All right.

Thanks you guys.

Man, it's good to be here among so many friends, isn't it great?

All right, very happy to be here.

So if you saw the debate last year,

I'm basically going to say the same thing again,

only not in an argument with the lady. But I think as we all know from even if you only kind of keep up with the news on a

cursory sort of basis, the war in Ukraine for the last year and more has just been an

absolute catastrophe for the people of that country, for the conscripts on both sides.

You know, and believe me, me I know especially anybody here who is fought in Iraq

in Afghanistan getting blown up by roadside bombs and all of that is no picnic either but

this is trench warfare, you know, artillery and tank rounds and hand grenades on both

sides and young men just being blown to pieces by the tens of thousands.

It's just horrible. and it's in Europe and it's obviously

as everyone understands a proxy war between not just major powers but the majorist of powers, especially in terms of what really matters,

hydrogen bombs.

And it's essentially America and the entire Western Alliance against Russia in this case.

And instead of what I think any person,

like if you just had your auntie who maybe is not that political,

like wouldn't she think that as soon as the fighting broke out last year that every diplomat in the world should be racing to try to get a cease fire now and figure out the details later?

That we can't have fighting 300 miles from Moscow

right on Russia's western border, whatever the fire is, put it out.

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