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As the four great non-thinkers of our age – Donald Trump, JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Marco Rubio – flushed the withered remnants of America’s diplomatic credibility down the gold-plated toilet of time, Vladimir Putin unleashed unholy hell on the city of Kyiv last night.
At 1 am, when everyone was home due to the midnight curfew, air raid alarms sounded in Kyiv. This is a regular occurrence; many of them are false alarms, and the tendency is to wait and see if anything happens. About fifteen minutes later, the sound of air defence rockets and heavy machine gun fire echoed through the city’s suburbs. Again, this is a fairly regular event, but what followed has shaken the city to its core.
In a few moments, what began as a regular air raid escalated into a full-on combined Shahed drone, Iskander ballistic missile, and cruise missile attack. The buildings in downtown Kyiv trembled as rocket after rocket struck the city. Outside, a few revellers on the wrong side of the curfew screamed and dashed for shelter. Searchlights illuminated the night sky as air defence gunners tracked the high-pitched, tell-tale whine of drones circling the city.
