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This morning, let's just not do Russia, Ukraine today. The whole thing, they talk about

the fog of war. The whole thing feels so messy to me and so confusing. I don't mean

confusing like we can't ascertain truth out of it. I mean that our media is such in such

a state of disarray. There are so many liars everywhere. People who have lied about everything

for so long that trying to pill for some truth out of it is really, really tough. As I

said yesterday, it's like if you think the New York Times and Washington Post lie about

everything, then why would they not be lying about this? I don't know exactly how to frame

this in a way that is going to make some sense to you. I think also everybody pretends

to be an expert about absolutely everything. I don't think I have to do that here. I will

do the best I can to communicate this stuff to you as honestly as possible. We'll do more

as it comes, but I was just like, I just don't feel like doing it today. If you want a little

more though, on the general ideas about geopolitics and international relations and things like

that, I interviewed Nikki Haley who's the former US ambassador to the UN. We put it up yesterday.

She was UN ambassador under Trump and I know there's a little tension there between the

base and her for after the January 6th things and all that, but she really lays out an interesting

case for sort of peace through strength and carry a big stick and speak softly and all

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