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Thank you, Vicky. After following your work for some time, I’ve just subscribed. This reporting is important; her perspective is fascinating and also chilling.

Based on her comments, the woman you are interviewing seems to have no concept whatever of responsible citizenship. I am assuming her dual citizenship is American?

The story about a passport stolen from her handbag while she slept in a hotel room is preposterous. It is more likely she sold her own passport on the black market. From a U.S. perspective, the entire purpose of Russian sanctions is to encourage Russian citizens to return to Russia and challenge an autocratic regime that threatens human rights and world peace. Their resources are desperately needed in this mission, and we should honor their sacrifices even as we acknowledge that they have benefited unfairly from State corruption up to this point.

Yes, American passports are valuable, and yes, it is possible that the woman was drugged so that somebody she admitted to her hotel room could steal her passport, and yes, passports do seem to get lost under tremendous stress, but what is being suggested is preposterous. Without knowing more, it is simply not plausible that a clandestine agent of the US or any other Western government would deter a Russian citizen from returning to Russia at this time. Then again, as your work has shown, the unlikely does seem to occur with alarming frequency in the circles where you do your reporting. Please continue to follow this source and to investigate!

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I appreciate the struggles people try to surge forward from constriction of big government and practices of fixing talent it is the true way forward...That being said after world war 2 the respective countries were rubble. Much infrastructure and development was done people were not defecating in holes and living off the land....at least not after a while...that is investment and conquest is off the table unless financial arrangements are made...moving national boundaries is not just a matter of what folks want...We the public will have to see our investments well managed and maintained war is the least efficient way of doing that...These days the one who picks the fights always is assured of one thing loss....

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