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"Bandera will come and restore order!" (Bandera pryide - poriadok navede) chanted participants of a march in Lviv today. It’s an old slogan — one that voices a long-standing nationalist fantasy of a military junta led by a far-right strongman, very much à la Adolf Hitler. In these fantasies, the same people always picture themselves as the executioners, never the executed. Funny thing about dictatorships, though — reality has a habit of improvising. And it doesn’t always follow the casting.

"RUSSIA SIMULATES FULL SCALE NUCLEAR WAR" On December 17–18, Russian strategic missile units deployed Yars road-mobile launchers for intensive combat patrol exercises in Siberia. These drills simulated "full-scale nuclear war" scenarios, including evading enemy attacks and camouflaging units to maintain retaliatory strike capabilities. The Yars system is the backbone of Russia's current land-based deterrent. It features a range of up to 11,000–12,000 km and carries Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs), allowing one missile to strike several targets simultaneously. These drills are widely interpreted as a warning to Western nations against deeper involvement in the Ukraine conflict........