MILEI'S METHOD FAILS IN BOLIVIA. "I thought that after 20 days of blockades, people would be tired and would view the humanitarian corridor favorably," declared Minister Mauricio Zamora.
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Image depicts Bolivian trade unionists on strike in La Paz, Bolivia.
Long preamble/summary below of recent news events.
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The Iran ceasefire is grinding on. After a brief period over the weekend of heightened activity where it seemed that US strikes might be resuming, Trump announced a "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran, which initially appeared to be an agreement along Iran's demands.
For those not following along with the diplomatic minutia, Iran's position for several weeks has been that the nuclear issue must be discussed separately - because, well, last time they started discussing the nuclear issue with the US, they got fucking bombed - and so have proposed a two-stage negotiation where the war is first officially ended with certain preconditions (e.g. the US has to end sanctions and unfreeze assets and presumably withdraw at least some military assets), and then the second stage will begin in which the nuclear issue is handled.
The reason why a deal has still not been signed after all this time is because the US disagrees with doing it this way, and wants the nuclear issue to be handled right away (and obviously also objects with things like Iran retaining control of the Strait). Therefore, Trump's announcement appeared to be him finally accepting reality, but it quickly became apparent that this was just another market manipulation. I'm definitely in the camp among several other analysts that believes another round of war is going to happen barring some very sudden circumstances (e.g. Trump being forced out of power one way or another, or Iran obtaining a nuke) because the US still seems agreement-incapable. And in Lebanon, consternation for the Zionists against Hezbollah's attacks continues as the FPV drone threat only continues to increase despite them desperately seeking countermeasures.
As I've been perhaps too focussed on Iran lately, here's a brief roundup of big news events from the last month or so.
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Orban losing power: Pretty cool, though his replacement being Neoliberal #2980329891 means that big changes seem unlikely.
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Strikes in Bolivia against that dipshit Paz: Very nice to see, as it appears that Bolivia has among the best widespread on-the-ground popular support for worker-centric policies and politicians in Latin America that makes it so they can genuinely pressure power (already, the Labor Minister has resigned).
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Situation in the Sahel: "Mysterious" third parties sponsored a big offensive against the AES which they largely repelled with help from Russia. The situation there is still a little tenuous as I understand it with a greater focus by anti-government forces on blockades of cities to cause internal revolts. This tactic is currently broadly failing as armed convoys are getting fuel and food into the cities, but figures like Traore are aware that more needs to be done.
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Ukraine War: Aside from the usual grinding advance by Russia on the front, there have been back-and-forth missile and drone strikes as Ukraine hit some targets in the outskirts of Moscow with drones and then Russia fired a shitload of missiles, including the iconic Oreshnik, directly at Kiev, as Simplicius and others have covered in greater detail.
I could go on and on with the recent aggressions against Cuba, Modi's recent victories in India and the AI/chip tech war between China and the US but this preamble has to end at some point due to the character limit.
Last week's thread is here.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on the Zionists' destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
PRO SANTA CRUZ COMMITTEE (Far-Right Terrorist Paramilitary Narcolinked group) SUSPENDS ITS TRIP TO SAN JULIAN AND VIOLENT UNBLOCKADE: RECESS ON CITIZEN MEASURES, results of the meeting of the pro Santa Cruz civic committee.
Bolivia's right-wing president, Rodrigo Paz, announced that he has cut his salary and that of all his ministers in half as a gesture of austerity.
No idea for whom was this done for. Right-Wingers are calling him an idiot who is to weak to do anything with Evo, if anything it is Evo who has the cards and is currently encircling Paz. Left-Wingers just don't care about Paz and want him gone.
so that US troops being pulled out of Poland are being un-pulled now? what is going on 
https://archive.ph/b6bZs
Trump Commits Troops to Poland After Asking Hegseth About Canceled Deployment
The president says Poland, a strong ally, will get 5,000 extra troops
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President Trump said Thursday that he plans to send 5,000 troops to Poland, a move that is intended to reassure an ally but which won’t forestall the White House’s effort to shrink the American military presence in Europe. “Based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki,” Trump wrote in a social-media post, “I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland.” Trump’s decision followed a surprise move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this month to cancel the nine-month rotation of an armored brigade to Poland from Fort Hood, Texas. The decision by Hegseth drew sharp criticism from Republican and Democratic lawmakers and concerned Polish officials, who told The Wall Street Journal they weren’t consulted about the move. Hegseth’s move also surprised some officials because it was Germany—not Poland—that criticized the U.S. strategy in the war with Iran, drawing Trump’s ire. In early May, Trump responded to criticism from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz by ordering the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from the country, a process that the Pentagon said would take six to 12 months.
did Hegseth mix up the two countries in a drunken stupor or something?
A current and a former U.S. official said Trump asked Hegseth in a recent phone call why the troop deployment to Poland was canceled. Trump told Hegseth that the U.S. shouldn’t treat Poland poorly, given it is an American ally with close ties to the White House. There are currently about 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in Poland. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said, “President Trump appreciates all the secretary has done—and will continue to do—in executing the America First agenda within our military and prioritizing our warfighters like never before.” The Pentagon also said Trump and Hegseth were on the same page.
uh-huh 
“President Trump and Secretary Hegseth communicate constantly and are in lockstep regarding U.S. troop movements in Europe,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. The Wall Street Journal first reported in April that Trump was considering punishing countries that didn’t support the war with Iran by removing U.S. troops. In his social-media post Thursday, Trump didn’t say which American units would be sent to Poland, whether they would come from elsewhere in Europe or whether he was prepared to reinstate the canceled deployment. Trump said earlier this month that he might send some troops to Poland from Germany. One option that has been under discussion in the Pentagon would shift the 2nd Cavalry Regiment to Poland from Vilseck, Germany. Such a step would give Trump a way to punish Germany while maintaining close ties with Warsaw. Nawrocki, an ally of the president, took office in August. Nawrocki posted a picture of himself on X with Trump in the Oval Office from his visit last year to Washington. He also issued a statement thanking Trump and calling the Polish-American alliance “a vital pillar of security for every Polish home.”
It would also keep overall U.S. troop levels in Europe on a downward trajectory, which is in line with the Pentagon’s longer-term policy to reduce the U.S. military commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and give European allies the lead responsibility for conventional defense. U.S. relations with Europe have been severely strained as Trump has mused about acquiring Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, and amid disagreements over the war with Iran. The brigade that had been headed to Poland for nine months—the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division—has more than 4,000 troops. Hegseth’s decision to halt its deployment provided a quick way to reduce U.S. force levels in Europe. The decision was so sudden, however, that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and acting Army chief of staff Gen. Christopher LaNeve acknowledged during congressional testimony that they were only told the deployment had been canceled a couple of days before that decision was announced.
Poland’s deputy defense minister, Pawel Zalewski, who met with U.S. officials at the Pentagon on Thursday, said the U.S. planned to present options to Warsaw in coming weeks on ways “not to decrease American engagement in Poland.” Zalewski said his government was prepared to build infrastructure to house new troops and their dependents so the American units could be permanently stationed in Poland. “We have offered to the Pentagon to host American soldiers on a permanent basis, and we understand what it means,” Zalewski said in an interview. “It means that we have to build a small city for this unit, and we are ready for that. We will cover the cost.” While Trump’s move is expected to ease concerns in Warsaw, other adjustments to the U.S. policy toward NATO are in the works. The U.S. is reducing the number of forces it is prepared to send to Europe in a conflict under the NATO Force Model, which specifies the forces and assets countries would provide in crisis, U.S. officials said. That step, which the administration plans to brief allies on in coming days, is being taken so the U.S. can allocate more forces to the Pacific and Western Hemisphere, as stipulated in the Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy.
In Congress, frustration has been mounting over the Trump administration’s bypassing of lawmakers on the Iran war and now the troop withdrawal from Europe. Lawmakers and aides have been trying to piece together the Pentagon’s troop withdrawal plan. The first briefings on the withdrawal by Pentagon officials to congressional staff, including for the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, happened only this week and were conducted by career officials, not senior-level political appointees, people familiar with the matter said. Republican lawmakers have said they could take legislative action to preclude deeper force cuts in Europe, such as by inserting provisions in Pentagon spending bills, including the National Defense Authorization Act. “There will be more action in the 2027 NDAA to create even more guardrails than already exist,” Rep. Mike Rogers, the Alabama Republican who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, said this week. Asked whether lawmakers could signal their concern by limiting travel budgets for senior Pentagon officials, Rogers said: “It won’t just be travel budgets.” The latest National Defense Authorization Act stipulated that U.S. force levels in Europe cannot be reduced below 76,000 troops unless a comprehensive series of assessments are provided to lawmakers on the effects on U.S. security. Withdrawing any equipment with an initial purchase value of more than $500,000 would require similar assessments.
https://xcancel.com/AryJeayBackup/status/2059177505001508944
######❗️NEW: Iran shot down one or more MQ-9 drones What happened in chronological order:
- Yesterday, the US entered the Strait of Hormoz to attack IRGC speedboats & fisher boats, Iran’s air defenses countered the threat & shot down MQ-9 drones. According to preliminary reports, 2 MQ-9 drones were shot down by the IRGC & one by the Army's air defense.
- The downing of these drones in less than 20 minutes caused the US to become confused and disorganized, and unable to locate the air defense site, they attacked several points on Qeshm and Jask islands.
- US attacked Iranian boats again
- The IRGC responded against US navy vessels tonight.
This also explains why Trump posted the AI image yesterday.
IRGC confirms it shot down a MQ-9 drone, and fired upon a RQ-4 drone & F-35 jet. The statement says Iran reserves the right to respond to ceasefire violations. The statement also says the IRGC shot down one MQ-9 drone and fired at a RQ-4 drone & F-35 jet forcing them to flee the country’s territorial airspace.
Marching now in La Paz, Bolivia-Indigenous communities, including Ponchos Rojos and the Tupaj Katari Federation. Third weeks of intense conflict. Food shortages continue in the city as protests mount and spread throughout the country. No dialogue in sight.
Can't really deny that the state is fascist when they're doing this.
Gotta say "divisive nationalist" is a fun new way to describe fascists. Wonder how long it'll be until Hitler is described as a divisive nationalist.
EDIT: Oh yeah just wanna mention Zelensky also attended this.
I wonder if this is a similar time scale for burials for 18yos dying in the mud in eastern Ukraine?
They'll bury those kids currently stored in fridges in 62 years, to celebrating the year 2088
https://nitter.net/LulaOficial/status/2059045183564468260
Lula aurafarming aid to bolivian government instead of sending oil to cuba, another day, another banger
Like i understand brazil aspires to be subimperial nation and all, but aside from construction they don’t have the juice i feel like. fucking over venezuela didn’t bring them juicy contracts, as compared to euros/canadians/seppos? is there some shadow brazilian agroconglomerate i don’t know about? is this for the love of the game?
Brazil is kinda like Nigeria in that it does not aspire to be subimperial, it already is quasi-imperial in its own right. To make a long story short: Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay are, for all intents and purposes, annexes of Brazil. This is not just because of the relative weight of Brazil, it is policy. The most flagrant expression of this is in regards to energy exports and land acquisitions into all three countries. You asked about a shadow agroconglomerate. Well, remove shadow from that query because the landowning oligarchies and corporate agriculture are the owners of Brazil and that's not a secret to anyone.
With Venezuela I suspect it is a combination of factors. First is that Brazil tried to coordinate with American capital and the Bolivarian government to bridge them and create Brazil's own caribbean oil infrastructure - the result of which was Brazil getting couped, the siege of Venezuela tightening and all assets involved being outright stolen by the americans. So of course Brazil is not going to tango with or even against the americans any more.
The second factor is that Brazil has aspirations of extending their 'leadership' across South America, which Venezuela is (was?) geared towards resisting by default - Venezuela in the BRICS would have been an independent actor, not a partner of Brazil's.
The third factor is that even with the aforementioned setback, Brazil and even the Brazilian social democracy has not been pushed against the wall - not to the extent that Russia, China and Iran were. It is easy to forget at this point, but 15 years ago the BRIC countries feared that China would be the weak point. That the Chinese would choose a G2 enténte with the United States and they might have done so if the americans left them any choice in the matter. Russia, too, would have been happy to become europeans but that was never an option. And Iran too was ready to enter a deténte with the US after the Iraq War, the GWB administration just answered 'no thank you, we'll invade you eventually'.
Right now Brazil is in a comfortable position. It is poor, yes, and its agricultural exports cannot provide enough for its population to prosper. Moreover, that agricultural industry is sustained by high taxes and rents levied on the service sector to sustain a banking system geared entirely towards the needs of landowners. Even so, there is exceptional amounts of money to be made selling soybeans and iron ore to China, Brazil just contracts services from the United States and all in all, this is a win/win for the oligarchies in the US, China and Brazil.
There is always the danger of sectors of the american oligarchy deciding that owning the cake and eating it too is just not good enough. But they have not alienated India yet, somehow, and there are so many juicier targets at home when it comes to low effort imperialism. Venezuela has not yet been fully subjugated or digested into the american system and Cuba is still there. Easy for Brazil to just fall into complacency.
Add all this up and, yeah, more than the Brazilian government under Lula - the Brazilian State just wants stability in Bolivia. Under Evo? Great. Under Paz? Bad, probably, but moreso since so far Paz is proving to be an inherently bad proposition for governability and social stability. It is the same thing with Milei. If the guy was just an ancap idiot then Brazil would have no reason to complain. But Milei can't help himself but vice signal towards hating on Brazil for being social democratic. So Brazil grumbles a bit while making nice profits from all the dollars Milei borrows and inevitably spends across the South Cone.
Socdems be doing socdems. Also Brazilian agricultural and industrial elites don’t really want revolutionary states ringing them.
Eastern Bolivia has seen big Brazilian agribusiness buying up land and if a leftist government nationalizes foreign owned farmlands then the bourgeoisie would lose their soy farms and cattle ranches in Santa Cruz.
Pink Tired :Kelly:
The Guardian - Oil price falls despite US strikes. The price of the main US benchmark for oil fell more than 5% on Tuesday, despite the new US strikes on southern Iran. Around 0030 GMT the price of West Texas Intermediate was down 5.46% at $91.33 a barrel. But North Sea Brent crude was up 1.6% at $97.68 a barrel, AFP is reporting. Oil prices plunged below $100 on Monday amid investor optimism for a reopening of the strait of Hormuz after signs the US and Iran were edging closer to a deal.
When the energy market is just vibes and "bro trust me".
Lebanese resistance drone strikes destroyed two Merkava tanks in the southern Lebanon town of Dabl:
I feel insane, its been a couple of hours since the strikes, amerikkkans are bragging about it out loud and nothing from Iran. I refuse to believe Iran is gonna let them salami this shit after all their people have been through
Iran has always taken its time to respond so far. This is to be expected if you followed the war so far.
Waiting for markets to open.
IRGC light them candles someone needs another lesson
Cool cool cool are we back or it's so over where we at
NYT - American forces conducted what U.S. Central Command said were self-defense strikes in southern Iran on Monday “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.” The targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats trying to emplace mines, Capt. Tim Hawkins, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement. “Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing cease-fire,” Captain Hawkins said.
If the US has any sort of plan against Iran, it seems like that plan is to space things out and hope the Iranian people start to get comfortable again, with the idea that the IRGC will start to lose some of their public mandate for big retaliatory strikes?
Or maybe the idea is to just lob shit at Iran every month or two, to keep the conflict barely hot enough to justify the blockade, and then drag this out to somehow hurt China more than they hurt themselves? Can their allies in East Asia wait that long?
If this blockade raises oil prices high enough for long enough, at what point do we start an irreversible shift to renewables, which China dominates? If there's some way this all makes sense, I want to know it, but to my limited understanding it looks like flailing.
If the US has any sort of plan against Iran, it seems like that plan is to space things out and hope the Iranian people start to get comfortable again, with the idea that the IRGC will start to lose some of their public mandate for big retaliatory strikes?
Yes. They make it seem like you have more to lose by responding than just taking it on the cheek. Then wait for it to sort of fade, then hit you again far enough away from the first you see them as two separate events and again they taunt you that it's not worth giving up the comfortable peace you enjoy to fight them. And then they just continue this forever essentially and your side hesitates because oh no the bourgeois western press will present them as aggressors and the west will slam them and blah blah blah. And it seems the lesser evil but it's the greater evil because it enables this behavior to continue, the empire to continue to feel impervious and supreme and free to hit the weak everywhere.
I launched a self defense strike in my enemy’s apartment 4000 miles away because I wanted her air fryer
To defend the guy I hired to take her air fryer. Self defense.
Just saw a TikTok that says air fryers cause cancer. Does she have any other coveted appliances?
self-defense strikes in southern Iran on Monday
That is an insane thing to say. If Iran doesn't respond soon, the US will establish a new status quo where they just get to bomb Iran every once in a while and claim it is "self-defense".
Patience. There's no indication that this is a "new status quo," it's literally been hours. People were saying the same thing about Hezbollah, and now they’re cheering them on
Jesus, I can't believe people are already insinuating that Iran will accept this. They could, but like we've yet to see any indication they will? Prioritizing the long term needs to be brought back into analyses lol
If Iran allows the US they will salami-slice their way to an acceptable state of affairs where Iran holds off, the US doesn't hit them full force, the zionist entity continues its incursion into Lebanon and increasingly the burden of returning to war is seen as too high a cost. Very frequent American tactic to dissuade enemies. Some here no doubt would say they must continue turning the other cheek as they say Russia must for some weird idea that the European people any day now will see the truth, rise up and overthrow their governments to replace them with ones that shun the US, just a few more dozen, hundred slaps in the face and another 5 years and its a sure thing.
So I hope Iran does not allow that and punishes the US without regard to any little fears of starting up the conflict again and what the western propagandists will frame it as.
NYT - In a post on Truth Social on Monday afternoon, President Trump said Iran’s enriched uranium will either be turned over to the United States and destroyed or destroyed in coordination with Iran and the Atomic Energy Commission or an equivalent body as a witness. It is unclear if Iran has agreed to this, though a senior U.S. official told reporters on Sunday that Iran had, in principle, committed to giving up stockpiles of enriched uranium.
Telegram (Middle East Spectator) claiming two IRGC gunboats were attacked by US aircraft yesterday, which led to the IRGC firing at nearby US warships and shooting down a reaper drone sent to identify the firing positions.
Nothing else after that from what I can tell. Tasnim didnt follow up on their report of explosions near Bandar, however their Persian site did just go down for me, which could be a sign of the internet going out again...
EDIT: CENTCOM Confirms US air force struck bandar abbas
US Central Command says it has launched strikes against Iranian boats and missile launch sites
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5 minutes of Hezbollah FPV decolonization/denazification 🚀✌️
Stills show the moment an FPV drone deftly maneuvered through a doorway to strike a command center of the zionist 401st Armored Brigade in the town of Dibil in southern Lebanon. ALLAHU AKBAR!
https://xcancel.com/AlMayadeenNews/status/2058905278205063427
This shit is better than Hollywood, look at all those little animations
I bet the sperm extraction units had their hands really full that day
This shit is better than Hollywood
saved
Forgive my rudimentary photoshop
The Guardian - The Tasnim news agency said three explosions were heard in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, while the Fars news agency said similar sounds were heard close to Sirik and Jask near the strait of Hormuz. The cause and exact locations of the explosions was unknown.
Moments ago, a terrible explosion was heard in Bandar Abbas.
According to Tasnim news agency, moments ago, a loud explosion was heard in Bandar Abbas. The deputy governor said the source of the explosion was being investigated.
Some sources say there were 3 explosions in Bandar Abbas.
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1hr ago according to Tasnim.
no juice. at least he realizes he's a loser unlike the deep bench of dem losers who are begging to be humiliated
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