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I'm sweetie. I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.

Pregnant pause. Pregnant pause. Pregnant with nothing because we have nothing to say other than happy February you made it.

You did? Oh yes. Someone emailed us and they were like, hey, do you want to come to this thing next Tuesday?

It's the first of February. I was like, it's Tuesday's in the first of February. I told you and then I look to the counter and I look on my goddesses.

I hate it. It's happening. It's all happening. But no, I don't. It's fine. We're in a good place.

And maybe you're in a good place, do you listen? Because I suspect where you might be. I'm hoping where you might be.

Is no doubt on 10 to hooks.

Awaiting the next installment of the Russian Poisoning Series. If you haven't got the faintest idea, the foggiest idea, what the hell I'm talking about.

It's probably because you didn't listen to Russian Poisoning's part one, which is a grey there. Go back and do that immediately.

Please do that. And then this episode will make a whole lot more sense.

So last week, Hannah, deal listeners, you might remember that we left it taking a bit of a job at the British government.

How uncharacteristic. What an outlier to the normal format of this show.

What a shocker. Unbelievable. And we also had a little bit of a job at other Western powers for not really coming down hard on Russia.

As the Kremlin runs absolutely fucking rough shot over various governments.

And if you don't know, again, what I'm talking about is because you are still ignoring us and you haven't gone back and listen to part one.

And maybe you're like, I'm not going to listen to part one because I don't follow the rules. Well, it doesn't matter because if you are not living under a rock right now, then I would say that this accusation that the Western world is not taking Russia, not that we're not taking Russia seriously enough, but that we're not maybe having a singular focus on the danger that is Russia enough.

This accusation can be backed up by what is going on literally quite literally right this minute as we are recording this episode on the 25th of January 2022 because Russia is invading Europe. That's what's happening.

Nobody's talking about it, including Russia themselves. They're like, ignore tens of thousands of troops. We're definitely not invading Ukraine. No, no, no, no. We're doing these NATO talks. We're definitely taking these NATO talks seriously.

We're going to come back onto this later. I think it's safe to say that unfortunately, as of right now, the response from the West has been somewhat lukewarm.

Tetch it.

Tepid. Things might change by the time you're listening to this. We are going to deal with that later in this episode. So bear with us. We are coming to you from the past.

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