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Children should never be weapons of war. Yet, in the 21st century, before the eyes of the entire world, Russia is systematically <\/span>abducting<\/span><\/a> Ukrainian children, erasing their identities, and turning them into little Russians, while the West collectively shrugs. And now, to make the irony even greater, Elon Musk has decided to financially cut off those working to bring them home. This is not just another decision by a billionaire. This is not one of his whims, like renaming Twitter or pumping Dogecoin. This is complicity in one of the most insidious war crimes of our time \u2013 the systematic theft of children, an act that amounts to nothing less than genocide.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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