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and Ukraine. So why do you think that the U.S. offered basically nothing except a willingness for open dialogue? Why would they not be willing to have Russia completely stand down which is what I imagine we would ask in return and stop hacking? Why would we not take that deal unless there's something we don't know? Or here's the other possibility. So I'm going to give Biden the benefit of the dou…

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don't think there's any chance.

So it could be that the Biden administration is simply confident that it's a bluff and they don't have to give anything. So even though in my opinion what they're being asked to give is so minimal it's laughably nothing, maybe we don't have to give anything. And if you can get away with giving nothing well it shows strength doesn't it? Would you disagree? It does show strength to say how about we give you nothing. Go ahead. You think you want to invade? That's the end of your regime. Go ahead. That does show strength.

Now do you think I've gone too far? Do you think that that's too much of a benefit of the doubt? I don't know. I'm actually confused and I don't like the lack of transparency here because you know yeah maybe there's some state secrets we've got to maintain or military I don't know. The way we frame it might be important for our future I guess maybe. But I don't know why Russia can just say what they want and we can't. Why is it that Putin can say in public what he wants that we can't? Like ours has to be the secret or we won't agree wi

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th anything. I don't know. It makes us look weak that our government can't be transparent and Putin can. That makes you look pretty weak. Now apparently the Russia-China association is strong enough that China's backing Russia essentially. And I don't know maybe it's too late. Maybe it's too late to put Russia in our camp and Biden is just saying all right Russia is basically just China now so do…

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