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“Let him reign in Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

Orange praise for pal Vlad’s brain.<\/div>\n
Rise, autocrats of the world.<\/div>\n
Now your flag has been unfurled.<\/div>\n
Democracy is on the slide.<\/div>\n
Four more years it would have died.<\/div>\n
Putin’s troops now pointed east,<\/div>\n
lumbering, here comes the beast.<\/div>\n
Spectre of an old world order,<\/div>\n
troops amassed on Russia’s border,<\/div>\n
harkens back to sixty-two,<\/div>\n
back to Cuban missile stew.<\/div>\n
Biden is no J.F.K.<\/div>\n
This is real war, not cosplay.<\/div>\n
Ukraine’s president, a comic,<\/div>\n
stands upon a stage atomic.<\/div>\n
NATO, Plato, all involved,<\/div>\n
question how this can be solved.<\/div>\n
Meanwhile, tanks and guns move in.<\/div>\n
Wait for carnage to begin.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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