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Greetings, comrades and welcome to the eastern border. Now, tomorrow's the big day in the whole peace talks thing.

So despite the Watnik, it was in everything, I wanted to give some sort of a, more of a

philosophical view on the whole, you know, issue and everything.

Because, well, while the Trump administration is wreaking havoc in the public space, but making

contradictory statements every day, and many are hoping the war. administration is wreaking havoc in the public space but making contradiction to

statements every day and many are hoping the war in Ukraine will soon be frozen.

Some are waiting for treaties, some hope that Trump will put pressure on Putin, some that he

will put pressure on Zelenskyi.

However, well, you know about all the options about what what Vance said and what Macron's doing.

Macron's now doing an emergency EU meeting and everything just in case you didn't know and everything.

All this is very active and I'm sure there's going to be a lot of mainstream analysis on this.

However, I'd like to put your attention on the thing that I do best. The fact that many

forget that it's the Kremlin decides every day whether to continue the war or not, really,

and that's a Russian thing. And you see, Russia does have big problems, both with its army and

resources. However, Russia's not Putin. And in this case, that means the interests of the Kremlin and,

well, the country as a whole, are very different.

I mean, is Putin really ready for 600,000, 700,000 men with combat experience who've been

through hell, who've seen commanders letting them go to vase, like murdering

their comrades and driving the centers into these basements to return to the cities?

Will he want to risk an army that may scatter as soon as the mobilization clause, which is still

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