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For Kyiv, it's the only way to guarantee the country's future survival, against a rapacious Russian enemy bent on subjugating Ukraine.

Or, as John Huston’s rapacious tycoon Noah Cross says in “Chinatown,” “Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they’re capable of anything.”

“The jokes about the United CEO aren’t really about him,” journalist Ken Klippenstein posted on X. “They’re about the rapacious healthcare system he personified and which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation about.”

Despite Zelensky’s frequently passionate insistence that only membership of the Western alliance can ensure Ukraine’s survival against its large, rapacious neighbour, it’s clear Nato members remain divided on the issue.

However, this hasn’t stopped rapacious real estate interests from pursuing indiscriminate development which poses a threat to wetlands.