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magine is that we were complicit and something about the Trump administration has decided not to be complicit. I don't know. There's something to be learned by that story, but whatever it is, it's not good, but it's probably good now.

Anyway, there's a story in the New York Times that is just full of anonymous sources. Oh man, they got some anonymous sources. And I saw Greta Van Susteren was mocking them for their anonymous sources. But the story is that Trump is backing away from sanctions on Russia because he wants to do business deals with them, meaning America wants to do business deals with them. Now, do you think that's true and all they have are anonymous sources? What have I taught you about anonymous sources? Anonymous sources have basically no news value because they're usually made up. So it doesn't matter if it's the New York Times, if it's full of anonymous sources. I don't know about that.

But it does seem that Germany, France, this is another related news. So I saw this on Mario Nawfal's post. The source is CGTN, whatever that is, but it says that Germany, France, and the UK and the US have given Ukraine the green light to fire missiles with no range cap. In other words, go ahead Ukraine and just start lighting up Russia itself. That means that Ukraine will be striking targets deep inside Russia. Do you think that's first of all true? I don't know if it's true because it's not coming from a news source I've ever heard of. But probably it's true. I mean, it feels maybe it's a little too on the nose, but it feels like the only thing that Europe could come up with is all right. If Moscow and Russia are cranking it up and they're not talking about peace, let's just start sending missiles into the heart of Russia. What could go wrong? Well, a lot could go wrong, but it kind of makes sense that they might loosen up the distance cap. So I guess we'll have to watch and see if Russia gets lit up with these new missiles and if it makes any difference at all or does it make Russia just twice as aggressive? So we're going to find out.

Now, what do you think is true? Do you think that there are two stories about Putin right now? One is that he felt under attack by NATO and that really he's acting in a semi-defensive way by making sure that NATO doesn't surround him and that Ukraine had always been the red line and we crossed the red line. So you got to expect it. The other version of Putin is that he plans to dominate all of Europe and this is just one more step in doing that. Now, they can't both be true, right? It can't be true that he's defensively attacking Ukraine but he's also looking to roll over and control all of Europe.

CGTN is China's state TV, somebody says. Is that true? Well, that would make a difference, wouldn't it? Yeah. So I guess the best take about anything about Ukraine is that we can't tell what's true. So I guess that's where I'll settle on this. We just don't know what's true, but we'll see if any missiles are going into the heart of Russia.

Well, Jake Tapper was on Piers Morgan and he's still talking about his new book that talks about Joe Biden's mental decline. And apparently Jake Tapper has admitted that the Democrat cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline might be worse than Watergate. I guess in his book he said it wasn't worse than Watergate. But now he's willing to admit yeah it might be worse than Watergate. What do you think? Is the cover-up of Biden worse than Watergate? Yes. Yes. By a mile. It's not even close. And not only that, but the Democrats have done lots of things that are worse than Watergate. It's not like the first thing that's worse than Watergate. But when I think of Watergate, it just seems so tame. Like imagine if the worst thing that was happening in the United States was Watergate. If that were the worst thing happening, I'd be pretty darn happy. Stocks would be up. Everything would be good.

Here's something I want to add to the whole Biden brain cover-up. Now, most of you are probably under the opinion that everybody in the news business were completely aware that Biden's brain wasn't working, but they were just pretending they didn't know. I'm going to modify that a little bit. I don't think that's totally true. And here's why.

Have you ever seen the psychology experiments where they'll have a small group of people and they'll be asked to look at something and say, let's say, what line is longer than another line or just some basic factual thing, and only one person will be an actual subject of the experiment and all the rest will be participants who know that they're participants and they're lying? And what happens is you can somew

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hat easily make the person who is the real subject believe whatever the other people all believe is true. So it's so easy to change a person's perception until they don't see something or they do see something that just isn't there. Now, this is a very repeatable experiment in psychology and you've probably seen it a million times in the real world. So here's my take. For sure, no doubt about it,…

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