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goes wrong. Since Joe Biden became president, the U.S US government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars

fighting an undeclared war against Russia. No one in all of that time has explained really the purpose of this war why it would

benefit the United States or the world. Clearly, at least some policymakers are

motivated by ethnic and religious hatreds. That's probably part of the real reason.

But officially no one has told us why we are doing this.

But the net effect has been in part to send at least 75 billion dollars to the government of Ukraine to fight this war on our behalf as a proxy.

And it's not working. Two years in, the war is still going. The population of Ukraine has been decimated, hundreds of thousands

of Ukrainians have died, and the country itself is a mess. It's been wrecked as countries are

in war. Russia is a far bigger country, it's got a hundred million more people in far deeper industrial capacity.

Ukraine can't win.

Everybody knows that around the world.

People are very clear on that there's not one

informed person outside the United States who thinks that somehow Ukraine is going to

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