you or wants you to write about a new topic that's related to the old research you've done.

In other words, listen to your gut and things will pay off eventually. And despite the current "trend" of making three-second videos appealing to gender fluid dipshits, it's actually the long, well-researched articles that still carry the most weight.

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BillyBunt's avatar

Awesome!!! Suppose 'Christmas Crackers' are gonna be in a lotta Unkie stockings this Xmas!!! Wonder what the counter move against Z is gonna be? Poison his coke?

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