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49 - IF NOT PEACE, THEN WW3 · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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You are listening to a Fonz Media Network production.
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Hello World of Blaze listeners and welcome to episode 49.
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And I am recording on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
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I apologize for the late releases.
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I was under the weather, a bit sick for damn near 10 days or so.
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In fact, my voice is still recovering.
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It wasn't anything life-threatening.
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It was just some weird cold slash flu that wasn't a flu.
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Not sure what it was, but either way, it knocked out my voice and really a lot of my energy level.
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So here I am back.
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And I also want to, well, wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving.
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I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, whether you were celebrating in America or if you were in the military deployed overseas or if you were just abroad visiting friends and family.
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Wherever you celebrated Thanksgiving, I hope that you had time to really appreciate your friends and your family and you had a great day.
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And I also want to bring a few other things up in regard to the show.
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Now, as far as this show is concerned, if you're a first-time listener, hang in there
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with me.
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You're going to get to know a little bit about us, about me, maybe even the entire
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Fonts Media Network.
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Now, this show in and of itself is not far left.
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We're not far right, but I do absolutely lean more right than left.
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And if that right there already triggers you and you got to sign off, well, have a good
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day.
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Now, if you could hang in there, you're going to hear things that most others don't talk
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about.
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We do go over geopolitical issues, basically what's going on around the world and how it affects all players involved.
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Of course, we do focus on what's happening with the U.S., but you're going to hear that.
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And yes, I will talk about Republicans.
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We'll talk about Democrats.
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We'll talk about policy.
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We'll talk about politics in America in general and our relationships with other countries, especially those on our border.
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I'll say things you may not like.
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I may say things you do like.
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But regardless, I'm just going to tell the truth.
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And I always have told the truth based on the data and information available at the time of my recordings.
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And as you know, information is forever changing as more things are revealed and or people just change their minds and their positions.
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With all that being said and out of the way, thanks for hanging in.
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Thanks for listening.
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I do want to say that we have climbed the charts on Apple in politics.
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we have achieved the rank of number 75 in the top 200 in politics on the Apple charts.
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Now, put that in perspective.
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Look, at any given moment, any given day, there's 3.2 million active podcasts.
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And just in the politics category alone on Apple, not all players, but on Apple,
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there is, I believe, anywhere between 16,000 to 20,000 podcasts that are just in the politics category.
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Now, our current rank as of this recording on November 29th, our rank at 75 puts us ahead
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of some fairly big podcasts compared to us, well, according to the podcast world.
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But we are ahead of, well, Jen Psaki.
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Inside with Jen Psaki, she's ranked at number 97.
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The Stu Peter Show is ranked at 105.
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Monica Crowley Podcast is at number 112.
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and Robert Reich is at number 127.
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And we are ahead of him at number 75 in politics on Apple Podcasts.
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And I think that's amazing because we are independent.
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Look, I have no big sponsors, no big backers, no money, no donors, none of that.
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I'm just telling the truth.
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I'm putting it out there and you're responding and you're listening.
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And I really thank every one of you.
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And with all that out of the way, let's move on with the show.
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So a lot has happened.
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And the big thing everyone's still talking about, because it seems like it's getting more,
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I don't know, dangerous by the day.
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It's the Russia-Ukraine situation.
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The Russia-Ukraine situation.
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Because Putin, as I've already discussed in my previous episode, number 48, with Kervin
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Okwin, who came on to help shed some light on the tensions and the situation going on
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over there right now.
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But Putin already threatened to use nuclear weapons in response to Biden telling Ukraine
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it's okay to use USA-made weapons, specifically attack-ems that were given to Ukraine.
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Now, right after Biden gave the green light, the UK and France stepped in and said, you
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know what?
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We're going to let you use our weapons as well.
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Weapons that we manufacture.
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Go ahead, just use them.
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And this gave Ukraine the ability to strike Russian territories within Russia itself before
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Ukraine didn't have this.
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So Putin responded saying, hey, look, we're going to use nuclear weapons if we have to.
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And he even said that we're going to view this as the West being directly involved in
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the fight.
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even though we're not physically there.
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He stated that he will view the US, France, Germany, UK,
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whoever it is, as being directly involved.
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Now, as far as the threat of nuclear weapons,
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Kriven and I discussed that, well, it doesn't seem feasible
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that Putin would actually use nuclear weapons
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because it's not good for anybody.
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A nuclear war, I mean, let's be honest, nobody wins.
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And even if you have a strategic nuclear missile
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there's no way to really control the fallout of that weapon. There's a chance it could spread
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over into NATO borders. We're talking like Poland, for example. And now we are involved
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due to a NATO Article 5 situation. Everybody just comes together and here we go, World War III. And
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that's not what we want. And regardless of all that, we don't think that's going to happen.
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So what Putin did though, what Putin did in response to this was he launched an attack on Ukraine.
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Ukraine launched an attack on Russia using attackums.
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And while they did launch against Russia, they didn't hit any major territories.
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They pretty much just focused on military bases or military installations.
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And that was a good thing because we didn't see Ukraine attack any civilians.
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Now, if they did, we might be having a different discussion right now.
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But Russia did respond.
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And so President Vladimir Putin, he went ahead, and I believe it was on November 21st.
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I'm not sure if that was the actual date of the attack or if that is when he made the announcement.
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but he did admit to launching an attack on a military facility in Ukraine using a long-range
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weapon. Well, I believe it was a long-range or a medium-range weapon, but regardless,
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it was a new weapon, a new missile that hasn't been used before, specifically a hypersonic missile.
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Now, with this hypersonic missile, and I believe it's called the Oreshnik,
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I believe that is what they're naming this, or at least that's what Russia is naming this.
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It's very scary.
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It's very scary to think of because of its capabilities.
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The use of this weapon really makes it to where you don't need to use a nuclear warhead
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or a nuclear weapon because this Oreshnik, this hypersonic weapon that Russia has in
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its possession and already has used against Ukraine, has the ability to travel at super
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high speeds.
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And I'm talking between Mach 10 and up to Mach 12.
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Okay, so that's literally 10 to 12 times the speed of sound.
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That is crazy.
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That also means that it is a super hard weapon to intercept and defend against.
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The other thing that's crazy about this weapon is it can or does carry six individual warheads as its payload.
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So once it gets to its target, it could then go ahead and launch these six individual warheads,
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which from my understanding can be targeted to six different targets itself.
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So it can launch, hit six different positions or six different targets.
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What's scary about what has just happened with this attack that Putin has admitted to
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launching against Ukraine and effectively destroyed Ukraine military targets is that this particular attack didn even have any actual warheads that would be considered
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I don't know, dangerous. Like there wasn't any explosive warheads. There weren't any nuclear
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warheads. Nothing like that was in this particular missile that he launched. But the kinetic energy,
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The kinetic energy and force, due to the speed of this Sureshnik, due to the speed of this hypersonic missile and the ability to deliver its six-warhead payload, the kinetic force alone was enough to destroy these military bases that were underground.
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And it's scary.
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There's videos out there that if you watch it, this thing actually looks like a comet.
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That's how fast this thing is flying.
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It looks like a comet.
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Some have called it an angel of death, the comet of death,
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and it makes a horrific sound as it's flying through the air.
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So with this capability alone,
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and the ability to strategically target and control the damage and fallout,
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Putin doesn't even have to threaten nuclear weapons whatsoever.
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He doesn't even have to use them.
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Because if he was able to achieve this damage
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without even having a warhead that had any explosives on it,
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imagine what would happen if he did load this thing with explosives.
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The damage would be devastating.
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The damage would be devastating.
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There would be just about nothing you can do.
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Now, in response to Russia's use of the Oresnik or the hypersonic missile,
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it has been reported that Biden is considering giving Ukraine nuclear weapons
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as a deterrent against Russia.
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It's been reported by the New York Times that several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden
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could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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That would be an instant and enormous deterrent.
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But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications.
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Well, of course it will.
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It'll have very serious implications because it would mean that the U.S. is an antagonist
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and trying to push this conflict into a nuclear war
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and that the U.S. is in full support of going to a war with nuclear capabilities
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and possibly even starting World War III.
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Now, if Putin was able to attack Ukraine with an Oreschnik or hypersonic missile
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and delivered the strategic damage that he did not using any explosive warheads,
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What do you think is going to happen once he arms this weapon or this missile with, well, explosive warheads?
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What do you think is going to happen?
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It's going to be devastating.
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Here's a perfect example of what could happen.
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Russia's new hypersonic missile, and this has just been reported by BRICS News,
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but it goes on to say that Russia's new hypersonic missile, Oreshnik, comes equipped with an extremely powerful thermal warhead
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that burns at 4,000 degrees Celsius.
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That's hot enough to vaporize concrete,
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destroy even the most hardened military hardware,
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and even melt steel beams.
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Steel melts at 1,500 degrees Celsius
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and aluminum at 600 degrees Celsius.
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Now think about that.
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Think about that.
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If it's hot enough to melt concrete, aluminum, and steel,
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and it can be maintained
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without the fallout of a nuclear warhead,
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This makes the Oreshnik an extremely invaluable weapon and an extremely dangerous weapon.
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And again, it can carry six warheads.
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And the damn missile flies at Mach 10 or even up to Mach 12.
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So do you think Russia is really that worried about USA-made attackums or even French or
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German-made armaments at this point?
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Not really.
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but as I stated earlier, the only response by the U.S. is to give Ukraine back its nuclear
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weapons it once had before the fall of the Soviet Union. Now, what do the other world powers think
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about this situation? I honestly am wondering, where's China in all this? China is one of
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Russia's biggest supporters. Why? Well, they're both communists. They're both part of the same
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team with China being the leader of that team currently. But China has been a little hands-off
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in the situation. I don't think they wanted to get super involved because China's trying,
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they're trying to change direction. They're trying to change their public appearance,
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so to speak, by being a mediator and negotiator of peace and funding different countries with
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currencies so that they can get things done. Of course, almost anything that China gets involved
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with is really for the benefit of China. But regardless, China doesn't want to be viewed as
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an enemy of the world. So with that being said, China finally spoke up and China really wants
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everybody to, well, cool their jets a bit. Let's stop talking about all this nuclear confrontation
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because they know it's bad for everybody. Another BRICS News report here. China says
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all parties must remain calm and exercise restraint following Ukraine's use of US and UK
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supplied missiles to strike Russia. China's stance of encouraging all parties to de-escalate
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the situation and commit to a political resolution of the Ukraine crisis remains unchanged. China will
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continue to play a constructive role in these regards. So China themselves doesn't want to see
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nuclear war. But they're also not saying they're ever going to really get involved. Now, as far as
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nuclear weapons are concerned, while the Biden administration has said that they've considered
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giving back Ukraine these nuclear weapons, I haven't seen anything that confirms that they
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actually did give Ukraine back their nuclear weapons. I'm sure that, look, the Biden team,
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regardless of what you think of Biden, like he's on his way out, he's done, but I don't believe
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he's stupid enough to give Zelensky nuclear weapons at that point. Because I don't believe
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that Zelensky is restrained enough to understand that you can't use nuclear weapons. You just can't.
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It's not going to be good for the world whatsoever. So while these reports and these claims have come
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out, it's still bad that it was said. It's still bad that the reports were even out there for the
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public to read anyway. Because if we can read it, then you for sure as hell know that every other
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world leader already has this information well before we even see it. So these statements are
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dangerous to make. And I get it. I get it. You're trying to alleviate the situation, but
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threatening nuclear war is not the way to do it. Now, we can talk about allies for a second here,
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because while Russia will see the UK and Germany and France and the USA as being directly involved
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by supporting the Ukraine with weapons made by said countries.
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Have we all forgotten that Russia also has allies?
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Listen, Iran has been supporting Russia
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and their efforts against the Ukraine since the beginning.
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Iran has been an ally of Russia for quite some time.
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Now, I don't understand that relationship
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because Iran is an Islamic state.
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Currently, they believe in ruling the entire world
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and converting the world to Islam.
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And Russia is a Catholic faith-based nation.
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And so I'm not sure how those two partnerships
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even come together.
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But regardless, as of now,
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they're supporting each other.
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And then North Korea.
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Now, I already reported that North Korea was involved
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back in October.
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I was ahead of the major news media outlets in America
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actually confirming this.
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But I already reported on this.
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And I already said that they had deployed over 10,000 troops
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and now everyone else is finally admitting,
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oh yeah, yeah, yeah, North Korea sent 10,000 troops.
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But more recently, they are now finding that North Koreans
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are taking casualties over there in the war against Ukraine.
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They are on the front lines and fighting in support of Russia
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in their efforts against Ukraine.
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So we have allies involved on the Russian side.
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Russia is using weapons from various different allies themselves.
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Yet it's not okay for any other nation to support Ukraine against Russia's blatant attempt to take the land and subjugate its people under Putin's rule.
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Very hypocritical, but what else would you expect from Vladimir Putin, who's hell-bent on returning Russia to its former glory?
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Basically he wants to reinvent or put back into place the old Soviet Union which includes him claiming territories that broke away from the Soviet Union during its fall Putin wants to leave a legacy behind and he wants to be known for reuniting the Soviet Union Now getting back to Russia allies that are involved in supporting their
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efforts, let's talk about North Korea. Recent reports say that they've lost around 500 soldiers
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already on the front lines. And as far as North Korea's involvement goes, you have to question
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how long they're going to stay in the fight in supporting Russia.
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Because North Korea hasn't been battle-tested in quite some time.
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They have not been involved in any major conflicts for years.
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And their military would really kind of be considered young
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due to the fact that there really hasn't been any action for them.
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And it's been said that maybe North Korea sent troops out there to get a bit of experience for whatever they're planning next.
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But the reality is this.
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They were a little forced into this because Russia, let's just be honest.
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North Korea needs two major allies to survive.
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They need Russia and they need China.
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North Korea doesn't support themselves in one of the most basic human needs there is,
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and that is food.
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Russia supports North Korea with so much food.
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We're talking grains, you name it.
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If it wasn't for Russia, North Korea would more than likely be starved out by now.
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And I know China also supports North Korea in this, but without Russia's contribution,
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North Korea would be in dire straits when it comes to food.
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And their citizens are already starving
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because most of those supplies from Russia and from China
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end up just going to Kim Jong-un and his family
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and his military and his supporters politically,
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not to his citizens.
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Their citizens are weak and malnutritioned and starved
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and not in a position to even oppose this dictator, Kim Jong-un.
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But with all of that information, North Korea was in a bind.
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As Russia was like, look, you want further support?
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We're going to need a little support here.
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You scratch my back, I scratch your back.
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And I believe North Korea felt that they were obligated to go and support Russia.
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And again, there's two things here.
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Because before North Korea even went to the front lines,
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They were in Russia training with Russian soldiers and Russian military commanders.
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So they were gaining some invaluable training and insight.
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And now they're being battle-tested by being sent to the front lines.
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So North Korea is in a bind.
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They have to support Russia.
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But at the same time, knowing Kim Jong-un or what we know of him from reports,
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do you think he's going to stay in this?
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I don't know.
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I think there's going to come a time where he's just going to pull out.
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And as far as Iran is concerned, they've been involved from the get-go by sending weapons
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and drones and whatnot to Russia in support of their efforts.
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But Iran can't support themselves on two fronts.
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They just can't militarily.
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They're not in a position to support that.
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While they may want to support Russia, and Russia, I'm sure, is probably poking them
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to give them even more support.
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I haven't to this date seen any reports of Iranian soldiers actually on the front lines.
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Now, there's been some rumors, some leaks saying, well, they've sent soldiers and they
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were disguised to look like Russian soldiers or whatnot.
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But there's no real definite confirmations as far as I know, as far as I know.
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So if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
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But as far as I know and what I've researched, I haven't quite seen it yet.
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But they are supporting them in other ways.
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Iran has another problem though.
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With everything that's going on in the Middle East with Israel
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and Israel attacking Iran strategically,
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attacking their strategic military bases
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and taking out a lot of their infrastructure,
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Iran's not really going to be able to jump in
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and give Russia their full support.
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So it's going to come to a point
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where Russia's really going to be standing on its own.
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Regardless of North Korea or Iran,
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Russia will be standing on its own here very soon.
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And maybe that's where we will see Putin take the next step and start loading these Orishnik missiles with these thermal warheads.
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And if that happens, then Ukraine's in a real situation.
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As of now, somehow, Ukraine is fending off Russia.
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And they do have a lot of support from the U.S. and surrounding nations by sending them money and weapons.
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And maybe that's the only reason they're still in the fight.
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Russia is the bigger country, the bigger military, the more advanced military.
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They have more weaponry.
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You name it.
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There's actually no reason Ukraine should be existing right now
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other than the fact that they have backing from the US, the UK, France, Germany,
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NATO nations in general.
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And NATO has even threatened Russia in stating that,
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look, if you bleed this war over,
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If this bleeds over into crossing NATO nation borders, we're going to get involved.
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And Russia doesn't want that either.
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Now, Russia is threatening and threatening and threatening.
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And they're starting to sound like Kim Jong-un, who's notorious for always saying,
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I'm going to launch this missile and just keeps pressing the button and launching missiles
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that just fall into the sea and don't go anywhere.
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But regardless, Russia has been taking the same strategy and threatening nuclear war,
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nuclear war, nuclear warheads.
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and then bragging about the Arishnik missile, which is a hypersonic weapon.
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Again, very dangerous, very hard to intercept if it can be at all.
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I mean, by the time we realize what's going on, the attack's done.
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Damage has been dealt, and there's no real way to defend against it.
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So this conflict is getting ever so more dangerous.
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And to be honest, Biden's staff or Biden himself opening their mouths or even him opening his mouth saying, hey, you know what?
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We're going to give them nuclear weapons in response.
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Come on.
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What the fuck are you thinking?
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Are you really trying to escalate this into World War III?
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Now, Putin has been reported and saying, hey, look, I'm willing to back off.
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I'm willing to kill our actions a little bit.
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Let's hold off until we can negotiate.
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I even believe Zelensky is smart enough at this point to say,
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yeah, we need to negotiate a peace.
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Because everyone realized, they don't realize that this is just going nowhere.
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This is just escalating out of control.
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And it may even turn into a World War III, which nobody wants.
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But what does that peace deal look like?
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Do you think Russia is actually going to give Ukraine back its territories,
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its land that was taken in this conflict?
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Do you think Ukraine's going to be okay with that?
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What is this peace deal going to look like?
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How will they be able to negotiate this?
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Because the only way to negotiate this that is fair to everybody is Ukraine gets its lands back.
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Maybe Russia goes ahead and contributes to giving Ukraine money and helping them rebuild what Russia destroyed.
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And Russia just goes back and handles their own country.
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Maybe sanctions are lifted on Russia and they're able to get back to business as they're on the
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brink of collapsing right now economically. So this war is hurting Russia economically.
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All the sanctions against Russia haven't been helping, even though Russia has done its best
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to circumvent the situation and create other pathways for economic success. But it's just
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not enough. And they're at the point where they can no longer support themselves financially.
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It's that dire.
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And Ukraine can't not, they just can't keep losing people.
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Like literally physically having their citizens die.
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Aside from losing their territories.
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Dead Ukrainians, it's not a good thing.
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Dead Russians isn't a good thing.
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This all could have been avoided years ago if, I'm going to just outright say,
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if Biden had the balls to step in, draw a line in the sand, and bring these two to the table
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and have them talk it out and come to an agreement. If we wouldn't have supported NATO encroaching
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on Russia's borders. And there's arguments on both sides of this. I mean, it can be argued that
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nations surrounding Russia want to become a part of NATO for protection against Russia itself.
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And the other side of the argument is Russia felt threatened by NATO encroaching on Russia's borders and really surrounding them and boxing them in.
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Who's right?
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Who's wrong in this argument?
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Depends on, well, obviously, which side you fall on.
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If you're Russian and you're Vladimir Putin, well, of course you oppose the encroachment of NATO nations on your borders.
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And if you in NATO and you talking to these countries that are on the border of Russia you obviously saying yeah Russia dangerous That due to Vladimir Putin delusional mission of reestablishing the Soviet Union that he could invade any land that he deemed to be
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originally part of Mother Russia from years past. And so you would absolutely, again, feel threatened.
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And I get it. You're like, hey, where are we going to turn? Where are we going to turn? Hey, NATO,
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Can you help us out?
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Do you mind making us a member so that we have a little more defense here against Russia?
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So, you know, those are two sides.
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Those are two arguments.
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Both are valid, again, depending on which side of the argument that you're a part of
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or that you lie on.
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And Russia is dangerously close to, I mean, achieving their goals, I believe.
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Listen, if they overtake Ukraine, if they overtake Ukraine, what's going to stop them
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from continuing?
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I have a report from Sky News in which MI6 chief reports of the dangerous situation we're
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in right now with Russia.
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For those who don't know, MI6 is UK's CIA.
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It goes on to read that the security in the United States will be at risk if Vladimir
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Putin succeeds in Ukraine.
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The head of Britain's secret intelligence services has said in a warning for Donald Trump,
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Sir Richard Moore said Russia would not stop at Ukraine's borders, and he said China would
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weigh the implications.
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North Korea would be emboldened, and Iran will become still more dangerous.
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Now, again, this is their assessment.
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They're the secret intelligence agency in the UK, and I'm sure they know more than us.
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But I still don't know if Iran can support two wars.
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I really don't.
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But regardless, the spy chief goes on to say to the incoming U.S. administration, though,
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using an annual public speech to say he had worked successfully with the first Trump White
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House and that he is looking forward to doing so again, as well as talking about Ukraine,
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the head of MI6 or Secret Intelligence Service also raised the alarm about a staggeringly
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reckless campaign of Russia's sabotage in Europe, the potential for terrorism in the
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UK and across the continent inspired by the loss of innocent life in Gaza and Lebanon,
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Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, and its desire to eliminate dissidents home and abroad.
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Sir Richard said, in 37 years in the intelligence profession, I've never seen the world in a
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more dangerous state.
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Appearing at the British embassy in Paris with Nicholas Lerner, the head of France's
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foreign intelligence agency, the DGSE, the British spy chief touched on Russia's war
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in Ukraine.
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Nicholas and I are in no doubt about the stakes in Ukraine.
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If Putin is allowed to succeed in reducing Ukraine to a vassal state,
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he will not stop there, he said.
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Our security, British, French, European, and transatlantic will be jeopardized.
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The cost of supporting Ukraine is well known,
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but the cost of not doing so would be infinitely higher.
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If Putin succeeds, China would weigh in the implications.
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North Korea would be emboldened.
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Iran would become still more dangerous.
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Mr. Trump, who will return to White House in January,
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has promised to end the war quickly, though he is not explaining how.
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This week, though, the U.S. president-elect revealed he planned to appoint
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Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, a retired senior commander,
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who served in the last Trump administration as his Ukraine envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
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General Kellogg co-wrote a paper in April that said,
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the U.S. should negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine.
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One part of the plan was to make the continuation of U.S. weapons to support Kiev
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contingent upon the Ukrainian government participation in peace talks.
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So Europe agrees that we need to support Ukraine.
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Everybody needs to support Ukraine to hold Vladimir Putin at bay
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because it seems like he's on a path to take it all.
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He wants to rule the world, it seems like.
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Germany has also spoken up.
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So aside from the UK and France, Germany has raised their concerns.
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Poland has definitely raised their concerns more than once.
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And we're at the point now that it's either peace or a world war, period.
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And it seems that Putin is willing to discuss a peace treaty,
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or at least enter into talks with President Trump as the mediator.
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Ukraine, though, Zelensky, hasn't been so...
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So it doesn't seem like he's been so motivated to do so.
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And I get it.
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Look, you've been attacked.
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You've been invaded.
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Your land taken.
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Your people killed.
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I understand that you're not willing to negotiate
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or even in a position to think about it.
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But right now, we need to do something.
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We need to do something that prevents Russia
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from spreading and getting larger
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and taking in more territories.
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We're trying to avoid a World War III.
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and all of this hinges on whether or not Putin can be reasonable
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and whether or not we can all come to the table and negotiate a peace treaty.
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And that's going to involve both Vladimir Putin and President Zelensky
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coming to the table and having some real talks
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and coming up with some real solutions here.
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And again, look, this is scary.
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First off, as I mentioned here, let's get the nuclear,
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Let's get the whole nuclear threats and talks off the table here.
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Because as I reported earlier, Russia using this Oreschnik weapon, this hypersonic missile,
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kind of negates the use of even Russia needing to use nuclear weapons.
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They have a highly strategic weapon that is hard to stop, that even without an actual explosive
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warhead, the kinetic energy of this weapon is enough to cause crazy strategic damage.
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put a thermal warhead on it and it's game over.
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That alone should scare everybody.
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Doesn't mean we should sit on our hands and just watch everything happen either though.
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Putin is willing to talk.
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He stated he's willing to talk.
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If Putin really wanted to take out Ukraine at this point,
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like really, really wanted to wipe it off the face of the earth,
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he would have.
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The reason he hasn't because he knows he has people that are Russian sympathizers
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in the Ukraine, there's parts of the Ukraine that completely side with Russia. Look, they have
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families that are tied to Russia, but the Ukraine as a whole wants to remain independent of the
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Russian state. So I don't believe Putin's willing to just wipe Ukraine off the face of the earth.
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And what good would it be to take over a land that is devastated? That's not something that
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President Vladimir Putin wants.
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So we're at an impasse, standstill at the moment.
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Yeah, they're still fighting.
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Yes, they're still shooting weapons and rockets at each other.
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But neither nation is proactively pursuing the total annihilation of each other,
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which means a peaceful resolution is still on the table.
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So I think that's going to do it for this episode.
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Sorry to go ahead and release a downer,
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but it's important we talk about this because I believe you need to be informed.
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I believe that you need to get all the information out there
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and that way you can form a real opinion and have some real perspective on what's going on.
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And listen, you have to be prepared for what might come next.
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You have to understand what's going on in the world around you.
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While Congress was recently just arguing about who can use the bathroom,
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we've had further developments going on in the war in Russia
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and Ukraine that just can't be ignored.
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And while it may seem okay for politicians to argue over things again as transgender restrooms,
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I say it's time to get to work, stop arguing, and realize that we have real situations going
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on that are going to be detrimental to the security of the U.S. and our allies.
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So let's focus.
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Let's come up with real solutions to these problems.
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and let's keep educating ourselves
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on what's going on around the world
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because again, it affects us so immensely.
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Well, thank you for hanging in and listening to that.
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A lot of information, I'm sure.
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And if you want even more insight,
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please listen to episode 48
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where I had Kervin Okwin explaining what was going on.
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And I think that you'll get a lot of information there as well.
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All right, thanks for listening.
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Have a great day.
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Hold your breath and feel the tension Devils hide behind redemption
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Honesty is a one way gate to hell
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Bye.