Source: https://
theguardian.com/world/2026/apr
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In California, private firefighters protect homes of those who can pay. In Ukraine, the national emergency service restores bombed power plants for everyone. Under bombs, the idea that survival is a market product is fatal. 12X

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The war taught Ukraine what a state is. Trains running to frontline areas. Hospitals treating thousands under shelling. Schools teaching under occupation. Energy systems bombed by Russia and restored within days. None of this can be outsourced to philanthropy. 11/

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Ukraine’s female veterans fought for years to serve in combat roles. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues women should not serve in combat at all. Ukraine has never been so dependent on the US. The two countries have never seen the world so differently. 10/

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By 2024 Trump supporters told Gumenyuk only Trump could end the war — by cutting aid or forcing a deal. JD Vance had openly said he didn’t “really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.” Republicans who had been anti-Russian were aligning with Moscow. 9/

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In October 2020 in Vero Beach, Florida Gumenyuk was one of very few people wearing a mask. Florida had recorded 760,000 Covid cases and 16,500 deaths. One man told her: “Trump lets me go to church. He’s not making me wear something on my face.” 8/

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By 2016 Americans were no longer debating policy. They were fighting over whether the president was born on US soil and whether Democrats ran a child trafficking ring out of a DC pizzeria. Both claims were false. Neither went away. 6/

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Nobel laureate Martin Chalfie — 2008 chemistry prize, Columbia University — told her he planned to use his award money to pay his daughter’s college tuition. In Ukraine, even poor people expected the state to provide education. In the US, that expectation was treated as

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Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi signed a landmark order: Ukrainian soldiers must now rotate off frontline positions after a maximum of two months The decision arrives after a painful scandal when leadership of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade failed to supply soldiers

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