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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

Now, I have a bunch of news to talk about today, but I will be

slightly angry as well because, oh boy. Well, for one, Russian opposition has angered me quite a lot,

especially some people that I really used to follow much more and then I checked in on them.

And now it's just that, well, they're a bit

silly, so to speak. And then, well, sadly I have to have to be a bit angry at the Western

media as well, at least to a point, because I mean, don't they, like, check stuff, really?

And I mean, I do have to poke at the TLDR guys and other people, you know, who went out to post about how

listen to the journal Igor Kirillov, you know, that general, that Ukraine killed. I'll get to that.

Well, they called him a nuclear general.

Yeah, just because that's an easy auto translation from his actual job posting.

See, this guy, he was head of Russia's radioactive, chemical, biological, and nuclear defense forces in the sense of, you know, cleaning that stuff up.

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