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California’s leaders have already begun preparing a counteroffensive to Trump’s policy aims.

It’s a proactive counteroffensive, built on showing that democratic alternatives exist and can work both to identify and solve real problems, and to bring people together.

Its capture will hamper any swift attempt by Assad and his allies to launch a counteroffensive against rebel gains of the past week.

In the first few months of the war the front line moved quickly, with Russia gaining ground quickly before being pushed back by a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

It was here in 2023, on this south-eastern part of the front line, where Ukraine launched a counteroffensive it hoped would force out the Russian invaders.