I cannot stress this enough: the "pro-Russian" warlordism of 2014 Donbas was completely inorganic and staffed by Russian citizens with no links to the Donbas to an almost hilarious degree. It's actually incredibly rare to find something that inorganic in insurgencies anywhere in the world.

When you claim to be able to shoot down 70 cruise missiles attacking simultaneously, but in practice you have trouble with even 4
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