＂Who Gave Zelenskyy Permission？＂ Trump-Putin Call IGNITES Global Tensions After Ukraine Drone STRIKE
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Who gave Ukraine the authority to attack Russia? The answer to this riddle will solve the riddle. Trump's phone call with Putin and why he thinks Ukraine should have been given permission to attack a Russian base.
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Now I'm going to read what Trump said after a conversation he had with Putin.
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You guys, if you watch the podcast on Tuesday, I said this.
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Who gave Zelensky the authority to attack Russia,
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especially after the minerals deal and the desire for a peace deal?
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There's no way he attacks 40 Russian bombers in the way that he did
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I want to react to some of the comments that were below.
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I gave him the authority and millions of other Ukrainians when we elected him.
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Question, though, is who gave you an authority to speak nonsense?
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And I responded back and I told her, you're so cute.
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I'm sure his puppet masters are very happy with you.
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And he says, hey, what do you think is, he says,
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Zelensky likely authorized the June 1st, 2025 attack on a Russian airbases
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as Ukraine commander-in-chief with the operation executed by the SBUs.
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No direct evidence shows that U.S. or NATO authorization,
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April 2025 Ukraine minerals deal, may have emboldened Ukraine,
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the attack targeting bombers used against Ukraine in cities,
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aligned with self-defense under international law.
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Controversy persists over implicit external backing.
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So if you go a little lower, a couple other guys kept saying things like,
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Let's see if we can find some of these guys that came back with real harsh commentary.
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And by the way, I totally understand what they're saying.
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One guy said, if you go back, Rob, I'll explain why I said this.
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Rob, can you Google what countries have the strongest military power in the world?
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Top 100 strongest military in the world, if you could.
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If you go to top 100, not top 10, top 100 matters.
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There is a, right there, you can go to the next one, Rob.
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Go a little lower, right there, that says military strength ranking.
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How about South Korea if they want to do anything with the other guys?
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And by the way, when guys that say things like the following, let me tell you, isn't
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it impressive that Ukraine stood up against Russia?
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Ukraine, Germany, NATO, U.S., everybody that gave them weapons got Ukraine to stand up against
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This whole nonsense about the fact that Ukraine is showing so much strength.
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It's Ukraine, U.S., Biden, Germany, France, NATO that's showing strength.
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Can you imagine if this war was Ukraine alone and nobody gave them weapons?
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So the point is when people say, it's because our leader decided to do this.
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Your leader went around the world begging for money and weapons.
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And other countries empowered your leader to do what he did.
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So then Trump has a phone call with Putin, and he says the following, Rob, if you can
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So if you don't mind going to the tweet, because I want to also point out what some people commented
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I just finished speaking by telephone with Vladimir Putin of Russia, President Vladimir Putin.
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The call lasted approximately one hour and 15 minutes.
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We discussed the attack on Russia's docked airplanes by Ukraine and also various other
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attacks that have been taking place by both sides.
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It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace.
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President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to recent attack
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We also discussed Iran and the fact that time is running out of Iran's decision pertaining
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nuclear weapons, which must be quickly made quickly.
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I stated to President Putin that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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And on this, I believe that we were in agreement.
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President Trump, President Putin suggested that he will participate in the discussions
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with Iran and that he could perhaps be helpful in getting this brought to a rapid conclusion.
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It is my opinion that Iran has been slow walking their decision on this very important
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matter, and we will need a definitive answer in a very short period of time.
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Somebody said, you scared, and my comment was, concern for innocent families who live
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This could get very ugly, very nasty for a lot of people.
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Trust me, you don't want that if you live in Russia.
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You don't want that if you live in the Middle East.
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You don't want that if you're part of NATO, UK, any of those guys.
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Nobody wants this, but it looks like something's about to happen.
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So my thoughts, the question I want to ask you is the following, Adam, Tom, Vinny.
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Do you think, because there was an element of, when I said, if the president doesn't
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respond back, they knew that this was going to happen, okay?
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Now, I'm still convinced they had intel that this was going to happen.
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I'm convinced they knew this was going to take place.
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You think Trump knew that this was going to take place?
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I'm convinced that they knew this was going to take place, okay?
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Because whose weapons are they using to attack them anyway?
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But the question is, do you think President Trump posting on X what Putin said that they're
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going to be attacking Ukraine, do you think that's a good thing?
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Do you think he asked Putin, are you okay if I publicly announce this?
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Do you think Putin knew he was going to post this publicly?
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And at this point, since it's been 48 hours since this moment here, has your position
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With new stories, Tom, where are you at with this?
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I still think number six and seven on the military strength chart, the UK and France were the
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I believe that because when that whole debacle broke down in the Oval Office and the screaming
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match with J.D. Vance and everything, and we said, we will not be your backstop.
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Because he said, I'm only signing the minerals deal if you agree to be the backstop, which
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I'm not going to put American lives and American technology in a direct war with Russia because
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five minutes after you leave here, you're going to do a skirmish.
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And if I'm your backstop, now I'm technically at war with Russia, and I'm already at a proxy
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We're with you, and we're giving you money, and it's going to be a loan.
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I still believe that the UK and France want the war with Ukraine to push Russia back, and
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I believe they were part of the green light on this because they split with the US on the
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foreign policy after that meeting in the Oval Office.
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So the question is, who gave Zelensky the authority to do this attack, right?
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The other one is publicly announcing, which Tom didn't cover, the fact that, do you think
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it's a good move to publicize a world leader you're trying to negotiate with their next
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Do you think that's a good thing, and do you have any other thoughts on this, on what's
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So what I want to know is what's going on is what are the terms of this deal?
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I'm pretty certain about a few things, and you tell me if I'm wrong.
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Pretty sure that Putin is the bad guy, despite a lot of people not liking Zelensky.
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I'm pretty sure that Zelensky has been sort of a puppet, whether that's by NATO, whether
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that's by the EU, whether that's by the United States.
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I'm pretty sure that without our help, he'd be a goner, and so would Ukraine.
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The whole conversation about NATO was every country has to do what?
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Look at all the countries who have the most to lose, who are the most concerned about Russia.
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They're next up in Russia, if Russia does want to dominate Europe.
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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, all well above 2% in the 3% to 4% range.
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Germany, UK, France, Denmark, even Turkey, all in the 2% range.
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Then you have countries like Canada, Italy, Spain, not paying their fair share.
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So these countries would not be spending this much money on their defense if this wasn't a massive concern.
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So I know in America here, we actually tend not to give two shits about Ukraine these days.
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I think you would be amazed what a big faction of America still supports Ukraine and hates Russia.
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Do I think Americans are burned out with this nonsense Ukraine-Russia thing?
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Do I think Americans are sitting there siding with Putin?
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And by the way, I think a percentage of conservatives even are still siding with Zelensky.
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I'm only addressing that you said people don't like Zelensky in America.
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I mean, my instincts are saying, no, it's Putin.
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Putin is the most dictatorial leader in all of Europe.
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They're the most corrupt country in all of Europe.
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What country has aspirations for, I don't know if it's global domination, but at least European domination.
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This whole, like, Reagan would be turning in his grave if he heard that Republicans were all of a sudden siding with Russia and Putin over Democratic allies.
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And when Trump dressed him down and disrespected him, which I was an advocate of, in the Oval Office, did he write him off and never talk to him again?
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Or did two weeks later, did he meet with him and work out a mineral deal?
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So as annoying and as, I guess, feminine as Zelensky is, he's still our ally and Putin is not.
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I don't think that's what a lot of conservatives are siding with Putin or not.
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So if you're claiming you want peace and you're saying this is an 18-month plan that you're executing, you never wanted peace.
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I can't get in the mind of Zelensky, but I don't think Putin wants peace.
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But it's not like Zelensky did this in an echo chamber.
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A week before, Trump called Putin crazy because in the middle of peace negotiations, Putin started bombing Kiev.
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So if I punch you and you punch me and I punch you and you punch me and then I punch you again, am I going to get mad?
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What you just said is you said conservatives are defending Putin.
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I'm not putting Trump as a conservative in the same category.
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No, what I'm saying to you is no matter what you talk about on the conservative side or Trump's side, what they want is this thing to be done.
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But if this keeps going back and forth, we do a minerals deal, you attack back, you don't want to have the meeting, you're playing the games, yeah, this is going to continue.
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So for me, I'm sitting here saying, I don't know, do you really think Zelensky wants the war to be done?
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Do you think Zelensky wants the war to be done?
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I mean, my initial gut reaction is like, yes, of course.
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But I understand the way that you frame that question, that it's possibly a situation where he wants to prolong it to do what?
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How would he benefit by continuing the war and having his people die?
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How many people don't want the Ukraine-Russia war to be done?
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I think there's a lot of people in the military-industrial complex that would love to see this continue.
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Umberto made a good point yesterday on Unusuals.
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This delayed retaliation from Putin is really weird.
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And I'm going to take just a quick, because Pat, I don't think Putin knows that Trump was going to post, hey, we talked.
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But, you know, we had a good conversation, but he's still going to attack you.
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That doesn't, I don't think, as Putin, being who Putin is, he's going to be cool with that.
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And then you have Zelensky coming on camera, what was it, last night, going, hey, I want to talk ceasefire now.
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And everybody was taught, listen, we know who Putin is, okay?
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Yeah, no big deal, we know who he is, it's fine.
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Adam, Adam, Adam, the country that you live in, you know, George Bush, you know what he did?
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He started an illegal war and a million people died.
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So if we're going to compare who's bad, let's not play that game.
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Adam, that's a whole other thing that, trust me, you don't want to get involved with me, because I would, you won't win that conversation.
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Do you think George Bush Jr. belongs in prison for what he did with Iraq?
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I think he's been the worst president of my lifetime.
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But a president in the United States doesn't go to prison.
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A million people, Iraq, I had friends that died.
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Number one, tough guy, I didn't say any of that.
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So if you want to use sarcasm to say that I'm defending George W. Bush, try again.
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You were taught, Adam, how many times have you been wrong?
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Hillary Clinton, Biden, could you be wrong in this situation that we were taught to hate Putin because, Adam, who, why did Putin win?
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Are you trying to tell me that you've never been wrong?
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No, I'm asking you specifically, how am I wrong?
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You and the loser American people that wear a Ukraine pin, you were duped.
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They were all duped because, remember, you were here sitting with Kate Collins, whatever her, the English girl.
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I don't want to give them any money, but how did this war start?
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Under Biden, especially when he came out and goes, you know what?
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But if Russia does a small, little bombing, we're not going to get pissed off.
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This country, all these people, the Lindsey Grahams, all the Mike Pompeo's, they want war.
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We've been at war since God knows when, all right?
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And any time people wanted to stop war, what happens?
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The last president before Trump, who Trump did get shot in the head, before Trump, which
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president didn't want us to go to war, and his head got blown off in front of his wife
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and in front of the whole freaking world, okay?
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He, that guy, Zelensky, is a freaking puppet, and we've built his ass up to be this man of
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They're running up to people, grabbing husbands and putting them in cars to go fight a war,
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It's a money laundering scheme, and now you're messing with Putin, who does have nukes, and
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then he has all these people backing him, and it's an ugly situation.
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I'm not saying Putin's not a bad guy, but Adam, we pushed this guy to start this shit
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Putin shouldn't have started this, but Putin wasn't.
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We knew exactly what he was going to do, and we poked him.
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What should Ukraine, NATO, United States do when Ukraine was invaded?
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So, when it started, you're like, yep, fuck you, Ukraine.
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Of course you have to help them, because all the money and all the defense contractors
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So, all I'm doing is hearing you explaining and just running in circles.
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Adam, I don't want any support for these guys in fighting.
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What Trump is doing is what he's supposed to do.
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I don't think Trump sets up his post, Pat, with anybody.
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I think he went back, thought about it, and he made his post.
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I think he does that, and I think that's one of his styles of negotiation.
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Do you think he told Putin, I'm going to post this?
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I think he goes and thinks about it and says, you know what?
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Because if you hear the things he says about Powell, about this, about that, you would
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imagine if he goes to a consensus of advisors, there's probably a lot of people
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But I think he goes back and says, nope, this is the way I'm going to do it.
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I'm going to go, so I don't think he cleared it with Putin or even talked about it with
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Remember when reporters even asked Trump about, hey, are you going to strike?
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He's like, why would I talk to you about my plans?
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In the same situation, Pat, I want to know your opinion.
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Do you think Putin knew or is cool with Trump posting?
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Oh, but by the way, he's going to retaliate, letting them know that, like, giving them a
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You think Putin knows that this guy posted that?
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Look, I don't know about, you know, like, if I'm telling you I'm going to attack and you
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post it without telling me that you're going to post it, I don't know.
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I think you're going to say, hey, I just want to let you know, I have to tweet about this
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and I'm going to put it out there because the world needs to know.
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Versus you reveal the enemy's attack publicly to the world.
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You know, the only thing that I see that the right move there is that you told him that
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They need to know that I'm going to attack to them because this is, they cannot do something
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I don't see it being the way that it is on the way that the decision was made, but we're
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I mean, the reality of it is if he said he's going to attack, by the way, the entire media,
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if you go on CNN's Instagram account, Rob, and, you know, if you go on CNN, if you want
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to, you know, for me, I watch both sides to see what they're saying about the story.
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If you go to one of the stories, let me see if I can find this or not.
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One of the stories was a fellow talking about that the news in Russia, the news in Russia,
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they're saying publicly, influencers in Russia are saying, nuke Kiev.
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So imagine if influencers in America are telling the president to nuke, nuke, nuke, right?
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They're not happy with what happened and they want retaliation.
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You want the market to be distracted with all this other stuff and then boom, tensions,
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And if the war gets bigger and bigger, we have to somehow, someway get involved.
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And that's more cost, more money, more debt, more increasing, more us selling weapons to
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others that we don't even have right now because we've given so much out.
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No, we are, things are pretty unstable right now when it comes down to things that we have
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We need three to four years of just stability of building things structurally here.
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To add this on top of it, one of these two has got to stop and neither one of them have
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So by the way, and guess what everybody on the left is saying now on Twitter?
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And that's exactly what I said the last two days, that they're going to use this to pin
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it against them to say, I thought you're going to be a peace.
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When you come out and you say, all right, Babe Ruth went to bat and he's like, and he points
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peace and basically he's supposed to, he says he's going to hit a home run and it's been
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Then yeah, people are going to be like, what happened to the home run guy, buddy?
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So as much as I advocate for what Trump is doing and wants peace, he called his shot and
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It's been 150 plus days since he's been in office.
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He said he would end the war on day one and we're further from peace than when he got
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And I voted for Trump and I voted for peace, but he didn't do it, bro.
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And you know, I don't think Putin has any interest in conceit.
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What do you think are Putin's top three goals at this point?
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Because I'm pretty sure if he stopped talking Ukraine, Ukraine would stop defending themselves
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It's not like Ukraine is trying to take over Russia.
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I think he's pretty public about what he wants to do.
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He's pretty public about telling NATO, stop trying to force Ukraine to join you.
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Number two, he wants to get the east side of Ukraine to say, this is our land.
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And I think aside from that, what else would you add to it?
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So the only other thing that I would add to that, I think that you're two out of three.
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I think the third thing, which goes back to my initial point, is I think he wants to put the band back together.
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Why do you think Poland, Estonia, Latvia, all these countries, Lithuania, that used to be part of the USSR, are doubling their defense budget?
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If they weren't concerned, they'd be like, yeah, don't worry.
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I just don't know if that's going to be going back to USSR.
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Well, you know what the oligarchs of Russia would do to him if he wanted to do that?
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In order for him to continue with his power, he needs the help of the billionaires.
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Do you think the billionaires are going to want him to go back to communism and the control and capitalism and business leaves and money leaves?
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He's going to lose a lot of the support that he has.
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I generally don't know the answer to this, but I don't think he gives two shits about the oligarchs.
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I think you're right that he doesn't give two shits.
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Guys, my goal was in 30 minutes to try to solve this entire problem.
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I'm so disappointed with us, but we'll move on to the next door.
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I know exactly where you're going to put it, too.
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Last year, we ran one of the coolest contests ever.
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I'm going to show you the highlight from last year.
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Then I want to announce this contest for all of you guys to compete in from June to July.
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Let me tell you, it was so awesome because we had the dinner.
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So I said, maybe I'll stick around for an hour, maybe an hour and a half.
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But then afterward, we came right here at the cigar lounge.
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Nowadays, we got Ray Lewis that's officially on Manette.
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By the way, Stephen A. Smith's going to get active on Manette on today or tomorrow.
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Starting his account for people can ask Stephen A. questions.
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Lindy Lee is crushing it on Manette the way that it's going.
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And by the way, who knows who's going to be at this dinner when we host this.
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to probably give you a tour to headquarters as well when you come down here.
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Then go straight to the Cigar Lines, which is a private club.
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But some of you guys will have a chance to be a part of it.
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And by then, we have a lot of new surprises with the private club.
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The update on the Leaders Bulletin will be on Manette.com.
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Rob, if you go to Manette.com, just go to Manette.com.
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And if you look at the contest, on the experts, that's how it works.
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If you look at a lightweight right now at the top is Dean Mason.
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