And the Good evening. It's Monday, June 24th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,

our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM

Eastern exclusively here on rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight

very little attention is paid these days to the war in Ukraine.

Remember that?

That would be, I suppose, someone understandable if the war were static or had

become a frozen conflict or were in some kind of retreat or were winding down but none of that is happening.

The opposite is from the perspective of escalatory risk between the United States and Russia,

who just happened to be the nations

with the two world's largest nuclear stockpiles,

the war in Ukraine is more dangerous today than ever.

That's what makes the relative indifference toward it, the silence about it,

so mystifying and so dangerous. Three weeks ago, the Biden administration announced that

it was lifting restrictions on the use of

US-applied weapons to strike inside Russia on Russian soil.

Over the weekend a horrific air strike launched by Ukraine, which the Russians insist was carried out with U.S. weapons,

took place on a beach inside of Crimea, which Russia has governed since the U.S. supported

coup in Kiev in 2014 and whose residents are

overwhelmingly Russian with far more allegiance to Moscow than to Kiev the strike

aimed at a beach popular among area residents killed at least four people and

injured at least 150 more including many children.

The reaction from the highest levels of the Russian government was as clear as it was ominous.

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