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Military decoys work as well now as they did eight decades ago

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

You don’t have to speak Russian to get the message. The pictures and the accompanying audio on a recent internet post tell the story.

The drone video of a target parked next to a shed and partially hidden by vegetation is set to a heavy beat; shortly after, there’s an explosion and fire, followed by the guttural utterings of an evidently boastful narrator.

The Telegram channel Kremlin Pachka posted the video in early-June, lauding it as evidence of a Lancet drone strike on a Ukrainian tank near Krasnolimansky—Lyman to the Ukrainians who live there—in the country’s Donetsk Oblast.

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To Kill the Right to Kill

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“The country as a whole will rue the day this has happened,” Progressive Conservative MP Allan Lawrence admonished.

An ominous warning, Lawrence had said these very words shortly after a free vote on Bill C-34 in Parliament. By a 130-124 standing, Canada had, mostly, abolished the death penalty. It still applied, under the National Defence Act, for members of the Armed Forces found guilty of cowardice, desertion, unlawful surrender, or spying for the enemy.

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