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The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain ’s addiction to humour.Janan Ganesh ContributorJul 10, 2022 – 9.56amTo the silk looms and chamber pots of Dennis Severs ’ House in Spitalfields. Severs was a Californian whose gripes with the 20th century drove him to turn a London address into a portal to the 18th and 19th. A fictitious Huguenot family, drummed out of Catholic France, are heard but not seen as you tour their “home” in all its period detail. On e room is given over to Queen Victoria portraits and union flags: to the patriotism of refugees.These are layers of unsmiling reverence: the Huguenots ’ for British freedom, Severs’ for the British past. These are outsiders who take the country more seriously than it takes itself.But then, as we are seeing, how hard is that? What Britain will be living down for years is not thatBoris Johnson won a landslide in December 2019. (By then, t...

Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs