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It’s time to give Russia hell — even Laura Loomer thinks so

Everybody loves a redemption arc, and Laura Loomer’s abrupt reversal on the war in Ukraine may prove particularly rewarding.

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Everybody loves a redemption arc, and Laura Loomer’s abrupt reversal on the war in Ukraine is a particularly rewarding one.

In the days, weeks, months and even years following Russia’s unprovoked invasion, Loomer — a popular MAGA influencer and far-right conspiracy theorist — joined a majority of her peers in assailing Ukraine, its leader and its American supporters.

In no uncertain terms, too.

Loomer had described Ukraine as “a country full of Nazi apologists,” cast doubt on the ghastly civilian casualty count it’s suffered and lambasted President Volodymyr Zelensky both a “fake Jew” and a “Jihadi apologist.”

Yet on Thursday, she conducted an amiable interview of Zelensky during her first-ever visit to the war-torn nation.

And by the time she sat down with her ex-punching bag, she’d undergone a laudable change of heart.

“Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is every day for every Ukrainian,” she marveled on Tuesday.

Even more impressively, she had admitted to — and apologized for — amplifying destructive Russian........

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