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United States is doing right now in Russia, you need to know the game that Joe Biden is playing, the game that the Biden

administration is playing, first it's not a game. That's a terrible word choice. What they're doing

there right now, the weapons they just provided Ukraine, long-range missiles to hit deep within Russia, something that they've

refused to do now up until the final days of the Biden administration, is dangerous and is

taking the world very, very close to like an official brink of World War III.

Let me unpack and explain what the United States is doing right now is putting the entire world in danger.

This is Sean King, and you are listening to The Breakdown.

The Breakdown. The Breakdown. The breakdown.

The breakdown.

If you weren't aware, almost all of the weapons that Israel is using against Gaza, that Ukraine is using against Russia, almost all of them come from the United States.

And those moments, those conflicts, you know, and what we see in Gaza is not a conflict, but a genocide,

they literally don't exist without the United States.

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