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inwashed they are about Ukraine? You don't think 25 percent are solidly holding out with independent thought and they have an anti-war bias and they're thinking, I hate Trump. I freaking hate Trump. But he might stop this war. Everything's going his way right now, like in a very substantial way. How about Hunter's laptop and the corruption that we all saw there? It just proves everything about Tr…

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nt. No they didn't, you troll. You goddamn bastard. They did not do that. You did that. We know you did that. It's the Nord Stream all over again. We've seen this play. Don't lie to us, you little troll. You know they're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant. They didn't blow up their own pipeline. They're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant.

Is it a coincidence that that would be the red line? Oh, what a coincidence. In order to give the Ukrainians massive NATO support, all it would require is for Putin to do something careless or stupid with a nuclear asset. Yes, that's all it would take. Oh, surprise, surprise.

All right. Here, let me just lay down some probabilities. If this thing goes the way it looks like it's going to go and there actually is a false flag attack that we can all see, like we just assume it's a false flag, it's President Trump. I give you President Trump. Just put him in office tomorrow. You don't need to wait for the election. Because first of all, the war is over. If Ukraine tries to do that to the United States, give us this false flag thing, or maybe our military, you know, maybe it's NATO, I don't know. Whoever it is, but whoever does this, the war's over. War's over, right? One way or another, the American support will disappear.

Now you could say, wait a minute, that's exactly Putin's plan. Putin's going to do this because they know that we'll think it's a false flag and

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then they'll reduce support. So maybe it's a Putin plan. Chess player Putin. You never know. Well, I do think we will know. That's what I think. I think we'll know just like we know the pipeline. You know, maybe not on day one. On day one we might not know. But we'll know. We're going to figure it out and we're going to hold responsible anybody who was behind it. You're not going to get away with…

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