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Could This Move COLLAPSE the European Union? | Simply Originals · Simply Bitcoin

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  Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to listen very carefully today.
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  Get your popcorn ready, because something just happened quietly,
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  almost politely, that could crack the financial foundation
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  of the European Union. Not a bomb, not a bank run,
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  though it possibly could lead to 1.
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  Not a vote. I don't even know if they have
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  those in the EU, but a single accounting decision.
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  And it came from Washington because, according to the
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  Washington Post, the United States has officially notified
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  EU countries that it once frozen Russian sovereign assets
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  included in a negotiated settlement of the Ukraine war.
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  Let that sink in. That one sentence might be the
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  pin pulled on the EU financial grenade.
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  And yes, it's very possible Trump and Scott Besant are
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  intentionally applying pressure to expose a system that was
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  never meant to survive peace. We're doing a deep dive today.
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  And I promise you, today's show is going to be one of those
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  shows where halfway through you're going to go, oh, wow,
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  that's bad. But before we get there, let's
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  talk about why markets are pretending everything is fine.
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  Because right on cue, we get Polish CPI numbers just in time
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  for rate cuts. November CPI headline inflation
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  2.7% below expectations of 3.1%. Core CPI 2.6%, also below
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  expectations. Is it real?
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  Of course not. Is it convenient?
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  Absolutely. And what does that mean?
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  Incoming rate cuts. Incoming liquidity.
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  Oh yeah, we'll be bringing the cowbell baby ring A Ling.
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  A Ling and president and Trump, he's going to love those
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  numbers, especially because he just said this.
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  Many Americans are unaware that behind the scenes, the technical
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  backbone of the financial system is decades out of date.
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  Many, many years out of date. You know that Paul and others
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  are straightening it out. But payments and money transfers
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  are costly and take days or even weeks to clear.
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  Under this bill, the entire ancient system will be eligible
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  for a 21st century upgrade using the state-of-the-art crypto
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  technology. Who would have thought we would
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  have been saying that two years after so?
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  Let me get this straight. We're on the cusp of peak
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  institutional Bitcoin adoption, right before the largest Bitcoin
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  and crypto regulatory framework approval ever, with U.S. banks
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  custody in Bitcoin while global liquidity is turning back on.
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  And I'm supposed to believe I am supposed to believe that Bitcoin
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  topped with no blow off top, no mania with no real bear thesis.
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  Maybe some short term pain, but the ending still the same.
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  No more screwed around. Let's get to the move that could
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  break Europe. American.
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  Here's. The.
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  Headline the United States has notified the EU that frozen
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  Russian assets should be incorporated into a negotiated
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  peace settlement. Sounds reasonable, right?
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  Wrong, Because this immediately exposes a massive problem for
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  Brussels. No, not the stinky vegetable
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  Europe claims that those assets are frozen, but functionally
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  they've already been used. Not seized outright, but
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  collateralized the EU. EU pledged windfall profits,
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  future proceeds, interest income from Russian central bank assets
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  to back long term loans for Ukraine.
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  And this wasn't a secret. It's in the EU and G7 policy
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  frameworks. And that entire financing model
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  relied on one assumption. Either the war never ends or
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  Russia is decisively defeated. A negotiated peace breaks that
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  assumption and their bags. The moment the US says these
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  assets are part of a settlement, everything changes.
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  That's why these degenerate leaders are trying to force
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  Europe into war. We need to be ready because at
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  the end of this first quarter of the 21st century, conflicts are
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  no longer fought at arm's length.
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  Conflict is at our door. Russia has brought war back to
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  Europe and we must be prepared for the skill of war our
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  grandparents and great grandparents endured.
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  Imagine it a conflict reaching every home, every workplace
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  destruction, mass mobilisation, millions displaced, widespread
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  suffering and extreme losses. It is a terrible thought, but if
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  we deliver on our commitments, this is a tragedy we can
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  prevent. NATO is here to protect 1
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  billion people on both sides of the Atlantic.
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  Our mission is to protect you, your families, your friends and
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  your future. We cannot let down our guard,
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  and we won't. I count on our governments to
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  keep up with their commitments and go further and faster
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  because we cannot falter or fill.
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  Listen to the silence across Ukraine.
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  Look at the bodies pulled from the rubble.
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  Think of Ukrainians who might go to sleep tonight and not wake up
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  tomorrow. And what a standing between
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  what's happening to them and what could happen to us.
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  Only NATO. I have a duty as Secretary
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  General to tell you what lies ahead if we don't act faster,
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  invest in defence and continue our support for Ukraine.
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  The gas lighting is absolutely incredible and probably why
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  Putin called them piggies. Referencing a little animal farm
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  maybe, but their ultimatum appears to be support Ukraine or
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  go die for a country. Not even a country.
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  It's more like an unelected status conglomerate that
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  destroyed the actual plural nation's sovereignty and put
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  citizens in prison for Facebook posts.
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  We'll see how that works out for him.
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  Because once those assets must be treated as temporary, not
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  permanent. Loans need to be unwound,
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  balance sheets need to be clarified, legal exposure
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  surfaces. And guess who's left holding the
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  bag? Not Mother Russia, not Las
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  Estados Unidos Europe. Big Brother is getting it.
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  This hits EU financial institutions and member state
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  balance sheets, which is why Brussels and those NATO lunatics
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  are panicking. Sadly, peace is destabilizing
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  for the EU. War allowed emergency
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  governance, asset control, sanctions as financing tools,
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  debt backed escalation, peace forces, transparency, legal
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  clarity, asset unwinding, and for them, real losses.
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  Ukraine wasn't just a battlefield, it was a pressure
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  valve inside a post 1971 financial system that relies on
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  sanctions and asset control to even function.
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  Trump just touched that pressure point in the system is
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  straining. Europe's handling of Russian
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  assets appears to be accelerating the collapse of its
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  financial architecture. What matters here isn't intent.
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  Its consequence? Once Europe overrides vetoes,
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  bypasses unanimities, centralizes authority, it's
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  signals stress. And once custodial neutrality is
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  broken, trust evaporates. And financial systems that run
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  on trust capital flight doesn't need a conspiracy.
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  It needs uncertainty. And that uncertainty is now
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  real. Here's the key difference.
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  Now the United States is no longer underwriting Europe.
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  Trump's strategy is explicit. Sovereign nations, bilateral
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  responsibility. No blank checks.
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  When the money stops, the rules stop mattering.
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  And when the rules stop mattering, the end becomes
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  inevitable. War almost always follows money.
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  Now watch the contrast. Because while the EU is facing
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  collapse, US isn't like Shannon roses either.
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  But the US did just do something historic. 2 seismic
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  announcements, one from the Federal Reserve and one from the
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  SEC. Now first, the Fed.
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  They officially withdrew the 2023 novel activities policy.
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  Banks can now offer Bitcoin custody and integrate stable
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  coins. This is basically a green light.
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  Second, the SEC updated guidance on custody rules.
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  For broker dealers to hold crypto, they must have exclusive
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  control of private keys. Pros, legal clarity and
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  institutional certainty. Cons.
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  I mean do I even have to name them?
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  Centralized custody are keys your coins.
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  happening much faster. What we've what we've seen is
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  BNY Mellon, PNC Bank, Citibank, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of
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  America, Vanguard, all of these have flipped from a hostile,
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  negative or skeptical view to a positive view in the last 12
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  months, right? We have announcements Schwab is
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  going to custody Bitcoin and extend credit against crypto
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  assets early next year. Citi is doing the same thing.
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  It used to be, you know, I couldn't get a loan against
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  Bitcoin from any major bank. And now if I counted the top ten
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  banks in the United States, eight of them, eight of them
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  are, are, are actually engaged in crypto lending and they've
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  all flipped their stance in the last six months.
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  While Europe strings under war financing, U.S. banks are lining
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  up for Bitcoin. So let me leave you with this.
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  While Trump and Besant challenge the EU's financial architecture,
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  the United States is modernizing finance, legalizing Bitcoin
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  custody, not that it needs it, onboarding institutions and
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  preparing for a crypto native system.
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  Europe may be learning the hard way what happens when emergency
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  measures become permanent in Bitcoin.
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  Bitcoin doesn't care. It doesn't need war and it
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  doesn't need permission. TikTok.
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  Let us know what you think below.
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  And maybe we're all in this together.
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  The the feeling that the 4th turning is entering an
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  acceleration mode like everywhere.
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  It's insane. But we're all here now for a
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  reason. Damn it we are going to make it.
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