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Daniel Davis Deep Dive -- 11/25/25 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: A thirty six iif you I have caresee the talk station. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you can have technical difficulties on the fifty about carssee
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  Speaker 1: morning show. Unfortunately, unlike War, no one dies as a
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  Speaker 1: consequence of technical difficults on the morning show. We have
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  Speaker 1: them on the telephone. Daniel Davis, retired lieutenant colonel with
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Davis Deep Dive every Tuesday at this time, well
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  Speaker 1: actually a little earlier on a normal Tuesday, Daniel Davis,
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  Speaker 1: can you hear me, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear you. Gradmar to work this out and
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  Speaker 2: no one died. So that's a positive thing.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, my friend. That's one of the joys of being
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  Speaker 1: a morning show host. You don't have to worry about people dying.
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  Speaker 1: Now you might get attacked for your opinions, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I can take that all right. Dealer's choice, actually retired
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  Speaker 1: lieutenant colonel's choice. Do you want to start with the
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  Speaker 1: breakdown in the various Ukraine Russian? I don't know what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to call them? Multipoint proposals? We've got
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  Speaker 1: a nineteen point, we got a twenty eight point or something.
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  Speaker 1: So far we have no agreement, or alternatively, do you
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  Speaker 1: want to start with the varied response is to the
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  Speaker 1: Hamas and his Bala situation with Israel, Sir, you pick
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  Speaker 1: your favorite, definite.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's go with the Russia situation, since that's
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  Speaker 2: the weirdest one, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, lately, the Kremlin reject Europe's counterproposal. We
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  Speaker 1: had this twenty eight point document the Trump administration unveiled
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  Speaker 1: last week, which many were saying that, you know, was
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  Speaker 1: was a gift to Russia, and then the counterproposal from
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  Speaker 1: the Europe I think it was like a nineteen point plan,
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  Speaker 1: which Kremlin just rejected that, so it would start where
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  Speaker 1: we usually end serve, but it doesn't sound like we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten anywhere. What's your take on all this, Daniel Davis?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's just more of the bizarre. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: just confused and just dysfunctional. I mean, there's no there's
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  Speaker 2: no better way to put it, more accurate way to
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  Speaker 2: put it. This whole situation, because when the first information
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  Speaker 2: was leaked out, if there was a twenty eight point proposal,
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  Speaker 2: it was apparently between Steve whit Off and a guy
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  Speaker 2: named Carell Dimitriov on the Russian side, and the Russian
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  Speaker 2: side said, well, after it was leaked. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't address a lot of our issues, but it
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  Speaker 2: does address some issues, so it's a good start point.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that we can work with here, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: But the minute that this thing hit the airwaves and
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  Speaker 2: the people in the West started realizing and the Kiev
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  Speaker 2: started realizing that there was something a discussion going on
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  Speaker 2: between the US and Russia, people just went crazy. And
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  Speaker 2: first of all, over the weekend there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of information out among a lot of the elites in
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  Speaker 2: the West that this was actually a Russian proposal that
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  Speaker 2: they just foist it onto the Trump administration, and this
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  Speaker 2: was you know, obviously then you have to reject it
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  Speaker 2: because it's just their plan. Well, if you had paid
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  Speaker 2: any attention at all to the plan, there was a
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  Speaker 2: number of points and I did six on my show
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  Speaker 2: that the Russians would categorically rejoice. They were reject They
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  Speaker 2: would never accept that. So the idea that it was
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  Speaker 2: a Russian plan was absurd at face value if you
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  Speaker 2: paid attention to face value. What I think was going
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  Speaker 2: on is that Europe is absolutely terrified of this war ending.
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  Speaker 2: I know that sounds strange, but they just cannot acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: that they have lost the war, that NATO has lost
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  Speaker 2: the war, that the European Union and all their economic
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  Speaker 2: accepts have lost this war. But that is the case,
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  Speaker 2: and so they want to continue the fiction longer, and
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  Speaker 2: they're okay with you talk about people dying, as this
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  Speaker 2: is real life. People will continue to die on the
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine's side because of the unwillingness and the inability on
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  Speaker 2: the Western side to acknowledge this war must come to
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  Speaker 2: an end. And you know, I have some issues with
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  Speaker 2: President Trump on several issues here, but this is one
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  Speaker 2: I'm in lockstep with him. I am one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: behind his effort to get this over with by the
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  Speaker 2: least objectionable path possible. And it's important to understand there
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  Speaker 2: is no good path, there's only the least offensive. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let me.
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  Speaker 1: Just I guess I'm kind of curious about European Union's
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  Speaker 1: position given what you said, Low. We had to pull
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  Speaker 1: out of Vietnam exactly a shining moment for the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you know, the Afghanistan withdrawal wasn't exactly a
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  Speaker 1: shining moment for the United States. You know, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: look good and we had to take our alums, we
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  Speaker 1: can't declare a win in the win column, but the
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  Speaker 1: futility of continuing in the face of you know, public
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  Speaker 1: opposition or whatever the case may be, we move on
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  Speaker 1: with our lives. Is this analogous to that at all?
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  Speaker 1: Are they just unwilling to admit defeat or is this
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  Speaker 1: much greater in terms of their economic connection with Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: that really matters to them even though they can't really
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  Speaker 1: do much about it.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, Well, it's a combination of both those in the
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  Speaker 2: worst way on each side. There was actually, interestingly also
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  Speaker 2: over last weekend in the Ukraine media there was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of anngst that many of the leaders were oblivious
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  Speaker 2: actually in Ukraine against Europe, saying, you know, you guys
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  Speaker 2: keep talking this big game about wanting to defeat Russia, etc.
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  Speaker 2: But you have given this is a fact, more money
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  Speaker 2: to Russia since this war has started to the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: I continue to purchase their oil and in some cases,
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  Speaker 2: like with France, even greater levels in this year than
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  Speaker 2: the previous two. So the Ukraine side of saying, y'all
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  Speaker 2: are just playing both sides against the middle. You want
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  Speaker 2: cash if you want the war to keep going on
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  Speaker 2: at our expense, and that's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know.
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  Speaker 2: I laughed.
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  Speaker 1: I literally, I don't know if you heard me laughing.
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  Speaker 1: That's like the definition of batcrap insane, if I may
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  Speaker 1: use that term, sir. The European Union has embraced as
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  Speaker 1: zero carbon emissions crap or so long they have destroyed
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  Speaker 1: their own economies, and here they are buying Russian oil
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  Speaker 1: to keep the power on because windmills don't cut it well,
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  Speaker 1: arguing that Russian needs to be defeated in the war.
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  Speaker 1: I can't make any sense out of this other than
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  Speaker 1: say it sounds like something out of some deranged you know,
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  Speaker 1: science fiction, maybe salvad or Dolly like parallel universe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's probably the least defensive you can say
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  Speaker 2: about the European side, because it is totally divorced from
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  Speaker 2: military reality. This war is over at the conclusion is
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  Speaker 2: already known. It can't end any other way than rush
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  Speaker 2: through victory and European and the Ukraine side and they're
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  Speaker 2: just there's Ukraine leadership is in bed with this. On
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  Speaker 2: top of of course, that's the other thing that the
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainian people were upset about is all the corruption that's
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  Speaker 2: now being exposed at the highest levels. So literally it's
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  Speaker 2: about money. At the Ukraine leadership level and at the
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  Speaker 2: European leadership level, it's all about cash. And they always
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  Speaker 2: talk about how much more money they're going to spend
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  Speaker 2: on defense, while zero willingness at all to engage in diplomacy.
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  Speaker 2: That is the state of Western leadership in the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: It's a terrible thing to behold, it really is. And meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: young people and older people are being slaughtered on the battlefield,
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  Speaker 1: and just while all this incompetence swirls around, it just
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  Speaker 1: breaks my heart. Daniel Davis deeep diyes Where you get
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, find it and regularly listen to it.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other pivot over to the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: seems to be displeased with Israel's response to an ensminer
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  Speaker 1: incursion in Gaza, and yet seems to be okay with
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  Speaker 1: Israel's response that has Balla over in Lebanon. What's the difference,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Davis, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know this. I was telling a colleague just last
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  Speaker 2: week that we claimed that piece has come to the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East, But when you look at the amount of
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  Speaker 2: attacks in the Gaza strip and especially the West Bank
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  Speaker 2: since this you know, seasfire so called, was brought into effects.
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  Speaker 2: You would never know there was sea spark because this
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  Speaker 2: continued to be a lot of attacks and then sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the Hamicide fires back, and then of course they get
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  Speaker 2: this huge response back from the Israeli side. In my estimation,
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  Speaker 2: if I was just looking at the ground, I would
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  Speaker 2: never have even known there was an alleged ceasefire. But
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  Speaker 2: the fighting continues going on. And then now then you
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  Speaker 2: add this issue back in Hezbela and in Beirut, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: and that was also supposed to have been in a
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  Speaker 2: semi ceasfire situation, but then Israel just launched into this
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  Speaker 2: assassination you know, decapitation struck, and they continued hit in
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  Speaker 2: the southern part. So it just looks to me like
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  Speaker 2: Israel still at war and I don't know where they're
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  Speaker 2: don't and I don't know what the ejective verse because
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  Speaker 2: I don't see a militarily attainable objective. I just see
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  Speaker 2: lots of shots and firing, and it just keeps the
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  Speaker 2: situation roiled up.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe just engage in population control, sir, Sorry I had
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  Speaker 1: to say that out loud.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that's not the case. But it's an ugly
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  Speaker 2: situation with no apparent resolution that I can see anytime soon.
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  Speaker 1: Someday, sir, someday you and I will have a positive conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I know it typiclarly in dark conversations of late on that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this week, Rob before Thanksgiving, I thought we'd
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  Speaker 2: be able to.
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  Speaker 1: Have Hello Daniel Davis deep dive every Tuesday here in
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five Casey Morning Show at eight thirty normally
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  Speaker 1: unless we have a technical difficulty where no one dies,
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  Speaker 1: which is good, but you can find him wherever you
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  Speaker 1: get your podcasts regularly. I encourage you to do that,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Davis, from behalf of my listening audience and my
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  Speaker 1: family to yours. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: that you do have something to be thankful for, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll look forward to another conversation with you next week.
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  Speaker 1: We do look forward to it. See you then, take
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  Speaker 1: care of my friend eight forty five ify five care
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  Speaker 1: see the talk station, don't go. I'd be right back.
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