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Josh Rogan, welcome back to the brand. Kill me, Joe. Great to be back with you, Brian.

Hey, Josh, you're a busy guy. You're not just focusing on Chinese. You've focused on everything

along with your book coming out on paperback and you're watching in post column and as well

as the podcast you're on. First off, I loved your column today, talking about Korki even the mayor.

They've been shield what for three straight days at least. They've been a lot of their energy has

been shut off, but the mayor vows to do what? Right, Brian. Well, I spoke to the mayor of Korki from

his bunker and he vowed that the city will not give up that the army will not give up a fight

to the last man and he would appreciate it if we could stop. Futsing around with sanctions

and on oligarchs yachts and actually give him some weapons and some food and some medicine and

some first aid equipment for his first responders and some heavy weaponry so that they might actually

survive and save their city from shelling, bombing, missiles, rockets, cluster bombs and an onslaught

of hundreds of heavy vehicles that are squeezing and encircling the city like a boa constrictor.

He's in a desperate situation, but he's projecting confidence because his people are fighting

alongside of him and you know, it's just shocking when you talk to people on the ground in

Ukraine, fighting for their lives, how disconnected that is from our discussion and Washington about

sanctions on oligarch boats, which is nonsense when you think about actually doing something that

could change the course of this war and maybe save this country from Putin's aggression.

So, you know, what's pretty amazing is that we had the biggest build up, the biggest wind up

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