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Independent American Journalist Disappeared In Kharkiv, Ukraine

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For the past few days, American-Chilean youtuber, journalist, and filmmaker Gonzalo Lira, who has also become a war blogger, gained wide popularity during the military conflict in Ukraine. Gonzalo went to Ukraine to show the war and to share the information about the confrontation between the Ukrainian and Russian armies with the world.

During his stay, Gonzalo has visited several cities in Ukraine. He has published photos and videos from Kharkiv, written Twitter posts about his views on the war, done debriefings on fake reports by Ukrainian journalists, reviewed the massacre in Bucha and interviewed detained AFU soldiers. He openly criticized the Ukrainian government.

The public ‘s attitude towards Gonzalo Lira is ambiguous. Some thought he was a pro-Russian journalist and an agent of the Kremlin, while others thought he was an objective journalist.

Being a controversial figure in the war zone, one day Gonzalo Lira disappeared. On April 17, contact with Gonzalo was lost, Since then, no new materials were published on his channels.

According to one version, he was taken hostage by the SBU or by groups of local Ukrainian neo-Nazis. The Ukrainian security forces’ tweet commented on Gonzalo Lira’s disappearance with a hint that they know where the journalist is.

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At the moment there is no way to verify these tweets and it is unclear whether this is a bluff or whether the AFU security forces know where the journalist is.

At the same time, someone hacked Gonzalo Lira’s accounts on social networks and started posting comments on his behalf. Since April 17, Gonzalo has not posted a single video showing his face. Moreover, a fake Youtube account was created.

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On April 18, “Botsman” (one of the generals of the Ukrainian army) tweeted that Gonzalo had been stolen by  the notorious Ukrainian militant Sergei Olegovich Velichko, nicknamed “Chile”.

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Gonzalo Lira’s real Youtube account keeps posting video clips. There are great doubts about the authenticity of these videos.

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On April 19 there was information that Sergei Velichko (“Chile”) claimed that he had no idea who Gonzalo Lira is and had never heard of him, although they were both in Kharkiv.

At this point there is no exact information about where Gonzalo Lira is now. Most likely, he was caught indeed. The question of whether the journalist is alive at the moment is still open.

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Lesco Brandon

Evil bastards. I can’t stay I agreed with everything Gonzalo said but very upsetting to hear he could be dead

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Hey

Russian incompetency to beat Ukraine is more worrisome. All non-eastern Ukrainians should not be considered humans to begin with. Carpet and cluster bombing of Kyiv and Lviv residential areas is a must.

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Slobonmynuts

US couldn’t beat the Taliban after 20 years. Russia is winning but they aren’t just fighting Ukraine, they’re fighting NATO.

Hey

1. US couldn’t beat Taliban for the same reason no nation can be beaten unless you install a good puppet govt after you destroy it. But at least US beaten Afghani. 2. Russia is not facing NATO, when Russia starts to fight with M1A2sep3 platoons, F22 fighters, and F35 in ground support, then we can talk about Russia fighting NATO. For now Russia is losing due to its own incompetency.

SaharaWinds

Bullshit. NATO technical advisers and staff were the ones who chose, targeted and hit the Russian cruiser off coast. NATO staff using US satellite tracking, and target tracking and coordination from British AWACS electronic warfare aircraft. This is documented from records of the aircraft’s flight path shadowing the ship. It used its systems to guide a missile to the ship. That was a British military aircraft directly involved to make it happen. That is NATO directly attacking Russian military assets.

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Hey

That is not equivalent of fighting with NATO. It’s Ukraine+ a fragment of NATO military power.

Aunt Polly

When did NATO ever beat someone their own size? Huh?

Kyteman

When did NATO ever beat anyone? They are particularly good at bombing a lot of civilians? They are mish-mash of losing armies. Led by the biggest losers of them all the US, who have never won a war yet…except Grenada…

susano

Japan. Two nukes.

barry

Russian will send 3rd nuke asap

thoughtful

Do you think that if a GOOD fair and decent government is installed and some hostile people taken out, that the decent government can then rule? I hate rebels who are without a cause. The US is corrupt as can be, the EU, the UK our banking system the health care systems…CORRUPTION.

Pamfil Military Academy

BIG corruption. Also those west ‘ideatics’ lunatics don’t know what means to have 1 liter of diesel with 0.7dollar and FREE medical care. Because those imbeciles probably don’t know what means to be pauper.

Andrey

What nonsense are you talking about, how can you lose if you capture more and more new territory from the enemy.

Pamfil Military Academy

NATO is shit. I wanted to see a russian and chinese backed Ukraine fighting against NATO ! It will be proved 100 times more badly than viceversa.

Yamil Perez

Russia aint losing. CIAisis backed Ukropistan does.

jens holm

I take it again. You seemes slow upstairs.

It makes no sense to compare. Ukraine has a determinant will to defend the whole satet and pay the price. They apprisuate the modern Ukra military forces and now are well educated fit for fight.

Its much better then the Russian one and work well in effective more decentralized structures.

Nato is still not there. If we were, there would not be a single Russian foot on it unless it was from a corpse or for medical experiments.

Putins propagandist alway put in Nato. trying to intimidate us. Its the Ukras and Russia which not even has tryed to keep Minsk 2.

Its getting more and more difficult to hold back.

I think we should take a couple of TV towers in Moskva. The Russians already lives in the dark. Putin has no real face and therefore the russian has no Facebook.

Trotfox

What the fuck are you on about, fucking moron, learn to spell before you comment.

Don Scrotus

Endorsement of prepubescent scales vitriolic balloting proves vindication of topknots. Minsk 2 preparation of the paternal warrant makes do with disqualification of problematic correspondence. Bleeding butthole is jens holms preference.

Aunt Polly

U drunk?

opereta

Get off the Captagon you fool…. Go back to Heroine, is better for you….

thoughtful

They are only fighting NATO mercenaries, Ukrainian armed forces, who do not surrender and lay down their arms and NAZIS

Percy

Dresden is too good for Kiev.

ilme

You don’t beat Nazis by becoming one. And you don’t eliminate hate by hating. They are all humans, even russia itself says it is very important to support the population of the Ukraine, that they are victims of propaganda and it will take a long time to get that out of the heads. Russia put big effort in having good relationships with the Ukrainian population. Those poor western ukrainians run in risk of getting shot by their own people and you call out to not consider them humans? WTF is wrong with you? They need help, not another one who has nothing else in mind than killing them at the first opportunity.

Theo

Actually you do. To destroy your enemy you have to be at least equally bad. Jews are right about one thing: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Both eyes and all teeht preferably. Forget ‘power of good’ and other fantasy crap. The only reasons why ‘good guys’ in history were good is because they won and wrote history.

Hey

Best comment!

Pamfil Military Academy

‘The only reasons why ‘good guys’ in history were good is because they won and wrote history.’ I am on your side here.

Aunt Polly

That’s where the jews messed up- and it’s cursing them to this day. The only way is to listen to Jesus Christ and his gospel. To forgive is to be free.

Hey

This comment is so dumb that I can’t explain on what Russian copium you are. WW2 history proves you wrong. German nazism was stopped only after whole Germany and Berlin especially were reduced to fine ashes.

Aunt Polly

It didn’t stop – it spread to the whole western hemisphere. Try google operation paperclip.

Imperial Germans

The Operation Paperclip scientists were leftovers and old school researchers anyway, who changed their masters at gun point. East and West are ran by international Jewry. The Third Power is still there though, and it will intervene soon to save the day. Look up imperialgermans . com and Gilbert Sternhoff’s book Die Rückkehr der dritten Macht.

Nahavar

Rusians are winning. They figth for people Who Support Them in the Donbass and Not even in the EU people agree with our oben goverments… Our West Media are so fake that they don’t even recognices it…

Albion

Your using words to try and score hollow victories on an imaginary battlefield. On the real battlefield Russian artillery and tank troops don’t give a damn what you think. But don’t take my word for it, enlist and go see for yourself.

rex

Is this why Greenski is crawling everywhere to ask for moar weapons and HEEEELLLLPPPP? Yeah yeah they are sieging Moscow. Yes yes, less cocaine please!

Yamil Perez

Ukraine is getting beaten biglybbadly. Air force gone. Air defense gone. Fuel gone. Repair shops gone. Weapon caches gone. Ukraine is losing around 800troops per day now.

Aunt Polly

You’re too impatient. Try sit on your hands.

thoughtful

Pray. If nominally Christian, do the Our Father. If nominally RC do the Hail Marys too. If you can do a Rosary, do that.

Nahavar

New ukro crime

rex

Time to shoot a bullet in the head of this nazi whore.

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Theo

A bullet is too good for him. He needs to suffer. A lot…

jens holm

You could divorse.

Ukraine, Land of Psychopaths

Crimea and finally Donbass did divorce. So what’s your problem now? Live with the results like Serbia did.

dave

Valera Kuleshov – blogger/activist has been murdered in kherson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8c7zBOo8E

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simple math

SBU = Gestapo

Pamfil Military Academy

Indeed a true unbiased reporter showing the massive crimes and lies of the US/NATO Empire of terror and clearly an …idiot. Sorry for that but not taking any precautions against the nazi banderiputas goons and streaming from theirs den is just pure stupidity.

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Hey

Its Russian fault. And as long as Russia is sparing Ukrainian lives it will be. The funnies thing, even if Russia had 0 killed civilians, US and west will make up a number that will go into history, and all non-eastern Ukrainians would believe that number. It is pointless to keep Ukrainian civilians alive, they will never be for Russia, they will fight until the last one to regain eastern territories, and Russia is just getting into deeper sh!t every day.

Iren

These are Russian people captured by the Khazarian mafia!! Putin frees them and does not kill them!! Smart people understand and know this!! Think about how Putin can kill his people?

Hey

Western Ukrainians were never Russian. They are slavic, but as Russian as Croats are. And they account for more than 50% of Ukrainian population.

Hey, Thanks

Well then, they deserve 50% of Ukraine’s territory. Thanks for solving that problem so quickly.

simple math

Speaking of Croats: Bandera = Pavelic. Banderites = Ustashe

Geopolitics stripped raw

The interesting thing is that Russia gets along more or less OK with post war Croatia and Georgia and those same states have somewhat turned their backs on the ultra-nationalist nazi scum that they tolerated, even championed before; like Georgia not sanctioning RF and refusing to repatriate the Georgians fighting for Ukraine now and that Saakashvili so counted on once upon a time. Of course, for the US & UK, they’re still primo ally and training material.

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jens holm

There are no Kazarians and no You as well.

Pamfil Military Academy

No, almost half of them they are NOT. What mean to be russian peoples ? To have same culture ? In this case you probably are right only in non-artificial horizons. In Ukraine, from 30 years or so, the CIA constantly worked on changing this thing into the minds and behavior of the ukrops, and here are the results: they believe now to have different habits, different traditions, different language, etc. Even on religion, ruthenians are not orthodox. But because many of whom believe is ukrainian are orthodox they tolerate a form of orthodoxy. This till they will ban even that under the pretext of politically russian influence of orthodox Moscow patriarchate. I see on a medium run an west ukrop catholicism patronated by the catholic Poland. But when arrive on biology it can be said 100%; sure ruthenians and mostly west ukrops are not russians AT ALL. Russians are R1a and they are R1b. The more to the east of Ukraine the more R1a will be and viceversa. And I ALWAYS as a good connoisseur of DNA and related I can say with 100% precision that: blood is ticker than water !

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Pamfil Military Academy

I tend to see your point, and you have some reason. Thinking that sparring civilian lives in the eastern part of Dnipr have 2 major drawbacks: 1. Many of them are completely useless brainwashed ukropistan peoples. They will be never denazified or reeducated. Never ever. They are mostly teenagers and young adults until 30 years old on which the NLP (neuro linguistic programming) of the CIA PsyOps managed to weld the brain connections into an extremist mode of thinking, based on the fact that this peoples NEVER lived the PAST to make difference between things (but off course they don’t think theirs thinking is extremist, but, hey, that’s the fucking role of the NLP !). I computed that an the result was at least 1/3 of the population is in that category. 2. Sparing civilian lives means killing your own soldiers.

A logic deduction from those 2 points will heavily point to let this fucking strategy down. At least on the vital location on front. Calculate where 2/3 of the population had flew and level all the remaining presumable ones after previously alert them to enter underground. You will have, anyway, resistance and sabotage either with or without protecting civilians.

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Johan

There are still some 300 young women missing in the villages the ruski invaded is there a possibility they get as much attention as this Gonzales?

Tador

Very sad. I remember him from watching some of his videos. Perhaps he should have kept his location secret? I hope he gets free!

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Hey

He won’t, you can’t even imagine of what atrocities this ukro-nazis are capable. See what they did to own people.

denazification - not just a word game

No need to imagine. We’ve seen them bragging about them. Only one solution to their problem. It’s so obvious, no need for me to mention it.

Anonymous

War is not for entertaining.

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Muhammad your Prophet

I saw a massive moronic Russian convoy from Kiev to Chernobyl disappear. I heard that the morons who dug the trenches at Chernobyl’s radioactive forest are now at a Moscow hospital asking a nurse to scratch their balls.

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thoughtful

Some people who are evil look like they are without intelligence and look like rough animals. Those who have regular balanced features, intelligence, although of the evil kind which is very different from human intelligence, they have a beauty and those ones are DEADLY. Lucifer, the angel of light, through his rebellion became satan, the accuser and also the father and MASTER of deception. Though hideous, he can appear in forms which are attractive, angelic looking and with his deceptions and masquerades he is the master of disguise. He ,who was once the angel of light, he is extremely vain. A third of the angels in heaven were cast out in a war by the Holy Angels and St Michael. Here they prey on humanity like parasites. Sin and human sacrifice seems to give them power, especially abortion, child sacrifice and molestation. HOLY WATER should be sprayed all over Ukraine. You need the Priests to help.

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thoughtful

The children of Fatima SAW hell. They saw a beautiful woman with blond hair descend into hell for sins of the flesh. Her appearance changed and became hideous like a grotesque animal. Ho;y water sprayed with those DRONES and from helicopters, sprayed by us over the streets and homes, this WILL help! We need priests and prayer in this war. When evil lurking things are sprayed with Holy Water, it BURNS them.

GMC

Baby face Chile hasn’t even had to fight anyone – no scars on that baby face means he is a toy boy.

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Dr. Zeus

Psychopaths are very adept at getting someone else to do the fighting for them. Just look at Washington’s neocons for proof.

Erikassimo

It seems that slavic nationalists always end up the useful idiots of the British Empire :(

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Tugboat Annie

Someday, somebody is going to tow that troublesome island out to the middle of the Atlantic and sink it.

Patrick

Nobody hacked anything, they either kidnapped or killed him, took his phone and gained access to his accounts that way. Change the unlock code to whatever they deemed useful and spam his accounts with BS.

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mikael

Soooohoho, Lira is a Natzee, Il be dammed, or maybe a lizard, santa claudia, or just a poor 12 year old African girl, yup, why not, everything goes this days.

Our VG and the Nazees, do watch, its just one image but you will get the rest, its one of the most hillarious articles I have ever seen, reality beats fiction anygiventime. https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/MRmoLm/liseberg-sliter-med-uoenskede-nazihilsener

So, even SF dont like to talk about WHO is behind this, and just to show how low the NorDick nations have fallen, eh…. regarding the MSM ability to see Natzees everywhere, all the time, in any imaginary situation one can possibly think of, and belive me, the Sweds and the decapitaed “Vikings” are highly immaginative when it comes to delivering drivel, just like most of the HasbaRats and their union of units, aka Uhu whom with their stupidity makes questions about Bugs intellegence to an no brainer.

The Only place the NAZI actualy means what most talk about, is in AzkheNazi/s, the scum of this earth, the one owning D. Beast, the journalists like he above mentioned are Jews, their Voldemort Da Zees kingdom is run by Jews, and to their so called Natzees, groups teached, founded and armed by Jews whom in the Imperial banana republic is known as Jews and Neo-CONs, guids their bitches and the various groups, like the Jewish Kranken, I know, its their silly use of names, easy to spot who is who, idiots usualy arent able to change things, been Jews, to used to copy others that alone they expose them selfs, as just a Jew, the scum of this earth.

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Ronin

He knew the risks. Hope he didn’t have to suffer.

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Theo

Huge risks for no reason. I don’t understand how he expected to be safe in Kharkov among these degenerates…

SaharaWinds

The staff at US media website The Daily Beast are responsible for this kidnap and possible murder – they informed US agencies and Ukrainian SBU that there was an independent (non-NATO controlled) journalist working inside Kharkov.

Spread the word – The US Daily Beast media company is responsible for silencing an independent media operator, in another country, by directly informing on this journalist’s location in a dangerous conflict zone, and in full knowledge this would endanger his life, likely result in physical violence, if not torture and death for the journalist.

Thus is US MSM crossing over to becoming ACTIVELY involved in media and information suppression from war in Ukraine.

Fuck The Daily Beast, its Editor and writers who did this.

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The Daily Beast = The Nazi Beast

Hell, they’ve been ACTIVELY involved in media and information suppression for years. Now they’re actively involved in outright murder.

thoughtful

There was a link to a you tube clip and a silver car badly parked with blood on the ground, smashed glass and bullet holes in the car. A small group of locals were around the car recording it and they swept up the glass.

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MHC

This is concerning. I hope he’s ok. The fighting does reach parts of Kharkov. Perhaps he just doesn’t have cell service and he’s safe, just hiding out in a basement somewhere to avoid the shelling and conflict.

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Karl Wolfe

It would be nice to read about the elimination of this evil and self aggrandized piece of trash that went after the journalist. I suspect it’s only a matter of time. He won’t have that smirk when he gets to his final destination and discovers his Judgment.

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Wake up, fool

Judgment? capitalized? You think God supports Nazis? Man, you are way too far gone. Only one solution for you.

Hmmm

Didn’t he mean Chili and not Lira?

Karl Wolfe

The kgb was the secret police of the communist party that used to control the Soviet Union. It took the Russian People 75 years of abuse, torture and murder before they had endured enough suffering that the corrupt system controlling them was thrown into the dust bin of history where it belonged. Mr. Zelensky is nothing but a used piece of male ass that was passed around by the Powers That Be until they needed a Stooge to stand in while an elected government in Ukraine was overthrown. You should actually read a book once in a while so as to understand the corrupting nature of Bureaucracy and in particular bureaucracies that exist OUTSIDE the law of limited government such as was the intent of the Founders of the United States. 18 separate and distinct “intelligence agencies” exist in the US: NOT one of them did their DUTY to the previous president and informed him that the election was being stolen. It took an independent businessman to hire the technical people to go out and scientifically investigate and PROVE the illegal events that last election. Put your trust in bureaucracies accountable to nobody but themselves do you? They failed their own Commander in Chief: that’s called TREASON.

Ukraine, Land of Psychopaths

Obviously, someone’s fishing for who might be following or subscribed to Lira in Ukraine.

Tortured and dead or soon to be most likely. Chilean or US embassy couldn’t care less.

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Reality Knocks

Ukrainian Gestapo at work.

SAVAK Redux

Remember when the CIA and MI6 overthrew a democratically elected president of Iran by using criminal thugs to stir up a fake revolution, then ran the Shah’s Savak torture police for decades and how it finally triggered the Iranian revolution?

Grisly truth of Iran’s torture prisons revealed in new ….thesun.co.uk › news › 5062464 › iran-torture-prison-museum …..The ruthless SAVAK have been named as one of the root causes of the discontent that lead to the 1979 revolution

SBU/CIA/MI6 collusion is SAVAK on steroids

Remember Bucha!

Lira was on obvious russian spy…we all know what happens to spies who are caught during wartime, eh…?

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Hey, Thanks

I remember Bucha as yet another mark of Ukrainian atrocity on its own people for propaganda purposes. Thanks for reminding me to never forgive and never forget.

Gorgeous George

They will all be found, like the Chechen terror leaders

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Yamil Perez

Your CIAisis run EU standard liberal rapist cannibal headchopper Azovnaziss. Aka your friendly neighborhood nazis…

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waa

the daily beast tranny journo in ukraine doxxed him and same filth is now calling for patrick lancaster to be murdered, hooe that thing finds its karma .

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Johan

First the Moscow now the head propagandist sunk, Russia has no luck!

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RetardsInTheStateDepartment

Russia does not need any luck. They have to win. They will grind through this.

Nahavar

They are clearly winning and These morons ukro-friends can only cry 😁👌

Garga

As far as I followed the events, Gonzalo went dark since 15th. He was supposed to be on George’s MOAT but they couldn’t reach him and no one heard from him since. I pray for him every day. He shoved something into the hornets’ nest with his videos, specially the ones on Nuland and debunking some propaganda videos.

That being said, take your internet footprint very seriously. One of the gravest of mistakes is to remain online (and worst, broadcasting live) for an extended amount of time. We and others warned him not to do it and to skip live sessions, specially since he was exposing a regime that controlled his internet connection and certainly not bring any random guests and followers online. He did it anyway, he definitely is much more brave than I am.

Regarding the “hints” that NAZIs give us about the Coach, the bragging started 2-3 days after he went silent. I think these tweets and messages are opportunistic in nature and a reaction to the huge amount of concern the people who followed Gonzalo showed. With each passing day I’m more inclined to think they actually don’t have him otherwise they’d give a definitive hint to prove they have him since they are not shy to film their crimes at all. I’m sure they enjoy torturing people and wouldn’t miss an opportunity to do it to more than 150k of people in one go. If they had him, there was no need to create fake accounts at all. But some sent messages to him show double-check marks, I don’t know what to make of it. :(

Maybe that’s just me refusing to accept a harsh reality. I know he planned in advance for such an outcome and hope to see him well and healthy again.

And about the newer videos, there’s nothing new (after his live with Scott Ritter) on the channel he created specifically in YouTube for the Ukraine-related issues (Gonzalo Lira).

PS. I definitely won’t feed the trolls. Please consider doing so, at least if any troll replied to me. Thank you.

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mike brown

Sad day for good people

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