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Three hundred and fifty-five seats. Whatever that was, it certainly wasn't the end. It was just the beginning.


Within days of the vote, the bill arrived. A stealth tariff pushes the cost of missed drone strikes straight onto domestic electricity bills. Kapotnya refinery goes 100% offline. The Baltic states quietly reshape their entire nuclear posture while Brussels trades oligarch sanctions for political favors.


And then, the vault door cracked: leaked chats between Mikhail Babich and Dmitry Peskov reveal the inner elite acknowledging that the mutineers were right, the President is hiding in courtyards, and the war is a catastrophic disaster they can only admit in private. Meanwhile, collaborator Oleg Tsaryov panics on camera because Ukraine's legal front is locking down hundreds of billions in frozen assets. They made a desert, and now the invoice has landed on the table.


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