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As Russia's invasion of Ukraine drags

  As Russia's invasion of Ukraine drags  on, the Russian military is low on ammunition and other equipment , and Putin will likely be seeking from Kim a weapons deal to bolster front-line supplies, US officials told The New York Times last week.  Putin, like Kim, is now a global pariah, subject to an international arrest warrant over war crimes in Ukraine and only able to count on a dwindling number of allies as he seeks to tackle Russia's spiraling economic and military woes. Kim will likely drive a hard bargain in providing Putin with the weapons and support he needs, and it's a situation of mounting concern to the US and its regional allies who've imposed elaborate sanctions over decades to isolate North Korea.
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All this fit into a handmade camper shell I found at the last-minute, on Craigslist.

  All this fit into a handmade camper shell I found at the last-minute, on Craigslist.  I cut a three-quarter-inch piece of plywood to size and lay it over the wheel wells as a makeshift sleeping platform. Like a coffin. As I drive I listen to the ultimate overlanding novel, As I Lay Dying, in which the progeny of a deceased matriarch build a coffin and, with her corpse inside, hitch it to a wagon, and venture overland to her desired burial ground. They get knocked into the river and the wagon capsizes, but they keep going. I took the Old National Highway, the first transcontinental road, through the Midwest. Each day I drove till sundown , then started looking for a suitable place to camp, limiting my stops to State Parks and National Forests. It had been a minute since I’d lived on the road like this. In 2014, at age 23, I tried to walk across the country.  I walked for a hundred days, from Philly to Colorado. I had a paper atlas—no smartphone. I’d walk till dark each d...
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