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The polite Ukrainian

What we will unleash if we don’t supply arms

Once upon a time, there was a certain civility to war. It didn’t last long, and had plenty of exceptions, but there was a time when two armies would face off, away from cities and towns and duke it out.

Russians call this ‘pole boya’, the field of battle. Once Napoleon defeated the Russian army outside of Moscow, he assumed- as…