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Thank you very much indeed. Wednesday is 2nd of March.

And as I say, the tanks rumble in.

Although it turned out the other day, and I got a bit confused by it,

that they had a row of tanks who didn't seem to move.

They just kind of, they got stuck in the mud.

Oh, didoms, honestly. How old Putin's coping?

You know what's going to happen, though? At the end of the day,

somebody just said, it doesn't matter what he does now.

He can do whatever he likes and he is he murders

children it's as simple as that he will face a war crimes tribunal and that's you know we've seen it

before loads it in fact you know read the nuremberg trials book that'll give you a rough

indication the only reason i know about it because my father had a copy of the nuremberg trials and

it was one of many books that he had, looking at the war, surprisingly, because we weren't particularly interested in things like that.

And so Putin will face war trials, crimes against humanity. That you can be absolutely guaranteed of whether they impose a death penalty. I've got no idea. Perhaps that's why he's watching these Saddam Hussein videos. Perhaps he's trying to face up to what's going to happen. But the trouble is every time I see him now, they did a thing the other day on the television. I've become more interested in Russian politics and how bent and corrupt they all are. And they had Putin at a press conference with the oligarchs this is corruption we must

stop and I thought wait a minute you're the bent corrupt one here matey you're the one who's systematically

looted your entire country and taken money off the oligarchs but at one point he was saying we've got to

get rid of the oligarchs they're too corrupt corrupt. And in fact, some of them, he stripped

them their assets and put them on trial and they went into prison. You think, wait a minute,

you're doing the same thing. But there he is, as he sort of, you know, runs into his little

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