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All righty. So yesterday was Joe Biden's big face-off with Vladimir Putin, and Joe was going to stand

tall and stand strong against Vladimir Putin, who you do have to admire the guy's commitment

to being a bond villain.

I mean, truly, the guy is a bond villain.

It is astonishing how much he has committed to that role.

He is going to lower Sean Connery over a tank filled with sharks, and there will be lasers attached to their heads.

That is who Vladimir Putin is, and he is very much committed to that image in public. Meanwhile,

Joe Biden is wandering around, stumbling into walls. So this was all set up with Joe Biden

touting just how strong and powerful he was going to be. Now, again, there was no reason to have this meeting. Understand that usually when you have bilateral meetings with people from other countries, unless they're allies, there's an agenda on the table, stuff that you want to accomplish, stuff that you're negotiating over. Usually don't just get together for a photo op, because if you get together with a dictator for a photo

op he is elevated and you are naturally degraded we are not answerable to russia we should not be

answerable to russia russia has a GDP a total GDP of 1.7 trillion u.s dollars in 2019 okay do you

understand that's their total GDP. That's not there.

That's not like what they're spending on their budget, right? We in the United States on our

federal budget spend $4 trillion a year and maybe six, if Biden gets his way. The entire gross

domestic product of the country of Russia is $1.7 trillion. They are not a world power. They are not a superpower.

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