feel like Zelensky is like Napoleon trying to invade Moscow.

The problem with the Russians, they can just keep on going for a long...

It's like their country is so massive.

And they just...

Nobody's been able to really invade them.

I mean, the Germans tried and the French tried, and now, you know, it's...

I don't see that.

So you have that situation,

but you have these other major players that are, which are, you know, on the rank order of things

that Trump is thinking about vis-à-vis Russia, China and Iran are on, I think, higher in

priority than Ukraine, actually.

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Now, our story today is a difficult one, as you probably know, in December of 2024.

A revolution by Hayat, Terir al-Sham, which is

HTS, how I like to refer to them, because I don't know how to pronounce things. Otherwise,

in Syria, HTS toppled the Bashir al-Assad government, which ended 54 years of rule by the Assad family generally.

Now, at the time, there was a lot of celebration because Assad had killed hundreds of thousands

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