John, what's going on with old Vladimir Putin in the country of Ukraine?

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I have no idea what's going on.

I have said from the beginning, as you remember, I've not said it publicly on this podcast,

but I've said in many texts and emails and whatever else we, however else we communicate, that Putin was

never going to invade Ukraine. And now, I don't think I'm, I'm feeling that confident in that

prediction. I think he is going to invade. I think COVID made him go crazy.

I love this theory.

It's not just my theory, though.

I've seen news articles about it online in real publications.

Really?

He's a huge germaphobe.

I didn't know that about him.

Something he shares with our former president Donald Trump.

And he got really isolated during COVID.

All his meetings were virtual. He only, he only was in the same room with a handful of people. Everyone knows about his famous long table where he met with, who was it, Macron to try to hash out some diplomatic solution. And I think he just further lost. I just think it broke his brain in a way that maybe his brain wasn't broken before.

And I don't mean to say like, oh, I don't like what he's doing so, therefore he must be crazy.

I don't think it's just that.

He's always seemed like a person who acted in self-interested ways.

Yeah, that's what I feel.

I feel, I don't know if it's the COVID that made him crazy,

but I think if he does this, he is crazy.

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