Michael MacKay
@mhmck
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Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science Part of Ukraine's democratic renaissance Chronicler of fascist Russia's war against the West
Ottawa
Joined March 2014
I'm now at @michaelmackay.bsky.social. I started my Twitter account in March 2014 in the days after fascist Russia invaded Ukraine. As "X" has become a Russian information warfare outlet, I will be cross-posting as I wean off what once was a decent online community.
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All of Kharkiv region is liberated from the Russian fascist invaders. Харківщина вільна!
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Twitter has removed the UA two-letter country code for Ukraine from two-factor authentication. Ukraine has disappeared from Elon Musk’s virtual map of the world. The effect of this change is to reduce the presence of pro-Ukrainian, pro-democracy voices on this platform.
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There is war because Russia invaded Ukraine, not because Ukraine defends itself.
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Kyiv was founded in 482. In 1147, the Grand Duke of Kyiv and ruler of the Kyivan Rus’, Yuriy Dolhoruky, issued a decree founding Moscow. In 2022, Kyiv City Council rescinded this decree, saying it was due to a “historical misunderstanding.”. Moscow no longer exists.
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French President Emmanuel Macron says "don't humiliate Russia". I say don't humiliate Ukraine, as France did in 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles destroyed Ukrainian independence. Don't humiliate Ukraine as France did in 2008 when it blocked NATO membership to Ukraine.
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Ukrainians – whose average annual income is about $6000 per year – crowd-funded $9.6 million in only a day to buy RAM II kamikaze drones. Elon Musk – whose net worth is around $215 billion – wants U.S. taxpayers to pick up the tab for Starlink in Ukraine.
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The Russian line has collapsed in the north of Kherson region. The invaders are retreating to try to hold Dudchany. Advancing Ukrainian troops are chasing to give them no time to dig in.
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A TV tower is burning in Moscow. Ukrainians call this the Eye of Sauron. They've long been referring to Russia as Mordor and Russian invaders as orcs.
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Poland has had enough of Germany’s nonsense. On supplying Leopard 2 tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Poland’s PM Mateusz Morawiecki said: “Consent is of secondary importance here. We will either obtain this consent quickly, or we will do the right thing ourselves.”.
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It's 1 a.m. in Ukraine and there's a battle underway on the outskirts of Kreminna, Luhansk region. Advancing Ukrainian troops are turning the Russian retreat from Lyman, Donetsk region, into a rout.
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In one day, Russians retreating from Izyum donated more artillery and armour to Ukraine than Germany and France have in 8 1/2 years of war.
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Russian soldiers castrated and murdered a Ukrainian soldier and then abused his body. The Russian army tortured Ukrainian POWs for weeks and then massacred them. The Russian embassy in London revelled in bloodlust. Treat Russia as what it shows itself to be: a terrorist state.
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Morocco delivered about 20 T-72 tanks to Ukraine. They're on the battlefield now, after undergoing modernization in the Czech Republic.
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Elon Musk disabled Starlink for the defence of Ukraine exactly when the Russian terrorist state expanded its offensive in Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The timing is no coincidence. Starlink uses internet protocols whose development was paid for overwhelmingly by U.S. taxpayers.
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Germany will delay the delivery of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems to Ukraine until the winter. I can’t be bothered to look up the excuse the Scholz government has this time. I’ve given up on Germany, as most freedom-loving people around the world already have.
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Most of the Russian occupiers stationed on the right bank of the Dnipro are still there. This force was estimated to be about 20,000. The Russians are trapped on the wrong side of destroyed bridges and crossings they no longer control. The scale of Ukraine's victory is massive.
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Russia is losing the Battle of the Black Sea to Ukraine, a country that doesn’t have a navy.
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Switzerland is not neutral. Switzerland actively stops other countries from helping the victims, the Ukrainian people, and tacitly supports the attacker, the Russian terrorist state.
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It turns out the Armed Forces of Ukraine lured the Russian fascist invaders into a trap in Severodonetsk. After giving up most of the city, Ukrainian defenders counter-attacked, recaptured Met'olkine, and shifted the battle north. 30% of Severodonetsk is back under UA control.
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Ukraine’s 127th Territorial Defence Brigade at the border with Russia. In this area, near the settlement of Ternova, they’ve pushed the invaders out of Kharkiv region altogether.
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Russia, Belarus and Iran are at war with Ukraine. It’s not the World War III of the imagination. It’s the global war that’s real.
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In four days the United States will enter formally into an era of oligarchy without the rule of law. Americans have been prepared extensively for this transformation: bad education, deliberate ignorance, disinformation and hate propaganda have irrevocably poisoned civil society.
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Russia invaded Ukraine. No act of self-defence by Ukraine is escalation.
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Pro-Russian oligarch Elon Musk blocked Ukraine from using Starlink in Crimea. Earlier, after amplifying propaganda of the Russian fascist regime, Musk disabled Starlink to hinder the counter-offensive by Ukrainian defenders who are liberating Luhansk and Kherson regions.
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The siege of Lyman is now a clean up operation. Russian casualties are high. Ukrainian forces are advancing to the Kreminna-Svatove line and the P-66 highway. All of the north of Donetsk oblast will be liberated by the end of the day.
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Overnight, Ukrainian marines destroyed 30 Russian helicopters at Kherson airport.
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These russian tanks in Kursk region are being picked up as trophies and taken back to Ukraine for refurbishment.
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Poland sent over 270 tanks to Ukraine – one-third of the complement in its army. The Czech Republic sent about 50 tanks – 42% of its arsenal. Thank you. NATO members have over 18 thousand tanks. None of them are involved in combat operations. They're needed in Ukraine.
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Putin puppet Orbán called Ukraine a “no man’s land” and compared it to Afghanistan. It is intolerable that Hungary – a firm ally of the Russian terrorist state – remains in NATO and the EU.
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A munitions factory is on fire in Perm, Russian Federation.
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Belarus is at a breaking point. It will either enter the war on the side of Russia or the Belarus army will mutiny. Putin pressures Lukashenka to invade Ukraine in Volyn region. Russian officers command key Belarus military units. But Belarus soldiers disobey orders to attack.
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Amazing news. Ukraine's 95th Brigade entered the city of Horlivka in Donetsk region and is fighting Russian occupation forces there. Horlivka was taken by the Russian invaders in the first year of the war, 2014-15. Liberating Horlivka would give a big morale boost to Ukrainians.
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In the battles to come, I hope Canadians defend our land and people with the same courage and wisdom as Ukrainians.
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Elon Musk amplifies Russian propaganda about Crimea, Ukraine. Here's how these lies sound to Ukrainians: "Alaska is seen as a core part of Russia by Russians. Alaska is of critical national security importance to Russia. It's only in the USA because of Tsar Alexander's mistake.".
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Some Russian units, particularly in Donetsk region, are being ordered by senior command to temporarily cease offensive operations. The reason is the low morale of soldiers, many cases of desertion among the recently-mobilized, and widespread refusal to follow combat orders. 1/2.
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Imagine, during WWII, if Rolls Royce had restricted the range of the engines put in Lancaster bombers so they couldn’t reach Germany – under the bizarre idea that to do so would be “escalation” of the war. That’s exactly what Elon Musk is doing restricting Starlink for Ukraine.
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The Russian invaders are retreating chaotically and abandoning the north of Kherson region. Ukrainian defenders are chasing them to Beryslav. Davydiv Brid, Velyka Oleksandrivka, Starosillya and other settlements have been liberated.
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It's not Putin. It's Russians. Most Russians want to annihilate Ukraine, followed by Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Regime change will not be enough to end this global war. The Russian invasion army must be defeated and all occupied territory must be liberated.
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A MiG-29 with a Ukrainian pilot is the most valuable weapon in the arsenal of democracy right now. An F-35 with an American pilot is worthless because political leaders made it so.
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There can be little doubt that Ukraine, Finland and Sweden would be better members of NATO than Germany, France and Hungary.
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Ukrainian defenders are advancing against Russian fascist invaders northwest of Kyiv.
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The Russians were decisively defeated at Lyman. They'll attempt to stabilize on the Kreminna-Svatove line but won't hold out there for long. The Russians made a fatal mistake trying to hold Lyman at all costs and deploying most of their operational reserves to that doomed effort.
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JKN Global Group, owners of the Miss Universe Organization, normalize war and genocide by the Russian terrorist state.
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Ukrainians have everything to fight for. Russians have nothing to die for.
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The Russian terrorist state unblocked Twitter after it was acquired by Elon Musk.
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Give refuge to Ukrainians. Do not admit Russians. Russians made Ukrainians refugees.
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Violating its historical neutrality, Switzerland sides with the Russian Federation invaders against defender Ukraine by rejecting Poland's request to transfer Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks from storage.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine are on the verge of liberating the Kinburn Peninsula. "Very soon we will be able to report … that the Mykolayiv region is completely de-occupied.".– Nataliya Humenyuk, spokesperson for the Defence Forces of southern Ukraine.
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Ukrainian defenders killed approximately 950 Russian invaders on October 29. Russian commanders use recently-mobilized men as cannon fodder, pushing them forward to get killed as a way to detect Ukrainian firing positions.
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Russian-occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions no longer have a combat-capable army. The 1st and 2nd Army Corps were sent to the invasion front in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, where they performed poorly. A counter-offensive by Ukraine to liberate Donbas is only a matter of time.
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Don’t support the Russian terrorist state. Don’t buy from Switzerland.
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Ukraine agreed to buy from Germany Marder infantry fighting vehicles, Gepard anti-aircraft guns, and self-propelled artillery. Chancellor Olaf Scholz blocks all of it.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine have started to take the first prisoners of war from the mobilized vatniks. The time from forced conscription to POW status is one week.
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The Kreminna-Svatove line is collapsing for the Russians. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing to take control of Kreminna, the P-66 highway, and crossings of the Krasna River. Rashist forces are reported to be fleeing Kreminna, towards Rubizhne and Severodonets'k.
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The notorious Russian propagandist, Semen "Wargonzo" Pegov, was wounded near temporarily-occupied Donetsk by the detonation of an anti-personnel mine placed by Russian forces.
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Russia must be destroyed as a terrorist state. Russia must be destroyed as a colonial power. Russia must be destroyed as a crime syndicate. Russia must be destroyed as a citadel of lies.
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In nine days Russia has become North Korea and Ukraine the leader of the Free World.
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Ukrainian defenders defeated the “elite” of the Russian army. Now they’re destroying the Russian alco-battalions.
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The airbases in the Russian Federation from which terror attacks were launched must be destroyed.
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What Ukrainians think of Scholz and Macron. They’re not wrong.
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Olena is an officer in Ukraine's 128th Mountain Assault Brigade – the Transcarpathian Legion.
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Very little fuel and lubricants are reaching Russian tanks in Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions. The invaders are obliged to dig in their tanks and use them like artillery pieces for a static defence. It means the Russians are fighting a losing battle.
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The Russian fascist regime decided to attack Moldova. This is a desperate measure. Russia has fewer than 2,000 regular soldiers and not more than 7,000 colonial troops in occupied “Transnistria.”. But President Sandu has warned her country is almost defenceless. Help Moldova!.
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Russia is invading Europe and at war with the collective West. Ukrainians defend alone. Scholz blocks tanks to Ukraine. Biden blocks ATACMS to Ukraine. The Swiss block arms to Ukraine. Orbán blocks the NATO-Ukraine Commission. Erdoğan blocks Finland and Sweden in NATO.
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The German company Rheinmetall prepared 16 Marder infantry fighting vehicles for Ukraine. The Scholz government refuses to issue an export license. History will judge Germany harshly for failing to do enough to stop the genocide of Ukrainians by the Russian fascist invaders.
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The russian fascist invaders have made a fatal decision to defend Lyman at all costs. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are engaged in offensives to trap the rashists in Lyman and liberate the north of Luhansk region.
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If electricity is a privilege Russians deny Ukrainians with missiles, why is travel a privilege we grant Russians with visas?.
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A tie-in between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the insurrection in the United States. Serhiy Dybynyn is an infowarrior for Inter TV, nominally owned by fugitive oligarch Firtash but beneficially owned by Putin pal Medvedchuk. Donetsk airport (left) was destroyed by RU forces.
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Ukrainian defenders are driving south into Izyum district of Kharkiv region and are less than 20 km from joining UA forces in Slov'yans'k district of Donetsk region. Rashist occupiers are fleeing Svyatohirs'k and Lyman and going to the east. They aren't reinforcing Izyum.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine are enveloping a large Russian fascist invasion army in the north of Kherson region. The advance of Ukrainian forces down the T-04-03 road towards Beryslav is rapid. The rashists are immobilized by "no retreat" orders and are in a hopeless position.
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Ukrainian defenders have broken the Russian fascist army invading Europe.
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Pavel Durov is singing like a canary to French authorities. Hundreds of operatives of the russian terrorist state may be exposed. Telegram is in disarray and with it the russian military. Moscow is tapping all its Useful Idiots, from Elon Musk on down, to come to its defence.
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Finland and Sweden aren’t in NATO yet. The obstructors are Russian-ally Hungary and ambiguous Turkey.
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The United States has supplied 0 out of 841 of its F-16 fighters to Ukrainian defenders, 0 out of 60 of its Patriot batteries, and 31 of its 8000 reserve Abrams tanks. Through reflexive control and active measures, fascist Russia has beaten the United States into submission.
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Nice detail from the Ukrainian military's morning report:. On September 26, the Russian invaders sent to Lyman a column of seven tanks crewed by newly-mobilized men. They had no training to learn how to drive tanks or fire their weapons. Two of the tanks were in road accidents.
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The leaders of most democratic countries shun Putin. They talk to Ukrainians and visit Ukraine. The leaders of France and Germany talk on the phone with Putin regularly – reassuring the Russian dictator he remains a peer. They ignore Ukrainians and don’t visit Ukraine.
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Canada will send heavy artillery to Ukraine. Among the armament of the Canadian Armed Forces are British-built M777 155mm howitzers.
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The Gauleiter for the Russian fascists in temporarily-occupied Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, has fled the city. Ukrainian forces are attacking Donetsk airport – for the first time since the epic fight by the “Cyborgs” in 2014-15.
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A militant of the Russian fascist state – captured by Ukrainian defenders – has no idea how that tattoo got on his back.
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Hungary chose to side with the genocidal Russian regime. The Orbán regime bet on the wrong horse. European and North American leaders should respect the decision the Hungarian government made and suspend Hungary from NATO and the EU.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a successful counteroffensive north of Kharkiv, liberating the settlements of Bezruky, Slatyne and Prudyanka from the Russian fascist invaders.
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Russian fascist invasion forces in the north of Kherson region have retreated to Mylove. Ukrainian defenders are advancing rapidly, liberating many settlements and large swaths of territory.
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Hungary is a member of NATO and the EU, even though the autocratic Orbán regime is a de facto client of Russia. Democratic Ukraine is a member neither of NATO nor the EU, even though the Ukrainian people are the only fighting defenders of Europe from Russian armed aggression.
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Poland has declared the Russian regime to be a terrorist regime along with the other leading NATO countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.
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Russian soldiers on the right bank of the Dnipro River are trapped. They have been abandoned by their commanders. The river crossings have been cut. They are running out of supplies and ammunition. Other than waiting for death, the only option for these invaders is to surrender.
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Bulgaria decided to send weapons Ukraine. There are only a few democracies left that refuse to arm the defender of civilization against the Russian fascist invaders. Notable exceptions in Europe are Ireland, Austria and Switzerland – tacit supporters of rashist aggression.
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For committing genocide against Ukrainians, Russians deserve our hatred. For actively preventing other nations from helping Ukraine, the Swiss deserve our contempt.
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Ukraine-Russia peace:. The Russian invasion army is defeated. Ukraine liberates all of its territory. Ukrainian hostages in Russia are returned. Russia makes war reparations to Ukraine. Russia is demilitarized. Russian war criminals go before tribunals.
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