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Tragedian Eurypides in the middle section, but we will look at the Ukraine war of retrospective and a little bit more new things have come out about the Trump settlements in New York, so stay with us and we'll be right back.

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Victor's the Ukraine war as of today is at the two-year mark and I was wondering if you could give us a retrospective on it. I know that Russia has recently captured a new city of Avdivka and so I was

wondering if you had any thoughts on it.

Well I mean here we are it's two years on the 24th of February, and most of what we were told,

and I'm speaking to someone who supports the army in Ukraine, but most of what we were told was not factual.

We were told that Zilenski, who was a prior comedian, was a stalwart of democracy, and he was being attacked by, and that part was not completely true. He suspended habeas corpus. He suspended

elections

his most of his political parties that were in opposition to him

and you know we didn't as I said earlier we didn't even do that we're doing World War II and we

wouldn't let Israel get away with that.

And then I think on this broadcast I've mentioned that when you have 1 30th of the territory and 1 tenth of the GDP and

you know almost one just one third to one fourth of the population and you're dealing

with Russia on its border history suggests they're going to grind you down and

yet we were told that they were going to stay just brilliant offensive just about a year ago.

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