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Oh, you know, Vladimir Putin is talking about New Year's Eve or whatever. The other day we were like, oh man, you know, World War III, because this NATO thing, you know, NATO's basically like somebody sabotage something. And if you come for us, we will retaliate with collective force and we're like, what does that mean? But it does sound like we're, you know, we're walking into what I would consider to be like World War III territory.

And then today Vladimir Putin announces he's annexing for a region, I suppose, of Ukraine. And then Vladimir, Vladimir, sorry, Vladimir Zelensky formally files to join NATO.

And if that actually happens, it is World War III. This would mean that NATO enters in, would admit, Ukraine into the military alliance fully understanding that they are currently at war.

But of course they do. NATO is basically funding the entire operation. So why would NATO say no to Ukraine? Hey, we all knew what was going on. Let's just make it official. How about that?

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I forgot about it. That's right. That was your opening and guys, okay, I promise I promise it's over or is it? No, no, no more.

What are you doing? No more goofs. I promise I'm just kidding. I just wanted to see how you guys would react. I had a lot of things to get off my chest this week. So I thank you so much for being patiently with me as we had this burden lifted away from all of us.

And okay, we're going to be serious. And this is why I'm wearing a very serious shirt that says I identify as hyperinflation with our wonderful bodacious inspiration to us all that you could get on the best political shirts.

com because you do that. This is why I'm here. Thank you again so much for having me and deal with me and my humor and my I like a shirt a lot my pranks and my goofs.

Hey everyone, I did my part, I'm doing my part to preserve a world peace by learning the Cyrillic alphabet last night. I believe I haven't memorized so I'm going to recite it really quick. It's a bevege day.

et є or є consuming so let's go through it.

I haven't memorized I did it I learned letter by letter last night on the internet and then I was memorizing

They just kept repeating it. I repeated it like 15 times

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