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Lukashenko APOLOGIES to Ukraine!! Begs Them Not To Strike!! · Combat Veteran News

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You ever meet someone who does the right
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things for the wrong reasons? I once had
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a friend who started working out, eating
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right, even saving his money because he
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thought the Illuminati wanted him to be
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weak and poor. Well, at least he got
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there. Now, this is seems to be the case
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for Bellarus who is started to have a
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real about faced in terms of their
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narrative, including seeing Luc Shenko,
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I swear to God this is true, apologize
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to Zalinsky for his past comments. But
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it's not because Lucenko is suddenly a
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great guy. Let's talk about this one. So
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Lucenko, this is a real headline by the
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way guys. Lucenko has apologized to
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Zalinsky and admitted that Bellarus is
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very vulnerable militarily and tells
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Keev to calm down. In an interview with
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Al Arabia, uh, a news a legitimate news
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network, Bellar Russian President
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Alexander Lucenko said drawing Bellarus
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into the Russo Ukrainian war would be
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unacceptable. And he actually apologized
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to Ukrainian President Womdeor Zalinski.
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In the interview, an alabia reporter
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said that Lucenko was asked to comment
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on statements by Ukrainian officials and
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military figures about the threat of a
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Russian offensive from Bellarussian
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territory. And Lucenko said both he and
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Putin consider drawing Bellarus into the
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war absolutely unacceptable.
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Interesting.
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That's absolutely not what he was saying
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just a few years ago. Drawing Bellarus
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into the war, he said, would do more
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harm than good. Uh yeah, for Bellarus.
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And he literally admitted that that
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Barus is very vulnerable militarily.
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Quote, "Because everything in Barus is
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in plain sight of the Ukrainian
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military. We understand perfectly well
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that our main critical infrastructure
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facilities, produ production, and
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logistics would come under attack." He
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said, "Ukraine has absolutely nothing to
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fear from Bellarus." Lucenko
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acknowledged he may have gone overboard
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in his earlier remarks about Zinsky and
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he made the remarks in response to
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statements and threats from Ukraine. He
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says, quote, "If Zalinsky took offense,
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I apologize to him for those words."
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Lucas Anenko said, quote, "Maybe it
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wasn't necessary to say them given that
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he is, after all, fighting a war. Maybe
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I didn't need to speak about it so
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harshly. But on the other hand, he
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should understand we often say what goes
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around comes around." He said,
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"Sullinsky needed to be more careful and
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cautious to calm down and stop provoking
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Bellarussians." Now, this is interesting
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for a bunch of reasons and it's
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fascinating that Bellarus has done this
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bizarre about face and my first thought
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is that he's trying to protect something
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because well, he's Lucenko. He's has a
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track record of looking out for number
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one. And when Putin is the big dog in
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the park, Lucenko is of course rolls
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over and plays dead for Putin. But when
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it increasingly looks like Ukraine is
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the big dog in the park, Lucenko
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survives by again being the right
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person's lap dog. Now, so on one hand,
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this may simply be a signal Vladimir
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Putin's weakness. And I think there's
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some validity to that. But I suspect
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that when he says things like Bellarus
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is very vulnerable militarily,
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one I think that's true given that well
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Russia is the primary patron of the
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Bellar Russian military and frankly
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Russia could stand to well invest a
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little more in its own military even
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though it's already spending 45% of its
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annual tax revenues on military
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spending.
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But I think the deeper story is that
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Bellarus serves a valuable function for
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the Russian military. First the simple
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reason that it is not subject to
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Ukrainian drone strikes. And I think
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Lucenko in his sort of ham-handed way
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might be trying to facilitate that. You
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see, he acknowledges. He says, "Listen,
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our production and logistics facilities
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operate in Bellarus, and you would
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totally attack them."
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Well, if those production facilities,
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hear me out. Let's say they made drones
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for the Bellarussian military or maybe
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for another neighboring military.
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Because Lucenko is intentionally
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incredibly non-combative with Keefe, it
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actually would serve Russian interests
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to be able to move production, even key
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headquarters facilities into Bellarus.
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And Lucenko, if he were to be attacked,
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he would say, well, oh, this is an
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unprovoked assault. Sure, maybe he's
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allowed Russia to produce drones or or
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operate army headquarters out of
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Bellarus away from Ukrainian drones.
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That would be a tremendous of tremendous
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benefit to the Russian military
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operation. It would also presumably for
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Vladimir Putin reduce somewhat the
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number of targets that Ukraine could
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strike within Russia itself, which is
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beneficial because well, Russian air
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defenses are stretched pretty thin. And
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so I think my first theory is that that
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is the strategy going on here. I don't
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think it's because Lucenko is suddenly
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making a westward pivot.
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But we're going to talk about some other
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well, we're going to say much weirder
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beliefs that Lucenko is pushing. But
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so again, thanks to all you guys that do
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support me wherever I go. Um, now here's
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what I wanted to point out. Luc Shenko
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in that same interview had some we'll
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call them interesting takes uh in
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including he claimed I swear to God this
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is direct quotes that the quote Jewish
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lobby prevented Russia from securing a
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swift victory in Ukraine. Now, this is
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some red alert [ __ ] because the notion
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that
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Jews
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form a subset of your country who are
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less patriotic and have want to destroy
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the country is well
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a familiar narrative because a very bad
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dictator in the 1930s also started to
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shape that narrative and it was the
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precursor to some pretty gnarly stuff.
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Now, literally this describes them as
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anti-semitic remarks and they are right.
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He said
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Lucenko argued that it was the quote
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Jewish lobby unquote prevented Russia
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from securing his victory in Ukraine.
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What he said, quote, "Everyone
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understood that it would end in a quick
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Russian victory mainly because the
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Russians were already in Kev." This is
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untrue. The Russians never made it to
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Kev. quote and certain statesmen and
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forces asked Putin to stop withdraw
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troops from Keev and sign a peace
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agreement. Now obviously this is a lie.
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Russian troops were pushed back from
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Keefe. There was no peace agreement.
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Lucenko then claimed that Putin agreed
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to withdraw because he wanted peace but
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was misled. Quote, "Not for the first
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time. Those forces cheated. It was the
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Vatican and surprisingly the Jewish
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lobby. The Israelis. Huh? The Vatican,
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the Jewish lobby, and the Israelis. They
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declared on Zolinsk's behalf, "That's
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it. We're going for peace. We agree."
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and others did too.
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Now,
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this Lucenko claims that the Russians
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would have totally continued their
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offensive in Kev. No one else would have
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remained there. The war has dragged on.
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It's now in its fifth year and no one
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has achieved their goals. So, this is
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interesting because this seems like one,
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it's just an anti-semitic trope that is
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pretty has a history of doing some
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pretty dangerous stuff. The idea that
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there's a certain religion that aren't
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real countrymen that aren't really loyal
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is is pretty toxic, right? And it's
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really different from saying, "Hey, if
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you want to have a secular state, that
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state can get criticized, right? Uh
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again, the Vatican is technically a real
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state, but it has no state functions.
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It's only nominally independent. So you
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can't criticize, you can still actually
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criticize the Vatican and still be
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Catholic. Like criticizing the Vatican
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is not intrinsically anti-atholic. Like
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guys, try to pass a [ __ ] audit, but
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the
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you can criticize the state of Israel's
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policies without going into this [ __ ]
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Again, if he has evidence for it, he
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should roll it out. I'm always open
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evidence. If you can show me that a
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secret MSAD operation told Putin that he
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was going to lose in Kev one, he should
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probably give those MSAD agents an
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award. They probably saved Russia from
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an even worse military disaster.
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Uh point this out, right? Because here's
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here's and second, you may also note
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that uh the Russians never quite made it
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to Kev.
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Knocked on the door but got pushed on
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back. So
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again, this is just pure
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this is actual anti-semitic hogwash. And
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the
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yeah, quote, the Israeli lobby in the
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US, the Jewish lobby is very strong.
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They are rich and powerful people with
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influence.
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Again, these are two different things.
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Israel is a country. Judaism is a
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religion. Right? I know Israel claims to
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be the hard the the flag bearer of
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Judaism, but that but Iran claims to be
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the flag bearer of Islam and we know
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that's kind of also hogwash. I like I
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like this word hogwash because it won't
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get me demonetized. Um what's also kind
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of wild is that he suddenly is like ah
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they've already earned themselves the
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worst possible reputation in the world
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after bombing Gaza.
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He asked derisively quote what holocaust
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are the Israelis talking about? Oh my
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god. When they themselves have killed so
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many people, first and foremost, women
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and children. Oh my god. We're were
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spinning to Holocaust denial. Then
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claimed Israel was planning to build a
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resort on human bones, alluding to plans
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to develop the Gaza Strip. And in that
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instance, he's actually just confused
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because it wasn't the Israelis that were
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planning on doing that. It was actually
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um Jared Kushner and the Trump
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administration. Um so again he somehow
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manages to be both wrong anti-semitic
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um some Holocaust denial. Uh
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then adds the Armenians are a smart
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people. They after all do not have even
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one Jew in their country. Jesus.
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Incredible stuff guys. So again the
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question is not does Lucenko know
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better. He probably does. But the
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question is why? Why is he making this
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bizarre pivot in all these different
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weird directions?
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And I think on one hand you have the you
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have the standard sort of acts of
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authoritarianism like there's no doubt
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that Iran's allies in the world are
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other authoritarians including Bellarus
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but notably Russia under Vladimir Putin
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and China under Xihinping right and that
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is so it's logical then that Iran's
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enemies are going to get denigrated by
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someone like Lucenko sure but Putin
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doesn't push these narratives to the
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same extent in part because literally
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there's a an area of Russia, a state uh
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called the Jewish Autonomous Zone.
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So I I think this is more about Lucenko
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trying to rip one, he's trying to make a
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really standard level of cope. And it's
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fascinating because it admits
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that a loss in this war in Ukraine is
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coming for Russia because he's already
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rolling out a tried andrue uh lie to to
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explain the loss. Remember uh that
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dictator in 1930s Germany had to explain
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the loss of World War I. It wasn't
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because Germany was the aggressor state.
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It wasn't because the military that
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controlled Germany at the time um
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basically were wararmongering
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psychopaths. It was because of a secret
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group that betrayed the country. And
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this was actually valuable for two
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reasons. First, it provided a an enemy
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uh that the country could unite against.
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Obviously,
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uniting against a religious group like
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this was disastrous. one of the, you
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know, it led to the Holocaust, which
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Lucas Shenko says didn't happen, but it
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did. I want to be clear, don't give me a
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community note that [ __ ] happened, but
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also
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I think it serves to avoid
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accountability
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because it means that somehow Putin was
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like not in charge of the country, that
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somehow the institutions of the country
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haven't failed. It in fact it magically
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wipes away all failures, prevents any
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kind of meaningful self-examination of
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the country because when you you blame
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someone else for your failings, what you
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never have to do is change your own
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behavior. Your own behavior was perfect.
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You never have to look in the mirror.
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And I think that's what Lucenko is
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really doing here. He's preparing the
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information space for a loss. He's
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making sure he's positioned in a way
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that that mitigates the downsides to him
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and Bellarus. and he's spinning this
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narrative that the loss wasn't really a
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loss. It was actually someone else's
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fault. It also helps to cleave uh
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it helps cleave this axis of
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authoritarians where the Chinese,
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Russians, North Koreans uh uh Iranians
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of the world continue to live in their
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information bubble and the West with its
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like hey the Holocaust really happened
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uh narrative is
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is uh gets to sit around on its side.
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And remember, this is also an extremely
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divisive topic in the west, but it's
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notable that in almost all survey data,
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in almost no western country, Holocaust
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denial is like virtually non-existent.
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Um, so again,
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I think that's the real narrative here.
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But one of the things that also is
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pretty interesting is that uh the
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Kremlin has also denied that it has ever
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spoken to Zalinsky even though
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reportedly at sidelines the G7 summit.
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There was reportedly an offer for Putin
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and Zalinsky to meet briefly. Now these
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sidelines are often times informal
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meetings that are meant as kind of uh uh
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structured handshake encounters. Now the
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appeal of course at the G7 is that G7 is
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seen as a really neutral uh um summit uh
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because it's France, United States,
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Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. Now
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the G7 of course is not neutral from
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Putin's perspective in part because
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the
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countries are almost all they're kind of
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western developed democracies.
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They ex it excludes Russia who used to
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be a member used to be called the G8 and
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Russia got kicked out when they annexed
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Crimea because they're like listen
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you're not playing by the rules but also
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it excludes China because China's not a
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democracy.
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And so to Russia they say listen you
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guys kicked us out. We're not going to
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have the first meeting between us and
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Zinsky at this forum. Um, but I think
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it's interesting nonetheless because it
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reflects that the that Putin still wants
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to project strength and he doesn't want
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to do that in any way that reflects any
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kind of of of of weakness. Putin claimed
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that Zinsky had asked for a personal
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meeting through a Russian businessman
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several weeks before publishing the open
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letter. It later emerged that
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businessman was actually Roman
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Abramovich. uh noted because he's a
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Russian oligarch who owns I think
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Chelsea, the football team.
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Really interesting stuff, but it means
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that they're serious. Ukraine is like,
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"Listen, we're seriously think we're
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winning and we're still willing to to
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deal with you. But remember, we have the
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opposite problem, just like Ukraine was
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let Ukraine, by the way, has been
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willing to sit down with Russia
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throughout the conflict. They have
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repeatedly, Zalinsky has gone repeatedly
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to US sponsored peace talks. Uh Putin
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has repeatedly curved them, denied them,
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lied about them, um done everything in
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his power to avoid actually attending.
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The only thing Putin attended was uh the
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ass kick kissing he got from President
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Trump. And in exchange for that ass
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kissing, he gave up literally nothing.
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He just got um he just got glazed by
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President Trump in a way that was pretty
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embarrassing.
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But I say all that to be like listen you
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have to understand that Putin the weaker
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he gets the more he has to project
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strength because if you have real
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strength you actually don't need that
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much projection. It's like being
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existing while 6'4 350 pounds is is a
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sufficient projection of strength. And
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we all know the guy who's 5'4,130 who
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needs steroids and a loud mouth and and
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[ __ ] whatever else he's got going on
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is insufferable attitude to project the
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same strength that the big guy does
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through just sort of sitting minding his
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own business.
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And that's the position. Vladimir Putin
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is increasingly finding himself looking
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like that 5'4 dude in the tight shirt
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and the fake tan screaming about how
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dare you disrespect him. Well, the
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answer is it's cuz you're not actually
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the big man we think you are. You're a
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developing country with a large arsenal
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of rusting nukes. Anyway, guys, thanks a
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lot. I'll keep you posted. See you. Oh,
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wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Thanks to the colonel members,
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Christine, GMAT, Dan, Al, Don, James, B,
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Treatum, C, as well as all the tenative
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folks. We appreciate you. See you.