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Greetings, comrades and welcome to the Eastern Border. I arrived back from Rome today and I had overestimated my ability to work from there because,

to be fair, Rome was beautiful.

But I'm back at home and I've been working all that long, just because, well, yeah, one can only enjoy Palatinate Hill as much as one can.

A bit frantic this time again.

Don't worry, don't worry.

Hi, embassy, guys.

I know that you're listening.

And other intelligence agencies, I'll be back to my job.

I just needed some relaxing.

The rest of you guys, yeah, it's kind of weird.

I don't have that many listeners, but those listeners that I have apparently are from big places.

I will actually be in printed foreign policy magazine soon enough, which is great.

But yeah, it's just weird because I went to Rome, and now my Italian restaurant experience has been ruined forever.

However, I wanted to talk about two things today.

First of all, I want to mention the fact that let's get to realpolitik. On the war front, on the very, very war front, I mean, the places where people are fighting right now,

the Russians are really slowly creeping on, and a lot of people state that this is, you know,

because of everything, but I think that we've reached the point where the war is

going to go from now on for months until Russia collapses because Russia is moving on extremely

slowly in a few fronts not everywhere I don't have the data right now because I'm recording

this just before I go out and you know I bought an air rifle thanks to your donations by the way

cost me 150 euros but I just thought you know as a part of my

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