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how are you I'm good you're also a foreign policy expert Putin says the military

well they were just doing exercises what exercise involves just standing on a border

that's the kind of exercise that that's the kind of exercise I want to do, Mark, just stand there.

Look, Putin has announced that he is withdrawing some of the troops from the frontier

on the Ukrainian border.

But, you know, I think this is part of a much, much bigger picture. So it all has to

do with energy and natural gas. And of course, Putin's geopolitical ambitions, that's all true.

But when you're talking about energy, there's the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which Biden gave

his blessing to, which really empowers Russia. It's a pipeline to move oil and natural gas out of Russia, which is a big energy producer

into Western Europe.

And the Germans have been for it.

So they're all placating and appeasing Putin and Russia because they are totally dependent on

Russian oil and natural gas.

But there was an alternative mark, which really wasn't reported.

The alternative was an Israeli energy pipeline going from the Middle East, going from

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