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a Very Black Sea
Over the last month, we had more Ukrainian readers than Russians logging in. SWS can’t comment on the expansionary motivations of an authoritarian kleptocracy, but we can invite you to speculate about ordinary people and ordinary sailors living through a war along the Black Sea coast.