See there is no war in Ba Sing Se on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2022 December 16, Andy Golder, “23 Screenshots Of People Being Wrong, Wrong, Wrong In 2022”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2022-12-29:",
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