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This is not a drill

August 19, 2025 by Guest Post

by Don Gardner, Corvallis

Maybe if you were to visit Moscow, Russia, as a tourist, you might see clean streets and subways. You might not see homeless people, and certainly no public protesting. You could tell your friends how clean everything looked and how there was no crime. Why can’t our government clean things up like that?  We shouldn’t have to see anything unpleasant. That would be so nice, wouldn’t it? 

Your dreams can come true.  

Wake from your slumber. This is not a drill.

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  1. John. Grant says

    August 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM

    When in Russia, it would be a very bad idea to ask anyone in uninform;
    Certainly there are drug addicts nd mentally ill folks and people just “not making” it on the economic ladder who live unhoused on the treats of your urban center. So what do you do to with them? Where are they “sent”?

    Ask that question of Russian “authorities” and you are VERY likely to “find out where they were SENT, first hand.” Don’t bother to ask about DUE PROCESS.

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