Global WAR BULLETIN: Lithuania's Forbidden Love

Dantenie83May 26, 2026politics

Or How One Country Turned War Era Into a Discord Therapy Session

Well, well, well. What do we have here? It's been a while since the last Romanian War Bulletin (*ahem* - slight promotion https://app.warera.io/article/69a9cf6f2f4cc5cb50dc3a51). Some of you probably thought our Government retired, touched grass, found peace, maybe even opened a small bakery somewhere far away from https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b2 occupation, global politics and 3AM pings :Freaky:.

WRONG!

Today I return with a masterpiece (and MEMES)! A tale of power, paranoia, ego, manipulation, proxy warfare, Discord schizophrenia, and one nation's absolutely terminal obsession with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868. This is not simply about battles anymore. This is about a country that climbed to the top of the game and slowly transformed from a respected rising power into a geopolitical equivalent of that one nerdy kid from class that reminds the teacher about homework while threatening to report everyone for breathing incorrectly.

Yes, today we are talking about https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 (they are already here).

And before anyone starts screaming in the comment section: nobody is denying https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's achievements. Everyone can admit that https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 played the game perfectly during its rise. They built an extremely strong foundation by keeping Russian cores. At the time, this strategy worked brilliantly. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 understood something before most nations did: propaganda wins wars before damage ever does, and propaganda made by your enemy is even better.

Here are some examples:

  1. https://app.warera.io/article/699c9b5c08b4a18281ab9455

  2. https://app.warera.io/article/699b13e8e4612480a5800909 (this guy https://app.warera.io/user/690a7b86f5d1a17d8dc4f44d cooked a lot, but he is gone now)

  3. https://app.warera.io/article/698615c01ec07e3038ca7b97

  4. https://app.warera.io/article/6980b0b619decffdc78515d8

  5. https://app.warera.io/article/697b895c6222a3aecb773c5e

  6. https://app.warera.io/article/69777ad7e06697135dc0991f

  7. https://app.warera.io/article/6962a32d4731ec7d73e940fb

  8. https://app.warera.io/article/6962874d713ec85ac66e7d28

  9. https://app.warera.io/article/6917544d35183e71e57c9c52

  10. https://app.warera.io/article/6913bb818d8a6e73bbcf338e

  11. https://app.warera.io/article/697336763e53c14ef97f21d1

  12. + lots of other articles deleted by admins :AngryDys:.

Some people caught on, but were outnumbered:

  1. https://app.warera.io/article/695164f89425e0d08e94ad9b

  2. https://app.warera.io/article/6951127df49d536da409e2cb

We all know how their articles flooded the game, how their diplomacy spread everywhere. Their influence grew daily. They built connections with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ae and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7c0, securing themselves a comfortable geopolitical fortress where they could expand while others fought among themselves like starving raccoons in an alley.

Meanwhile https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 evolved into something far more dangerous than a strong nation: a nation that no longer needed to fight personally.

This is the important part.

Right now https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 barely even has to lift a finger. Their allies do the fighting, their satellites do the dirty work (looking at you https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f1f), and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 itself sits comfortably behind layers of protection like a Discord emperor overseeing the chaos from a golden throne made entirely out of diplomatic immunity and "technically we didn't hit you directly".

And honestly? Respect. At least at first.

Because somewhere along the road, success started cooking their brains.



DISCLAIMER

I, https://app.warera.io/user/6840719c83d6e0c62c8d1fb3, was allowed by each individual country mentioned in this article to use any content from our conversations in this article.

https://app.warera.io/user/68bd9fdcff1aafdf90e77875, our current Minister of Foreign Affairs, has made a public statement to our citizens and has granted permission to use it in this article regardless of the origin of the materials used.


THEME SONG :POGGERS:


With great power comes great responsibility. At least that is what normal people think. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 instead looked at great power and decided to become Walter White halfway through the season five of Breaking Bad. The transformation was incredible. Once a struggling country to survive, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 has become a giant obsessed with controlling everyone around them while acting offended whenever anyone dares question their authority.

I think everyone remembers this gem of an article https://app.warera.io/article/699b6cbfb232a1efdeac74dc, where our dear cheater friend https://app.warera.io/user/688f86d2d672278e5d1bbfde (rent free) effectively went around warning everyone to stay away from "his region". the message was clear: do not interfere with https://app.warera.io/user/688f86d2d672278e5d1bbfde's interests or they will show you a "demonstration of their reach".

In https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 we have a saying: "nu te băga în ciorba mea" - which translates to "stay out of my soup".

Recently, I've upgraded it to: "nu te băga in sufleul meu" or "don't mess with my soufflé".

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8, however, took this concept to another level. they started knocking on every country's door screaming about flies in their soup while threatening to burn down the restaurant if someone accidentally used Russian seasoning.

And nowhere was this more obvious than with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b.


(https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 discovers https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b has opinions.)

Back on 2nd of May, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 declared war on https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b after https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b showed support to B.E.E.R. (https://app.warera.io/article/69e11f2aaa6debb518383510) and especially their help during revolts. The reaction from https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 was honestly incredible to witness. They were absolutely furious. Threats started flying everywhere, insults followed shortly after, and suddenly https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b found itself on the receiving end of the Baltic Empire's emotional support artillery (https://app.warera.io/article/69f5a079478cd18ee0badf77).

But here's the funniest part.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 declared war... and then mostly stood there menacingly.

No massive invasion. No catastrophic offensive. No world-ending military operation. The declaration itself functioned more like a giant glowing sign saying:

Remember, we can ruin your day whenever we want.

Essentially geopolitical psychological warfare mixed with passive aggressive Discord energy.

Yet https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b refused to bend (https://app.warera.io/article/69f5d44b2d9dcc316a76667a).

Even after provocations and threats, support for B.E.E.R. never stopped. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b's President, https://app.warera.io/user/6961bf65713ec85ac61ad951, openly stated that attempts to communicate with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 immediately devolved into provocations and intimidation. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b reached out diplomatically and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 responded like a League of Legends player who just lost the lane.

And honestly, respect to https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b for that. Because at some point intimidation stops working when the other side realizes the giant empire screaming at them is basically just terminally online.


https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6's relationship with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 deserves its own documentary.

For the longest time the relationship remained unofficially neutral because of the mediation done by https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ba. We did not attack them, they did not directly attack us, and despite existing in different alliances there was always an understanding that open conflict was unnecessary. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 even attempted a few times to formalize relations through a Non-Aggression Pact.

However, every attempt was refused.

That should have been the first red flag.

During the last war https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 started dealing damage both against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 (https://app.warera.io/battle/69d612c47e4b6a4f6d5613e7) and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac85c (https://app.warera.io/battle/69cc4fcdc6be9203a31790f5).

Not catastrophic numbers compared to https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's total damage output, but enough to raise eyebrows. When https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 contacted them regarding the attacks, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 attempted to justify the damage as "not really attacks against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6".

Which is absolutely HILARIOUS!

Apparently if you hit Turkish battles connected to Romanian interests with millions of damage, it magically doesn't count anymore. Incredible diplomacy technology :Clap:.

But the moment https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 reminded https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 that they also had uprisings (non-core by the way + defending another country from occupation) and vulnerabilities of their own, the orders suddenly disappeared faster than accountability in the embassy.

Then came the threats.

And oh boy, the threats.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 offered https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 multiple ways to settle the damage issue peacefully. Instead of discussion, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 immediately began treating https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 like peasants standing before an emperor. The tone completely changed. Suddenly it was more like "you can't touch us", "buzz off", "know your place" type of discussion.

Even now, since March, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 sits at only 350k dealt against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 spread across 10+ battles (with no more than 100k in a single battle) according to https://toolbox.warera.wiki/damageTracker?country=6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6&from=2026-02-28T22%3A00Z&to=2026-05-26T17%3A09Z .

(Average Lithuanian diplomatic conversation)

The funniest part is that https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 genuinely seemed shocked whenever anyone resisted this behavior.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac85c eventually eventually started retaliating against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 for previous damage (those guys sure do pack a punch) and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 once again reacted as if the laws of physics themselves had been violated. Threats escalated immediately. Tens of millions of damage were mentioned. Entire conversations sounded less like diplomacy and more like a school bully discovering other people are allowed to punch back.


Then we arrive at the greatest comedy arc in modern War Era politics: the proxy argument.

According to https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac85c was a Romanian proxy. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 was secretly orchestrating everything. Every retaliation somehow traces back to Bucharest (https://app.warera.io/region/696a81f5882256e1db118208). Meanwhile https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac85c repeatedly stated they were acting independently, but apparently that no longer mattered because https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 had already written the script in their heads.

What does https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac85c have to say about this? They been mentioned a lot in the Romanian server and how they might affect our foreign policy in the future. https://app.warera.io/user/686c6d8fbe1cef5842840efe however has a different view for https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac85c, a country where they can pill with alliance, sworn, and orders without suffering from the inefficiency of the https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6n Government (sorry we can't pass laws in 0.00001 seconds so that you can pick mercenary contracts). https://app.warera.io/mu/6873f123ad05f3637920645e has slowly converted into a semi-mercenary Military Units to keep up their number one spot into the Total Damages Ranking.

At the same time https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 was perfectly comfortable using "independent" countries like https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f1f to attack https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 while maintaining plausible deniability.

Now this is where the story becomes art.

Lithuanian and Polish players were heavily involved inside https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f1f. https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f1f dealt around ten million damage against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 across multiple battles (https://app.warera.io/battle/69b623098b78d77c48a266e6, https://app.warera.io/battle/69e5b2a7d2db7201f19aa3e2, https://app.warera.io/battle/69f2ca81a9495f4b8e40c2ba, https://app.warera.io/battle/69fc4a07ebe41b87c5d2c13f, https://app.warera.io/battle/6a052cf1cebe23010064c92e), supporting Turkish and Bulgarian interests. When asking https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ae if their players from https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f1f represent https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ae, the answer from https://app.warera.io/user/682f1183b3bbff72427dafb2 (President) was of course: "nope".

Of course https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f1f is independent.

And I suppose the fact that members of Sierra Leone were present in the Lithuanian and Polish embassy channels was just a miraculous coincidence created by divine intervention.

https://app.warera.io/user/696140fccc472666cbd5d1cd:

https://app.warera.io/user/6844719389c36412e15fbdf8:

Diplomacy at its finest:

Our proxies are sovereign nations. Your independent allies are evil puppets.

At this point even conspiracy theorists were taking notes.



https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2's story was slightly different because https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 actually respected https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 for some time (not anymore I guess). https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 had valuable strategic position and mutual allies through https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7c0 and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7e2 (well, you know what happened to them). There was diplomacy. There were agreements. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 even promised not to attack https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 despite https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 maintaining questionable alliances from https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's perspective.

Even if https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 was respectful, it was still only considered a "front".

But then https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 once again encountered its greatest weakness:

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 questioned https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's alliances with countries praising a specific and controversial historical figure while https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 selectively ignored similar behavior from their own allies (if you didn't see this amazing article from https://app.warera.io/user/682787e1a3cf9ba485f027b9 yet, go check it out -> https://app.warera.io/article/69daff07f769d327a17fd156). Suddenly principles became flexible depending on who was involved.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 eventually broke their alliance with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac832 not because of the ideology itself, but specifically because someone praised https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868.

There it was again.

The forbidden love.

Even after investigations exposed multiple countries engaging in questionable ideological behavior, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 openly brushed concerns aside. But mention https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 positively once and suddenly DEFCON levels increased globally.

(censored - again :Badday:)

(my honest reaction after reading that: :WHAT:)

(for our enemies in the comment section that were already prepared to mention https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac858)

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 later helped https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7aa defend its cores and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 immediately started threatening https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 as well. Promises not to attack https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 slowly evaporated. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 still placed damage orders against Swedish interests even after previous assurances.

At one point Lithuania openly admitted they only provide minimal support to allies just to keep them satisfied.

Which honestly explains half the map.

The relationship finally collapsed into open manipulation accusations. Even Swedish players themselves concluded:

And once you notice the pattern, you can never unsee it again (https://app.warera.io/battle/6a132605a63e5cbd8db67e59).


https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7aa suffered from the terrible crime of existing near someone https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 disliked.

That was enough.

https://app.warera.io/user/6878f3592bdf9a42b590de26 openly threatened https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7aa with a wipe and the message sat there publicly for months like a museum exhibit titled "Healthy Community Interaction".

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 supported https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7aa and immediately received pressure themselves. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's geopolitical doctrine had become painfully simple:

  • support https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 in-game = threat;

  • support someone who supports https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 in-game = threat;

  • breathe near someone who once waved at https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 in an article = also threat;

At this point the entire game started resembling a medieval church hunting heretics.



And then there is https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8.

Ah yes, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8.

According to https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's version of history, Spain suddenly allied https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 for absolutely no reason whatsoever because they woke up one morning and chose chaos.

Reality is slightly more awkward.

Before https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8 supported https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 in their revolts, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 had already dropped 11 million damage against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8 in https://app.warera.io/battle/6979ae95a4bd5df1566815f8 (created at 2026-01-28T06:37:09.689Z and ended at 2026-01-28T21:48:33.100Z)while defending one of their closest allies, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7e5.

11 million damage :Freaky:.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8 retaliated shortly after in https://app.warera.io/battle/697c6a00138245cae575b136 (created at 2026-01-30T08:21:20.175Z and ended at 2026-01-30T20:53:02.420Z)with ~1.42 million damage.

And somehow https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 acted shocked.

Absolutely flabbergasted.

As if https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8 had committed an unimaginable betrayal instead of responding to a giant Baltic sledgehammer crashing through their front door two days earlier.

The timeline completely destroys https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's public narrative. The conflict with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8 already existed before. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 only started screaming about https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 because it was a far easier propaganda tool than admitting:

We hit them first and they hit back.

Which, ironically, is exactly what https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 accuses everyone else of doing.


Lastly, let's not forget about https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82f. I think we all know what type of relation https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82f have, so I won't dig more into that. TLDR; friends and allies

The situation between https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82f and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 can be resumed to a single meme (I'll let you decide which one is which):

There are also a lot of conversations between https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82f and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 which honestly made my last active braincell go 🥀 and gave me depression.

Here are some pictures (with lots of censoring):

Congrats for https://app.warera.io/user/6824b6274be653808ea579b3 for being such a man and not answering their ragebait.

Eventually https://app.warera.io/user/6998fbf5abdf5405eddf98db took over as the new President of https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82f and made an agreement to not support https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 in exchange for a ceasefire with https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f1f (NOT A NAP).

This looks a lot like unaccountability, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 left its options open without making a proper deal. This pattern has been used in the past with https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 too.


At this point the conclusion becomes impossible to avoid.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 does not actually care about consistency, neutrality, or even in-game evidence whenever https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 enters the conversation. The moment someone mentions https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868, everything else disappears. Context disappears. Timelines disappear. Previous aggression disappears. Suddenly every action becomes morally justified because the sacred anti-https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868doctrine must be protected at all costs.

And the funniest part?

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 itself barely even exists anymore.

They lost most of their players after months of bullying, some left the country, or are barely participating. Yet https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 treats every interaction involving https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 like the final battle between good and evil.

The obsession became so extreme that countries eventually got wiped to quench https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8's thirst for ego.

They resisted because they were tired of https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 acting like the supreme moderator of human thought.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac80b resisted.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 resisted.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7aa resisted.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8 resisted.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b6 resisted.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82f resisted.

Even after wipes, threats, and diplomatic tantrums, countries still pushed back because people stop fearing the giant empire and start laughing at it instead.

And once people start laughing?

The aura is gone.

How I view https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 now:

(imagine I had to censor this meme because of some snowflakes)

(For good measure)

(Tribute to the people who keep calling me g*psy in the comment section and getting their comments deleted by admins)


DON'T MESS WITH MY SOUFFLÉ!

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